I am a poor young blood;
The
gentleman
is quite too good;
The jewels and trinkets are none of my own.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Of this we will sup free, but moderately,
And we will have no Pooly' or Parrot by;
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
But at our parting we will be as when
We
innocently
met.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Many vassals bow before her as her
carriage
sweeps their doorways;
She has blest their little children, as a priest or queen were she:
Far too tender, or too cruel far, her smile upon the poor was,
For I thought it was the same smile which she used to smile on _me_.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The maid, devoid of guile and sin,
I know not how, in fearful wise,
So deeply had she drunken in
That look, those shrunken serpent eyes,
That all her features were resigned
To this sole image in her mind:
And
passively
did imitate
That look of dull and treacherous hate!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
"Nay," said the smith; "for there's one here who waits
Humbly to serve you with unmeasured skill,
Sure that no utmost
devotion
can fail,
Offered to _you_, nor unfriended assail
The heart of the hero and poet Antar, whose
fame is undying!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He stood a soldier to the last right end,
A perfect patriot, and a noble friend;
But most, a
virtuous
son.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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at brout hys mete,
Prev[i]ly he
shoullde
hym gete
A lytyll ynke and perchemyne, 265
And all hys lyffe he wrote there In.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I was athirst 680
To search the book, and in the warming air
Parted its
dripping
leaves with eager care.
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Keats |
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXXIX
Upon the thought the posting angel brooded,
Where he, for whom he sought was used to dwell,
Who after thinking much, at last concluded
Him he should find in church or convent cell;
Where social speech is in such mode excluded,
That SILENCE, where the cloistered
brethren
swell
Their anthems, where they sleep, and where they sit
At meat; and everywhere in fine is writ.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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' Bacon, _New
Atlantis_
(1658), 22 (O.
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John Donne |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hast nothing for our
edification?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Eliab this
occasion
seized,
(Distinctly here the spirit sneezed,)
To say that he should ne'er be eased 810
Till Jenny married whom she pleased,
Free from all checks and urgin's,
(This spirit dropt his final g's)
And that, unless Knott quickly sees
This done, the spirits to appease,
They would come back his life to tease,
As thick as mites in ancient cheese,
And let his house on an endless lease
To the ghosts (terrific rappers these
And veritable Eumenides) 820
Of the Eleven Thousand Virgins!
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James Russell Lowell |
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O then, for mercy's sake, behold
These my
eruptions
manifold,
And heal me with Thy look or touch;
But if Thou wilt not deign so much,
Because I'm odious in Thy sight,
Speak but the word, and cure me quite.
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Robert Herrick |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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380
Shall I receive by gift what of my own,
When and where likes me best, I can
command?
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Milton |
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50
Or hath that antique mien and robed form
Mov'd in these vales
invisible
till now?
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Keats |
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Straight
into the snare!
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Euripides - Electra |
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What need, O Earth, to have plucked this flower from
blossoming?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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blake-poems |
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They envied even the faithless fame
He earned beneath a Moslem name;
Since he, their
mightiest
chief, had been
In youth a bitter Nazarene.
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Byron |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who
sharpened
his nails with a file,
Till he cut off his thumbs, and said calmly, "This comes
Of sharpening one's nails with a file!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ODE TO BEAUTY
Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,--
Too
credulous
lover
Of blest and unblest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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underneath
the dens of Earth
The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad
With wine of cruelty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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fāg,
1264; māne fāh,
_outlawed
through crime_, 979; fyren-dǣdum fāg,
1002.
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Beowulf |
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]
[Sidenote G: Gawayne and his beautiful
companion
derive much comfort from
each other's conversation.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I had rather wear her grace
Than an earl's
distinguished
face;
I had rather dwell like her
Than be Duke of Exeter
Royalty enough for me
To subdue the bumble-bee!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the
memories
that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine fashion) Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In the history of the earth
hitherto
the largest and most
stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir.
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Whitman |
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I swear to you the
architects
shall appear without fail!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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Yeats |
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Pain or
pleasure
transported her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nor this through stroke
Of human suffering, such as justifies
Remissness and inaptitude of mind,
But through presumption; even in pleasure pleased
Unworthily, disliking here, and there 110
Liking; by rules of mimic art transferred
To things above all art; but more,--for this,
Although a strong infection of the age,
Was never much my habit--giving way
To a comparison of scene with scene, 115
Bent overmuch on superficial things,
Pampering
myself with meagre novelties
Of colour and proportion; to the moods
Of time and season, to the moral power,
The affections and the spirit of the place, 120
Insensible.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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All
fortunes
made;
Turn the key and bolt the door,
Sweet is death forevermore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the
tempests
bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Indebted
as I was to your
goodness
beyond what I can ever repay, I eagerly
grasped at your offer to have the mare with me.
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Robert Burns |
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[_During the last words_ ADMETUS _and_
ALCESTIS
_have entered_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Roses and Thorns_
QVIS deus hoc medium uallauit
uepribus
aurum,
iussit et inclusam sentibus esse rosam?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I give you here a saying deep and therefore, haply true;
'Tis out of Merlin's prophecies, but quite as good as new:
The
question
boath for men and meates longe voyages yt beginne
Lyes in a notshell, rather saye lyes in a case of tinne.
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James Russell Lowell |
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With pomp great as queens in their coach and
six horses ;
Their
bastards
made dukes, earls, viscounts, and
lords,
And all the high titles that honour affords.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then slowly climb the many-winding way,
And frequent turn to linger as you go,
From loftier rocks new loveliness survey,
And rest ye at 'Our Lady's House of Woe;'
Where frugal monks their little relics show,
And sundry legends to the stranger tell:
Here impious men have punished been; and lo,
Deep in yon cave
Honorius
long did dwell,
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But you are man, you well can understand
The shame that cannot be
explained
for shame.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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His mother died,--the only friend he had,--
Some tears escaped, but his philosophy
Couched like a cat sat
watching
close behind
And throttled all his passion.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Thou, thou art here, to human sight
Clothed all with
incorrupted
light;
--But yet how more admir'dly bright
Wilt thou appear, when thou art set
In thy refulgent thronelet,
That shin'st thus in thy counterfeit!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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But the prince's
prudence
is his chief art and
safety.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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You are
supposed
to have escaped, en masse, from your keepers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Note: See Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' for an
expression
of like sentiment.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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--in whose
ennobling
stir
I feel myself exalted--can ye not
Accord me such a being?
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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How,
justified
by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Of the earlier verses of Burns few are preserved: when composed, he
put them on paper, but the kept them to himself: though a poet at
sixteen, he seems not to have made even his brother his confidante
till he became a man, and his
judgment
had ripened.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Two blows I aimed at thee, for twice thou kissedst my
fair wife; but I struck thee not, because thou
restoredst
them to me
according to agreement.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It seems odd that such
points should need mentioning; but Greek drama has always suffered from a
school of critics who approach a play with a greater equipment of
aesthetic theory than of
dramatic
perception.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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To pass it, scarcely he a moment took;
On
Florence
instantly he cast a look;--
Delighted with the beauty of the spot,
He there resolved to fix his earthly lot,
Regarding it as proper for his wiles,
A city famed for wanton freaks and guiles.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Childe Harold sailed, and passed the barren spot
Where sad
Penelope
o'erlooked the wave;
And onward viewed the mount, not yet forgot,
The lover's refuge, and the Lesbian's grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
Who rose before us, and as
Prophets
burn'd,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" If it had been said to
Homer, that his gods cannot be "good" because their
behaviour
is
consistently cynical, cruel, unscrupulous and scandalous, he would
simply think he had not heard aright: Zeus is an habitual liar, of
course, but what has that got to do with his "goodness"?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And still it lives, that keen and
heavenward
flame,
Lives in his eye, and trembles in his tone:
And these wild words of fury but proclaim
A heart that beats for thee, for thee alone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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630
As
painctyd
Bruton, when a wolfyn wylde,
When yt is cale and blustrynge wyndes do blowe,
Enters hys bordelle, taketh hys yonge chylde,
And wyth his bloude bestreynts the lillie snowe,
He thoroughe mountayne hie and dale doth goe, 635
Throwe the quyck torrent of the bollen ave,
Throwe Severne rollynge oer the sandes belowe
He skyms alofe, and blents the beatynge wave,
Ne stynts, ne lagges the chace, tylle for hys eyne
In peecies hee the morthering theef doth chyne.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And if Hernani
Attempts
to fight you need not kill the man.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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205
Phaedra
Wretched woman, whose name do you dare to
mention?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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for Beauty stands 220
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive; cease to admire, and all her Plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abasht:
Therefore with manlier objects we must try
His constancy, with such as have more shew
Of worth, of honour, glory, and popular praise;
Rocks whereon
greatest
men have oftest wreck'd;
Or that which only seems to satisfie
Lawful desires of Nature, not beyond; 230
And now I know he hungers where no food
Is to be found, in the wide Wilderness;
The rest commit to me, I shall let pass
No advantage, and his strength as oft assay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Into the framework of
his romance of chivalry he
inserted
a veiled picture of the struggles and
sufferings of his own people in Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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CINO
ITALIAN
CAMPAGNA
1309, THE OPEN-ROAD
AH !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the
Baptized
God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Make me not sighted like the basilisk;
I have look'd on
thousands
who have sped the better
By my regard, but kill'd none so.
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Shakespeare |
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Moses on the Nile--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
Envy and Avarice--_American Keepsake_
ODES.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'Round me the old sorrow was awaking, And the
breaking
of some mighty heart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
employment
of the
classic machinery was almost as impossible.
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Alexander Pope |
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Yet no hall that wealth e'er plann'd
Waits you more surely than the wider room
Traced by Death's yet
greedier
hand.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fame lives not in the breath of words,
In public praises' hue and cry;
The music of these summer birds
Is silent in a winter sky,
When thine shall live and
flourish
on,
Oer wrecks where crowds of fames are gone.
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John Clare |
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There a lone couple lived,
secluded
there
From all the world considers joy or care,
Lived to themselves, a long lone journey trod,
And through their Bible talked aloud to God;
While one small close and cow their wants maintained,
But little needing, and but little gained.
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John Clare |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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XI
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st,
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest,
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And
threescore
year would make the world away.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But while our author has borrowed many of the details of his story from the
"Roman de Perceval" by Chrestien de Troyes, he has made the narrative more
attractive by the introduction of several
original
and highly interesting
passages which throw light on the manners and amusements of our ancestors.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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I once hoped to pluck the fruits of life:
But now alas, they are all
withered
and dry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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>>
Cette petite
anecdote
racontee par les historiens du poete est devenue
classique; mais nous n'avons pu resister au plaisir de la repeter ici.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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the Sylphs
contrive
it all.
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Alexander Pope |
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