Captains and
soldiers
are smeared on the bushes and grass;
The General schemed in vain.
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Li Po |
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declare
For government of
darkness
and of death,
Of grave and worms.
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Hugo - Poems |
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specific
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With that he gan hir humbly to saluwe
With dreedful chere, and oft his hewes muwe;
And up his look
debonairly
he caste,
And bekked on Pandare, and forth he paste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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According to Sanudo, "on the appointed day they [the
followers
of the
sixteen leaders of the conspiracy] were to make affrays amongst
themselves, here and there, in order that the Duke might have a pretence
for tolling the bells of San Marco.
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Byron |
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If I be clear from thought,
Why do you then
complain?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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11 Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post as Administrative Assistant in Anxi The south wind makes sounds of autumn,1 the atmosphere of
destruction
presses the blazing heat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[_The scene opens, disclosing the
interior
of the temple: Orestes
clings to the central altar; the Furies lie slumbering at a little
distance; Apollo and Hermes appear from the innermost shrine_.
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Aeschylus |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Trojans and Greeks now gather round the slain;
The war renews, the warriors bleed again:
As o'er their prey
rapacious
wolves engage,
Man dies on man, and all is blood and rage.
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Iliad - Pope |
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XCV
Hark, where Poseidon's
White racing horses
Trample with tumult
The
shelving
seaboard!
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Sappho |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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e kny3t mad ay god chere,
& sayde, "quat schuld I wonde,
564 [G] Of
destines
derf & dere,
What may mon do bot fonde?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Let the night be; it has neither
knowledge
nor pity.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It glimmers on the forest tips
And through the dewy foliage drips
In little
rivulets
of light,
And makes the heart in love with night.
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Longfellow |
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His wife, Alcestis, though no blood
relation,
handsomely
undertook it and died.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_November_
Sybil of months, and worshipper of winds,
I love thee, rude and boisterous as thou art;
And scraps of joy my
wandering
ever finds
Mid thy uproarious madness--when the start
Of sudden tempests stirs the forest leaves
Into hoarse fury, till the shower set free
Stills the huge swells.
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John Clare |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Stephen Crane |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For
precious
friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with
resonant
hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows shuddered then!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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To Pallas high the foaming bowl he crown'd,
And sprinkled large
libations
on the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O dass dem Menschen nichts
Vollkommnes
wird,
Empfind ich nun.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The sweetest voice that lips contain,
The sweetest thought that leaves the brain,
The sweetest feeling of the heart--
There's
pleasure
in its very smart.
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John Clare |
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They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
(For a moment) with noble emotion,
Said "This amply repays all the
wearisome
days
We have spent on the billowy ocean!
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Lewis Carroll |
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See also
Brockelman,
_Vergleichende
Grammatik_ 160 a.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A wild and
wrathful
clamor
From all the vanguard rose.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Great
standing
miracle!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ennius sang the
Second Punic War in numbers
borrowed
from the Iliad.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Wilde - 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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'"
Binkie found the night air tickling his
whiskers
and sneezed
plaintively.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[_The_ PEASANT _goes to the_ ARMED
SERVANTS
_at the back, to help them
with the baggage.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gigantic, visionary, thyself a visionary,
With majestic limbs and pious beaming eyes,
Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
Enhuing it with
gorgeous
hues.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Tout a coup, un
vieillard
dont les guenilles jaunes
Imitaient la couleur de ce ciel pluvieux,
Et dont l'aspect aurait fait pleuvoir les aumones,
Sans la mechancete qui luisait dans ses yeux,
M'apparut.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They get all still and lie in safety sure
And out again when every thing's secure
And start and snap at
blackbirds
bouncing bye
To fight and catch the great white butterfly.
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John Clare |
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I would not have this wind lift my golden hair,
or bare my white bosom in this air, or let the light
disclose
my
sacred nakedness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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by a deep thoght And coueyteth nat to ben
deseyuyd by no mys-weyes // lat hym rollen {and} trenden w{i}t{h} Inne
hym self / the Lyht of his inward syhte // And lat hym gader{e} ayein
enclynynge in to a compas the longe moeuynges of hys
thowhtes
/ And lat
hym techen his corage that he hath enclosed {and} hyd / in his tresors /
al ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Your
oriflamme
shall wave--
While man has power to perish and be free--
A golden flame of holiest Liberty,
Proud as the dawn and as the sunset brave.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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{34a} That is, although Eanmund was brother's son to Onela, the
slaying of the former by
Weohstan
is not felt as cause of feud, and
is rewarded by gift of the slain man's weapons.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pallas, guardian of Athens, you, who reign over the most pious city,
the most powerful, the richest in warriors and in poets, hasten to my
call,
bringing
in your train our faithful ally in all our expeditions and
combats, Victory, who smiles on our choruses and fights with us against
our rivals.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Then I'll your altars strew
With roses sweet and new;
And ever live a true
Acknowledger
of you.
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Robert Herrick |
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In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with
painting
in words,
full of sonorous beauty, the surrounding world.
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Rilke - Poems |
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)]
203 (return)
[ "After so many misfortunes, the Roman people thought no general so capable of repelling such
formidable
enemies, as Marius.
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Tacitus |
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In this hall
Hroðgar
and his
retainers live in joy and festivity, until a malignant fiend, called
Grendel, jealous of their happiness, carries off by night thirty of
Hroðgar's men, and devours them in his moorland retreat.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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For thee, who thus in too protracted song
Hath soothed thine idlesse with inglorious lays,
Soon shall thy voice be lost amid the throng
Of louder minstrels in these later days:
To such resign the strife for fading bays--
Ill may such contest now the spirit move
Which heeds nor keen
reproach
nor partial praise,
Since cold each kinder heart that might approve,
And none are left to please where none are left to love.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Azzo's
daughter
Beatriz was the addressee of one of his poems.
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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XI
When the Cretan maidens
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar,
Trample the soft
blossoms
of fine grass,
There is mirth among them.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Go
therefore
now: and with a slender reed
See that thou duly gird him, and his face
Lave, till all sordid stain thou wipe from thence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Thus, too, in our own
national
songs, Douglas
is almost always the doughty Douglas; England is merry England;
all the gold is red; and all the ladies are gay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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With the points of their swords they made
Vitellius
hold up his 85
head and face their insults, forcing him again and again to watch his
own statues hurtling down, or to look at the Rostra and the spot where
Galba had been killed.
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Tacitus |
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Were the children straying
westward
so long?
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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See then the acting and comparing powers
One in their nature, which are two in ours;
And reason raise o'er
instinct
as you can,
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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A few of the centurions and
officers
who
had been born in Gaul were detained as a security for good faith.
| Guess: |
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Tacitus |
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at whan men don hem ne han non
necessite
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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On bravely through the
sunshine
and the showers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the
pretentious
Past
That hindered my Nirvana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The young girl was much
impressed
by the missive, but she felt that
the writer must not be encouraged.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I heard the Owle schreame, and the
Crickets
cry.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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>>
1611
THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare
Dramatis Personae
LEONTES, King of Sicilia
MAMILLIUS, his son, the young Prince of Sicilia
CAMILLO, lord of Sicilia
ANTIGONUS, " " "
CLEOMENES, " " "
DION, " " "
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL, his son, Prince of Bohemia
ARCHIDAMUS, a lord of Bohemia
OLD SHEPHERD, reputed father of Perdita
CLOWN, his son
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
A MARINER
A GAOLER
TIME, as Chorus
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
EMILIA, a lady
attending
on the Queen
MOPSA, shepherdess
DORCAS, "
Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds,
Shepherdesses
SCENE:
Sicilia and Bohemia
<
SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC.
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Shakespeare |
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]
XXII
He was in error; for Eugene
Was sleeping then a sleep like death;
The pall of night was growing thin,
To Lucifer the cock must breathe
His song, when still he slumbered deep,
The sun had mounted high his steep,
A passing snowstorm wreathed away
With pallid light, but Eugene lay
Upon his couch insensibly;
Slumber still o'er him
lingering
flies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O man, why place thy heart where there doth need
Exclusion of
participants
in good?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" I asked him,
restraining
with
difficulty my indignation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But yet too free, too
resolute
thy tongue
In challenging thy wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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that hast not spar'd
Powder or paper to bring up the youth
Of London, in the
military
truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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For
innocent
was the Lord I chanced upon
And clean as mine own heart, King Pheres' son,
Admetus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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They've chevaliers in
marvellous
great force;
Fifty thousand the smallest column holds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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There was no frost but welcome came,
Nor freshet, nor
midsummer
flame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Who reasons more
wittily?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He had your picture in his room,
A scurvy traitor picture,
And he smiled
--Merely a fat
complacence
of men who
know fine women--
And thus I divided with him
A part of my love.
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Fool'd, fool'd, fool'd are our lives, held by the world in jeer;
With crazed eyes we behold veils of enormous fear
Hiding
dreadfully
those marvellous gates and stairs
Where the heathen delighted with sin throng with their prosperous prayers.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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blake-poems |
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"
"I hope I haven't done anything wrong, sir, but you know I hope that as
far as a man can I tries to do the proper thing by all the
gentlemen
in
chambers--and more particular those whose lot is hard--such as you, for
instance, Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'Tis life to guide the fiery barb
Across the
moonlight
plain;
'Tis life to feel the night-wind
That lifts his tossing mane.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Duennas, grating, bolt and lock,
All
obstacles
can naught avail;
Constraint is but a stumbling block;
For youthful ardour must prevail.
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La Fontaine |
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And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In the former he was equal to the weight and dignity of his
subject: you clearly saw that he
believed
what he said.
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Tacitus |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Do you imagine that the stability of this beautiful
city
consists
in houses and edifices built of stone upon stone?
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Tacitus |
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With well-scoured buckets on proceeds the maid,
And drives her cows to milk beneath the shade,
Where scarce a sunbeam to molest her steals--
Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels;
And there oft scares the cooing amorous dove
With her own
favoured
melodies of love.
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John Clare |
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Johnson
when this anecdote was
repeated
to him, "for they are noble lines.
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Alexander Pope |
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And think me how some barter joy for care,
And waste life's summer-health in riot rude,
Of nature, nor of nature's sweets aware;
Where passions vain and rude
By calm reflection,
softened
are and still;
And the heart's better mood
Feels sick of doing ill.
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John Clare |
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Here on my breast flows her hair, an abundance of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing
my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Such mirth they made, such warblings and such chat
With tongue of music in a well-tuned beak,
They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak,
To make our music flat
And all our
subtlest
reasonings wild or weak.
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Christina Rossetti |
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11 Truth from the earth like to a flowr
Shall bud and blossom then,
And Justice from her
heavenly
bowr
Look down on mortal men.
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Milton |
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'He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase,
Like Baal, when his
prophets
howled that name
From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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