The
"Anhang" contains
translations
of "In the valley," etc.
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Byron |
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aux
premieres
heures bleues
Se detruira-t-elle comme les fleurs feues.
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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This theme is enlarged by Suetonius, and evidently enjoyed: he
represents Tiberius, as addicted to every established form of vice;
and as the
inventor
of new names, new modes, and a new convenience, for
unheard-of immoralities.
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Tacitus |
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The happiest taste not
happiness
sincere;
But find the cordial draught is dash'd with care.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[406] A quarter of Athens where the Lampadephoria was held in honour of
Athene, Hephaestus, and Prometheus, because the first had given the
mortals oil, the second had
invented
the lamp, and the third had stolen
fire from heaven.
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Aristophanes |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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t walke
With the
_French_
?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Such sights ere long,
Not grievous, shall impart to thee delight,
As thy
perception
is by nature wrought
Up to their pitch.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I loved a Love once, fairest among women:
Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her--
All, all are gone, the old
familiar
faces.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
THYRSIS
"The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to death
In the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hills
His vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,
Green will be all the grove, and Jupiter
Descend in floods of
fertilizing
rain.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"Is my face enough in
profile?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Its station at this affair is
supposed
by Gordon to have been Lochore in Fifeshire.
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Tacitus |
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But, regardless of your previous ruling,
Can you endure to see such a
wedding?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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No imaginative
writer, however, in the whole range of English Literature, is so
peculiarly identified with locality as Wordsworth is; and there is not
one on the roll of poets, the appreciation of whose
writings
is more
aided by an intimate knowledge of the district in which he lived.
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William Wordsworth |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Let us therefore put away the designs to _The Divine Comedy_, in which
there is 'an ordinary intelligence,' and consider only the designs
in which the magical ritual has called up extraordinary shapes, the
magical light glimmered upon a world,
different
from the Dantesque
world of our own intelligence in its ordinary and daily moods, upon
a difficult and distinguished world.
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Yeats |
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"
EARTH'S ANSWER
Earth raised up her head
From the
darkness
dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair.
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blake-poems |
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What blow has
snatched
him?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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One regiment goes
bare-legged to
increase
the attraction.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
Pandare
answerde
and seyde, `Allas the whyle 1275
That I was born; have I not seyd er this,
That dremes many a maner man bigyle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sa mere et son ami
Charles
Asselineau
etaient a son chevet.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_--Camoens says:
_E na lingoa, na qual quando imagina,
Com pouca
corrupcao
cre que he Latina.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Leeze me on thy bonie craigie,
An' thou live, thou'll steal a naigie,
Travel the country thro' and thro',
And bring hame a
Carlisle
cow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell
Amphion raised the Theban stones,
Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell,
Thy "diverse tones,"
Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now
To rich man's board and temple dear:
Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow
Her
stubborn
ear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--Yet, maybe, in some soul,
In some spot undiscerned on sea or land, some impulse rose,
Or some intent upstole
Of that enkindling ardency from whose maturer glows
The world's amendment flows;
But which, benumbed at birth
By
momentary
chance or wile, has missed its hope to be
Embodied on the earth;
And undervoicings of this loss to man's futurity
May wake regret in me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But rescue came
with dawn of day for those desperate men
when they heard the horn of Hygelac sound,
tones of his trumpet; the trusty king
had
followed
their trail with faithful band.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Alone the Ilian
ramparts
let him leave,
And bear what stern Achilles may receive:
Alone, for so we will; no Trojan near
Except, to place the dead with decent care,
Some aged herald, who with gentle hand
May the slow mules and funeral car command.
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Iliad - Pope |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
Don't you
remember
what reply he gave?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But I, with
mournful
tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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;
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
PHILOLOGICAL
SOCIETY.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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220
"Sweet
FLORENCE!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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: Punitis
ingeniis
gliscit auctoritas, etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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Think of that lovely and
exquisitely mischievous passage in the _Iliad_ called _The
Cheating
of
Zeus_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And far away across the
lengthening
wold,
Across the willowy flats and thickets brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with tremulous gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Each that we lose takes part of us;
A
crescent
still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told
suggesting
her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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dulcis uita fuit tecum: comes anxia lucem
aeternam
sperans hanc cupit esse breuem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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FAUSTUS _and_ MEPHISTOPHILIS,
_impersonating
two
cardinals, are given charge of the condemned_
BRUNO, _whom they liberate and dispatch magically
to the_ EMPEROR.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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81
Ode to
Napoleon
Buonaparte (N.
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Byron |
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" You might
play polo with him one afternoon and hear him express his
opinions
when
a man crossed; and you might call on him next morning to raise a
two-thousand rupee loan on a five hundred pound insurance-policy, eighty
pounds paid in premiums.
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Kipling - Poems |
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With speed alighted Mount Albano's peer,
And, ere he rose, unlaced the helm he wore:
But he for mercy prayed with humble cheer,
Unfit to strive in joust or warfare more:
And, before king and court, with faltering breath,
Confessed
the fraud which brought him to his death.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Behold the dames who once were fine
With roses, caps and looks malign;
Some marriageable maids behold,
Blank,
unapproachable
and cold.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Land-weard onfand
eft-sīð eorla, swā hē ǣr dyde;
nō hē mid hearme of hlīðes nosan
gæstas grētte, ac him tōgēanes rād;
1895 cwæð þæt
wilcuman
Wedera lēodum
scawan scīr-hame tō scipe fōron.
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Beowulf |
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So Charles heard, and all his
comrades
round;
Then said that King: "Battle they do, our counts!
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Chanson de Roland |
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If there be devils, would I were a devil,
To live and burn in
everlasting
fire,
So I might have your company in hell
But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
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Shakespeare |
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How all superbest deeds since Time began are
traceable
to it--and
shall be to the end!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In vain the
laughing
girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some treacherous black ravine,
Clutching his flag, the dead boy lies.
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Wilde - Poems |
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--a
clamorous
curse,
A dirge of ruin.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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'
And Arthur, 'Have thy
pleasant
field again,
And thrice the gold for Uther's use thereof,
According to the years.
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Tennyson |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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]
[Illustration:
Sophtsluggia
Glutinosa.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she
realized
how imprudently she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Can you see it still," he cried, "my
brother?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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His wife has a wooly
head and misshapen ears;
projecting
teeth irregularly set; a crook in
her back and a halt in her gait.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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More than once I have
walked down the Mall deep in
conversation
with Mrs.
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| Source: |
Kipling - 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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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And afresh to the race, {13c} the fallow roads
by swift steeds
measured!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pope's argument, good or bad, had nothing to do
with
questions
of theology.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Un altro, che forata avea la gola
e tronco 'l naso infin sotto le ciglia,
e non avea mai ch'una orecchia sola,
ristato a riguardar per maraviglia
con li altri, innanzi a li altri apri la canna,
ch'era di fuor d'ogne parte vermiglia,
e disse: <
e cu' io vidi su in terra latina,
se troppa simiglianza non m'inganna,
rimembriti di Pier da Medicina,
se mai torni a veder lo dolce piano
che da
Vercelli
a Marcabo dichina.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then shall the golden hoard its trust betray,
And they, that, mindless of that dreadful day,
Boasted their wealth, its vanity shall know
In the dread avenue of endless woe:
While they whom moderation's wholesome rule
Kept still unstain'd in Virtue's heavenly school,
Who the calm
sunshine
of the soul beneath
Enjoy'd, will share the triumph of the Faith.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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IV
"He moves me not at all;
I note no ray or jot
Of
rareness
in his lot,
Or star exceptional.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He ceased; but left so
pleasing
on their ear
His voice, that listening still they seem'd to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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as I gaze, what ecstasy is this,
In one full tide through all my senses
flowing!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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My father continued
till the last year of his life to
correspond
with his nephew, and it was
afterwards kept up by my brother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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O Natio[n]
miserable!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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At all times of the day and night
This
wretched
woman thither goes,
And she is known to every star,
And every wind that blows;
And there beside the thorn she sits
When the blue day-light's in the skies,
And when the whirlwind's on the hill,
Or frosty air is keen and still,
And to herself she cries,
"Oh misery!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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Imagists |
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(The dash --
indicates
a new speaker.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"And if,"
continuing
the first discourse,
"They in this art," he cried, "small skill have shown,
That doth torment me more e'en than this bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The wit of cheats, the courage of a w***e,
Are what ten thousand envy and adore;
All, all look up, with
reverential
awe,
At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law;
While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry--
"Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The annual occasion once past, she withdrew again into her seclusion,
and except for a very few friends was as
invisible
to the world as if
she had dwelt in a nunnery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Love found me feeble then and
fenceless
all,
Open the way and easy to my heart
Through eyes, where since my sorrows ebb and flow:
But therein was, methinks, his triumph small,
On me, in that weak state, to strike his dart,
Yet hide from you so strong his very bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
then,
If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief,
Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts
Of tender joy wilt thou
remember
me,
And these my exhortations!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What the father was I look for in the son;
My
daughter
may love him, pleasing me for one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
IV
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
One foot on Dawn, the other on the Main,
One hand on Scythia, the other Spain,
Held the round of earth and sky encompassed:
Jupiter fearing, if higher she was classed,
That the old Giants' pride might rise again,
Piled these hills on her, these seven that soar,
Tombs of her
greatness
at the heavens cast.
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The scholar had quickly spied
out these old friends among the gipsies, and their
amazement to see him among such society had well-nigh
discovered him; but by a sign he prevented them owning
him before that crew, and taking one of them aside
privately
desired him with his friend to go to an inn,
not far distant, promising there to come to them.
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Yeats |
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V
SOLDES
A vendre ce que les Juifs n'ont pas vendus, ce que
noblesse
ni crime
n'ont goute, ce qu'ignorent l'amour maudit et la probite infernale des
masses; ce que le temps ni la science n'ont pas a reconnaitre:
Les voix reconstituees; l'eveil fraternel de toutes les energies
chorales et orchestrales, et leurs applications instantanees,
l'occasion, unique, de degager nos sens!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Quoth she, and
whistled
thrice.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is this edition which has been chiefly used by
European
readers and
to which references are made in the present paper.
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Li Po |
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Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
performing, copying or
distributing
any Project Gutenberg-tm works
unless you comply with paragraph 1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic metaphysics in
criticising
Plato's 'Idealism'.
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Ronsard |
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awful Nestor, tell
How he, the mighty Agamemnon, fell;
By what strange fraud
Aegysthus
wrought, relate
(By force he could not) such a hero's fate?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Spenser's poem was written for the
most part amidst all these scenes of misery and disorder, and the courage,
justice, and energy shown by his countrymen were aptly
portrayed
under the
allegory of a mighty spiritual warfare of the knights of old against the
power of evil.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Epitaph of a Charioteer_
HOC rudis aurigae requiescunt ossa sepulcro
nec tamen ignari flectere lora manu,
iam qui quadriiugos auderem
scandere
currus
et tamen a biiugis non remouerer equis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THEY thus proceeded to the beauteous dame;
Soon valets, maids, and others round them came;
The dog and pilgrim gave extreme delight
And all were quite
diverted
at the sight.
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La Fontaine |
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I remember your objections to
the name Philly, but it is the common
abbreviation
of Phillis.
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Robert Burns |
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