We
learn from Lucan and from Ammianus
Marcellinus
that the brave
actions of the ancient Gauls were commemorated in the verses of
Bards.
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Sacred
rites were grossly profaned, and there were
scandals
in high
places.
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Tacitus |
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atque ibi me cunctis pro dulci coniuge diuis
non sine taurino sanguine
pollicita
es,
si reditum tetulisset.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pour ses
virginites
presentes et futures
Elle mord aux fraicheurs de ta Remission;
Mais plus que les lys d'eau, plus que les confitures
Tes pardons sont glaces, o Reine de Sion.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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TO-MORROW
'T is late at night, and in the realm of sleep
My little lambs are folded like the flocks;
From room to room I hear the wakeful clocks
Challenge
the passing hour, like guards that keep
Their solitary watch on tower and steep;
Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.
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Longfellow |
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See Nichols's
_Progresses
of James I_, pp.
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John Donne |
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2 White hair, a
thousand
stalks of snow.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Again, if all the bodies which upgrow
From earth, are first within the earth, then earth
Must be
compound
of alien substances.
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Lucretius |
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And he is lean and he is sick,
His body
dwindled
and awry
Rests upon ankles swoln and thick;
His legs are thin and dry.
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Golden Treasury |
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The fastidious care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective
substances
for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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hym nat [[pg 85]]
suffisaunce
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The people pass through the dust
On bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;
The
waggoners
go by at dawn;
The lovers walk on the grass path at night.
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Imagists |
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On the other hand, it is clear that a poem may be
improperly
brief.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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La rossinhols s'esbaudeya
The
nightingale
sings happily
Hard by the blossom on the bough,
And I am taken by such envy
I can't help but sing any how;
Knowing not what or whom either,
For I love not I, nor another.
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Troubador Verse |
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er by hide ne by hew;
Al
chaunged
was his lijf.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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has olim exuuias mihi
perfidus
ille reliquit,
pignora cara sui: quae nunc ego limine in ipso,
terra, tibi mando; debent haec pignora Daphnin.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It is
difficult
to beat him, for he
is full of craft and pulls himself out of the worst corners.
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Aristophanes |
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The dames all others sentence equally;
And temper but in this their statute's pain,
That, not as was their former practice, they
All in their rage
promiscuously
slay.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
when a
favorite
horse nuzzles his coat-front.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" I thus replied:
"Say who thou wast, if thou wouldst have mine aid;
And if I extricate thee not, far down
As to the lowest ice may I
descend!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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{29b} This is
generally
assumed to mean hides, though the text
simply says "seven thousand.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A
haunting
music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'Tis an old lesson: Time approves it true,
And those who know it best deplore it most;
When all is won that all desire to woo,
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost:
Youth wasted, minds degraded, honour lost,
These are thy fruits,
successful
Passion!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Johns,
and one or two more elsewhere in Canada, wearing homespun gray
greatcoats, or capotes, with conical and comical hoods, which fell
back between their
shoulders
like small bags, ready to be turned up
over the head when occasion required, though a hat usurped that place
now.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Then again there are the various lives of the poet; for the most part
mere random aggregations of such facts, true or imagined, as fell
in the editor's way, filled out with pulpit
commonplaces
and easy
paragraphs beginning 'But it is ever the way of Genius .
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Without
parchment
brief, I bestow
On Filhol the verses I sing now,
In the plain Romance tongue, that he
May take them to Uc le Brun, anew.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ill-omened vapors fill the
imperial
city, 4 in the human world parting is hard.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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5
Nor less in
promenade
titled from The Great
(Friend!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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1 Qingzhou and Xuzhou were two
prefectures
in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Give me no high-flown fangled things,
No haughty pomp in marching chime,
Where muses play on golden strings
And splendour passes for sublime,
Where cities stretch as far as fame
And fancy's straining eye can go,
And piled until the sky for shame
Is
stooping
far away below.
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John Clare |
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The pope and his wife
hastened
to meet me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Who thou mayst be
I know not, nor how here below art come:
But
Florentine
thou seemest of a truth,
When I do hear thee.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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From head to foot with subtle care,
Slaves have
perfumed
her delicate skin
With odorous oils and benzoin.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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CXVI
Of these, some will the crowded rabble's band
(Too late repentant of the feat) befriend:
Those,
favouring
not the natives of the land
More than the foreigners, to part them wend.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Worshipping then among the depth of things,
As piety ordained; could I submit 185
To measured admiration, or to aught
That should
preclude
humility and love?
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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28 what
feelings
are there in this heart?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Is
publisshed
so wyde, 1095
That for hir gilt it oughte y-noe suffyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What conscience
dictates
to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than Hell to shun,
That, more than Heaven pursue.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Not doing by me any shameful deed,
Me he assured of life and of domain,
So I would soften my
obdurate
mood,
And be to wed with his Arbantes wooed.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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a man must eat,
Arm,
gentlemen!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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_ The
attribute
of the wanderer
transferred to the shore.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"--Letter to Moore,
September
20, 1821.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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]
[Sub-Footnote ii: Not far from Broughton is a Druid monument, of which I
do not recollect that any tour
descriptive
of this country makes
mention.
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William Wordsworth |
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But here in our dear poet both are blended--
Ripe age begun, yet golden youth not ended;--
Even as his song the willowy scent of spring
Doth blend with autumn's tender mellowing,
And mixes praise with satire, tears with fun,
In strains that ever delicately run;
So musical and wise, page after page,
The sage a
minstrel
grows, the bard a sage.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Which was cheap, he said,
considering
the greatness of his
son's danger; but I do not think he meant it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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"Mines
reported
in the fairway,
Warn all traffic and detain.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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þē ic hēr on starie (_for the
treasures
.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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The
supernatural
motion is retarded; the Mariner awakes, and his penance
begins anew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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the which like little flyes 335
Fluttring
about his ever damned hed,
Awaite whereto their service he applyes,
To aide his friends, or fray his enimies:
Of those he chose?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Are those _her_ Sails that glance in the Sun
Like
restless
gossameres?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Va, si tu veux, chercher un fiance stupide;
Cours offrir un coeur vierge a ses cruels baisers;
Et, pleine de remords et d'horreur, et livide,
Tu me rapporteras tes seins stigmatises;
On ne peut ici-bas
contenter
qu'un seul maitre!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I ended by feeling certain that he and Pugatchef were one and
the same man, and I then
understood
why he had shown me mercy.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
And the merry
Laughing
Water
Went rejoicing from the wigwam,
With Nokomis, old and wrinkled,
And they called the women round them,
Called the young men and the maidens,
To the harvest of the cornfields,
To the husking of the maize-ear.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He enlisted, at the
outbreak
of the war, as a private in
the 1st/4th Battalion of the Black Watch, Royal Highlanders, in which
corps he has served on all parts of the British front in France and
Flanders.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are
bemoaning
the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
overlord
of them is named Oedon,
Who doth command the county Nevelon,
Tedbald of Reims and the marquis Oton:
"Lead ye my men, by my commission.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Did we make
Only a show for dead love's sake,
It being so
piteous?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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After his lengthy service to the State,
After the blood he spilt for me of late,
Whatever
sentiments
his pride inflicts,
His loss enfeebles me, his death afflicts.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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These
passages
are all
quoted in the notes.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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after
expressions
of limit,
etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Which, if they now, or, any time heereafter,
Offer vs opportunity, you heare, Sir, 190
Who'll be as glad, and forward to imbrace,
Meete, and enioy it
chearefully
as you.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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One might descry them
shifting
[401-433]their quarters and
pouring out of all the town: even as ants, mindful of winter, plunder a
great heap of wheat and store it in their house; a black column advances
on the plain as they carry home their spoil on a narrow track through
the grass.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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VINCENT MILLAY
Renascence Mitchell Kennerley 1917
A Few Figs from
Thistles
Frank Shay 1920
The Lamp and the Bell Frank Shay 1921
Aria Da Capo Mitchell Kennerley 1921
Second April Mitchell Kennerley 1921
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It was, as he
sketched it, a great thing--the work of his life--a really comprehensive
survey of a most fascinating subject--to be written with all the special
and
laboriously
acquired knowledge of Wressley of the Foreign Office--a
gift fit for an Empress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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MARGARETE
(fahrt fort):
Liebt mich- nicht- liebt mich- nicht-
(Das letzte Blatt ausrupfend, mit holder Freude.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When
skirling
weanies see the light,
Though maks the gossips clatter bright,
How fumblin' cuiffs their dearies slight;
Wae worth the name!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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With what shall I regale you, my reverend
honoured
guests?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Diegue
To
instruct
by example, courting envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Iam licet venias, marite:
Vxor in thalamo tibist
Ore floridulo nitens,
Alba
parthenice
velut 190
Luteumve papaver.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A cackling goose among
melodious
swans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Edward Marsh,
literary
executor of the late Rupert Brooke:--"The
Soldier" and "The Dead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I am ashamed
Not to
remember
Reynard's fate;
I have not read the book of late;
Was he not hanged?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Know, sire, six years
Since then have fled; 'twas in that very year
When to the seat of sovereignty the Lord
Anointed
thee--there came to me one evening
A simple shepherd, a venerable old man,
Who told me a strange secret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Art thou a hyacinth blossom 5
The
shepherds
upon the hills
Have trodden into the ground?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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New lore was this--old age with its gray hair, _955
And wrinkled legends of unworthy things,
And icy sneers, is nought: it cannot dare
To burst the chains which life for ever flings
On the entangled soul's aspiring wings,
So is it cold and cruel, and is made _960
The
careless
slave of that dark power which brings
Evil, like blight, on man, who, still betrayed,
Laughs o'er the grave in which his living hopes are laid.
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Dreaming
that alone, which is--
O sorrow and shame!
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O, what a
weariness
is our poor life,
What misery!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The wise and simple have one glance
To greet yon stern head-stone,
Which more of pride than pity gave
To mark the Briton's
friendless
grave.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Turn, too, when Xerxes our free shores to tread
Rush'd in hot haste, and dream'd the
perilous
main
With scourge and fetter to chastise and chain,
--What see'st?
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Petrarch |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
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It has been found necessary to
omit a few of the less important verses in the earlier edition to
make room for the most significant of the lyric
commemorations
of
events almost contemporary, and therefore appealing to us more
immediately, and perhaps more poignantly.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yonder,
lightening
other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,
But here in London streets I ken
No such helpmates, only men;
And these are not in plight to bear,
If they would, another's care.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
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Latin - Catullus |
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is recovering, and the
young
gentleman
doing well.
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Robert Burns |
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Though great your deeds stay ever faithful;
Return more worthy of her if possible,
And in all your
exploits
prove so true,
It will be bliss to her to marry you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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