Wyrd they knew not,
destiny dire, and the doom to be seen
by many an earl when eve should come,
and Hrothgar
homeward
hasten away,
royal, to rest.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Then took thy mother's lord
The ritual grains, and o'er the altar poured
Its due, and prayed: "O Nymphs of Rock and Mere,
With many a sacrifice for many a year,
May I and she who waits at home for me,
My
Tyndarid
Queen, adore you.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The world were blest did bliss on them depend,
Ah, that "the
friendly
e'er should want a friend!
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Robert Burns |
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Not skies serene, with glittering stars inlaid,
Nor gallant ships o'er tranquil ocean dancing,
Nor gay careering knights in arms advancing,
Nor wild herds bounding through the forest glade,
Nor tidings new of happiness delay'd,
Nor poesie, Love's
witchery
enhancing,
Nor lady's song beside clear fountain glancing,
In beauty's pride, with chastity array'd;
Nor aught of lovely, aught of gay in show,
Shall touch my heart, now cold within her tomb
Who was erewhile my life and light below!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"One of these days, O father of deities," cried she in triumph,
"I shall be
bringing
you my--Hercules, as if new born.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The doughty atheling
to high-seat
hastened
and Hrothgar greeted.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"This hand, Atrides, laid
Patroclus
low;
Warrior!
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Iliad - Pope |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now fearfuller qualm than famine eagerly
Handles my life and pulls at it,--my faith's
Hunger for being fed with sounds and visions:
The firelight mixt with a trooping bustle of shadows,
The silence suddenly shouting with surprise,
That tells of men
astounded
out of sleep
To find that God hath dreadfully been among them.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I am
indebted
to Mr.
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Byron |
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XLI
Would she not, could she not, she nought replied,
But spurred aslant the ready Rabicane,
And, signing to Rogero, rode as wide
As she could wend from that embattled train;
Then to a sheltered valley turned aside,
Wherein
embosomed
was a little plain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And ever-mor me thinketh thus, that she 1110
Hath som-what in hir hertes prevetee,
Wher-with she can, if I shal right arede,
Distorbe
al this, of which thou art in drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Over the monstrous
shambling
sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:
Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --
Thy Prospero I'll be.
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Sidney Lanier |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Rodrigue
To possess Chimene, and do you service,
What will my weapons not
accomplish?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hence a road leads to
Tartarus
and Acheron's wave.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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But though no hand
unsanctioned
dares
Unveil the mysteries of her grace,
Time lifts the curtain unawares,
And Sorrow looks into her face .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The baton is your will: erect, firm,
unshakeable; the flowers are the wanderings of your fancy around it: the
feminine element encircling the masculine with her
illusive
dance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O love, in mercy, now, thy
swiftest
pinions grant me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The grave I shall cast into the usual
division
of
those who are goaded on by the love of money, and those whose darling
wish is to make a figure in the world.
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Robert Forst |
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Yet found he not within the mighty Chief
Ulysses; he sat weeping on the shore,
Forlorn, for there his custom was with groans
Of sad regret t' afflict his
breaking
heart.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the
skilless
tongue that soweth Words unworthy of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Lucretius |
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from Tenedos,
over the placid depths (I shudder as I recall) two snakes in enormous
coils press down the sea and advance together to the shore; their
breasts rise through the surge, and their blood-red crests overtop the
waves; the rest trails through the main behind and
wreathes
back in
voluminous curves; the brine gurgles and foams.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The outlines of his figure, exceedingly
lean, but much above the common height, were rendered minutely distinct,
by means of a faded suit of black cloth which fitted tight to the skin,
but was
otherwise
cut very much in the style of a century ago.
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Poe - 5 |
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At my sloth and greed there is no one but me to laugh;
My
cheerful
vigour none but myself knows.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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)
* * * * *
Chaucer did not English Boethius second-hand, through any early French
version, as some have supposed, but made his
translation
with the Latin
original before him.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"The ace wins,"
remarked
Herman, turning up his card without glancing at
it.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'
With that she gan ful
sorwfully
to syke;
`A!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The tall hills
Push up their shady groves into the sky,
And fail and cease where the intense light spills
Its parching torrent on the gaunt and dry
Rock of the further mountains, whence the snow
That
softened
their harsh edges long is gone,
And nothing tempers now
The hot flood falling on the barren stone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now, the sweet waters of the stream we leave,
And the salt waves our gliding prows receive:
Here to the left, between the bending shores,
Torn by the winds the whirling billow roars;
And boiling raves against the sounding coast,
Whose mines of gold Sofala's
merchants
boast:
Full to the gulf the show'ry south-winds howl,
Aslant, against the wind, our vessels roll:
Far from the land, wide o'er the ocean driv'n,
Our helms resigning to the care of heav'n,
By hope and fear's keen passions toss'd, we roam,
When our glad eyes beheld the surges foam
Against the beacons of a cultur'd bay,
Where sloops and barges cut the wat'ry way.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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Ronsard |
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One paynim's head he cleft, and other's breast,
Who turned about to fly; and of the swarm
Some shoved and pushed and to the encounter prest,
Close-grappled by the collar, hair, or arm:
And
downwards
from the wall such numbers threw,
The ditch was all to narrow for the crew.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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was ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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VII
But now no stroke of woodman
Is heard by Auser's rill;
No hunter tracks the stag's green path
Up the Ciminian hill;
Unwatched along Clitumnus
Grazes the milk-white steer;
Unharmed
the water fowl may dip
In the Volsminian mere.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ma nel
commensurar
d'i nostri gaggi
col merto e parte di nostra letizia,
perche non li vedem minor ne maggi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Page 71
1062
Why
woldestou
cast ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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But the crime's
wrought!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Strange armed men beside the
dwelling
there
Lie ambushed!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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" SAS}
Rattling the adamantine chains & hooks heave up the ore
In mountainous masses, plung'd in furnaces, & they shut & seald
The furnaces a time & times; all the while blew the North
His cloudy bellows & the South & East & dismal West
And all the while the plow of iron cut the dreadful furrows
In Ulro beneath Beulah where the Dead wail Night & Day {Again, Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly
different
from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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And few
attentive
readers of this play can doubt that he has
found them.
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Euripides - Electra |
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My heart's the same; my arm loses strength
When it seeks to protect what you condemn;
Last night would have yet proved fatal
If I'd fought only in my own quarrel;
But
defending
my people, king and country,
Only a traitor would have dared fight badly.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Those few words of yours
Inspire me with new
confidence
to build.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Besides,
every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage
it is
certainly
an experience.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Why stand you distant, and the rest expect
To mix in combat which
yourselves
neglect?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I suppose in the whole of India there are
few men whose
learning
is greater than his, and I don't think
there are many men more beloved.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Old Loda,[108] still rueing the arm of Fingal,
The god of the bottle sends down from his hall--
"This whistle's your challenge--to
Scotland
get o'er,
And drink them to hell, Sir!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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/
London:
_Printed
by T.
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Byron |
|
'
And after that they longe y-pleyned hadde,
And ofte y-kist, and streite in armes folde,
The day gan ryse, and Troilus him cladde, 1690
And
rewfulliche
his lady gan biholde,
As he that felte dethes cares colde,
And to hir grace he gan him recomaunde;
Wher him was wo, this holde I no demaunde.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Et son bras et sa jambe, et sa cuisse et ses reins,
Polis comme de l'huile, onduleux comme un cygne,
Passaient devant mes yeux clairvoyants et sereins;
Et son ventre et ses seins, ces grappes de ma vigne
S'avancaient plus calins que les anges du mal,
Pour troubler le repos ou mon ame etait mise,
Et pour la deranger du rocher de cristal,
Ou calme et
solitaire
elle s'etait assise.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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quod si, ut suspicor, hoc nouum ac repertum
munus dat tibi Sulla litterator,
non est mi male, sed bene ac beate, 10
quod non
dispereunt
tui labores.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The longe night, whan every creature
Shulde have hir rest in somwhat, as by kinde,
Or elles ne may hir lyf nat long endure,
Hit falleth most in-to my woful minde
How I so fer have broght my-self behinde, 5
That, sauf the deeth, ther may no-thing me lisse,
So
desespaired
I am from alle blisse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Two notes are
especially
struck by them: the passions and
the absurdity of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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'
Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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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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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It's certain that there is some trouble here,
Although
it's gone out of my memory.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I
despised
myself and the voices of my accursed human education.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Whan AElla (name drest uppe yn ugsomness[78]
To thee and recreandes[79])
thondered
on the playne,
Howe dydste thou thorowe fyrste of fleers presse!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly illegible in the
manuscript
and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Here, as of old, your neighbour's
bordering
hedge,
That feasts with willow-flower the Hybla bees,
Shall oft with gentle murmur lull to sleep,
While the leaf-dresser beneath some tall rock
Uplifts his song, nor cease their cooings hoarse
The wood-pigeons that are your heart's delight,
Nor doves their moaning in the elm-tree top.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
These were old crowns of the
Assyrian
land
And Lydian -- as that paladin was taught --
Grecian and Persian, all of ancient fame;
And now, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Who shall stand godfather at the
christening
of
the wild apples?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_]
The
shepherd
prinked him for the dance,
With jacket gay and spangle's glance,
And all his finest quiddle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
--It cannot be--
Too many tears for lovers have been shed, 90
Too many sighs give we to them in fee,
Too much of pity after they are dead,
Too many doleful stories do we see,
Whose matter in bright gold were best be read;
Except in such a page where Theseus' spouse
Over the
pathless
waves towards him bows.
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And if as a lad grows older
The
troubles
he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That handselled them long before.
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The original is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this
selection
of his verse.
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--2) _to offer_: him Hygd gebēad hord and
rīce,
_offered
him the treasure and the chief power_, 2370; inf.
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Beowulf |
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I cannot
describe
to you the anxious, sleepless hours these ties
frequently give me.
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Samuel Ripley, and passed the winter in Florida with benefit,
working
northward
in the spring, preaching in the cities, and resumed
his studies at Cambridge.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It
would, on the contrary, have been strange if these things had not
come to pass; and we should be justified in pronouncing them
highly
probable
even if we had no direct evidence on the subject.
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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So palpable, I've seen those unshorn few,
The six old willows at the causey's end
(Such trees Paul Potter never dreamed nor drew),
Through this dry mist their
checkering
shadows send,
Striped, here and there, with many a long-drawn thread,
Where streamed through leafy chinks the trembling red,
Past which, in one bright trail, the hangbird's flashes blend.
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Couche-toi sans pudeur,
Vieux cheval dont le pied a chaque
obstacle
butte.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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From the school of
traditionary
lore and love, Burns now went to a
rougher academy.
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Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the
corniced
shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL
We two are last in hell; what may we fear
To be
tormented
or kept pris'ners here I
Alas!
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Robert Herrick |
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[21] Lysicles, who married the
courtesan
Aspasia.
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Aristophanes |
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Their
whispers
made the solemn silence seem
More still--some wept,.
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Shelley |
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"
While thus he spoke, with rage and grief he frown'd,
And dash'd the
imperial
sceptre to the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Adam the while
Waiting
desirous
her return, had wove
Of choicest Flours a Garland to adorne 840
Her Tresses, and her rural labours crown
As Reapers oft are wont thir Harvest Queen.
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Milton |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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