But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
Those dream-endangering eyewounds no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in
pilgrimage
to thee.
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He rais'd his iron hand to Heaven, and prayed
One pitying flash to mar the form it made:
His steel and impious prayer attract alike--
The storm rolled onward, and
disdained
to strike;
Its peal waxed fainter--ceased--he felt alone,
As if some faithless friend had spurned his groan!
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Byron |
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Living, and weeping, late I've learn'd to say
That here below--Oh,
knowledge
dearly bought!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was that part of their foreign
language
that you heard the
most of,--the French they talked to their horses,--and which they
talked the loudest.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"The Ancient Mariner" is the most sustained piece of imagination in the
whole of English poetry; and it has almost every
definable
merit of
imaginative narrative.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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euen
ensample
to o?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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ai
schullen
ywedded be; take hem a man of wytte.
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As the
procession
passes the
Capitol, prayers and vows are poured forth, but in vain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Almost our maids were better at their homes,
Than thus man-girdled here: indeed I think
Our
chiefest
comfort is the little child
Of one unworthy mother; which she left:
She shall not have it back: the child shall grow
To prize the authentic mother of her mind.
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Tennyson |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England
possessed
for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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what rage can move
Celestial
minds to tempt the wrath of Jove?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then Doullie myghte his bowestrynge drewe, 115
Enthoughte to gyve brave Tosslyn bloudie wounde,
But Harolde's asenglave stopp'd it as it slewe,
And it fell
bootless
on the bloudie grounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O born in the time of
joyfuller
ages,
heroes, hail!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Once when the
grindstone
almost jumped its bearing
It looked as if he might be badly thrown
And wounded on his blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_
But enough of these have already
appeared
in the notes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thine Am I, My
Faithful
Fair
Tune--"The Quaker's Wife.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And there, as darkness gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who
prospers
music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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, _polite intercourse
regulated
by etiquette?
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Beowulf |
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E'en when thou strivest there within Art's sky
(Each star must o'er a
strenuous
orbit fly),
Full calm thine image in our love doth lie,
A Motion glassed in a Tranquillity.
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Sidney Lanier |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O, write my name among that
minstrel
choir,
And my proud head shall strike upon the sky!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning scaffolded amid
The waste
perilous
Eternity, to lodge
This Heaven-wander'd princess, woman's beauty?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,
Why formed no weaker, blinder, and no less;
Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made
Taller or
stronger
than the weeds they shade?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
Content, in short, he valued far above form: and it was part of his
theory, though certainly not of his practice, that this content ought to
be
definitely
moral.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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e
souereyne
contre or point.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Or will the truth be this:
Because in one least moment that we mark--
That is, the uttering of a single sound--
There lurk yet many moments, which the reason
Discovers to exist, therefore it comes
That, in a moment how so brief ye will,
The divers idols are hard by, and ready
Each in its place
diverse?
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Lucretius |
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The
"arcades" referred to were removed in 1830, and the
brilliant
'Galerie
d'Orleans' built in their place.
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William Wordsworth |
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Nawshawtuct
Hill, 384.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Suffering
is one very long moment.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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20) supposes they derived their name from Broeken, or Bruchen, marshes, on account of their
frequency
in that tract of country.
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Tacitus |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux nocturnes
abreuves!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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With thy purple cygnets fly
To Paullus' door, a seasonable guest;
There within hold revelry,
There light thy flame in that
congenial
breast.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She was dressed always in clinging dresses of Eastern silk, and
as she was so small, and her long black hair hung
straight
down
her back, you might have taken her for a child.
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Stephen Crane |
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I hear the cricket's
slumbrous
lay
Around, beneath me, and on high;
It rocks the night, it soothes the day,
And everywhere is Nature's lullaby.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Whether that
blessing
be denied or given,
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to Heaven.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Four long years in the times of the war had he
languished
a captive,
Suffering much in an old French fort as the friend of the English.
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Longfellow |
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What effect
is
produced
in xxx and how?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Superior
beings, when of late they saw
A mortal man unfold all Nature's law,
Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape
And showed a Newton as we show an ape.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pagans are come great
martyrdom
seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any Frankish King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Then silence brake,
Amid th' accordant sons of Deity,
That luminary, in which the
wondrous
life
Of the meek man of God was told to me;
And thus it spake: "One ear o' th' harvest thresh'd,
And its grain safely stor'd, sweet charity
Invites me with the other to like toil.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Madame, the
bohemian
glass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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That god--
who was the wanderer, the slim
Despoiler
of fair women; he--the wise,--
But sweet and glowing as your thoughts of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending like your arched brows o'er your eyes.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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All faintly through my soul to-day,
As from a bell that far away
Is tinkled by some frolic fay,
Floateth
a lovely chiming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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20
Say the Saints--Fresh Souls
increase
us,
None languish nor recede.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close
contriuer
of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
Or shew the glory of our Art?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Towards me he ever turned an eye of favor and kindness, and as his
pupil I felt for him extreme
affection
and devotion, so that I passed
four years in his service.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
'Twas once & _only_ once & the wild hour
From my rememberance shall not pass--some power
Or spell had bound me--'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night & left behind
Its image on my spirit, or the moon
Shone on my
slumbers
in her lofty noon
Too coldly--or the stars--howe'er it was
That dream was as that night wind--let it pass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Then
courage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
IV
He speaks to the
moonlight
concerning the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Silently we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of
dreadful
things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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When that the four great English horsemen bore
So
bloodily
on thee, I leapt to front
To front of thee -- of thee -- and fought four blades,
Thinking to win thee time to snatch thy breath,
And, by a rearing fore-hoof stricken down,
Mine eyes, through blood, my brain, through pain,
-- Midst of a dim hot uproar fainting down --
Were 'ware of thee, far rearward, fleeing!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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What I promis'd without
mentioning
it, have you not accepted?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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I like a look of agony,
Because I know it 's true;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor
simulate
a throe.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Rilke - Poems |
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You
Spaniard
of Spain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I
remember
during my first term at Oxford
reading in Pater's _Renaissance_--that book which has had such strange
influence over my life--how Dante places low in the Inferno those who
wilfully live in sadness; and going to the college library and turning to
the passage in the _Divine Comedy_ where beneath the dreary marsh lie
those who were 'sullen in the sweet air,' saying for ever and ever
through their sighs--
'Tristi fummo
Nell aer dolce che dal sol s'allegra.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The whispering waves were half asleep,
The clouds were gone to play,
And on the bosom of the deep _15
The smile of Heaven lay;
It seemed as if the hour were one
Sent from beyond the skies,
Which
scattered
from above the sun
A light of Paradise.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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ille mihi tua damna dies
compescere
cantu
suadet, et ipse tuli quos nunc tibi confero questus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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CCXLIV
Great are the hosts; the
companies
in pride
Come touching, all the breadth of either side;
And the pagans do marvellously strike.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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While he is still
refusing to admit the facts and
beseeching
her not to "desert" him, she in
a gentle but businesslike way makes him promise to take care of the
children and, above all things, not to marry again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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Silk
umbrellas
waved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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MY
THOUGHTS
OF YE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite
contrary
I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Farewell,
unfalteringly
brave!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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To stake all one's life on one throw--whether the
stake be power or pleasure I care not--there is no
weakness
in that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Mais parmi les chacals, les pantheres, les lices,
Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents,
Les monstres glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants
Dans la
menagerie
infame de nos vices,
Il en est un plus laid, plus mechant, plus immonde!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large
six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally,
according
to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
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Ay, my lord
Blessed a
hundredfold
will be that day
When fire consumes the lists of noblemen
With their dissensions, their ancestral pride.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He came, and lookt at me; and, in a while,
I saw that he was
speaking
to me there.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXVIII
Marphisa
and the Child, of danger clear,
Enter the paynim ramparts; and, with eyes
Upturned, the Saracens, with humble cheer,
Thank Heaven for the success of that emprize:
The paladins no longer are their fear;
The meanest Moor a hundred Franks defies;
And 'tis resolved, without repose, again
To drench with Christian blood the thirsty plain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Pry the stone from the chancel floor,--
Dream ye that
Shakespeare
shall live no more?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatched thy
shrinking
gods to northern climes abhorred!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It was in the
Roman summers that Lear first began to exercise the taste for pictorial
wandering which grew into a habit and a passion, to fill vivid and copious
note-books as he went, and to illustrate them by spirited and accurate
drawings; and his first volume of "Illustrated Excursions in Italy,"
published in 1846, is gratefully dedicated to his
Knowsley
patron.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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, _lord of the
hereditary
estate_ (realm): nom.
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Beowulf |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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He called the ghost out of the corse;--
It was
exceedingly
like Peter,--
Only its voice was hollow and hoarse--
It had a queerish look of course--
Its dress too was a little neater.
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Shelley |
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