Speaking comparatively, it may be said that the
function of Homeric epic has been to create imperishable symbolism for
the actual courageous consciousness of life, but the duty of "literary"
epic has been to develop this function, answerably to the development of
life itself, into symbolism of some
conscious
_idea_ of life--something
at once more formalized and more subtilized than the primary virtue of
courage.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,
Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend,
ourselves
to make a Couch--for whom?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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ON THE
PROPOSALLS
OF CERTAINE MINISTERS AT THE COMMITTEE FOR
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPELL.
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Milton |
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Why can I never tear away
The veils from the old
friendliness
?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--I am dazed,
See the dew is on the grass,
Wakened
butterflies
amazed
Follow thee as on we pass.
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Hugo - Poems |
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here comes the
Paphlagonian!
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Aristophanes |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Still what avails it that she sought her cave
That murderous mother of red
harlotries?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Heaven to mankind impartial we confess,
If all are equal in their happiness:
But mutual wants this happiness increase;
All Nature's
difference
keeps all Nature's peace.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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--
The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
And hems in life with
narrowing
fence.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
Depth of basalt and lavas
By even the enslaved echoes
Of a trumpet without power
What sepulchral shipwreck (you
Know it,
slobbering
there, foam)
Among hulks the supreme one
Flattened the naked mast too
Or that which, furious mistake
Of some noble ill-fate
All the vain abyss spread wide
In the so-white hair's trailing
Would have drowned miser-like
The childish flank of some Siren.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The watch once down, all motions then do cease;
The man's pulse stopt, all
passions
sleep in peace.
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Robert Herrick |
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These, were the rich
immortal
prize our own,
Through the wide world should make our glory known.
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Iliad - Pope |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Canadian, French, 9;
horses, 34;
women, 34;
atmosphere, 34;
love of neighborhood, 42, 43;
houses, 44, 59;
clothes, 45;
salutations, 47;
vegetables
and trees, 47, 48;
boots, 51;
tenures, 63, 64.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LVI
And, like a horse unbroken
When first he feels the rein,
The furious river struggled hard,
And tossed his tawny mane,
And burst the curb and bounded,
Rejoicing to be free,
And whirling down, in fierce career,
Battlement, and plank, and pier,
Rushed
headlong
to the sea.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Peace and order and beauty draw
Round thy symbol of light and law;
And ever the stars above look down
On thy stars below in
Frederick
town!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But I delay too long, let me seek Chimene,
And in
welcoming
her relieve my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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So two nights passed: the night's dismay
Saddened
and stunned the coming day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Slaughter his
thousand
giant arms hath tossed on high,
Fell fathers, husbands, wives, beneath his streaming steel;
Prostrate, the palaces, huge tombs of fire, lie,
While gathering overhead the vultures scream and wheel!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sweet and joyous lady, know
Without your loving, there,
I die, my heart it breaks so
The pulse is
scarcely
there.
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Troubador Verse |
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Am I always to see you renouncing life entire,
Making funereal
preparations
for your death?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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With Divinities fills my
Terrestrial
hall!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some confusion of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where
precision
weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What, then's, the
principle?
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Lucretius |
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Then Nan got a-tremble at nostril; she was the
daintiest
doe;
In the print of her velvet flank on the velvet fern
She reared, and rounded her ears in turn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Chimene
Still you speak, what more,
Vile
murderer
of that hero I adore!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_ The meaning of this
verse, accepting the 1633 text, is: 'Admit this honest paper to swear
much love,--a love that will not change until with your elevation to
the peerage (or
increasing
eminence) it must be called _honour_ rather
than _love_.
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John Donne |
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The
description
of Fidelia is full of biblical allusions, _viz.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Therefore, ye living, rejoice that love keeps you warm for a while yet,
Until cold Lethe anoints,
captures
your foot in its flight.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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though
Brignall
banks be fair,
And Greta woods be gay,
Yet mickle must the maiden dare,
Would reign my Queen of May!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
He opened the letter, and began reading it half aloud, with a running
fire of remarks--
"'Sir, I hope your excellency'--What's all this
ceremony?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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CHORUS
On you too then this sweet
distress
did fall--
HERALD
How say'st thou?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And shouldn't we be able to recognise
The heart of a
treacherous
mortal by sure signs?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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IF I, said Nancy, must avow the truth,
Your brother Alan was the
bounteous
youth,
Who me obliged therewith, and freely taught,
What from the holy friar you'd have bought.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"To walk four miles through mud and rain,
To spend the night in smoking,
And then to find that it's in vain--
And I've to do it all again--
It's really _too_
provoking!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The river, fleet, the port, the shore, the main,
Were sites of
conflict
now, where death did reign.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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They scatter their insults and their slanders without heed as to
whether the poisoned shaft lights on a heart made callous by many
blows or one like Keats's
composed
of more penetrable stuff.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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GEIST:
Du
gleichst
dem Geist, den du begreifst,
Nicht mir!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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utinam_ Nigra
94
_Hydrochoi_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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How
condescending
to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Again, the forward power
Of scent in dogs doth lead the hunter on
Whithersoever the splay-foot of wild beast
Hath hastened its career; and the white goose,
The saviour of the Roman citadel,
Forescents
afar the odour of mankind.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different
Fishermen, in parcels marked out by imaginary lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
196
_iuuerit_
Auantius: _inuenerit_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The legions which
had been moved, as we saw above,[428] from Novaesium and Bonn to
Trier, now
administered
to themselves the oath of allegiance to
Vespasian.
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Tacitus |
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" Walt was schooled at Brooklyn, a suburb of New York, and
began life at the age of thirteen, working as a printer, later on as a
country teacher, and then as a
miscellaneous
press-writer in New York.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Where'er the sound is heard, the multitude,
In panic at the
deafening
echo, start.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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CHEN: I should like to join in
congratulating
Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Do you first, Damoetas, sing,
Then you, Menalcas, in
alternate
strain:
Alternate strains are to the Muses dear.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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She slept late, however, the next day with
her pleasant dreams, and Arthur with his Knights of the Round Table had
sped gloriously away on their
snorting
chargers when she arose, called
one of her maids to come with her, mounted her palfrey and forded the
River Usk to pass over by the forest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
It remains, then, only to show how the seed is
transported
from where
it grows to where it is planted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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' I long to
catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with
a rhythm like the quick
irregular
wild flash of their sudden
movements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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whether, torn by fate from her
unhappy husband, she stood still, or did she mistake the way, or sink
down
outwearied?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
A class in English Literature,
composed
of young girls
who had been studying with Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
1278)
Peire Cardenal, or
Cardinal
was born in Le Puy-en-Velay educated as a canon, but abandoned his career in the church for 'the vanity of this world' according to his vida.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Ah,
shuddering
dread doth make my spirit quiver,
And o'er thy fate sits Fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
what rejoicing and crackling and
roasting!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
And now his soul wears the
strength
and fury
Of a huge dun-pelted wolf; he's the wolves' king;
And the fiends have learnt from him to laugh at our flints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ye have hampered
Heaven's Gate;
There's little room between the stars in
idleness
to prate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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But never
To worker
summoned
when his day was done
Did mounting tide bring in such freight of friends
As stole to you up the white wintry shingle
That night while they that watched you thought you slept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL PRECEPTS AND
PRACTICAL
ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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All told
Will there be thirty
thousand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
' This, it would seem to me, needs
the
definite
article.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I shall get
the idea
sketched
out here and work it up at Kami's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Yet _more_ than worthy of the love
My spirit struggled with, and strove,
When, on the mountain peak, alone,
Ambition lent it a new tone--
I had no being--but in thee:
The world, and all it did contain
In the earth--the air--the sea--
Its joy--its little lot of pain
That was new pleasure--the ideal,
Dim, vanities of dreams by night--
And dimmer
nothings
which were real--
(Shadows--and a more shadowy light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
XXXIV
King Marsilies is turn'ed white with rage,
His
feathered
dart he brandishes and shakes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
It is instantly counted out with
alacrity, and the
postmaster
hastily retires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver,
Whether he traverse Libyan shoals,
Or Caucasus, forlorn and horrent,
Or lands where far
Hydaspes
rolls
His fabled torrent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For should'st thou suffer,
powerless
to relieve,
I must behold it, and can only grieve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I shall pray God all my life for you, and I'll never talk
about the
hareskin
'_touloup_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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May I call
tomorrow?
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Kipling - Poems |
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First we'll learn the malady of this one,
Herself relating her
destructive
fortunes,
And the remainder of her trials let her learn from thee.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
Worlds scoop their arcs, and
firmaments
row,
Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Not cast thee out, but to a
friendly
home.
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Aeschylus |
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And
plenteous
funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Mihi
pergamena
deest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He writes out spells to bless the
silkworms
and spells to protect
the corn.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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tho' that long dream were of
hopeless
sorrow,
'Twere better than the dull reality
Of waking life to him whose heart shall be,
And hath been ever, on the chilly earth,
A chaos of deep passion from his birth!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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