Imprimis--ten day's "liver"--due to his
drinking
beer;
Later, a dose of fever--slight, but he called it severe.
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Kipling - Poems |
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An' wha on Ayr your
chanters
tune!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Hill of
Posilipo
is situated to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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This and that,--equally childish games,
Things whose
substance
passes in a moment of time!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the
conquest
of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He had an intuitive and a
perfectly
trained eye for the
character and beauty of distant mountain lines, the solemnity of rocky
gorges, the majesty of a single mountain rising from a base of plain or
sea; and he was equally exact in rendering the true forms of the middle
distances and the specialties of foreground detail belonging to the various
lands through which he had wandered as a sketcher.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O angle-builders,
Vainly have you
prolonged
your effort,
For I descend amid you,
Past rungs and slopes of curving slippery steel.
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Imagists |
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"There's neither dog nor heifer, horse nor sheep,
Will wet his lips within that cup of stone;
And oftentimes, when all are fast asleep, 135
This water doth send forth a
dolorous
groan.
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William Wordsworth |
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Bright shone the merry
moonbeams
dancing o'er the wave.
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Hugo - Poems |
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_is unus lapis
quo
candidiore
illa notat dies_
148 _diem_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"And what," said I, "hath
befallen
you, and where are your right
eyes and your right hands?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,
Where the
clustering
keovas guard the squirrel's slumber,
Where the deep woods glimmer with the jasmine's bloom?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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You were not at the play tonight, Don Carlos;
How
happened
it?
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Longfellow |
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CHORUS,
_consisting
of Elders of Pherae_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As soon as they
arrive to maturity of years, they let their hair and beards
continue
to
grow, nor till they have slain an enemy do they ever lay aside this form
of countenance by vow sacred to valour.
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Tacitus |
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and all
For our sake, for the lives she hath in scorn,
This
horrible
Assyrian risk she ventures.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Regions they pass'd, the mightie Regencies
Of Seraphim and Potentates and Thrones
In thir triple Degrees, Regions to which
All thy Dominion, Adam, is no more
Then what this Garden is to all the Earth,
And all the Sea, from one entire globose 750
Stretcht into Longitude; which having pass'd
At length into the limits of the North
They came, and Satan to his Royal seat
High on a Hill, far blazing, as a Mount
Rais'd on a Mount, with Pyramids and Towrs
From Diamond Quarries hew'n, & Rocks of Gold,
The Palace of great Lucifer, (so call
That Structure in the Dialect of men
Interpreted) which not long after, hee
Affecting all equality with God, 760
In imitation of that Mount whereon
Messiah was declar'd in sight of Heav'n,
The Mountain of the
Congregation
call'd;
For thither he assembl'd all his Train,
Pretending so commanded to consult
About the great reception of thir King,
Thither to come, and with calumnious Art
Of counterfeted truth thus held thir ears.
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Milton |
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Two bodies
therefore
be;
Bind one, and one will flee.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Your Muse shall sing in loftier strain
How Caesar climbs the sacred height,
The fierce Sygambrians in his train,
With laurel dight,
Than whom the Fates ne'er gave mankind
A richer
treasure
or more dear,
Nor shall, though earth again should find
The golden year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Are those
billions
of men really gone?
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Whitman |
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From the land to the land they pass over,
a herd at the high king's best;
Some by the way of the waves,
and some o'er the
planking
have pressed.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ye tender
feelings
dear!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O
delicate
in dole and grief,
Ye Persian women!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Imagists |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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with this eBook or online at www.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This was an
arrangement made by Wordsworth, of set purpose, and
steadily
adhered
to--the 'Ode' forming as it were the High Altar of his poetic Cathedral.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Long, long in visions of the night there came
Voices and forms into my maiden bower,
Alluring me with smoothly glozing words--
_O maiden highly
favoured
of high Heaven,
Why cherish thy virginity so long?
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Aeschylus |
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Ne l'ordine ch'io dico sono accline
tutte nature, per diverse sorti,
piu al
principio
loro e men vicine;
onde si muovono a diversi porti
per lo gran mar de l'essere, e ciascuna
con istinto a lei dato che la porti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To do this it is
necessary
to know his name and to use
it.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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debita carminibus
libertas
ista, sed omnis
in uero mihi cura: canam, quo feruida motu
aestuet Aetna nouosque rapax sibi conferat ignis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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debita carminibus
libertas
ista, sed omnis
in uero mihi cura: canam, quo feruida motu
aestuet Aetna nouosque rapax sibi conferat ignis.
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| Answer: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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When thou first hadst felt the dart
Of
perishable
things, in my departing
For better realms, thy wing thou should'st have prun'd
To follow me, and never stoop'd again
To 'bide a second blow for a slight girl,
Or other gaud as transient and as vain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nor in the camp was the wailing
less, when Rhamnes was found a
bloodless
corpse, and Serranus and Numa
and all their princes destroyed in a single slaughter.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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incarnate me, as I have
incarnated
you!
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Whitman |
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CENCI [LEAPING UP, AND
THROWING
HIS RIGHT HAND TOWARDS HEAVEN]:
He does his will, I mine!
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Shelley |
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How the
hemlocks
are tipped in tinsel
By the wizard sun!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ces enfants seuls etaient ses familiers
Qui, chetifs, fronts nus, oeil
deteignant
sur la joue,
Cachant de maigres doigts jaunes et noirs de boue,
Sous des habits puant la foire et tout vieillots,
Conversaient avec la douceur des idiots!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" In 1733,
the year of
publication
of the Third Epistle of the "Essay on Man," Pope
published his Moral Essay of the "Characters of Men.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Charles was a nervous, frail youth, but unlike most children of genius,
he was a scholar and won
brilliant
honours at school.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But
sometimes
when you hear blown back to you
My wistful, far-off singing touched with tears,
Know that I sang for you alone to hear,
And that I wondered if the wind would bring
To him who tuned my heart its distant song.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The
Prussians
shelled it out in '70 because there was
a poplar on the top of a hill eighteen hundred yards from the church
spire.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The goode folk, that Poule to preched,
Profred him ofte, whan he hem teched, 6680
Som of hir good in charite;
But therof right no-thing took he;
But of his
hondwerk
wolde he gete
Clothes to wryen him, and his mete.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Better have borne the petulant proud disdain
Of Amaryllis, or
Menalcas
wooed,
Albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Nor courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dared an oath, nor
hazarded
a lie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Above them, as they slumber in graves that none may number,
Dawns grow to day, days dim to dusk, and dusks in darkness
pass;
Unheeded springs are born,
unheeded
summers brighten,
And winters wait to whiten the wilderness of grass.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hrothgar will set aside this feud by giving his
daughter
as
"peace-weaver" and wife to the young king Ingeld, son of the slain
Froda.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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as I listen'd with a heart forlorn,
The pulses of my being beat anew:
And even as life retains upon the drowned,
Life's joy
rekindling
roused a throng of pains--
Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe
Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart;
And fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of hope;
And hope that scarce would know itself from fear;
Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain,
And genius given, and knowledge won in vain;
And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild,
And all which patient toil had reared, and all,
Commune with _thee_ had opened out--but flowers
Strewed on my corse, and borne upon my bier,
In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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III
The October night comes down; returning as before
Except for a slight
sensation
of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Every
sensible
man must give his
help to the State.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I select at
random the opening lines of the third _Aeneid_:
postquam res Asiae Priamique euertere gentem
immeritam
uisum superis, ceciditque superbum
Ilium, et omnis humo fumat Neptunia Troia;
diuersa exsilia et desertas quaerere terras
auguriis agimur diuum, classemque sub ipsa
Antandro et Phrygiae molimur montibus Idae,
incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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lh folha par
When fresh leaves and shoots appear,
And the blossom gleams on the bough,
And the
nightingale
high and clear
Raises his voice, and sings aloud,
I joy in him, and enjoy the flowers,
And joy in my lady and I, for hours;
By joy on all sides I'm caught and bound,
But this is joy, and all other joys drowned.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Erskine Macdonald:--The following poems from _Soldier Poets_:--"The
Beach Road by the Wood," by Lieutenant
Geoffrey
Howard; "Before Action,"
by the late Lieutenant W.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She next from Arles defies her cavalier,
And, while he marvels who would him assay,
Grandonio and Ferrau she with her hand
And
Serpentine
unhorses on the strand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I cannot
remember
now what Neptune taught me.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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the masters of dependencies
That by
compounding
differences 'tween others
Supply their own necessities,
and Massinger makes similar comment in _The Guardian_, _Wks.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No more Campania's hinds shall fly
To woods and caverns when they spy
Thy thrice
accursed
sail.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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since to this the
name of husband is
dwindled
down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
-- "I joy thereat," the
cavalier
replied;
Then, that he might this saying understand,
Added, "I pray that you, sir knight, within
My mansion will this eve be pleased to inn.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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To be tantalized with Images of sensual enjoyment which
must be renounced if one would
approximate
a God, who according to the
Doctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, and into whose Universe
one expects unconsciously to merge after Death, without hope of any
posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self-
denial in this.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_It was included in the
Collected
Edition of the author's
Poems published by Messrs.
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Wilde - Poems |
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), and the two
officials
Li Chien and Ts'ui Hsuan-liang.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Europe, for instance, had its
unmistakable
Heroic Age
when it was fighting with the Moslem, whether that warfare was a cause
or merely an accompaniment.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So precious to me are the
fourscore
words
That each letter changes into a bar of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand:
It was a
heavenly
sight:
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light:
This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand,
No voice did they impart--
No voice; but O!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[117] There were three towns of this name in
different
parts of Greece.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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XXXVII
On the horizon the peaks assembled;
And as I looked,
The march of the
mountains
began.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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But there the twain did stand
Unfaltering, each his iron in his hand,
Edge
fronting
edge.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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art 'bove alarm,
Quaffing
thus the cup of gall--
Canst thou face the grave with calm?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Men and women
crowding
fast in the streets, if they are not flashes
and specks what are they?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Pope did not notice that he
describes
Belinda as waking
in I.
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Alexander Pope |
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I admired the Teucrian captains, admired their lord, the son of
Laomedon; but
Anchises
moved high above them all.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I'm wrong, you didn't dance: your feet were fluttering
Over the surface of the ground, your body altering,
Its nature
transformed
that night to the divine.
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Ronsard |
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And help me god so at my moste nede
As
causeles
ye suffren al this drede!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I knew that thou would'st come, for when at first
The dry wood burgeoned, and the sap of spring
Swelled in my green and tender bark or burst
To myriad multitudinous blossoming
Which mocked the midnight with its mimic moons
That did not dread the dawn, and first the thrushes' rapturous tunes
Startled the squirrel from its granary,
And cuckoo flowers fringed the narrow lane,
Through my young leaves a
sensuous
ecstasy
Crept like new wine, and every mossy vein
Throbbed with the fitful pulse of amorous blood,
And the wild winds of passion shook my slim stem's maidenhood.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a
thousand
deaths that threaten pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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360
A foul
forwelked
thing was she
That whylom round and softe had be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The winds,
'Tis clear, are sightless bodies sweeping through
The sea, the lands, the clouds along the sky,
Vexing and whirling and seizing all amain;
And forth they flow and pile
destruction
round,
Even as the water's soft and supple bulk
Becoming a river of abounding floods,
Which a wide downpour from the lofty hills
Swells with big showers, dashes headlong down
Fragments of woodland and whole branching trees;
Nor can the solid bridges bide the shock
As on the waters whelm: the turbulent stream,
Strong with a hundred rains, beats round the piers,
Crashes with havoc, and rolls beneath its waves
Down-toppled masonry and ponderous stone,
Hurling away whatever would oppose.
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Lucretius |
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So harmony grows full from many springs,
And happy
accident
turns holy art.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I had
a conviction, which indeed I have still, that one's verses should
hold, as in a mirror, the colours of one's own climate and scenery in
their right proportion; and, when I found my verses too full of the
reds and yellows Shelley gathered in Italy, I thought for two days of
setting things right, not as I should now by making rhythms faint
and nervous and filling my images with a certain coldness, a certain
wintry wildness, but by eating little and
sleeping
upon a board.
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Yeats |
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A swan from time past remembers it's he
Magnificent yet
struggling
hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The editors are looking
forward to an eventual fifth edition, in which an
entirely
new text will be
presented.
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Beowulf |
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Therefore is insight always best,
and
forethought
of mind.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Even
here it is only gentle and shy at first like the
stirring
of a breath of
wind over a quiet sea; and gentle beings make this first gesture,
children and young women at play, singing, dancing or at prayer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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