)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
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Chanson de Roland |
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deserves
not this thy care,
Our troops to hearten, and our toils to share?
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Iliad - Pope |
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the imperial squadrons thither steer,
Aid to the
leaguered
city to convey;
And lo!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'65'
The
Maeander
is a river in Asia Minor.
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Alexander Pope |
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And now the Irish are ashamed
To see
themselves
in one year tamed ;
So much one man can do,
That does both act and know.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A mountain, to be sure, by the mere sentiment of
physical magnitude which it conveys, _does _impress us with a sense
of the sublime--but no man is impressed after _this _fashion by the
material
grandeur
of even "The Columbiad.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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How still the dancer lies,
While color's
revelations
break,
And blaze the butterflies!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Veramente
quant' io del regno santo
ne la mia mente potei far tesoro,
sara ora materia del mio canto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Jealous of such formidable rivals as the Portuguese, they employed every
artifice to accomplish the
destruction
of GAMA'S fleet.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of
computer
users.
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Whitman |
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10
Not for other reason, Gellius, did I hope for thy faith to me in this our
unhappy, this our
desperate
love (because I knew thee well nor thought thee
constant or able to restrain thy mind from shameless act), but that I saw
this girl was neither thy mother nor thy sister, for whom my ardent love
ate me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The baron leads the ace of hearts and Belinda
takes it with the king, thus
escaping
"codille" and winning the stake.
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Alexander Pope |
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES
I may not lean across the wicket, turning 11
As on the languorous settle 12
Silvery swallows I saw flying 13
Through the
blossoms
softly simmer 17
Were it much to implore thee 18
Since I be down-cast 19
See my child I'm going 20
This is just the kind of morning 21
Through the casement a noble-child saw 22
Come in the death-foreboded park, to view 25
'Neath trembling tree-tops to and fro we wander 26
Let us surround the silent pool 27
To-day we will not cross the garden-railing 27
The blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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`For thus
ferforth
I have thy work bigonne, 960
Fro day to day, til this day, by the morwe,
Hir love of freendship have I to thee wonne,
And also hath she leyd hir feyth to borwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I love my dear old Nurse
Who loved me without gains;
I love my
mistress
even,
Friend, Mother, what you will:
But I could almost curse
My Father for his pains;
And sometimes at my prayer,
Kneeling in sight of Heaven,
I almost curse him still:
Why did he set his snare
To catch at unaware
My Mother's foolish youth;
Load me with shame that's hers,
And her with something worse,
A lifelong lie for truth?
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Christina Rossetti |
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t a fancy to one place,
More then another, to be
_Dutche?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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defluxere
sinus umeris, fugitque lacertos
uestis, et effusi scapulis haesere capilli.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nightfall
We will never walk again
As we used to walk at night,
Watching
our shadows lengthen
Under the gold street-light
When the snow was new and white.
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Sara Teasdale |
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]
[188] {404}[A cavity at the lower end of the lead attached to a
sounding-line is
partially
filled with an _arming_ (tallow), to which
the bottom, especially if it be sand, shells, or fine gravel,
adheres.
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Byron |
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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.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Norway himselfe, with
terrible
numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyall Traytor,
The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismall Conflict,
Till that Bellona's Bridegroome, lapt in proofe,
Confronted him with selfe-comparisons,
Point against Point, rebellious Arme 'gainst Arme,
Curbing his lauish spirit: and to conclude,
The Victorie fell on vs
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Broad sea and clustered isles, one terror thrills
As roll the red inexorable rills;
While Naples trembles in her palaces,
More
helpless
than the leaves when tempests shake the trees.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
She, proudly,
thinning
in the gloom:
"Though, since troth-plight began,
I've ever stood as bride to groom,
I wed no mortal man!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now comes our constantly
increased
reward.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_("Sonnez,
clairons
de la pensee!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Soon, for love,
Distraught
went she--
'Twas said for love of me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O
bounteous
seas that never fail!
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Emerson - Poems |
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* * * * *
In _New Poems_ (1907) and _New Poems, Second Part_ (1908) the historical
figure,
frequently
taken from the Old Testament, has grown beyond the
proportions of life; it is weightier with fate and invariably becomes
the means of expressing symbolically an abstract thought or a great
human destiny.
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Rilke - Poems |
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uocibus
adsiduis
litus resonet: tamen heia.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Vigorously he
cantered
onward thence.
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Chanson de Roland |
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1330
Cruel one, if you scorn the power of my tears,
And consent without pain to leave me forever,
Go then,
distance
yourself from poor Aricia.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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One man
repentant
is of more esteem, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Peut-on
illuminer
un ciel bourbeux et noir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Let us go into this
deserted
woodman's hut, and see how he has passed
the long winter nights and the short and stormy days.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this monument
encloses
him entire.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And how should I
presume?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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All these things, O God, are
conceived
with forethought, born with
determination, nursed with exactness, governed by rules, directed
by reason, and then slain and buried after a prescribed method.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The leaves, like women, interchange
Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and
somewhat
of
Portentous inference,
The parties in both cases
Enjoining secrecy, --
Inviolable compact
To notoriety.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Aristophanes |
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"
The menial fair obeys with duteous haste:
A seat adorn'd with furry spoils she placed:
Due-distant for
discourse
the hero sate;
When thus the sovereign from her chair of state:
"Reveal, obsequious to my first demand,
Thy name, thy lineage, and thy natal land.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Death has the bright sun quench'd which wont to burn;
Her pure and
constant
eyes his dark realms hold:
She now is dust, who dealt me heat and cold;
To common trees my chosen laurels turn;
Hence I at once my bliss and bane discern.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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They lean
together!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Tacitus |
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Let not woman e'er complain
Of
inconstancy
in love;
Let not woman e'er complain
Fickle man is apt to rove:
Look abroad through nature's range,
Nature's mighty law is change;
Ladies, would it not be strange,
Man should then a monster prove?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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I therefore, when my
questions
had obtain'd
Solution plain and ample, stood as one
Musing in dreary slumber; but not long
Slumber'd; for suddenly a multitude,
The steep already turning, from behind,
Rush'd on.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To think the difference will still
continue
to others, yet we lie beyond
the difference.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then, 'mongst the foreign ladies, she whose faith
T' her husband (not AEneas) caused her death;
The vulgar ignorant may hold their peace,
Her safety to her chastity gave place;
Dido, I mean, whom no vain passion led
(As fame belies her); last, the virtuous maid
Retired to Arno, who no rest could find,
Her friends'
constraining
power forced her mind.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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An infinitesimal odour of the most
exquisite
choice, mingled with a
floating humidity, swims in this atmosphere where the drowsing spirit is
lulled by the sensations one feels in a hothouse.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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rǣd
eahtedon,
_consulted
about help_, 172; pret.
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Beowulf |
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:
_separata_
BLa1
21 _nihil uidet_ ?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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A
COMPLEINT
TO HIS LADY.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He'd pledged his oath by county Guenelon,
Gave him his sword, a
thousand
coins thereon.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The_ WITCH
_comes riding down through the flame with a
terrible
outcry_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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produced
and distributed Project
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sometimes these
cogitations
still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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that his dreams be bright
With visitings of angel forms of light,
And his soul burn as incense flaming wide,
Let thy pure breath all his dark sins efface,
So that his heart be like that holy place,
An altar pavement each eve
purified!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" quoth Gawayne, "I shall not
begrudge
thee thy will for
any harm that may happen, but will stand still while thou strikest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ Who could have brought both caskets in
succession?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
350:--
"Hermes obeys; with golden pinions binds
His flying feet, and mounts the western winds:
And whether o'er the seas or earth he flies,
With rapid force they bear him down the skies
But first he grasps within his awful hand
The mark of
sovereign
power, his magic wand;
With this he draws the ghost from hollow graves;
With this he drives them from the Stygian waves:
* * * *
Thus arm'd, the god begins his airy race,
And drives the racking clouds along the liquid space.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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In regard to its measure, it may be noted that if all the verses were
like the second, they might properly be placed merely in short lines,
producing a not uncommon form; but the
presence
in all the others of
one line-mostly the second in the verse" (stanza?
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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225
I die to evade this
disastrous
urge to confess.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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He who
commanded
one of the forts in the Orenburg
district?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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He
desired that a
posthumous
title should not be awarded.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all
mysteries
by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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GOYA, a nightmare full of things unknown;
The foetus witches broil on Sabbath night;
Old women at the mirror;
children
lone
Who tempt old demons with their limbs delight.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
dost thou pace
Our woods at night in ghostly chase
"Of some fair Dryad of old tales
Who chants between the nightingales
And over sleep by song
prevails?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
So richly was this fertile race imbued
With virtuous nephews, its posterity
Surpassed the past, in brave authority,
Measured deep earth and heaven's altitude:
So that, holding all power in its hand,
No end to empire would Rome understand:
And though
Republics
Time might consume,
Time could not so diminish Roman pride,
That some head raised from the ancient tomb,
To speak her name, might be deemed to have lied.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_proram_ O ||
_amphitritem_ GBA: _a_(_am_
Ven)_phitritem
al.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Soon they o'ertook us; with such
swiftness
mov'd
The mighty crowd.
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When at last, far on into Winter, I got to the Northern Capital,[40] I
was moved to see how much you cared for my
reception
and how little you
cared for the cost--amber cups and fine foods on a blue jade dish.
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Li Po |
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the Clarions of War blew loud
The Feast redounds & Crownd with roses & the circling vine
The Enormous Bride &
Bridegroom
sat, beside them Urizen
With faded radiance sighd, forgetful of the flowing wine
And of Ahania his Pure Bride but She was distant far
But Los & Enitharmon sat in discontent & scorn
Craving the more the more enjoying, drawing out sweet bliss
From all the turning wheels of heaven & the chariots of the Slain
At distance Far in Night repelld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
bird whose eye takes in the Green
Mountains
on the one side, and the
ocean on the other, need not be at a loss to find its way.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Glooms,
stagnantly
subsiding,
Whose lustrous heart away was prest
Into the argent stars!
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AGNES
In _Lamia_ and _Hyperion_, as in _Endymion_, we find Keats inspired by
classic story, though the
inspiration
in each case came to him through
Elizabethan writers.
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Keats |
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EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my powerful controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard
delighted
reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Having studied so long it
is
astonishing
that I have learnt so little.
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Petrarch |
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"
They ratify also the spirit of those poems in the present volume which
seek to interpret to Britons and Americans their
deepening
friendship.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ta gorge qui s'avance et qui pousse la moire,
Ta gorge
triomphante
est une belle armoire
Dont les panneaux bombes et clairs
Comme les boucliers accrochent des eclairs;
Boucliers provoquants, armes de pointes roses!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'"
[which has for its first meaning material, but is also applied peculiarly
to kinds of wood, and to a wood], "from the multiplicity and variety of
the material
contained
in it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No one knows what made those wild
thoughts
arise:
But the waves have snatched her forever from our eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And what besides of those first particles
Whence soul and mind must
fashioned
be?
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Lucretius |
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But if she found us like our sea,
Of aspect
colourless
and chill,
Rock-girt; like it she found us still
Deep at our deepest, strong and free.
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Christina Rossetti |
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the slave upon the seas--
Is great, is pure, is glorious,
Is grand compared with these,
Who, born amid my holy rocks,
In solemn places high,
Where the tall pines bend like rushes
When the storm goes
sweeping
by;
Yet give the strength of foot they learned
By perilous path and flood,
And from their blue-eyed mothers won,
The old, mysterious blood;
The daring that the good south wind
Into their nostrils blew,
And the proud swelling of the heart
With each pure breath they drew;
The graces of the mountain glens,
With flowers in summer gay;
And all the glories of the hills
To earn a lackey's pay.
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Hugo - Poems |
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