Blesse you faire Dame: I am not to you known,
Though in your state of Honor I am perfect;
I doubt some danger do's
approach
you neerely.
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ON this, the third with candour interfer'd;
She thought that oft the god of love appear'd,
Good husbands playfully to fret and vex,
Sometimes to rally couples: then perplex;
But warmer as the conversation grew,
She, anxious that each
disputant
might view
Herself victorious, (or believe it so,)
Exclaim'd, if either of you wish to show
Who's in the right, with argument have done,
And let us practise some new scheme of fun,
To dupe our husbands; she who don't succeed
Shall pay a forfeit; all replied, "Agreed.
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La Fontaine |
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The wind as a changed thing
Whispereth
overhead
Of one that of old lay dead
In the water lapping long:
My King, O my King!
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Euripides - Electra |
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e, cowpled hor hounde3,
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Vnclosed
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Paris besieged by the
Saracens, Orlando and the other Christian knights
assemble
in aid of
Charlemagne, who are opposed in their amours and in battle by Rodomont,
Ferraw, and other Saracen knights.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" [_Voila les
arguments
de M.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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Mad, that I see
Thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Beowulf |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up
remembrance
of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
IV
Forgive me,
Freedom!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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sorweful
arm{ur}es 3364
manasyng wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of
pneumatic
bliss.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What mischief lies concealed
In this design I know not; but I know
Who thinks of
marrying
hath already taken
One step upon the road to penitence.
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Longfellow |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
hesitates
to reject either.
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And as to you Life I reckon you are the
leavings
of many deaths,
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Denounce who will, who will deny,
And pile the hills to scale the sky;
Let theist, atheist, pantheist,
Define and wrangle how they list,
Fierce conserver, fierce destroyer,--
But thou, joy-giver and enjoyer,
Unknowing war,
unknowing
crime,
Gentle Saadi, mind thy rhyme;
Heed not what the brawlers say,
Heed thou only Saadi's lay.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to
understand
you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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at Acme leuiter caput reflectens, 10
et dulcis pueri ebrios ocellos
illo purpureo ore suauiata,
'sic,' inquit 'mea uita Septimille,
huic uni domino usque seruiamus,
ut multo mihi maior acriorque 15
ignis
mollibus
ardet in medullis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pray for God's grace,
confessing
Him your sins!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of
the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing,
or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body
understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who
believes
not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in
other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day
but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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With introduction and notes by
Alfred Ainger,
reprinted
six times between this date and 1899.
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Tennyson |
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Who is it
clutches
me
By the neck behind?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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on gylpsprǣce (_there was the
champion more silent in his
boasting
speech_), 982;--_in; full of,
representing, something_: on weres wæstmum (_in man's form_), 1353.
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Beowulf |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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if ye but knew
The least of the all that bluebirds do,
Now in this little godly calm
Yon voice might sing the Future's Psalm --
The Psalm of Love with the
brotherly
eyes
Who pardons and is very wise --
Yon voice that shouts, high-hoarse with ire,
`Fire!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Darius was elected king by the neighing of a horse; sacred white horses were in the army of Cyrus; and Xerxes, retreating after his defeat, was
preceded
by the sacred horses and consecrated chariot.
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Tacitus |
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Take our good meaning, for our
judgment
sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
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Shakespeare |
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6 The wisp in autumn air was a proverbially tiny thing; this suggests the
precision
of the archers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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There slept Ulysses, then,
On his carv'd couch, beneath the portico,
But in the inner-house
Alcinous
found
His place of rest, and hers with royal state 430
Prepared, the Queen his consort, at his side.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[6] A musician, belonging to Phrygia, who had composed
melodies
intended
to describe pain.
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Aristophanes |
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Au coeur d'un vieux faubourg, labyrinthe fangeux,
Ou l'humanite
grouille
en ferments orageux,
On voit un chiffonnier qui vient, hochant la tete,
Buttant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poete,
Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets,
Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" In Li
Po and Tu Fu he finds a
deficiency
of "f?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But let them write for you, each rogue impairs
The deeds, and dexterously omits, ses heires;
No
commentator
can more slily pass
O'er a learned, unintelligible place;
Or, in quotation, shrewd divines leave out
Those words, that would against them clear the doubt.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Unnamed Land
Nations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these States,
Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and
travel'd their course and pass'd on,
What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes
and nomads,
What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps
transcending
all others,
What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death
and the soul,
Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and
undevelop'd,
Not a mark, not a record remains--and yet all remains.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I
Among the smoke and fog of a
December
afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this afternoon for you";
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For as an oak waving its boughs on Taurus' top, or a
coniferous pine with
sweating
stem, is uprooted by savage storm, twisting
its trunk with its blast (dragged from its roots prone it falleth afar,
breaking all in the line of its fall) so did Theseus fling down the
conquered body of the brute, tossing its horns in vain towards the skies.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But to confine
ourselves
to the maples.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Onward fair Gallia opens to the view
Her groves of olive, and her
vineyards
blue:
Wide spread her harvests o'er the scenes renown'd,
Where Julius[188] proudly strode with laurel crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Here no man
treadeth
oft nor loud,
Through casement comes the Autumn balm,
Here to the hopeless, hope is vowed,
To pleadings, tendered words of calm.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So, through all humors, thou 'rt the same sweet one:
Doubt not I love thee well in each, who see
Thy constant change is
changeful
constancy.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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sic placeam uobis: alius sit fortis in armis,
sternat et
aduersos
Marte fauente duces,
ut mihi potanti possit sua dicere facta
miles et in mensa pingere castra mero.
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What need of
displeasure
herein?
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Aeschylus |
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Thus he urges and eggs him all the time
with keenest words, till occasion offers
that Freawaru's thane, for his father's deed,
after bite of brand in his blood must slumber,
losing his life; but that
liegeman
flies
living away, for the land he kens.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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We were approaching the deep
ravines which served as natural
fortifications
to the little settlement.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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necdum etiam doctas
sollertia
fecerat artis,
terraque sub rudibus cessabat uasta colonis;
tumque in desertis habitabat montibus aurum,
ignotusque nouos pontus subduxerat orbis;
nec uitam pelago nec uentis credere uota
audebant; se quisque satis nouisse putabant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But thou,
imperious!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Day was verging toward the night
There beside the moaning sea,
Dimness overtook the light
There where the
breakers
be.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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E di pochi scaglion levammo i saggi,
che 'l sol corcar, per l'ombra che si spense,
sentimmo
dietro e io e li miei saggi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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FAUST:
Ich bleibe bei dir
MARGARETE:
Geschwind!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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VII
Happily now on
classical
soil I feel inspiration.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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We are but fools
When our heart vibrates to the people's groans
And
passionate
wailing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And immediately I
regretted
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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,
_excellent
jewel, splendid treasure_: gen.
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Beowulf |
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outen lettynge
Goddes
sergeaunt
to chirche brynge
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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' I presume
this is how it is
understood
by Chambers and the Grolier Club editor,
who place a semicolon at the end of each line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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But it was the
'benignity and patience' not of a personal friend but of a government
official--of a government
official
dispensing patronage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But nought availed the purpose he designed;
His
projects
Fortune baffled with new arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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On his return to
Ireland he gave a charming picture of life at
Kilcolman
Castle, with an
account of his visit to the court, in _Colin Clout's Come Home Again_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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On hate to Troy, than
conscious
shame and grief:
Here, hid from human eyes, thy brother sate,
And mourn'd, in secret, his and Ilion's fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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O passion
powerful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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_
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,
Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquering,
The dredful Ioy, that alwey slit so yerne,
Al this mene I by love, that my feling
Astonyeth with his
wonderful
worching 5
So sore y-wis, that whan I on him thinke,
Nat wot I wel wher that I wake or winke.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When that day comes, whose evening says I'm gone
Unto that watery desolation,
Devoutly
to thy closet-gods then pray
That my wing'd ship may meet no remora.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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How shall his
rashness
stand the dire alarms,
If heaven's omnipotence descend in arms?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"
DAMOETAS
"My Muse,
although
she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or will you think, my friend, your
business
done,
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'
And so you will see my death in this duel,
Far from
quenching
glory, will give it fuel;
And this honour will flow from willing death,
Your need for recompense ends with my breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
"
XXXIX
The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds;
The leaden
thunders
crashed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceiue
Our Bosome interest: Goe
pronounce
his present death,
And with his former Title greet Macbeth
Rosse.
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Did swear by his Maker,
If e'er I see England again,
I '11 have a religion all of my own,
Whether Popish or
Protestant
shall not be
known ;
And if it prove troublesome, I will have none.
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Le singulier aspect de cette solitude
Et d'un grand portrait langoureux,
Aux yeux
provocateurs
comme son attitude,
Revele un amour tenebreux,
Une coupable joie et des fetes etranges
Pleines de baisers infernaux.
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un
fouillis
de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels plaintifs et les pales Boucher,
Seuls, respirent l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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parcite,
pallentis
undas quicumque tenetis
duraque sortiti tertia regna dei.
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Their writings sprang immediately from the soul-and partook
intensely
of
that soul's nature.
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As the
province
changed
hands so often and was so soon after this placed under
imperial control, it is possible that Tacitus made a mistake
and that Pacarius was an ex-praetor.
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XXXII
Well, if your pistol ball by chance
The comrade of your youth should strike,
Who by a haughty word or glance
Or any trifle else ye like
You o'er your wine insulted hath--
Or even overcome by wrath
Scornfully
challenged
you afield--
Tell me, of sentiments concealed
Which in your spirit dominates,
When motionless your gaze beneath
He lies, upon his forehead death,
And slowly life coagulates--
When deaf and silent he doth lie
Heedless of your despairing cry?
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long wont to notice yet conceal,
And soothe by silence what words cannot heal,
I but half saw that quiet hand of thine
Place on my desk this
exquisite
design.
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e
titleres
at his tayl, ?
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" "Art Christian knight,
Or basely born and boorish,
Or yet that thing I still more slight--
The spawn of some dog
Moorish?
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Hugo - Poems |
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XIV
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And
constant
stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
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That eggeth folk, in many gyse,
To take and yeve right nought ageyn,
And grete
tresours
up to leyn.
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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how brief indeed the space ere this "immortal star"
Shall be
consumed
in its own glow, and vanished--oh, how far!
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Vitellius
accordingly
commended the zeal of the troops.
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My minnie does
constantly
deave me,
And bids me beware o' young men;
They flatter, she says, to deceive me,
But wha can think so o' Tam Glen?
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When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its
indubitable
wing there within me.
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THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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