One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the
Scythians
did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the sweetest joy.
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Ronsard |
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The reader need hardly be told that the officer was no other than
Herman, the would-be gambler, whose
imagination
had been strongly
excited by the story told by Tomsky of the three magic cards.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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From the
wildness
of my wasted passion I had
struck a better, clearer song,
Lit some lighter light of freer freedom, battled
with some Hydra-headed wrong.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Like children running races who shall be
First in to touch the orchard wall or tree,
The last half way behind, by distance vext,
Turns short,
determined
to be first the next;
So now the muse has run me hard and long--
I'll leave at once her races and her song;
And, turning round, laugh at the letter's close
And beat her out by ending it in prose.
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John Clare |
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Thus by aspirations lifted,
By misgivings
downward
driven,
Human hearts are tossed and drifted
Midway between earth and heaven.
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Longfellow |
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--Et si, devant nos cris, devant notre vengeance,
Les pattes des vieux rois mordores, sur la France
Poussaient leurs
regiments
en habits de gala,
Eh bien, n'est-ce pas, vous tous?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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version is
followed
in the first published text in _Witts
Recreations_, 1645.
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Robert Herrick |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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1550
And the plain echoed to our
sorrowful
cries.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Shelley, you feel, sings like a
bird; Blake, like a child or an angel; but Coleridge
certainly
writes
music.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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She bows her head and
composes
her face,
Her teeth are pressed on her red lips:
She bows and kneels countless times.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"We've had such hard, hard times this year
For
goblins!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep
eternity!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Why such wrath and these shouts, before you hear my
arguments?
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Aristophanes |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit www.
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Kipling - Poems |
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org/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting
unsolicited
donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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2242,
Ritschl: _tempta_ GORVenBLa1: _tenta_ AD:
_templa_
ap, Scaliger:
fort.
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Latin - Catullus |
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[86] See Dedication to _The Fox_, Second Prologue to _The Silent
Woman_, Induction to _Bartholomew Fair_, _Staple of News_
(Second Intermean),
_Magnetic
Lady_ (Second Intermean).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Are thy just eyes turn'd
elsewhere?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_
Her
wandering
lover knew not well her soul.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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take ān-paðas = paths wide enough for only one,
like
Norwegian
_einstig_; cf.
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Beowulf |
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_George Herbert Clarke_
FRANCE
Because for once the sword broke in her hand,
The words she spoke seemed
perished
for a space;
All wrong was brazen, and in every land
The tyrants walked abroad with naked face.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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My heart replied: It's never enough,
It's never enough to love one's mistress;
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past delights dearer and
sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Field by scented field,
Round farms like islands in the rolling weald,
It spreads thick-flowering or in
wildness
springs
Short-stemmed upon the naked downs, to yield
A richer store of honey than the Rose,
The Pink, the Honeysuckle.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Allan
Cunningham
does not state
upon what authority he has assigned it to Burns.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Straight
who it was I knew;
Nor could the pain I felt (for want of breath
Still somewhat urg'd me) hinder my approach.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Raphel bai ameth sabi almi,"
So shouted his fierce lips, which sweeter hymns
Became not; and my guide address'd him thus:
"O
senseless
spirit!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The love of
literature may be said to have been his ruling passion; but, in his
estimation,
learning
and genius are subordinate to honour, truth, and
virtue.
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Tacitus |
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And she made him a feast, at his earnest wish,
Of eggs and
buttercups
fried with fish;
And she said, "It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Nous
marchions
au soleil, front haut; comme cela,
Dans Paris!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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They say you are twisted by the sea,
you are cut apart
by wave-break upon wave-break,
that you are
misshapen
by the sharp rocks,
broken by the rasp and after-rasp.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sail fast, sail fast,
Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
Sweep lordly o'er the drowned Past,
Fly
glittering
through the sun's strange beams;
Sail fast, sail fast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yet impious feats of fraudful men ne'er force the Gods' applause:
When heed'st thou not
deserting
me (Sad me!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_1635-69_: S^{r} Wal: Ashton
to y^{e}
Countesse
of Huntingtowne _P_, _TCD_ (_II_)]
[2 man] men _P_]
[3 ate; _1635-39_: eat; _1650-69_]
[11 downward] inward _TCD_]
[14 without] _om.
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John Donne |
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]
[225] {495}[The immediate reference is to the
composite
forces, German,
French, and Spanish, of the Imperial Army under the command of Charles
de Bourbon: but there is in lines 498-507 a manifest allusion to the
revolutionary movements in South America, Italy, and Spain, which were
at their height in 1822.
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Byron |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly
deceiving
me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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There was a strangeness in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that
careless
slavey.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The Greek Patriarch, after haying been compelled to
fulminate
an
anathema against the insurgents, was put to death by the Turks.
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Shelley |
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Does nature eer give thee
Love's past happy vision,
And wrap thee and leave thee
In fancies
elysian?
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John Clare |
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But while my crimson
currents
flow,
I'll love my Highland lassie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The smart gallant at once her beauty praised;
His
admiration
presently was raised;
Sweet kindness followed; charms were oft admired;
And all was managed as their hearts desired.
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La Fontaine |
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"O that the grave it were my bed;
My blankets were my winding sheet;
The clocks and the worms my
bedfellows
a';
And O sae sound as I should sleep!
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Robert Forst |
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Farai
chansoneta
nueva
I'll make a little song that's new,
Before wind, frost, and rain come too;
My lady tests me, and would prove
How, and in just what way, I am
In love, yet despite all she may do
I'd rather be stuck here in this jam.
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Troubador Verse |
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whose soft
refreshing
streams
Sleek the smooth skin, and scent the snowy limbs.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Numbers of men
decrease
with pains unknown.
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Marvell - Poems |
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We want nothing but an
increased
supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally interesting record of Early
English minds.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But I shall craue your pardon:
That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose;
Angels are bright still, though the
brightest
fell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--
There in the middle of the troupe obscene
The proud and
peerless
beauty of my Queen!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More
grievous
torment than a hermit's fast--
That is a doubtful tale from faery land,
Hard for the non-elect to understand.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It
is a
complaint
that has got hold of her, and I know the
remedy to apply.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Then wind and thunder,
Which seemed to howl his knell, is the loud laughter
With which Heaven mocks our
weakness!
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Shelley |
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But for the succour of its echo dread,
They, without fail, had laid
Astolpho
dead.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What a wretchedness is this, to thrust all our riches
outward, and be beggars within; to contemplate nothing but the little,
vile, and sordid things of the world; not the great, noble, and
precious!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony
rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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thy victorious march appalling,
'Tis the red fires from Moscow's tow'rs that wave;
'Tis thine Old Guard strewing the Belgian plain;
'Tis the lone island in th'
Atlantic
main:
To-morrow!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Each jotting
versicles
in turn sported
first in this metre then in that, exchanging mutual epigrams 'midst jokes
and wine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The world, for so it thought, 20
Owed him no service; wherefore he at once
With
indignation
turned himself away, [4]
And with the food of pride sustained his soul
In solitude.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Oft bend the bow, and thou with ease shalt do
What others can't with all their
strength
put to.
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Robert Herrick |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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With still greater propriety I might have inscribed to you a
description
of some of the features of your native mountains, through
which we have wandered together, in the same manner, with so much
pleasure.
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William Wordsworth |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Baudelaire divined the work of the artist and set it
down
scrupulously
in a prose of exceeding rectitude.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou rich-man's
lawgiver!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Till even the little dark men of the south,
Who feared neither God nor man,
Those fierce, wild fighters of Afric's steppes,
Broke their battalions and ran:--
Ran as they never had run before,
Gasping, and
fainting
for breath;
For they knew 't was no human foe that slew;
And that hideous smoke meant death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Hermes inconnu qui m'assistes
Et qui toujours m'intimidas,
Tu me rends l'egal de Midas,
Le plus triste des alchimistes;
Par toi je change l'or en fer
Et le paradis en enfer;
Dans le suaire des nuages
Je
decouvre
un cadavre cher.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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us I
confesse
{and} am aknowe q{uo}d I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hine hālig god
"for ār-stafum us onsende,
"tō West-Denum, þæs ic wēn hæbbe,
"wið
Grendles
gryre: ic þǣm gōdan sceal
385 "for his mōd-þræce mādmas bēodan.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"
"It was not so
To Him, Whose Cup did overflow
With mine
unutterable
woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
_Dodici donne
onestamente
lasse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
XLVIII
There they do finde that godly aged Sire,
With snowy lockes adowne his shoulders shed, 425
As hoarie frost with
spangles
doth attire
The mossy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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we will have
Tribunes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The
falconer
has her sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
What hath he
dreamed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
She grasped out for him with grisly claws,
and the warrior seized; yet scathed she not
his body hale; the breastplate hindered,
as she strove to shatter the sark of war,
the linked harness, with
loathsome
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
net (This file was
produced from images
generously
made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_Jacob Borissovitch
Kniajnine_
(1742-91), a clever adapter of
French tragedy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Finden, from
drawings
by J.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
What matter of new wailing do your tongues
Wear in this
shivering
misery of sound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
All other known examples are purely
instrumental
pieces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
May my verse, which I so reverse
That it's
unhindered
by woods or hills,
Go, where one feels not frost or ice,
Nor does the cold have power to sting.
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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He had there many
conferences with the
Cardinal
Albornoz, to whom he promised troops for
the purpose of reducing the tyrants with whom the Legate was at war.
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Petrarch |
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Enough and more is the one desolation we have
seen,
survivors
of a captured city.
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The sons of Brahma, in the magic hour,
Beheld the foreign foe
tremendous
lower;
Unknown their tongue, their face, and strange attire,
And their bold eye-balls burn'd with warlike ire:
They saw the chief o'er prostrate India rear
The glitt'ring terrors of his awful spear.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And then, as though the fire fainter grows,
She gathers up the flame--again it glows,
As with proud gesture and imperious air
She flings it to the earth; and it lies there
Furiously
flickering and crackling still--
Then haughtily victorious, but with sweet
Swift smile of greeting, she puts forth her will
And stamps the flames out with her small firm feet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the
best
counsellors
(which are books), for they neither flatter us nor hide
from us?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Now the snail hath made its ring;
And the moth with snowy wing
Circles round in winding whirls,
Through sweet evening's sprinkled pearls,
On each nodding rush besprent;
Dancing on from bent to bent;
Now to downy grasses clung,
Resting for a while he's hung;
Then, to ferry oer the stream,
Vanishing as flies a dream;
Playful still his hours to keep,
Till his time has come to sleep;
In tall grass, by
fountain
head,
Weary then he drops to bed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XCVI
But the wise king, Sobrino, who was by,
Him from the quest
endeavoured
to dissuade,
And that with his exalted majesty
Such enterprize were ill assorted said:
Although firm hope, nay full security,
He had to overcome that martial maid,
If he with pain subdued a woman, shame,
Rather than honour, would pursue his name.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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