60
And why doe you two walke,
So slowly pac'd in this
procession?
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John Donne |
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Beside the shining scythe and
exhausted
jug.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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e_, to day, in:
(This
_Ingine_
gets three or foure pound a weeke by him)
He dares not mi?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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MISSAIL,
wandering
friar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's
appointed
bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn
V
I KNOW not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
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Wilde - Poems |
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DAMAYANTE TO NALA IN THE HOUR OF EXILE
(A fragment)
Shalt thou be
conquered
of a human fate
My liege, my lover, whose imperial head
Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"Our fathers
fashioned
for us after all
Some useful things," said Joss; then Zeno spoke:
"I know what Corbus hides beneath its cloak,
I and the osprey know the castle old,
And what in bygone times the justice bold.
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Hugo - Poems |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the
strongly
heathen character of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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170, he makes a similar
thrust at the shop-keepers:
Alas I they have had a pitiful hard time on't,
A long
vacation
from their cozening.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He'd pledged his oath by county Guenelon,
Gave him his sword, a
thousand
coins thereon.
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Chanson de Roland |
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such a
misfortune
never happened
before.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Tennyson |
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My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it
trembled
with the strings.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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The mass of
fighting
men is hardly mentioned.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And seeing, feeling thus this truth in others,
(I pray you pardon me;) but
wherefore
yield you 400
To the most fierce of fatal passions, and
Disquiet your great thoughts with restless hate
Of such a thing as Steno?
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Byron |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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line by line; Charlie
parrying
every
objection and correction with: "Yes, that may be better, but you don't
catch what I'm driving at.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Still the Fiend is not utterly abashed, but, arguing that "the
childhood
shows the man as morning shows the day," and that Christ's
empire is one of mind, he, as a last temptation from the "specular
mount," shows Athens.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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what my life's drear reign;
Consumed beneath my heart's
continued
pain,
At will she guides me--yet am I the same.
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Petrarch |
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[44] A
quotation
from one of Hsieh's poems.
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Li Po |
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"
He
straight
replied: "No wonder, since he knows,
What sorrow waits on his own worst defect,
If he chide others, that they less may mourn.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the
expected
guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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ROME: ON THE PALATINE
(_April_, 1887)
WE walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile,
And passed to Livia's rich red mural show,
Whence,
thridding
cave and Criptoportico,
We gained Caligula's dissolving pile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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testis cui niueum quondam percussit Adonem
uenantem
Idalio uertice durus aper.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A companion with whom I was
sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were
few and faint, thought that a man could get along with _them_, though
he was
considerably
reduced in his circumstances,--that they were a
kind of bread and cheese that never failed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
His chin sank down upon his breast,
And
suddenly
the brown bird ceased
To pour her strain abroad.
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Tennyson |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having effected this reform, they determined to give to
their work a
sanction
derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Cabot's prefatory note to the
Riverside
Edition of the Poems,
published the year after Mr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
Still from each fact, with skill uncouth
And savage rapture, like a tooth
She
wrenched
some slow reluctant truth.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
A temperance man caught up the word,
'Ah yes,' he groaned, 'I've always heard
Our poor friend somewhat slanted 239
Tow'rd taking liquor overmuch;
I fear these spirits may be Dutch,
(A sort of gins, or something such,)
With which his house is haunted;
I see the thing as clear as light,--
If Knott would give up getting tight,
Naught farther would be wanted:'
So all his
neighbors
stood aloof
And, that the spirits 'neath his roof
Were not entirely up to proof,
Unanimously granted.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He won't get free of her again; she'll lead
His
wildness
home and keep him tame for ever.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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190
But when Egelred tumbled to the grounde,
He from Kynge Harolde
quicklie
dyd advaunce,
And strooke de Tracie thilk a crewel wounde,
Hys harte and lever came out on the launce.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And lone the hero is within the hall,
And nears the table where the glasses all
Show in profusion; all the vessels there,
Goblets and glasses gilt, or painted fair,
Are ranged for different wines with
practised
care.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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o'er whose early tomb
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid,
Lamenting
and yet envying such a doom,
Falling for France, whose rights he battled to resume.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So spake my guide; and I him thence besought,
That having giv'n me
appetite
to know,
The food he too would give, that hunger crav'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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These lines are but slightly varied from those
inscribed "To Mary," in the "Southern Literary Messenger" for July,
1835, and
subsequently
republished, with the two stanzas transposed, in
"Graham's Magazine" for March, 1842, as "To One Departed.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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His
wife had
recently
died, he was ill himself, his life seemed to others
broken up.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Act IV Scene III (The King, Diegue, Arias, Rodrigue, Sanche)
King
Noble heir of an
illustrious
family
Ever Castille's pillar and its glory,
Race of ancestors of signal valour,
Whom by these deeds of yours you honour,
My power to recompense you now is slight;
You show greater merit than I have might.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Or has your music made you
solitary?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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" His
immediate
predecessors had carried to the highest
refinement the art of writing in elaborate patterns of tone.
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Li Po |
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It
lingered
in my heart but could not rise
The word that would have wrought the sweet surmise Which turns to godliness the common clay.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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" I cried;
"Or, through forbidden climes
adventurous
stray'd,
Have we the secrets of the deep survey'd,
Which these wide solitudes of seas and sky
Were doom'd to hide from man's unhallow'd eye?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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<
li
unghioni
a dosso, si che tu lo scuoi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
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even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mallarme's spiritual position is taken to be atheistic, and therefore religious assumptions should not be made in
interpreting
these fragments.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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XVI
The gulf between them was so vast,
Debate
commanded
ample food--
The laws of generations past,
The fruits of science, evil, good,
The prejudices all men have,
The fatal secrets of the grave,
And life and fate in turn selected
Were to analysis subjected.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Let
Diomedes
bear him,
And bring us Cressid hither.
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Shakespeare |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O, so unnatural Nature,
You whose
ephemeral
flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The same
stealthy
blow .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
HARVEST HYMN
Men's Voices
Lord of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
Bright and
munificent
lord of the morn!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Dear friend, vain trouble to
yourself
you're giving;
Whence once you trust yourself, you know the art of living.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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1695
Gan for to aproche, as they by signes knewe,
For whiche hem thoughte felen dethes wounde;
So wo was hem, that changen gan hir hewe,
And day they goonnen to dispyse al newe,
Calling it traytour, envyous, and worse, 1700
And
bitterly
the dayes light they curse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But if so changed hath been the power of mind,
That every
recollection
of things done
Is fallen away, at no o'erlong remove
Is that, I trow, from what we mean by death.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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shall I call thee bird,
Or but a
wandering
Voice?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the
foresight
that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, 120
Or aught by me immutablie foreseen,
They trespass, Authors to
themselves
in all
Both what they judge and what they choose; for so
I formd them free, and free they must remain,
Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change
Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree
Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain'd
Thir freedom, they themselves ordain'd thir fall.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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This is, of course, no
argument
against the poems
now-we mean it only as against the poets _thew.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Brought by my husband to Troezen, only to see,
Once more, the enemy that I'd sent away:
My wound, still living, quickly bled again,
It's no longer an ardour hidden in my veins: 305
It's Venus
fastening
wholly on her prey.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this
terrible
happiness of mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Enjoy your morn of early Spring;
Soon time maturer thoughts must bring;
Those hours, like flowers that interclimb,
Should not be
withered
ere their time.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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si piguit portas ultra procedere, at illuc
iussisses
lectum lentius ire meum.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
' 20
At mi nullus erat nec hic neque illic,
Fractum qui veteris pedem grabati
In collo sibi
collocare
posset.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Now my song and
presence
you dismay,
Yet soon it will be dawn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet, yet rejoice, though Pride's
perverted
ire
Rouze Hell's own aid, and wrap thy hills on fire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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= It was
found
necessary
in 1541 to pass an act (33 Hen.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Faith, oh my faith, what
fragrant
breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what diamonds were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
A bard was selected to witness the fray,
And tell future ages the feats of the day;
A bard who detested all sadness and spleen,
And wish'd that
Parnassus
a vineyard had been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Ainsi,
pratiquement
du moins, comme tant d'autres,
il se trouva desservi par sa fierte, sa delicatesse, par le meilleur de
lui-meme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Quels
delirants
cul-nus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
One only, true to Hymen's flame,
Was traitress to her sire forsworn:
That
splendid
falsehood lights her name
Through times unborn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Those we've loved and those we've hated,
All, to-day, the rite will keep,
All, to-day, their dishes heap
With plump
Thanksgiving
turkey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Yet I
attained
to sovereignty; but how?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
of appreciating Racine: but even the narrow and
barbarian
mind of
Alexander could understand the advantage of a showy act of homage to
Poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
As she was a Mennonite
Her rose-trees and her clothes lacked buttons
Two were missing from my coat-front
Both of us
followed
almost the same rite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
A vendre les corps sans prix, hors de toute race, de tout monde, de tout
sexe, de toute
descendance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Cities and states are bought and sold by Soudan Zim,
Whose simple word their
thousand
people hold as law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hee's heere in double trust;
First, as I am his Kinsman, and his Subiect,
Strong both against the Deed: Then, as his Host,
Who should against his
Murtherer
shut the doore,
Not beare the knife my selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral
voices prophesying war!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A Maiden
Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine,
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his
casement
fine.
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Sara Teasdale |
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No lifetime set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born
everlasting
now.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He bids them all good day, as he thought, for
evermore
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Though ne'er to true perfection may arrive
This race accurs'd, yet nearer then than now
They shall
approach
it.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Torquatus
uolo paruulus
matris e gremio suae 210
porrigens teneras manus,
Dulce rideat ad patrem
semihiante labello.
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Latin - Catullus |
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If a man be asked a
question, to answer; but to repeat the question before he answer is well,
that he be sure to
understand
it, to avoid absurdity; for it is less
dishonour to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My body, too, was attacked by
the most dreadful distemper, a
hypochondria
or confirmed melancholy.
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Robert Forst |
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It strikes me as curious that
European people who know
something
about Chinese poetry should prefer
Li T'ai-po.
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Li Po |
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When he, with racked and
whirling
brain,
Feebly implored her to explain,
She simply said it all again.
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