The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a
fascinating
comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
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These, my lord, are my views: I have
resolved
from the maturest
deliberation; and now I am fixed, I shall leave no stone unturned to
carry my resolve into execution.
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Robert Burns |
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"Tell me, was Werther
authentic?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Father, twinkle not thy
stedfast
sight;
Kingdoms lapse, and climates change, and races die;
Honour comes with mystery;
Hoarded wisdom brings delight.
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Tennyson |
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With scented breeze, with
flowered
flame,
She touched the earth and took her name
Of May, Rose.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[24]
My spirit was high as the rolling clouds
And my fame
resounded
beyond the World.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So
afterwards
they made sky ladders and hanging bridges.
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Li Po |
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Give me a fee: the right to smite
Rollanz!
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Chanson de Roland |
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'
Page 60
the
besshope
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Till silver'd o'er by age my temples grow,
Where Time by slow degrees now plants his grey,
Safe shall I never be, in danger's way
While Love still points and plies his fatal bow
I fear no more his
tortures
and his tricks,
That he will keep me further to ensnare
Nor ope my heart, that, from without, he there
His poisonous and ruthless shafts may fix.
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Petrarch |
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"
WHEToNthe purple
twilight
is unbound,
watch her tall
slow, grace
and its wistful And to know her face
loveliness,
is in the shadow there, Just by two stars beneath that cloud
The soft, dim cloud of her hair, And to think my voice
can reach to her
As but the rumour of some tree-bound stream,
Heard just beyond the forest's edge, Until she all forgets I am,
And knows of me
Naught but my dream's felicity.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But as you are here, watch him well, while I go
with Clisthenes to the Prytanes and
denounce
him for his crimes.
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Aristophanes |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The gates of my house are built of yellow gold,
The hall of my house is paved with white jade,
On the hall table flagons of wine are set,
I have
summoned
to serve me dancers of Han-tan.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Leisurely
elephants wind through the winding lanes,
Swinging their silver bells hung from their silver chains.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Zu jenen Spharen wag ich nicht zu streben,
Woher die holde
Nachricht
tont;
Und doch, an diesen Klang von Jugend auf gewohnt,
Ruft er auch jetzt zuruck mich in das Leben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His education was neglected, but he had
received
that genius which makes
amends for all.
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La Fontaine |
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And now through
vestibule
and hall
They led Melanthius forth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O'Connor, who
wrote a
pamphlet
named _The Good Grey Poet_; and Mr.
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Whitman |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And each ranked ruin tended to beguile
The outer sense, and shape itself as though
It wore its marble hues, its
pristine
glow
Of scenic frieze and pompous peristyle.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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Mysore's as well as Agra's rajah is his kin;
The great sheiks of the arid sands confess him lord;
Omar, who
vaunting
cried: "Through me doth Allah win!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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The
evidence
is strong, though not conclusive.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ou nat
argumentes
from ellys
where of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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"
"What is all this
nonsense?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There revenges are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the
bridegroom
all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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Or on that winter-wild night when, reclined by the chimney-nook quoin,
Slowly a drowse overgat me, the
smallest
and feeblest of folk there,
Weak from my baptism of pain; when at times and anon I awoke there--
Heard of a world wheeling on, with no listing or longing to join.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Blest be the year, the month, the hour, the day,
The season and the time, and point of space,
And blest the beauteous country and the place
Where first of two bright eyes I felt the sway:
Blest the sweet pain of which I was the prey,
When newly doom'd Love's sovereign law to embrace,
And blest the bow and shaft to which I trace,
The wound that to my inmost heart found way:
Blest be the ceaseless accents of my tongue,
Unwearied breathing my loved lady's name:
Blest my fond wishes, sighs, and tears, and pains:
Blest be the lays in which her praise I sung,
That on all sides
acquired
to her fair fame,
And blest my thoughts!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The children of whose turbaned seas,
Or what
Circassian
land?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Daring the venture,
Glorious
the pay!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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These are
gracious
drops.
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Shakespeare |
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Blas, they took in provisions, and beheld these
beautiful
rural
scenes, described by Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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VI
But she, that wills no trust shall e'er be placed
In her by man, to him doth shortly show,
How wight by her is raised, and how abased;
How soon she is a friend, how soon a foe;
She makes him know Rogero, that in haste
Is gone to work that warrior shame and woe;
The cavalier, which in that battle dread
With much ado had from his
faulchion
fled.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But thou, who, in my voice's sink and fall
When the sob took it, thy divinest Art's
Own
instrument
didst drop down at thy foot
To harken what I said between my tears, .
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And, with nor pretext nor occasion,
Its wooing redoubles;
And pounds the ground, and bubbles
In sputtering spray,
Flinging itself in a fury
Of
flashing
white away;
Till the dusty road,
Dank-perfumed, is o'erflowed;
And the grass, and the wide-hung trees,
The vines, the flowers in their beds,--
The virid corn that to the breeze
Rustles along the garden-rows,--
Visibly lift their heads,
And, as the quick shower wilder grows,
Upleap with answering kisses to the rain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Till here on the hill, betwixt vill and vill,
He noted a clear
straight
ray
Stretching down from the sky to a spot hard by,
Which shone with the light of day.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ah,
shuddering
dread doth make my spirit quiver,
And o'er thy fate sits Fear!
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Aeschylus |
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hoc quoque fatorum est, legem
perdiscere
fati.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
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Sappho |
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_Morte ha spento quel Sol ch'
abbagliar
suolmi.
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Petrarch |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"And I for truth, -- the two are one;
We
brethren
are," he said.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Deny me this,
And an
eternall
Curse fall on you: Let me know.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Imagists |
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"
So he told his
sorrowful
tidings,
and little {39d} he lied, the loyal man
of word or of work.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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There are twenty of Roslin's baron's bold
Lie buried within that proud chapelle;
Each one the holy vault doth hold,
But the sea holds lovely
Rosabelle!
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Golden Treasury |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as not
protected
by copyright in
the U.
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Yeats |
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LX
The holy
ancients
to a chamber lead,
With welcome kind, the adventurous cavalier;
And in another then his flying steed
Sufficiently with goodly forage cheer.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Le gouffre a
toujours
soif; la clepsydre se vide.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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original
edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ah woe
bementynge
wordes; what wordes can shewe!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The
flooding
of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring mightily dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet
ornament
which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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siððan
hē (Hygelāc) under segne sinc
eal-gode, wælrēaf werede, _while under his banner he protected the
treasures, defended the spoil of battle_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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Then, having
prepared
the paste, insert the whole carefully; adding at the
same time a small pigeon, 2 slices of beef, 4 cauliflowers, and any number
of oysters.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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This
Lodovico
is a proper man.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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How many a
doubtful
day shall sink in night,
Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil,
And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O to hear you call the sailors and the
soldiers!
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I used to live
entirely
for pleasure.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Osiris_, the
Egyptian
god of Agriculture (here, perhaps by confusion
with Apis, figured as a Bull), was torn to pieces by Typho and embalmed
after death in a sacred chest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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--'Tis morn: with gold the verdant
mountain
glows,
More high, the snowy peaks with hues of rose.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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haec
indiuidui
semper comes addita fulcri
unanimam tibi se lustra per octo dedit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Beseech you, spirits, give
To Eve who
beggarly
entreats your love
For her and Adam when they shall be dead,
An answer rather fitting to the sin
Than to the sorrow--as the heavens, I trow,
For justice' sake gave theirs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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e felde
chirkynge
agrise?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Insect lover of the sun,
Joy of thy
dominion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Ye airy, tender youths, your numbers
Have sung him into
sweetest
slumbers!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her
beauteous
form, and when she saw
The monstrous deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ces enfants seuls etaient ses familiers
Qui, chetifs, fronts nus, oeil
deteignant
sur la joue,
Cachant de maigres doigts jaunes et noirs de boue,
Sous des habits puant la foire et tout vieillots,
Conversaient avec la douceur des idiots!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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methinks ye measure
Your
movements
to some heavenly tune!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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With emulation's noblest fires I glow,
And soon that reptile race that boast below
Bright Fame's conducting lamp, that seems to vie
With my
incessant
journeys round the sky,
And gains, or seems to gain, increasing light,
Yet shall its glories sink in gradual night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Here sways Rebekah
accompanied
by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright romances and musk.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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" "Be it so," we both
replied, and on those terms we
mutually
pledged our words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If you'd seen me even to-day,
The
darnedest
picture of woe,
With this Caliban mug of mine,
So ravaged and raw and red,
Turned to the wall--in fine
Wishing that I was dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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While larks with little wing
Fann'd the pure air,
Tasting the breathing spring,
Forth I did fare:
Gay the sun's golden eye
Peep'd o'er the
mountains
high;
Such thy morn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
To other lands I now must go,
To sing my
Highland
lassie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Cheer up youre hartes, chase sorrowe farre awaie,
Godde and Seyncte
Cuthbert
be the worde to daie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
As when AEneas hangs up and consecrates the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais
victoribus
arma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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CXXVI
And would that from his realm, in want and woe,
King
Agramant
a mendicant should wend;
That through his means the monarch, brought thus low,
His fathers' ancient seat might reascend:
And thus he might the fruit of fealty show,
And make his sovereign see, a real friend
Was aye to be preferred in wrong or right,
Although the world against him should unite;
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And thus the Saracen pours forth his moan,
With rage against his liege and love possest;
And on his way is by long journeys gone,
Giving himself and courser little rest.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His want of merit was the cause he thought,
That she could never to his wish be brought,
While from him not a
syllable
was heard,
Against the lovely belle his soul preferred.
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La Fontaine |
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_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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thus ariseth our sphere
Like heroes we banish both
mountain
and mere,
Young and great beams the spirit, unbound
On the fields, on the floods that surround.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Do you think a great city
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Though here to take a part Bellona 's found,
Of
cuirasses
I see but few around;
When Venus closes with the god of Thrace,
Her armour then appears with ev'ry grace.
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La Fontaine |
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So
beautiful
it is to wake at night!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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At half-past three a single bird
Unto a silent sky
Propounded but a single term
Of
cautious
melody.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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First march the bold Epirotes,
Wedged close with shield and spear
And the ranks of false Tarentum
Are
glittering
in the rear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They should have known
also how to
interpret
sorrow better.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The members of this troop had served under
Vitellius
when
pro-consul in Africa.
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Tacitus |
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Show me some bastard mushrooms
Sprung from a
pollution
of blood.
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Stephen Crane |
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