Not first time, this,
that he the home of
Hrothgar
sought, --
yet ne'er in his life-day, late or early,
such hardy heroes, such hall-thanes, found!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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She gan first smyle, and seyde, `O brother dere,
If thou a sooth of this
desyrest
knowe,
Thou most a fewe of olde stories here,
To purpos, how that fortune over-throwe 1460
Hath lordes olde; through which, with-inne a throwe,
Thou wel this boor shalt knowe, and of what kinde
He comen is, as men in bokes finde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I am
disposed
bet, so mote I go,
Un-to my deeth, to pleyne and maken wo.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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blake-poems |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their
household
fires.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Meantime various quacks and
charlatans, each with a special scheme for
improving
things, arrive from
earth, and are one after the other exposed and dismissed.
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Aristophanes |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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<< Pour rafraichir ton coeur nage vers ton
Electre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Then may the Fates look up 10
And smile a little in their
tolerant
way,
Being full of infinite regard for men.
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Sappho |
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But lately, one rough day, this flower I past,
And recognised it, though an alter'd form,
Now
standing
forth an offering to the blast,
And buffeted at will by rain and storm.
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Golden Treasury |
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If any link in this
chain were broken, as would happen if men possessed higher faculties
than are now
assigned
them, the whole universe would be thrown into
confusion.
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Alexander Pope |
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My path seemed
honeycombed
with pits.
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Sidney Lanier |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The fluency and
ornaments
of the finest poems or music
or orations or recitations are not independent, but dependent.
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Whitman |
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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Faith
is the antiseptic of the soul,--it
pervades
the common people and preserves
them: they never give up believing and expecting and trusting.
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Whitman |
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Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and
dreadful
Lord,
nor Heaven's-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In mad game
They burst their
manacles
and wear the name
Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Grandmother
made some
excuse for not having brought any money, and began to punt.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ne venni prima a l'ultima parola,
che del suo mezzo fece il lume centro,
girando se come veloce mola;
poi rispuose l'amor che v'era dentro:
<
penetrando
per questa in ch'io m'inventro,
la cui virtu, col mio veder congiunta,
mi leva sopra me tanto, ch'i' veggio
la somma essenza de la quale e munta.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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At this one of their multitude, and she the eldest, Pyrgo, nurse in the
palace to all Priam's many children: 'This is not Beroe, I tell you, O
mothers; this is not the wife of
Doryclus
of Rhoeteum.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
A village schoolmaster was he, 5
With hair of
glittering
grey;
As blithe a man as you could see
On a spring holiday.
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William Wordsworth |
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Puschkin,
tradotti
da
A.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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540
Neere on a loftie hylle a citie standes,
That lyftes yts
scheafted
heade ynto the skies,
And kynglie lookes arounde on lower landes,
And the longe browne playne that before itte lies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thou for our sakes that loved thee not hast borne
An agony of endless centuries,
And we were vain and
ignorant
nor knew
That when we stabbed thy heart it was our own real hearts we slew.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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4
I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing,
laughing
flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly
round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Are we then
As
Holofernes
to thee?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXXIV
Say on Fradubio then, or man, or tree,
Quoth then the knight, by whose mischievous arts
Art thou
misshaped
thus, as now I see?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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To whom the
venerable
matron thus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Of this greatest work of Marvell's singular
genius it is difficult, even if we had space for it,
to present the reader with any
considerable
ex-
tracts.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_
My Mouche, the other day as I lay here,
Slightly propped up upon this mattress-grave
In which I've been
interred
these few eight years,
I saw a dog, a little pampered slave,
Running about and barking.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Good Charlemagne to neither party bends;
But wills that cause shall be by justice tried,
And to his
parliament
the matter sends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Delacroix took up his enthusiastic disciple, and
when the Salons of Baudelaire
appeared
in 1845, 1846, 1855, and 1859,
the praise and blame they evoked were testimonies to the training and
knowledge of their author.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Don't you know all that a man should know, who is
distinguished for his wisdom and
inventive
daring?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
Prurit et abiectis pervigilat
tunicis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Come cio sia, se 'l vuoi poter pensare,
dentro raccolto, imagina Sion
con questo monte in su la terra stare
si, ch'amendue hanno un solo orizzon
e diversi emisperi; onde la strada
che mal non seppe
carreggiar
Feton,
vedrai come a costui convien che vada
da l'un, quando a colui da l'altro fianco,
se lo 'ntelletto tuo ben chiaro bada>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Every man holds his revolver,
marching
stiff through Boston town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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186, 297_
Allen, Edward Heron,
_Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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quid loquar ut subitam sceleratis gentibus olim
imposuit
Phoebus noctem terrasque reliquit?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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(_Waves her shawl, and shrieks
with wild
intensity)
My--my_ Master Builder!
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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the
corrector
where our judgments err,
The test of truth, love,--sole philosopher,
For all beside are sophists, from thy thrift,
Which never loses though it doth defer--
Time, the avenger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LE VIN
L'AME DU VIN
Un soir, l'ame du vin
chantait
dans les bouteilles:
<< Homme, vers toi je pousse, o cher desherite,
Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles,
Un chant plein de lumiere et de fraternite!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Sitting where the
pumpkins
blow,
Will you come and be my wife?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Venulus too is sent to the town of mighty Diomede to seek
succour, to
instruct
him that Teucrians set foot in Latium; that Aeneas
in his fleet invades them with the vanquished gods of his home, and
proclaims himself the King summoned of fate; that many tribes join the
Dardanian, and his name swells high in Latium.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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T.S. Eliot |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
]
[Sidenote F: They
afterwards
rip the four limbs and rend off the hide.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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How pleasant it is to know these clever new
inventions
and
to be able to defy the established laws!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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When he came near, the
creature
slowly began to swell
larger and larger, and as it grew he felt his own strength ebbing away,
as though it were sucked out of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Only can dancing understand
What a
heavenly
way we pass
Treading the green and golden land,
Daffodillies and grass.
| Guess: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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hit
clatered
in ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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]
[Footnote 124:
stretched
out.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Down in the fields all
prospers
well;
But now from the fields come, father--come at the daughter's call;
And come to the entry, mother--to the front door come, right away.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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A long and
lingering
sleep, the weary crave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Where yet some traces of her
footsteps
lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her
fortunate
course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
| 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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Shakespeare wrote at a time when solitary great
men were gathering to themselves the fire that had once flowed hither
and thither among all men, when individualism in work and thought
and emotion was
breaking
up the old rhythms of life, when the common
people, no longer uplifted by the myths of Christianity and of still
older faiths, were sinking into the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
There is a
truer account of it in
mythology
than in any history of America, so
called, that I have seen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
5330
[This] love cometh of dame Fortune,
That litel whyle wol contune;
For it shal chaungen wonder sone,
And take eclips right as the mone,
Whan she is from us [y]-let 5335
Thurgh erthe, that bitwixe is set
The sonne and hir, as it may falle,
Be it in party, or in alle;
The shadowe maketh her bemis merke,
And hir hornes to shewe derke, 5340
That part where she hath lost hir lyght
Of Phebus fully, and the sight;
Til, whan the shadowe is overpast,
She is
enlumined
ageyn as faste,
Thurgh brightnesse of the sonne bemes 5345
That yeveth to hir ageyn hir lemes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then he was a god, to the red man's dreaming;
Then the chiefs brought treasures grotesque and fair,--
Magical trinkets and pipes and guns,
Beads and furs from their medicine-lair,--
Stuck holy
feathers
in his hair,
Hailed him with austere delight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting
the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_ Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to
admonish
and remind those faring
Ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
A God hath
counselled
ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
They callen love a
woodnesse
or folye,
But it shal falle hem as I shal yow rede;
They shul forgo the whyte and eke the rede,
And live in wo, ther god yeve hem mischaunce, 1385
And every lover in his trouthe avaunce!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
I find _royal_ so
pronounced
in the
'Mirror for Magistrates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Just where a cloud above the mountain rears [48]
An [49] edge all flame, the broadening sun appears; 170
A long blue bar its aegis orb divides,
And breaks the spreading of its golden tides;
And now that orb has touched the purple steep
Whose
softened
image penetrates the deep.
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In quella parte ove surge ad aprire
Zefiro dolce le novelle fronde
di che si vede Europa rivestire,
non molto lungi al percuoter de l'onde
dietro a le quali, per la lunga foga,
lo sol talvolta ad ogne uom si nasconde,
siede la
fortunata
Calaroga
sotto la protezion del grande scudo
in che soggiace il leone e soggioga:
dentro vi nacque l'amoroso drudo
de la fede cristiana, il santo atleta
benigno a' suoi e a' nemici crudo;
e come fu creata, fu repleta
si la sua mente di viva vertute
che, ne la madre, lei fece profeta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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supplicium uectigal erit; qui denique posset
pendentem ex scopulis ipsam spectare puellam;
uinctorum dominus sociusque in parte catenae;
interdum
poenis innoxia corpora seruat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I DARE engage, two
fortresses
besiege
Leave one to Mars, and t'other to this liege.
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La Fontaine |
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8 An Account of My
Concerns
Last year Tong Pass was broken, I have long been cut off from wife and children.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I must say that I, for one, never wholly believed in the
Mysticism
of
Hafiz.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected
from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She from her height was willing to descend;
I quit my joy; he rather chose his end
Than our offence; and in his prime had died,
Had not the wise
Physician
been our guide;
Silence in love o'ercame his vital part;
His love was force, his silence virtuous art.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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Its power my bosom's
sovereign
too hath still'd,
Who pray'd thee in my suit--now he is mute,
Since thou art captured by thyself alone:
Death's seeds it hath within my heart instill'd,
For Lethe's stream its form doth constitute,
And makes thee lose each image but thine own.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And weigh the massy Globes Cubes, then fix them in their awful stations
And all the time in Caverns shut, the golden Looms erected
First spun, then wove the Atmospheres, there the Spider & Worm
Plied the wingd shuttle piping shrill thro' all the list'ning threads
Beneath the Caverns roll the weights of lead & spindles of iron
The
enormous
warp & woof rage direful in the affrighted deep
While far into the vast unknown, the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Their venturous flight, in Human forms distinct; thro darkness deep
They bear the woven draperies; on golden hooks they hang abroad
The universal curtains & spread out from Sun to Sun
The vehicles of light, they separate the furious particles
Into mild currents as the water mingles with the wine.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Li Po |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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