Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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This wondrous Phoenix with the golden plumes
Forms without art so rare a ring to deck
That
beautiful
and soft and snowy neck,
That every heart it melts, and mine consumes:
Forms, too, a natural diadem which lights
The air around, whence Love with silent steel
Draws liquid subtle fire, which still I feel
Fierce burning me though sharpest winter bites;
Border'd with azure, a rich purple vest,
Sprinkled with roses, veils her shoulders fair:
Rare garment hers, as grace unique, alone!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Since a Norman duke broke your gods of clay,
Eternally, beneath Virgil's laurel spray,
The pale
hydrangea
is wed to the green myrtle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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In
short, as vinegar is not
accounted
good until the wine be corrupted, so
jests that are true and natural seldom raise laughter with the beast the
multitude.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet,
Gin she had recover'd her hearin',
And how her new shoon fit her auld schachl't feet,
But
heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When the
daughters
and the sons
Gathered them to wed,
And we like-intending ones
Danced till dawn was red,
She would rock and mutter, "More
Comers to this stony shore!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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tous les
agenouillages
anciens et les
peines _releves_ a sa suite.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_
HE
ENUMERATES
AND EULOGISES THE GRACES OF LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Consult the genius of the place in all;
That tells the waters or to rise or fall,
Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale,
Or scoops in circling
theatres
the vale;
Calls in the country, catches opening glades,
Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades;
Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines;
Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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MISS THOMPSON GOES SHOPPING
Miss
Thompson
In her lone cottage on the downs,
at Home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And back slid I
Along the
galleries
by which I came,
And tediously the day returned, and sky,
And life--the same.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Driven from our course, we go
wandering
on the blind waves.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump
They dropp'd down one by one.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England,
Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England,
Lilac in me because I am New England,
Because my roots are in it,
Because my leaves are of it,
Because my flowers are for it,
Because it is my country
And I speak to it of itself
And sing of it with my own voice
Since
certainly
it is mine.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A fine is incurred by
retaining
it beyond the specified time.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Each morn it hangs a rainbow strung with dew
Betwixt boughs green with sap,
So fair, few
creatures
guess it is a trap:
I will not mar the web,
Though sad I am to see the small lives ebb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"God save thee, ancyent
Marinere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
"
And Sigismond, thus met and horrified,
Recoiled to near the unseen opening wide;
The human club was raised, and struck again * * *
And
Eviradnus
did alone remain
All empty-handed--but he heard the sound
Of spectres two falling to depths profound;
Then, stooping o'er the pit, he gazed below,
And, as half-dreaming now, he murmured low,
"Tiger and jackal meet their portion here,
'Tis well together they should disappear!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I have given the first lines of the poems, the incipits, as Occitan headings (one only is in Latin), so that a quick search on the Web for the line,
remembering
to enclose it in double quotes, will usually turn up the original text for those who need to see it.
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Troubador Verse |
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Then is your mind well trained and cased
In Spanish boots,[18] all snugly laced,
So that henceforth it can creep ahead
On the road of thought with a
cautious
tread.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Little I care, by
Demeter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou lady bright, the
doughter
to Dione,
Thy blinde and winged sone eek, daun Cupyde;
Ye sustren nyne eek, that by Elicone
In hil Parnaso listen for to abyde, 1810
That ye thus fer han deyned me to gyde,
I can no more, but sin that ye wol wende,
Ye heried been for ay, with-outen ende!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip
Of sullen Light, no obscure
trembling
hues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The canker blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed
tincture
of the roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
' so down among the pines
He plunged; and there,
blackshadowed
nigh the mere,
And mid-thigh-deep in bulrushes and reed,
Saw six tall men haling a seventh along,
A stone about his neck to drown him in it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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And now, instead of comfort and caress,
Came labors manifold and trials sore;
And as his toils
increased
his food grew less,
Until at last the great consoler, Death,
Ended his many sufferings with his breath.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Meantime
like earth-worms we will crawl below,
And wonder at those things that thou dost know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and
glittering
in the smokeless air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The
Headsman
of the Pit, above
Earth's floor, to ravish her!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Honor them not so much with tears and flowers,
But you with whom the sweet fulfilment lies,
Where in the anguish of
atrocious
hours
Turned their last thoughts and closed their dying eyes,
Rather when music on bright gatherings lays
Its tender spell, and joy is uppermost,
Be mindful of the men they were, and raise
Your glasses to them in one silent toast.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E com' elli ebbe sua parola detta,
una voce di presso sono: <
che di sedere in pria avrai
distretta!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--What
splendour
from the smother?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And
whatever
man praises her,
Speaks well of her, he tells no lie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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" We refer those interested in the question
to the Greek Melic poets, and to the many
excellent
French studies on the
subject by such distinguished and well-equipped authors as Remy de
Gourmont, Gustave Kahn, Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Henri Ghéon,
Robert de Souza, André Spire, etc.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Now virgins came bearing
Caskets securely locked, richly
wreathed
with grain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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was su_m_del
disseyuable
and ful (!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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* * * * *
V
APPENDIX
* * * * *
THE POET
I
Right upward on the road of fame
With sounding steps the poet came;
Born and
nourished
in miracles,
His feet were shod with golden bells,
Or where he stepped the soil did peal
As if the dust were glass and steel.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
ORESTES
O king Apollo, since right well thou know'st
What justice bids, have heed, fulfil the same,--
Thy
strength
is all-sufficient to achieve.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The commentators are much divided in
their
opinions
about the real author; his work they all agree is a
masterpiece in the kind; written with taste and judgement;
entertaining, profound, and elegant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"
'And on I rode, and when I thought my thirst
Would slay me, saw deep lawns, and then a brook,
With one sharp rapid, where the
crisping
white
Played ever back upon the sloping wave,
And took both ear and eye; and o'er the brook
Were apple-trees, and apples by the brook
Fallen, and on the lawns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The wretch should have died;
But age robbed me of my noble pride;
And this blade my hand can
scarcely
bear,
I place in yours to punish and repair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Passing your lines,
Napoleon
oft
Electrified you with a look!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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'T was such a gallant, gallant sea
That
beckoned
it away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Meantime
let all in Thessaly who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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en hy3es heruest, &
hardenes
hym sone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
"As you see, Alexey Ivanytch is a man of wit, and of good family, to be
sure, well off, too; but only to think of being obliged to kiss him
before everybody under the
marriage
crown!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So, through the
moonlight
lane she goes,
And far into the moonlight dale;
And how she ran, and how she walked,
And all that to herself she talked,
Would surely be a tedious tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
We were glad at last to come to a place of rest,
With wine enough to drink
together
to our fill,
Long I sang to the tune of the Pine-tree Wind;
When the song was over, the River-stars[46] were few.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a
fascinating
comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
| 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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Dulcet music of Greece, Asiatic repose,
Spicy
fragrance
of Araby, Italian rose,
All united for him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The driver walked round them,
settling
their harness, as if he had
nothing else to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added
evidently
in light pencil in the top margin.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Hē
gēwunian
sceall
hlāw under hrūsan, þǣr hē hǣðen gold
warað wintrum frōd; ne byð him wihte þē sēl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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That night we spend in cover of the
forest among
portentous
horrors, and see not from what source the noise
comes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
That Providence which had so long the care
Of Cromwell's head, and
numbered
every hair,
Now in itself (the glass where all appears)
Had seen the period of his golden years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Kline (C)
Copyright
2009 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
overlord
of them is named Oedon,
Who doth command the county Nevelon,
Tedbald of Reims and the marquis Oton:
"Lead ye my men, by my commission.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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EPITAPH ON THE
COUNTESS
OF PEMBROKE.
| 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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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
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F3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
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to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
[Illustration: HE LED HIS
WARRIORS
BOLDLY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
He had friends
everywhere to turn into enemies and
acquaintances
to turn into friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
"It is," said he, "a necessity for
soldiers
like us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
A Poem humbly
inscribed
to G.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
'Now well I see
Death cannot kill old nature;
No human flea but thinks that he
May speak for his
Creator!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
| Guess: |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
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Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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But if the principle of the
universe
be not
an organic being, the model and prototype of man, the relation between
it and human beings is absolutely none.
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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False Sextus to the mountains
Turned first his horse's head;
And fast fled Ferentinum,
And fast
Lanuvium
fled.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Join'd with the part,
Which late we told of, the great minister
Of nature, that upon the world imprints
The virtue of the heaven, and doles out
Time for us with his beam, went
circling
on
Along the spires, where each hour sooner comes;
And I was with him, weetless of ascent,
As one, who till arriv'd, weets not his coming.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Tytler's
anecdotes
I have by me,
taken down in the course of my acquaintance with him, from his own
mouth.
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Robert Forst |
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Deep in my heart their
piercing
fang
Terror and sorrow set, the while I heard
That piteous, low, tender word,
Yet to mine ear and heart a crushing pang.
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Aeschylus |
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For, by my trouthe, to make yow hool,
I wol do al my power hool;
And telleth me of your sorwes smerte, 555
Paraventure
hit may ese your herte,
That semeth ful seke under your syde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Not large my cups, nor rich my cheer,
This Sabine wine, which erst I seal'd,
That day the applauding theatre
Your welcome peal'd,
Dear knight
Maecenas!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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