The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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They sit down at the thwarts, and their arms are tense on
the oars; at full strain they wait the signal, while
throbbing
fear and
heightened ambition drain their riotous blood.
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
From the proud, pale east the patient morning
Glimmered
sadly on million rooves.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It should be borne in mind that at the time
this poem was written
literary
warfare more or less open was
being waged between two hostile schools of Russian men of
letters.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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,
_princely
castle, stronghold of a ruler, chief city_:
acc.
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Beowulf |
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For, to philosophical
discussion
and metaphysics they seem
utterly strangers; and, when taught mathematics by the Jesuits, their
greatest men were lost in astonishment.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Fortunately,
in England, at any rate,
education
produces no effect whatsoever.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'[59] Then he turned to
individuals, asking one after another whether they had brought
hatchets and pick-axes and other implements for
storming
a town.
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Tacitus |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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To know one element, explore another,
And in the second
reappears
the first.
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Emerson - Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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No cotton-bales before us--
Some fool that
falsehood
told;
Before us was an earthwork,
Built from the swampy mould.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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At the age of twelve she passed the
Matriculation of the Madras University, and awoke to find herself
famous
throughout
India.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But all these
poems recur so repeatedly together in the
manuscripts
as to suggest
that they have a common origin.
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John Donne |
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_Groat_, to get the whistle of one's groat; to play a losing game, to
feel the
consequences
of one's folly.
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Robert Burns |
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Since the lecturer has raised the
question
whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or
throwing
off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"When I awoke, 'twas in a twilight bower; 420
Just when the light of morn, with hum of bees,
Stole through its
verdurous
matting of fresh trees.
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Keats |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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I cried, "Come back, little
thoughts!
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Stephen Crane |
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Auguration
Silvery
swallows
I saw flying,
Swallows snow and silver white,
In the breezes lullabying,
In the breezes hot and light.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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inges I may
reduce{n}
?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Wonderful how I
celebrate
you and myself!
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Whitman |
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Spenser seems here to have in
mind, not the Christian
_housel_
or Eucharist, but the Roman marriage rites
with their symbolic fire and water.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Seeing us talking in such a friendly manner, Iwan Ignatiitch, full of
joy, nearly
betrayed
us.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_"
[Most of this song is old: Burns gave it a
brushing
for the Museum.
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Robert Forst |
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Ben Lomond and the three pointed-topped
mountains
of
Loch Lomond, which we had seen from the garrison, were very majestic
under the clear sky, the lake perfectly calm, the air sweet and mild.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Yet somehow, still,
There's meaning in your
screaming
bill.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the
fountains
draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted, guardian once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But, fair bride and
groom, live ye well, and diligently fulfil the office of
vigorous
youth.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's
ephemeral
dower:
Birds to southern seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
His wife's pure kiss he waved aside,
And
prattling
boys, as one disgraced,
They tell us, and with manly pride
Stern on the ground his visage placed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It is no mere
appreciation
of the
Beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Groom, now 'tis meet thou hither pace,
With bride in genial bed to blend,
For sheenly shines her flowery face
Where the white
chamomiles
contend 190
With poppies blushing red.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I
mean it to
reproach
you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The Unseen
Death went up the hall
Unseen by every one,
Trailing
twilight robes
Past the nurse and the nun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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If I could work the enchanter's spell,
I'd make
children
of all my foes,
So none could ever spy or tell,
Nor do aught that might harm us both.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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burn all these Corn fields, throw down all these fences
Fattend on Human blood & drunk with wine of life is better far {Interlineal erasures
throughout
this stanza.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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His notes to the
selections
from the
Elizabethan dramatists are the surest criticisms that we have in English;
they go to the roots.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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_ Most unseemly woe
Thou sufferest, and dost stagger from the sense
Bewildered!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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i-ip-pu-us ul-sa-am
is-si-ma i-ni-i-su
i-ta-mar a-we-lam
iz [32]-za-kar-am a-na harimti
sa-am-ka-at uk-ki-si [33] a-we-lam
a-na mi-nim il-li-kam
zi-ki-ir-su lu-us-su [34]
ha-ri-im-tum is-ta-si a-we-lam
i-ba-us-su-um-ma i-ta-mar-su
e-di-il [35] e-es-ta-hi-[ta-am]
mi-nu a-la-ku-zu na-ah- [36] [ -]ma
e pi-su i-pu-sa-am-[ma]
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluEn-[ki-du]
bi-ti-is e-mu-tim [ ]
si-ma-a-at ni-si-i- ma
tu-sa [37]-ar pa-a-ta-tim [38]
a-na ali dup-sak-ki-i e si-en
UG-AD-AD-LIL e-mi sa-a-a-ha-tim
a-na sarri Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [39] a-na ha-a-a-ri
a-na
iluGilgamis
sarri sa Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [40]
a-na ha-a-a-ri
as-sa-at si-ma-tim i-ra-ah-hi
su-u pa-na-nu-um-ma
mu-uk wa-ar-ka-nu
i-na mi-il-ki sa ili ga-bi-ma
i-na bi-ti-ik a-pu-un-na-ti-su [41]
si- ma- az- zum
a-na zi-ik-ri id-li-im
i-ri-ku pa-nu-su
REVERSE II
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
"
I saw her then, in alter'd air, alone,
So that I recognised her not--O shame
Be on my truant mind and
faithless
sight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Nor can I think that God, Creator wise,
Though threatning, will in earnest so destroy
Us his prime Creatures, dignifi'd so high, 940
Set over all his Works, which in our Fall,
For us created, needs with us must faile,
Dependent
made; so God shall uncreate,
Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour loose,
Not well conceav'd of God, who though his Power
Creation could repeate, yet would be loath
Us to abolish, least the Adversary
Triumph and say; Fickle their State whom God
Most Favors, who can please him long?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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They did so:
To th'
amazement
of mine eyes that look'd vpon't.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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I have known
a
Quarterly
Review non-plussed by the word "Fudge!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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His belly and his palate
Would be
compounded
with for rea?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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did lag,
That lasie seemd in being ever last,
Or wearied with bearing of her bag
Of
needments
at his backe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Get on your Night-Gowne, least
occasion
call vs,
And shew vs to be Watchers: be not lost
So poorely in your thoughts
Macb.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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'
To this
answerde
Troilus and seyde,
`Now god, to whom ther nis no cause y-wrye,
Me glade, as wis I never un-to Criseyde, 1655
Sin thilke day I saw hir first with ye,
Was fals, ne never shal til that I dye.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But
Pugatchef
had not been taken; he reappeared very soon in the mining
country of the Ural, on the Siberian frontier.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Aussi la
_Comedie
en trois baisers:_
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Who wrought thee any ill,
That thou shouldst make me
fatherless?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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--
and what'll it be
hereafter?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
MARY
MAGDALENE
AND THE OTHER MARY.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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_) And you,
directly I have
released
you, take to your legs and run off full tilt to
your home to find your wife and children.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I should not see the sandy hour-glass run
But I should think of
shallows
and of flats,
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
Vailing her high top lower than her ribs
To kiss her burial.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The
cleanest
expression is that which finds no sphere
worthy of itself, and makes one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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See--the prismatic colours, glistening and
rolling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Whose seats the weary
traveller
repose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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and fatal to my friends
"Then first a fire we kindle, and prepare
For his return with
sacrifice
and prayer;
The loaden shelves afford us full repast;
We sit expecting.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Then, spew not reason from thy mind away,
Beside thyself because the matter's new,
But rather with keen
judgment
nicely weigh;
And if to thee it then appeareth true,
Render thy hands, or, if 'tis false at last,
Gird thee to combat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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She, like a three year colt unbroke,
Is
frisking
o'er the spacious plain,
Too shy to bear a lover's yoke,
A husband's rein.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Nay, lord; thy father, walking old and grey;
And
followers
bearing burial gifts and brave
Gauds, which men call the comfort of the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Whanne
Bourtonn
fyghtes, hee metes a doughtie foe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feels
The following plague still
treading
on his heels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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þæt se æl-mihtiga eorðan
worh[te], 92; swā hine _(the
helmet_)
worhte wǣpna smið, 1453.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
I can see Goetz's three black
feathers
in the midst of the turmoil.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Chinese have
no idea of the graces of fine writing; here, most probably, the fault
exists in their language; but the total want of nature in their
painting, and of
symmetry
in their architecture, in both of which they
have so long been experienced, afford a heavy accusation against their
genius.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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REMORDS POSTHUME
Lorsque tu dormiras, ma belle tenebreuse,
Au fond d'un monument construit en marbre noir,
Et lorsque tu n'auras pour alcove et manoir
Qu'un caveau pluvieux et qu'une fosse creuse;
Quand la pierre, opprimant ta poitrine peureuse
Et tes flancs qu'assouplit un charmant nonchaloir,
Empechera ton coeur de battre et de vouloir,
Et tes pieds de courir leur course aventureuse,
Le tombeau,
confident
de mon reve infini,
--Car le tombeau toujours comprendra le poete,--
Durant ces longues nuits d'ou le somme est banni,
Te dira: << Que vous sert, courtisane imparfaite,
De n'avoir pas connu ce que pleurent les morts?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To the drum-taps prompt,
The young men falling in and arming,
The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's
hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)
The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing
the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving;
Squads gather
everywhere
by common consent and arm,
The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their
accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the
sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark
from the wharves,
(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with
their guns on their shoulders!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sara Teasdale |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Round brands of the pyre
a wall they built, the
worthiest
ever
that wit could prompt in their wisest men.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It clutter'd here, it
chuckled
there;
It stirr'd the old wife's mettle:
She shifted in her elbow-chair,
And hurl'd the pan and kettle.
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Tennyson |
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[387] These verses and those which both Trygaeus and the son of Lamachus
quote
afterwards
are borrowed from the 'Iliad.
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Aristophanes |
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Of course a
prologue
by the famous Mr.
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Alexander Pope |
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Steamer, straining at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic
rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In vain at Court the
bankrupt
pleads his cause,
His thankless country leaves him to her laws.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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360
XI
This babe, she thought, would surely bring him back,
And be a bond forever them between;
Before its eyes the sullen tempest-rack
Would fade, and leave the face of heaven serene;
And love's return doth more than fill the lack,
Which in his absence
withered
the heart's green:
And yet a dim foreboding still would flit
Between her and her hope to darken it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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