That theory has been
adopted by several eminent
scholars
of our own country,
particularly by the Bishop of St.
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This monarch had the happiness of giving additional
publicity
to
Petrarch's reputation.
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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Keats - Lamia |
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All space, all time,
(The stars, the terrible
perturbations
of the suns,
Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)
Fill'd with eidolons only.
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15
Where's
_Ambler_?
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Have you a natural gift for
speaking?
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Aristophanes |
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With tyrant dead your fathers traced
A circle wide, with battles graced;
Victorious
garland, red and vast!
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)
Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
Brought safely for a
thousand
miles o'er land and tide,
Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,
A bunch of orange buds by mall from Florida.
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The poem may have
been
suggested
to Herrick by Anacreon, 6 [11]:--
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Pictures
like these, dear madam, to design,
Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line;
Some wandering touches, some reflected light,
Some flying stroke alone can hit 'em right:
For how should equal colours do the knack?
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150
Yet am not I the first
mistaken
maid,
By love of Courts to num'rous ills betray'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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--With
backward
gaze, lock'd joints, and step of pain,
Her seat scarce left, she strives, alas!
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Thy light alone--like mist o'er mountains driven,
Or music by the night-wind sent
Through strings of some still instrument,
Or moonlight on a
midnight
stream, _35
Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
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Shelley |
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By this the waning day was growing short,
For the low sun was
crimsoning
the west;
A fitting hour for those to seek a port,
Who would not in the wood set up their rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But Dido,
fluttered and fierce in her awful purpose, with
bloodshot
restless gaze,
and spots on her quivering cheeks burning through the pallor of imminent
death, bursts into the inner courts of the house, and mounts in madness
the high funeral pyre, and unsheathes the sword of Dardania, a gift
asked for no use like this.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[19] howled in the mist and ghosts
whistled
in the rain.
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Li Po |
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One thing
calls up its contrary,
unreality
calls up reality, and, besides, life
here has been sufficiently perilous to make men think.
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Yeats |
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Pound
mentions
Kalenda Maya in Canto CXIII.
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Troubador Verse |
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(Sie ziehen die Messer und gehn auf
Mephistopheles
los.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Without success to
certainty
were brought,
Life seemed to him not worth a slender thought;
To hazard ev'ry thing; to live or die!
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La Fontaine |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious
intentions
concerning you.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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When Ali prayed and loved
Where Syrian waters roll,
Upward the ninth heaven
thrilled
and moved;
At the tread of the jubilant soul.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You surely were
mistaken
in what you said
Of the Earl, mirthful, indeed!
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Where their thin forms pour unearthly sounds _60
On the blast that sweets the breast of the lake,
And mingles its swell with the
moonlight
air.
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Shelley |
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Then horn for horn they stretch an' strive,
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
'Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit
hums.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And
debauchee
of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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They come before me now, and dig in the fruit
With so much gluttony, and are so drunk
With that harsh
wholesome
savour, that their feathers
Are clinging one to another with the juice.
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Yeats |
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quid frustra missis in me certatis
habenis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If curses be the wage of love,
Hide in thy skies, thou
fruitless
Jove,
Not to be named:
It is clear
Why the gods will not appear;
They are ashamed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
That
globular
Person of Hurst.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the
steeples
be,
At first repeat it slow!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_ Run upon them now, and
overpower
the crew while yet asleep.
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Yeats |
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So
variously
seem'd all things wrought, [14]
I marvell'd how the mind was brought
To anchor by one gloomy thought;
And wherefore rather I made choice
To commune with that barren voice,
Than him that said, "Rejoice!
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Tennyson |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[Adnotatio 1: Extat epigramma siue _uersus domini
Beneuenuti
de
Campexanis de Vicencia de resurrectione Catulli poetae Veronensis_
Ad patriam uenio longis de finibus exul,
causa mei reditus compatriota fuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of poems for
the year 1917.
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And was he not in England
prisoner?
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Shakespeare |
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Let him not ask our pardon;
The nature of his great offence is dead,
And deeper than oblivion do we bury
Th'
incensing
relics of it; let him approach,
A stranger, no offender; and inform him
So 'tis our will he should.
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Shakespeare |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is
finished
using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished threading too.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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gov'ment
promised
Indians lots,
But at last it closed accounts with shots.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Two swimmers
wrestled
on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I'd
Be
satisfied
if he'd be satisfied.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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" _
And that was all the
farewell
when I parted from my dear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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We may not linger: such
resistless
will
Speeds our unwearied course.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that years will ever stop the
existence
of me, or any one else.
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Whitman |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Or
perchance
you find, when you get home, that those which rattled in
your pocket have thawed, and the ice is turned to cider.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ou hamelei ge toi kai oi
poiaetai
melopoioi
legontai, kai ta Omaerou epae to palai pros lyran aedeto.
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Iliad - Pope |
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How shall I behold the face 1080
Henceforth
of God or Angel, earst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld?
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Milton |
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How can we create like the ancients, while innumerable
considerations of
external
probability or social utility or of what is
becoming in so meritorious a person as ourselves, destroy the seeming
irresponsible creative power that is life itself?
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last;
The rattling showers rose on the blast;
The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd;
Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd:
That night, a child might understand,
The deil had
business
on his hand.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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LXV
Softly the wind moves through the radiant morning,
And the warm
sunlight
sinks into the valley,
Filling the green earth with a quiet joyance,
Strength, and fulfilment.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Bacchus, apprehensive that the Portuguese may eclipse
the glory acquired by himself in the
conquest
of India, declares against
them.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Enter BOYET
PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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I feel a new-born life, a holy bliss
Through nerves and veins
mysteriously
glowing.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have
measured
out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
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T.S. Eliot |
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To hinder Leo of his destined wife
Marphisa
works, and kindles mighty strife.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ACT IV
IPHIGENIA
_alone_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Don't give
yourself
credit,
though, that the strength of your logic scares me: the truth is, I
never mean to meet you on that ground at all.
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Robert Burns |
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Mark his
capricious
ways to draw the eye.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Remain then, Muses, never stir an inch,
But beg the god of verse, when at a pinch,
To help me out and kind
assistance
lend,
To choose expressions which will not offend,
Lest I some silly things should chance to say,
That might displeasure raise, and spoil my lay.
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La Fontaine |
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Redistribution
is subject to the
trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And lone the hero is within the hall,
And nears the table where the glasses all
Show in profusion; all the vessels there,
Goblets and glasses gilt, or painted fair,
Are ranged for
different
wines with practised care.
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Hugo - Poems |
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No alteration made in it after 1851, except in
the
insertion
of a couplet afterwards omitted.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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But rest,
In chaffing restlessness, is yet more drear
Than to be crush'd, in striving to uprear 40
Love's standard on the
battlements
of song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
VI
Qui dira ces langueurs et ces pities immondes
Et ce qui lui viendra de haine, o sales fous,
Dont le travail divin deforme encor les mondes
Quand la lepre, a la fin, rongera ce corps doux,
Et quand, ayant rentre tous ces noeuds d'hysteries
Elle verra, sous les tristesses du bonheur,
L'amant rever au blanc million de Maries
Au matin de la nuit d'amour, avec
douleur!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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org
CASSELL'S
NATIONAL
LIBRARY.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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230
I that do seeme not I, Duessa am,
(Quoth she) how ever now in garments gilt,
And gorgeous gold arrayd I to thee came;
Duessa I, the
daughter
of Deceipt and Shame.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The clashing waters were
cleansed
now,
waste of waves, where the wandering fiend
her life-days left and this lapsing world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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how
changeable
his mind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_Universitatis
ambitum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Oh bitter wind with icy
invisible
wings
Why do you beat us?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
" said the wife, "these
gentlemen!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Dear Ellen did not weep at all,
But closelier did she cling,
And turned her face and looked as if
She saw some
frightful
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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" once a
lightweight
champion.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Chief
Executive
and Director
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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He to whom the
loveliest
she is given,
Least is bound to ended things,
Belongeth most on earth to Heaven;
Hath the whitest wind of flame
To burn his soul clean of the world,
Clean of mortal imaginings,
And back to the Beauty whence he came.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like
children
round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It is a land which resembles you, where all is beautiful, rich, tranquil
and honest, where
phantasy
has built and decorated an occidental China,
where life is sweet to breathe, and happiness married to silence.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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The song--the harp,--what can they less than charm 200
These
wantons?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They shall find
their inspiration in real objects to-day,
symptoms
of the past and future.
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Whitman |
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