When you go forth to waken the echoes, in the ancient and favourite
amusement of your forefathers, may
Pleasure
ever be of your party: and
may social joy await your return!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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There never liv'd a mortal man, who bent 650
His
appetite
beyond his natural sphere,
But starv'd and died.
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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And then the quivering sword-hilt found a hand
That knew not how to falter or grow weak;
And we looked on, from end to end the land,
And felt the heart spring up, and rise afresh
The blood of courage to the
whitened
cheek,
And fire of battle thrill the numbing flesh.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This is
certainly
the case; I
have found the same poem classified differently in different native
books.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through branches bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms
it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The more
carefully the play reflected the surface of life the more would the
elements be limited to those that
naturally
display themselves during
so many minutes of our ordinary affairs.
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Yeats |
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The
resemblance
of passages in the _Faerie
Queene_ to others in the _Orlando Furioso_ and the _Jerusalem Delivered_ is
so striking that some have accused the English poet of paraphrasing and
slavishly borrowing from the two Italians.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The maids, impatient now old Goody ceased,
As restless children from the school released,
Right gladly proving, what she'd just foretold,
That young ones' stories were
preferred
to old,
Turn to the whisperings of their former joy,
That oft deceive, but very rarely cloy.
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Of this,
although extremely
indecent
in his Majesty, the philosopher took no
notice:--simply kicking the dog, and requesting him to be quiet.
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Poe - 5 |
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Pray for God's grace,
confessing
Him your sins!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Instead, the text is shown here in the order in which it appears on the page; in
agreement
with Erdman, the marginal material seems to flow most logically as the bottom of the page, moving to the stanza in the right margin and then concluding with the material in the left margin EJC}
And Los said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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talia praefantes quondam felicia Pelei
carmina diuino
cecinerunt
pectore Parcae.
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Latin - Catullus |
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No one appeared
more fit than
Petrarch
to manage this negotiation, and it was
universally expected that it should be entrusted to him; but particular
reasons, which Petrarch has not thought proper to record, opposed the
desires of the Lords of Milan and the public wishes.
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Petrarch |
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A very woman thou, whose heart leaps light
At wandering
rumours!
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Aeschylus |
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Onward we drove beneath the Castle; caught, 15
While crossing
Magdalene
Bridge, a glimpse of Cam;
And at the 'Hoop' alighted, famous Inn.
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William Wordsworth |
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'T was more than I could compass,
For how was I to think
With such
infernal
rumpus
In such a blasted stink?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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While opposite the sun a gazing moon
Put on his glory for her coronet,
Kindling
her luminous coldness to its noon,
As his great splendor set;
One only star made up her train as yet.
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Christina Rossetti |
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whose vales and
mountains
round 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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" Dismissing
the further
question
of the authorship of "There was an old man of Tobago,"
we propose to give a few specimens of Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars, my folk is a
streaming Comet,
Comet of the Asian tiger-darkness,
The Wanderer of Eternity, the eternal
Wandering
Jew.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I use words
I hardly know the meaning of;
And the mute birds
Are
glancing
at Love!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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which my soul 740
Shall love, till Life has broke her golden bowl,
Till Death's cold touch her cistern-wheel assail,
And vain regret and vain desire shall fail;
Tho' now, where erst the grey-clad peasant stray'd,
To break the quiet of the village shade 745
Gleam war's [Hh]
discordant
habits thro' the trees,
And the red banner mock the sullen breeze;
Tho' now no more thy maids their voices suit
To the low-warbled breath of twilight lute,
And heard, the pausing village hum between, 750
No solemn songstress lull the fading green,
Scared by the fife, and rumbling drum's alarms,
And the short thunder, and the flash of arms;
While, as Night bids the startling uproar die,
Sole sound, the [Ii] sourd renews his mournful cry: 755
--Yet, hast thou found that Freedom spreads her pow'r
Beyond the cottage hearth, the cottage door:
All nature smiles; and owns beneath her eyes
Her fields peculiar, and peculiar skies.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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(1)
Where was Heaven's
Attorney
General
When they first gave out such flams?
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Shelley |
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See
_Paradise
Lost_, i.
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Keats |
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Man's life lived within this world,
Is like the
sojourning
of a hurried traveller.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And all,
translated
in the air,
Reach me but as our dear Lord's Prayer,
And as the Sermon on the Mount.
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Longfellow |
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SAMSON: No, no; of my
condition
take no care;
It fits not; thou and I long since are twain;
Nor think me so unwary or accursed
To bring my feet again into the snare
Where once I have been caught.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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'Tis long since thou and I have met;
And yet
methinks
it were unkind
Those moments to forget.
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Shelley |
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at the table there be all the great,
Whose lives are bubbles that best joys
inflate!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Give me that wit whom praise
excites, glory puts on, or disgrace grieves; he is to be nourished with
ambition, pricked forward with honour, checked with reprehension, and
never to be
suspected
of sloth.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We have already seen the warm
encomium
paid by Tasso to his
contemporary, Camoens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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`The sothe is, that the twinninge of us tweyne
Wol us disese and
cruelliche
anoye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_' There are two
examples
in Otway, one of which
('So in the struggle, I guess the note was lost') perhaps might serve
our purpose, and Coleridge's
'I guess 'twas fearful there to see'
certainly comes very near.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The stars seem purer the shade is more delightful;
A hazy half-light colours the dome on high;
And dawn, pale and tender,
awaiting
her moment,
Seems to wander about all night in the deeps of the sky.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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the time suffices yet 460
For converse both and sleep, and if thou wish
To hear still more, I shall not spare to unfold
More pitiable woes than these, sustain'd
By my companions, in the end destroy'd;
Who, saved from perils of disast'rous war
At Ilium, perish'd yet in their return,
Victims of a
pernicious
woman's crime.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" The King
repeated
T?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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God that made all that goes or stays
And formed this love from afar
Grant me the power to hope one day
I'll see this love of mine afar,
Truly, and in a
pleasant
hour,
So that her chamber and her bower,
Might seem a palace to my eyes.
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Troubador Verse |
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Well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most
notorious
geck and gul
That e'er invention play'd on?
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Shakespeare |
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Still might she taste, and still must choke to taste,
The fragrance of sweet oils and gums aflame
Capturing the cool night with spicy riches;
Still after her through the hollow moveless air
The sounded
ceremonies
came, the cry
Of dainty lust in winding tune of fifes,
The silver fury of cymbals clamouring
Like frenzy in a woman-madden'd brain;
And drumming underneath the whole wild noise,
Like monstrous hatred underneath desire,
The thunder of the beaten serpent-skins.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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No beach nor reef but was with corpses strewn,
And every keel of our
barbarian
host
Hurried to flee, in utter disarray.
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Aeschylus |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Children and maidens young and fair,
And warriors
circling
in the dance!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The subject of free-verse is too complicated to be
discussed
here.
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Imagists |
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Yet while here and there they thrid them
In their zest to sell and buy,
Let me sit me down amid them
And behold those
thousands
die .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
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Poe - 5 |
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Quickly breasting the wave,
Eager the prize to win,
First of us all the brave
Monongahela
went in
Under full head of steam--
Twice she struck him abeam,
Till her stem was a sorry work,
(She might have run on a crag!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
So passed they on with even pace:
Yet
gradually
one might trace
A shadow growing on his face.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Fair fall the
freighted
boats which gold and stone
And spices bear to sea:
Slim, gleaming maidens swell their mellow notes,
Love-promising, entreating-- 10
Ah!
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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ipsa suum
Zephyritis
eo famulum legarat,
Graia Canopieis incola litoribus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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WHERE'ER
suspicion
dwells you may be sure,
To cuckoldom 'twill prove a place secure.
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La Fontaine |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That
endeavour
and dispute?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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On such
occasions
there can be little doubt
that the great families did all that could be done, by threats
and caresses, to break the union of the Plebeians.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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How we did entrust
Futurity
to her!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Non tifidar" it is the sword that speaks
1
Thou trusted'st in thyself and met the blade Thout mask or gauntlet, and art laid
As memorable broken blades that be
Kept as bold
trophies
of old pageantry.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Me the
beastial
life
And not the human pleas'd, mule that I was,
Who in Pistoia found my worthy den.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation information page at www.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
So spake the
sovereign
lord, and from his lips
Sweetly the accents flowed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Is there
anything
can harm you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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sic et tu, rabidi nefas tyranni,
iussus praecipitem subire Lethen,
dum pugnas canis arduaque uoce
das solatia
grandibus
sepulcris,
(o dirum scelus!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For the love of God, a
surgeon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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But the
servaunt
traveileth in vayne,
That for to serven doth his payne 2110
Unto that lord, which in no wyse
Can him no thank for his servyse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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They
see in the serene space of sky armour gleam red through a cloud in the
clear air, and ring
clashing
out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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At last to be
identified!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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His
greatest
weakness was a
love of the fair sex.
| 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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And to be sure that is not false I swear,
A thousand groans, but
thinking
on thy face,
One on another's neck, do witness bear
Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
captains
which were chosen to go out
And treat with Holofernes have come back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I have prophesied--
Strike, thou art worthy of the Table Round--
His arms are old, he trusts the
hardened
skin--
Strike--strike--the wind will never change again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Sheridan hastened to the
front, rallied his men, and won a
complete
victory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--Lo, here I am,
With gifts from all my store; this
suckling
lamb
Fresh from the ewe, green crowns for joyfulness,
And creamy things new-curdled from the press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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) de
originibus
rerum p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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We may
say briefly, that we attach the term to all that increasing amount of
writing whose cadence is more marked, more definite, and closer knit than
that of prose, but which is not so
violently
nor so obviously accented as
the so-called "regular verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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One of us, pierced in the flank,
dragged himself across the marsh,
he tore at the bay-roots,
lost hold on the
crumbling
bank--
Another crawled--too late--
for shelter under the cliffs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pendant que des mortels la multitude vile,
Sous le fouet du Plaisir, ce bourreau sans merci,
Va
cueillir
des remords dans la fete servile,
Ma Douleur, donne-moi la main; viens par ici,
Loin d'eux.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
"Oh
impotence
of faith!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Not in the lyre of Orpheus,
Not in the songs of Musaeus,
Lurked the
unfathomed
bewitchment
Wrought by the wind in the grasses, 10
Held by the rote of the sea-surf,
In early summer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The
horsemen
at once dispersed at a gallop, and the steppe was
deserted.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Now we are of late years
beginning
to understand much better what a
Satyr-play was.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But Petrarch found in the bishop's abode
friends who
consoled
him in this exile among the Lombesians.
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Petrarch |
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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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I can see nothing: the pain, the
weariness!
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Imagists |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
Later he saw that each weed
Was a
singular
knife.
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Stephen Crane |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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is;
his
martirdom
was strong I-wys,
Of sorou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Among the Multitude
Among the men and women the multitude,
I
perceive
one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child,
any nearer than I am,
Some are baffled, but that one is not--that one knows me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So in mine own heart's despite
I crossed his
threshold
and sat drinking--he
And I old friends!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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On the contrary, it says to man that he should
suffer no compulsion to be
exercised
over him.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Non credo che la sua madre piu m'ami,
poscia che
trasmuto
le bianche bende,
le quai convien che, misera!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
converse
sweet, beyond what poets write,
Is there; the winning silence, and the meek
And saint-like manners man would paint in vain.
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Petrarch |
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and the more ambitious and
delicate
the soul,
the farther from possibility is the dream.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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