1745 appears dimly to fore-shadow the office of the evil archer Loki,
who in the Scandinavian
mythology
shoots Balder with a mistletoe twig.
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Beowulf |
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Methinks
among you I descry
New faces.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of imagined glory,
--Although with many a
precious
tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour;
Then gives it to the
children
to devour.
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Robert Herrick |
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This is clear--
you fell on the
downward
slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you clutched this larch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Be not unlike all others, not austere
As thou art strong,
inflexible
as steel.
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Milton |
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MARGARETE
(halblaut):
Er liebt mich- liebt mich nicht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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thou dost not see,
My son, how great a flame's
prepared
for thee.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Yet but awhile the
slumbering
weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the startled forest sings
Winter's returning song-cloud races cloud.
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John Clare |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The
pleasant
whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Hector with grief his
charioteer
beheld
All pale and breathless on the sanguine field:
Then bids Cebriones direct the rein,
Quits his bright car, and issues on the plain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside--
Her beams
bemocked
the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt alway
A still and awful red.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Dead is the king, and a thousand years gone
Since one of such worth was, such vile loss,
Nor was ever a man like him, not one,
So brave, so free, so generous, giving,
That none half as much or more has given,
Since Alexander
thrashed
Darius;
Not Charlemagne, nor Arthur, as valorous
As he who made men, if truth appear,
Either rejoice in him, or shake with fear.
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Troubador Verse |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in
English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How maystow in thyn herte finde 265
To been to me thus cruel and
unkinde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And now, far off
In the
fragrant
darkness
The tree is tremulous again with bloom
For June comes back.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Yeats |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Conceytes
wronge,
What harm they doon, for now live I to longe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The work has faults which would, in
innumerable cases,
disguise
its real merit from
modern readers, or rather deter them from giving
it a reading altogether.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The herdsman comes to it to choose the stones
To build a hut, and
overturns
the bones,
From which he has just scared a jackal pack,
Waiting to gnaw them when he turns his back.
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Hugo - Poems |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love
thereby!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And still in their
language
quack Vive le Roy !
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Had chastisement for perjured truth,
Barine, mark'd you with a curse--
Did one wry nail, or one black tooth,
But make you worse--
I'd trust you; but, when plighted lies
Have pledged you deepest,
lovelier
far
You sparkle forth, of all young eyes
The ruling star.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In the history of
literature it is difficult to
parallel
such a deliberate piece of
self-stultification.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)
One more, the final record, and my annals
Are ended, and
fulfilled
the duty laid
By God on me a sinner.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books
surcease
of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Nameless here for evermore.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Let others Rhodes or
Mytilene
sing,
Or Ephesus, or Corinth, set between
Two seas, or Thebes, or Delphi, for its king
Each famous, or Thessalian Tempe green;
There are who make chaste Pallas' virgin tower
The daily burden of unending song,
And search for wreaths the olive's rifled bower;
The praise of Juno sounds from many a tongue,
Telling of Argos' steeds, Mycenaes's gold.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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those sounds whose sweetness laps my sense,
The strong desire of more that in me yearns,
Restrain
my spirit in its parting hence.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Now it
murmured
a delightfully common song that filled the faubourgs with joy, an old, banal tune: why did its words pierce my soul and make me cry, like any romantic ballad?
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Vielleicht
bracht's jemand als ein Pfand,
Und meine Mutter lieh darauf.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Flower-petals flee;
But, since it once hath been,
No more that
severing
scene
Can harrow me.
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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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Why does he never sit
On
horseback
in his company, nor with uneven bit
His Gallic courser tame?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Tennyson |
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Tomorrow
thou shalt know.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TROILUS AND
CRISEYDE
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***** This file should be named 257.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you
also be
eligible
as I am?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
quotations from Harsnet in the following pages are accordingly taken
from the
excerpts
in the _Detection_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To learn the
transport
by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick, homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the sovereign anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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HIS IMMORTALITY
I
I SAW a dead man's finer part
Shining within each
faithful
heart
Of those bereft.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Oh, how I wish to
be talking, not writing," he cries in a letter to Southey in 1803, "for my
mind is so full, that my
thoughts
stifle and jam each other.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the
strengthless
dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Full to the wind the
swelling
sails he gave,
And, his red prows divide the foamy wave:
Full to the rising sun the pilot steers,
And, far from shore through middle ocean bears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thro' everie troope
disorder
reer'd her hedde; 15
Dancynge and heideignes was the onlie theme;
Sad dome was theires, who lefte this easie bedde,
And wak'd in torments from so sweet a dream.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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lh folha par
When fresh leaves and shoots appear,
Lo tems vai e ven e vire
Time comes, and goes, and runs away,
La douza votz ai auzida
The
sweetest
voice I have heard,
Chantars no pot gaire valer
Singing proves merely valueless
Peire d'Auvergne (fl.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Indeed, I could not endure the
spectacle
of the poor Mummy's
mortification.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Here nearly always if the ring-dove coos
This immaterial grief with many a fold of cloud
Crushes the ripe star of tomorrows, whose crowd
Will be
silvered
by its scintillations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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When wilt thou cure thyself, spirit of the earth,
When wilt thou cure thyself of thy long fever,
That so
insanely
doth ferment in thee?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What is the Flag of
England?
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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CLXXX
The ceremonies would be long to say
In verse,
wherewith
Sir Brandimart was mourned;
The mantles, black or purple, given away;
The many torches which that eve were burned.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A heart that is distant creates a
wilderness
round it.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
With keen desire the craftful pagan burn'd
Soon as the morn in orient blaze return'd,
To view the fleet his
splendid
train prepares;
And now, attended by the lordly Nayres,
The shore they cover, now the oarsmen sweep
The foamy surface of the azure deep:
And now, brave Paulus gives the friendly hand,
And high on GAMA'S lofty deck they stand.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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On the occasion, too, of the Duke of Tarento
being
announced
at the Austrian Ambassador's ball, February, 1827, as
plain "Marshal Macdonald," Victor became the mouthpiece of indignant
Bonapartists in his "Ode to the Napoleon Column" in the Place Vendome.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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If we should part upon that one embrace,
And set our courses ever, each from each,
With all our treasure but a fading face
And little ghostly syllables of speech;
Should beauty's moment never be renewed,
And moons on moons look out for us in vain,
And each but whisper from a solitude
To hear but echoes of a lonely pain,--
Still in a world that fortune cannot change
Should walk those two that once were you and I,
Those two that once when moon and stars were strange
Poets above us in an April sky,
Heard a voice falling on the
midnight
sea,
Mute, and for ever, but for you and me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The god Phoebus,
who is a true god, has been
charioted
for an hour-and were you not to
be on the ramparts by sunrise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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It's like the light, --
A
fashionless
delight
It's like the bee, --
A dateless melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In vain,--thou canst not;
Its root has pierced yon shady mound;
Toy no longer--it has duties;
It is
anchored
in the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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If he really wrote "petty," he may have meant
either small rills (rillets), or used the word as
Shakespeare
used it,
for "pelting" rills.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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er comp{re}hendid {and}
yknowe{n}
nat
after his strenge?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The flooding of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring
mightily
dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
| 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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--_A room in the
Windmill
Tavern.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Keats - Lamia |
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him thither hastly got:
For golden Phoebus now
ymounted
hie, 255
From fiery wheeles of his faire chariot
Hurled his beame so scorching cruell hot,
That living creature mote it not abide;
And his new Lady it endured not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
But don't think at the moment of loving you
I find myself
innocent
in my own eyes, or approve,
Or that slack complacency has fed the poison, 675
Of this wild passion that troubles all my reason.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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"
His first assailant was one of Clement's own physicians, who loaded him
with
scurrility
in a formal letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Thence he pursues his
appointed
path.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Was hilft es, viel von
Stimmung
reden?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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HAIL native Language, that by sinews weak
Didst move my first
endeavouring
tongue to speak,
And mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps,
Half unpronounc't, slide through my infant-lipps,
Driving dum silence from the portal dore,
Where he had mutely sate two years before:
Here I salute thee and thy pardon ask,
That now I use thee in my latter task:
Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee,
I know my tongue but little Grace can do thee: 10
Thou needst not be ambitious to be first,
Believe me I have thither packt the worst:
And, if it happen as I did forecast,
The daintest dishes shall be serv'd up last.
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I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
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Sappho |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia
quality indeed.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You are from Arthur's court; tell me, do you think
this king with his few loyal Knights of the Round Table can triumph over
the
rebellious
lords, and keep his throne?
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Cependant elle etait
charmante, nous dit Theodore de Banville, << elle portait bien sa brune
tete ingenue et superbe, couronnee d'une
chevelure
violemment crespelee
et dont la demarche de reine pleine d'une grace farouche, avait a la
fois quelque chose de divin et de bestial >>.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Gold, silver, ivory, vases
sculptured
high,
Paint, marble, gems, and robes of Persian dye,
There are who have not--and thank heaven there are,
Who, if they have not, think not worth their care,
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find,
Two of a face, as soon as of a mind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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When she shall
challenge
this, you will reject
her.
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_ From Seneca, _Thyestes_, 884-85:--
Vitae est avidus quisquis non vult
Mundo secum
pereunte
mori.
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Robert Herrick |
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For gem-stoned rings, on hand,
They've
Egyptian
scarabs,
In well-cut buttonholes,
Dandelions from the wasteland.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some cursed, because at last
The open heavens to which they had looked in vain
For many a golden fall of marvellous rain
Were closed in brass; and some
Wept on because a gone thing could not come;
And some were silent,
doubting
all things for
That popular conviction,--evermore
Emperor.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But did they see, the shameless ones, that Heav'n
Wafts on swift wing toward them, while I speak,
Their mouths were op'd for howling: they shall taste
Of Borrow (unless
foresight
cheat me here)
Or ere the cheek of him be cloth'd with down
Who is now rock'd with lullaby asleep.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I slumber much, a little read,
Of
fleeting
glory take no heed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies, flaunting their banners;
They have dared to
approach
the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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