fǣttum fāhne,
_shining
with
gold plates_ (the walls and the inner part of the roof were partly covered
with gold), 717; sceal se hearda helm hyrsted golde fǣtum befeallen (sc.
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" Soon as the wind
Sway'd them toward us, I thus fram'd my speech:
"O wearied
spirits!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We are tempted to think of
Homer as the most
fortunate
of poets.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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183
He bare hym
curteislich
& tsllie,
To fulfille his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Miss Leland
seemed suddenly
impressed
with the seriousness of life.
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Yeats |
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Desolate winds that cry over the wandering sea;
Desolate winds that hover in the flaming West;
Desolate winds that beat the doors of Heaven, and beat
The doors of Hell and blow there many a whimpering ghost;
O heart the winds have shaken; the
unappeasable
host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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Yeats |
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Why is he
melancholy?
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Shakespeare |
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"
But a sixth replied, "Whatever we are, that we shall
continue
to
be.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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]
Differences between the
editions
of 1891 & 1916 (printings of 1898 & 1918).
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Sidney Lanier |
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He ended his life as a monk in the abbey of Dalon, where his
presence
is recorded from 1197 to 1202.
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Troubador Verse |
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E pria che 'n tutte le sue parti immense
fosse
orizzonte
fatto d'uno aspetto,
e notte avesse tutte sue dispense,
ciascun di noi d'un grado fece letto;
che la natura del monte ci affranse
la possa del salir piu e 'l diletto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And should my future lot be cast
With much
resemblance
of the past
Thy worn-out heart will break at last--
My Mary!
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Golden Treasury |
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LXXVIII
Of the edict she remembered her, and knew
Her peril, save the foe was quickly sped:
For if she took not in one day nor slew
Her claimant, she was taken; and his head
Phoebus was now about to hide from view,
Nigh Hercules' pillars, in his watery bed,
When first she 'gan
misdoubt
her power to cope
With the strong foe, and to abandon hope.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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150
Forgive me, Gyrthe, the brave Kynge Harolde cryd;
Who can I trust, if
brothers
are not true?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rude spirits of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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Lewis Carroll |
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el freke,
& al stouned at his steuen, &
stonstil
seten,
[E] In a swoghe sylence ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
stubbornness
to him who is not wise,
Itself alone, is less than nothing strong.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(The shrug is pure
Hebraic)
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Happiness and hope shall sun you:
All the wiles that half
betrayed
us
Vanish from us like spent showers.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate
tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of
the field, are withered: because joy is
withered
away from the sons of
men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
[9] The fragments which have been assigned to Book II in the British
Museum collections by Haupt, Jensen, Dhorme and others belong to
later tablets,
probably
III or IV.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Your
lordship
ever binds him.
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Shakespeare |
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It has been the fashion of late days to deny Moore Imagination, while
granting him Fancy--a
distinction
originating with Coleridge--than whom
no man more fully comprehended the great powers of Moore.
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Poe - 5 |
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næs þā
long tō þon, þæt þā
āglǣcean
hȳ eft gemētton (_it was not long after that
the warriors again met each other_), 2593.
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Beowulf |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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blake-poems |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The exact date of Tacitus's death is not known, but in his "Annals" he seems to hint at the successful
extension
of the Emperor Trajan's eastern campaigns during the years 115 to 117, so that it is probable that he lived until the year 117.
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Tacitus |
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We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs
Have bred forth, not pale
solitary
doves,
But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower
Above us in their beauty, and must reign
In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law
That first in beauty should be first in might:
Yea, by that law, another race may drive 230
Our conquerors to mourn as we do now.
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Keats |
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Lamia, regal drest,
Silently
paced about, and as she went,
In pale contented sort of discontent,
Mission'd her viewless servants to enrich
The fretted splendour of each nook and niche.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
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permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Time doth
transfix
the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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From the dry fields thick clouds of dust arise,
Shade the black host, and
intercept
the skies.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past
That shrunk thy streams; return,
Sicilian
Muse,
And call the vales, and bid them hither cast
Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
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Golden Treasury |
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) aught ruth, or if you for any
Bring at the moment of death latest
assistance
to man,
Look upon me (poor me!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Honteuses d'exister, ombres ratatinees,
Peureuses, le dos bas, vous cotoyer les murs,
Et nul ne vous salue,
etranges
destinees!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'T is whiter than an Indian pipe,
'T is dimmer than a lace;
No stature has it, like a fog,
When you
approach
the place.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Half a foot long, as reward, your glorious rod (dear poet)
Proudly shall strut from your loins, when but your dearest commands,
Nor shall your member grow weary until you've enjoyed the full dozen
Artful
positions
the great poet Philainis describes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Others aspire to truth so much as they are rather
lovers of
likeness
than beauty.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But
remember
that no poem of mine will ever be popular, and I am
afraid that the sale of 'Peter' would not carry the expense of
engraving .
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William Wordsworth |
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we have turned against the mightiest of our young men
And in that denial we have taken on the Christ,
And the two thieves beside the Christ,
And the Magdalen at the feet of the Christ,
And the Judas with thirty silver pieces selling the Christ,--
And our twenty centuries in Europe have the shape of a Cross
On which we have hung in
disaster
and glory.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, 170
O Hymen Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Our interview was transient,--
Of me, himself was shy;
And God forbid I look behind
Since that
appalling
day!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sanche
You know how justice moves, with what slowness,
How often the crime fails to meet redress;
That slow and doubtful course
provokes
more tears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
passionate
teeming plays this curtain hid!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Now needful does for
ammunition
calL
He finds, where'er he succour might expect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Cucumber vines grow entwining about this
primeval
lingam,
Cracking it almost in two under the weight of the fruit.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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2 Presumably anger at the rebel
occupation
of the capital.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one tortured by frost and ice,
Whom the cold
torments
and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And after a
thousand
years I climbed the holy mountain and spoke
unto God again, saying, "Father, I am thy son.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'Not at all too hot,' was his reply; and he confided to me that this was
one of his
favourite
places and attitudes for composing 'poems.
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Whitman |
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Not all thy
flushing
suns are set, I.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
ELECTRA
Alas, the inborn curse that haunts our home,
Of Ate's bloodstained scourge the
tuneless
sound!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Until a few years ago, known only to a relatively small
community
on the
continent but commanding an ever increasing attention which has borne
his name far beyond the boundary of his country, the personality of
Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day beside the most illustrious poets of
modern Europe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Teeming with
monsters
dread
And plagues on every hand!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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550
I will forget them; I will pass these joys;
Ask nought so heavenward, so too--too high:
Only I pray, as fairest boon, to die,
Or be deliver'd from this
cumbrous
flesh,
From this gross, detestable, filthy mesh,
And merely given to the cold bleak air.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Who pierced me in my side she heals the wound,
For whom in heart more than in ink I write;
Who
quickens
me or kills,
And in one instant freezes me or fires.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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) The "False Dawn"; Subhi Kazib, a
transient
Light on the Horizon
about an hour before the Subhi sadik or True Dawn; a well-known
Phenomenon in the East.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He was a student at
Marlborough
College from the autumn of 1908 until
the end of 1913, at which time he was elected to a scholarship at
University College, Oxford.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I have never known
any one who seemed to exist on such "large
draughts
of intellectual
day" as this child of seventeen, to whom one could tell all one's
personal troubles and agitations, as to a wise old woman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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have ye been
Victors of
countless
kings, or puppets of a scene?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The star about the Pole
conceals
its bright rays.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I saw him, I blushed: I paled at the sight:
Pain swelled in my
troubled
heart outright:
My eyes saw nothing: I couldn't speak for pain: 275
I felt my whole body frozen, and in flame.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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In obstinacy, bigotry, and
vanity this character represents the class of judges with which
Coke identified himself in the
Overbury
trial.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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slakke {and} delitable
sou{n} of
strenges
how ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
]
177 (return)
[ The Bructeri were under regal government, and
maintained
many wars against the Romans.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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In-to an chapel ich com of oure lefdy;
Iesus crist, hire leue son, stood by; 92
On rode he was, an
louelich
Man,
Als ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
lampoons
of the city were doubtless of a higher order;
and their sting was early felt by the nobility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans sur la vie
Du grand desert, ou luit la Liberte ravie,
Forets, soleils, rives,
savanes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The rest with equal hand conferr'd the bread:
He fill'd his scrip, and to the
threshold
sped;
But first before Antinous stopp'd, and said:
"Bestow, my friend!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But let the frame of things dis-ioynt,
Both the Worlds suffer,
Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe
In the affliction of these
terrible
Dreames,
That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace,
Then on the torture of the Minde to lye
In restlesse extasie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I was dying there
Like some poor
stricken
beast, unmissed, alone
In God-forgotten vasts of yellow glare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe
that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments
that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original
metaphysic of living, were by no means
altogether
habitual.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
ou doest vs stronge
tourment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
The heavens viewed the savage monster with horror,
The earth quaked, and the air was infected,
The
terrified
wave that carried it recoiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
It is no
pleasure
to be alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
XVIII
The
courtyard
of her house is wide
And cool and still when day departs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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She concludes with this
pathetic
wish:--
"O that my father had ne'er on me smil'd;
O that my mother had ne'er to me sung!
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For there I lost my father dear,
My father dear, and
brethren
three.
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Golden Treasury |
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In the empty mountains he lived for thirty years
Daily watching for the
Heavenly
Coach to come.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--3)
Alternately
with dat.
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Beowulf |
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It is this edition which has been chiefly used by European readers and
to which
references
are made in the present paper.
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Li Po |
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I charge ye not to open the door to
give them an answer, but whisper't through the
keyhole!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And immediately all the young Owls threw
themselves
off the tree, meaning
to alight on the ground; but they did not perceive that there was a large
well below them, into which they all fell superficially, and were every one
of them drowned in less than half a minute.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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my heedless feet from under
Slip the
crumbling
banks for ever:
Like echoes to a distant thunder,
They plunge into the gentle river.
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Coleridge - 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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The bull of Phalaris renews his roar[eh];
Mount, chivalrous
Hidalgo!
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Byron |
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[James Hamilton, grocer, in Glasgow,
interested
himself early in the
fortunes of the poet.
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Robert Forst |
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