Alas when sighs are traders' lies,
And heart's-ease eyes and violet eyes
Are
merchandise!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Yerl
Galloway
lang did rule this land,
Wi' equal right and fame,
And thereto was his kinsmen join'd,
The Murray's noble name.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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CV
But stirred and aye
rekindled
it, the more
That he to quench the ill suspicion wrought,
Like the incautious bird, by fowler's lore,
Hampered in net or line; which, in the thought
To free its tangled pinions and to soar,
By struggling, is but more securely caught.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Much thou hast yet to see, but I perceave
Thy mortal sight to faile; objects divine
Must needs impaire and wearie human sense: 10
Henceforth what is to com I will relate,
Thou
therefore
give due audience, and attend.
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Milton |
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Whom do you fly,
infatuate?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XVIII
All bustle when he makes a sign:
He drinks, all drink and loudly call;
He smiles, in
laughter
all combine;
He knits his brows--'tis silent all.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_As when a lion, rushing from his den,
Amidst the plain of some wide-water'd fen,_
(_Where num'rous oxen, as at ease they feed,
At large expatiate o'er the ranker mead_;)
_Leaps on the herds before the herdsman's eyes:
The trembling herdsman far to
distance
flies:
Some lordly bull_ (_the rest dispers'd and fled_)
_He singles out, arrests, and lays him dead.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Risposto
fummi: <
che quell' opere fosser?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He, as my guest, is my peculiar care:
You share the pleasure, then in bounty share
To worth in misery a
reverence
pay,
And with a generous hand reward his stay;
For since kind heaven with wealth our realm has bless'd,
Give it to heaven by aiding the distress'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Among the chief of these
reasons is the interest which the mind attaches to words, not only as
symbols of the passion, but as 'things', active and efficient, which
are of
themselves
part of the passion.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It becomes
intelligible
as
soon as we observe that Sophocles was deliberately seeking what he
regarded as an archaic or "Homeric" style (cf.
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Euripides - Electra |
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ABOVE HIS HABLE MIGHT, beyond the
strength
of which he is capable.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The horrid crags, by toppling convent crowned,
The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,
The mountain moss by scorching skies imbrowned,
The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep,
The tender azure of the
unruffled
deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,
The vine on high, the willow branch below,
Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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With duller steel than the Persean sword
They cut away no formless monster's head,
But one, whose
gentleness
did well accord
With death, as life.
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Keats |
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Me in my vow'd
Picture the sacred wall
declares
t' have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern God of Sea.
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Milton |
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"The third is its
slowness
in taking a jest.
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Lewis Carroll |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those
children
nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What was Admetus really like, this gallant prince who had won the
affection of such great guests as Apollo and Heracles, and yet went round
asking other people to die for him; who, in particular,
accepted
his
wife's monstrous sacrifice with satisfaction and gratitude?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Made end that
knightly
horn, and spurred away
Into the thick of the melodious fray.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
Stalks Norma
brandishing
the dagger in her hand.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The city was now in an uproar; the
friends of the captive
noblemen
surrounded the palace, and loudly
accused the policy of the Moors.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
"Yet have I oft been beaten in the field,
And
sometimes
hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield.
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Petrarch |
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He employed
it, however, in a
generical
sense, with reference to the spontaneous
germination from rank soil (just as a thousand of the lower genera of
creatures are germinated)--the spontaneous germination, I say, of five
vast hordes of men, simultaneously upspringing in five distinct and
nearly equal divisions of the globe.
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Poe - 5 |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Then says Rollanz: "Fair comrade Olivier,
You were the son of the good count Reinier,
Who held the march by th' Vale of Runier;
To shatter spears, through buckled shields to bear,
And from hauberks the mail to break and tear,
Proof men to lead, and prudent counsel share,
Gluttons
in field to frighten and conquer,
No land has known a better chevalier.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Cosi la
circulata
melodia
si sigillava, e tutti li altri lumi
facean sonare il nome di Maria.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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25
The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As I went down the water side,
None but my foe to be my guide,
None but my foe to be my guide,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea;
I lighted down my sword to draw,
I hacked him in pieces sma',
I hacked him in pieces sma',
For her sake that died for me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the
stubborn
glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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LFS}
Rising upon his Couch of Death Albion beheld his Sons
Turning his
Eyesoutward
to Self.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Li Po |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Son, thou in whom my glory I behold
In full resplendence, Heir of all my might,
Neerly it now concernes us to be sure
Of our Omnipotence, and with what Arms
We mean to hold what anciently we claim 720
Of Deitie or Empire, such a foe
Is rising, who intends to erect his Throne
Equal to ours, throughout the
spacious
North;
Nor so content, hath in his thought to trie
In battel, what our Power is, or our right.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of sleeping gods,
And sing with her in
canebrakes
and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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If It be
pleasant
to look on, stalled in the packed serai,
Does not the Young Man try Its temper and pace ere he buy?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Pound
mentions
Kalenda Maya in Canto CXIII.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The woods closed in,
The stream grew dark,
And then
The boat was
grounded
sudden on the shoals,
And I
Said quickly that perhaps
We'd come too far.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Cerialis defeats
Valentinus and
occupies
Trier.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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120
Her eyes were like some fire-enshrining gem,
Were stately like the stars, and yet were tender;
Her figure charmed me like a windy stem
Quivering
and drooped and slender.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A foe may meet thee of a braver kind,
Who,
shortening
with a storm of blows thy stay,
Shall send thee howling all in blood away!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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You homeward with what haste you may to steer,
I counsel, your
assembled
bands among;
For little is the wisdom of that wight,
Who risks his own to gain another's right.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_ I am distracted by a more
difficult
doubt than
ever.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And there will be Murray, Commander,
And Gordon, the battle to win;
Like
brothers
they'll stand by each other,
Sae knit in alliance and kin.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There's tempest in yon horned moon,
And lightning in yon cloud;
But hark the music,
mariners!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
In _Advent_, the experience of the
atmosphere
becomes an experience in
his innermost soul and, therefore, all things become of value to him
only in so far as they partake of the atmosphere, as they are seen in a
peculiar air and distance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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But the Indian workman will rise in the social scale
in spite of the new
literary
caste.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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, his
opinions
fully stated.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,
Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;
The violets are blooming and
nestling
their heads
In richest profusion on moss-coated beds.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Had I a load of gold, and should I come
Bribing their friendship, and to buy a home,
They would stare harder and would
slightly
frown:
I am a stranger from the distant town.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As the poem was not included in the volume
published
in 1820, it is
given here.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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That for which millions prayed and sighed,
That for which tens of
thousands
fought,
For which so many freely died,
God cannot let it come to naught.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Beware
Of
entrance
to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
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Shakespeare |
|
1922
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The Dominant City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
The Book of Nature
Constable
& Co.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
CXXXII
That
Archbishop
has heard them, how they spoke,
His horse he pricks with his fine spurs of gold,
Coming to them he takes up his reproach:
"Sir Oliver, and you, Sir Rollant, both,
For God I pray, do not each other scold!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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--Take then tribute of my tears;
So long as I have fears
To prompt me, I shall ever
Languish
and look, but thy return see never.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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In fulfilment
of the oracle, they settled on the spot, and raised a temple to
Sminthean
Apollo.
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Iliad - Pope |
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this Errours den,
A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: 115
Therefore
I read beware.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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8 Such as these have come, touched by
imperial
grace, how can those feeble slaves grapple with them?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Rebels against Heaven,
slanderers
of Fate;
Many defy the Way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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THE BRIDE
Call me,
Beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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I
absolutely
declined to accept or admit the enormous truth
hidden in them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And
troubled
pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of bickering gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They are
murdering
our master!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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the door gaed to the wa';
An' by my ingle-lowe I saw,
Now bleezin bright,
A tight,
outlandish
hizzie, braw,
Come full in sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And though it
sometimes
seem of its own might
Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there,
And firm to hover in that empty height,
That only is because it is so light.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pluck rays from all such stars as never fling
Their light where fell a curse,
And make a
crowning
for this kingly brow!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this
vindicating
grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Even as Aegaeon, who, men say, had an hundred arms, an hundred
hands, fifty mouths and breasts ablaze with fire, and arrayed against
Jove's thunders as many
clashing
shields and drawn swords: so Aeneas,
when once his sword's point grew warm, rages victorious over all the
field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
troubled
plumes of midnight were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The ice is glazing over,
Torn
lanterns
flutter,
On the leaves is snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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And Marya Ivanofna, what has she not
suffered
anent you, my pigeon?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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This
probably
pagan
nuisance is now furnished with biblical credentials as a fiend or
devil in good standing, so that all Christian Englishmen might read
about him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Form is half their art and
crucially
their poems were set to music, a large amount of which survives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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A good poet _might_ have written _And roses
wild_:--yet this slight change would
disenchant
the verse of its peculiar
beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
[48] Meaning, "Will it only remain for us to throw
ourselves
into the
water?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Yes, there is holy
pleasure
in thine eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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_Universitatis
ambitum.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Rich, ornate, populous, all
treasures
thine,
The golden corn, the olive, and the vine.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For once I would have taken him up upon his
insulting
wager.
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Poe - 5 |
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Þæt fram hām gefrægn Higelāces þegn,
195 gōd mid Gēatum, Grendles dǣda:
sē wæs mon-cynnes
mægenes
strengest
on þǣm dæge þysses līfes,
æðele and ēacen.
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Beowulf |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In former years thus did not I
In idleness and tranquil joy
The
happiest
days of life employ?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But their
Governor
General, alone with his cup of wine
Sits till evening and will not move from the place!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"This is a finer use than usual of the common poetic
attendants
of
a battle, the wolf, the eagle, and the raven.
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Beowulf |
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