What Syrtis, what
grasping Scylla, what vast
Charybdis?
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anything
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[228] What a charming
apostrophe
is
"O fickle fortune, why this cruel sporting,
Why thus perplex us, poor sons of a day?
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Beowulf |
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"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy
something
far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For, between the hands and before
the faces of his
sorrowing
parents, lo!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That eve--that eve--I should
remember
well--
The sun-ray dropp'd, in Lemnos, with a spell
On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
Wherein I sate, and on the draperied wall--
And on my eye-lids--O the heavy light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending
at a small hotel;
Princess Volupine arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In rapturous wonder oft I said,
Sure she in Paradise was made,
Thence sprang that bright angelic state,
Those looks, those words, that heavenly gait,
That
beauteous
smile, that voice divine,
Those graces that around her shine:
Transported I beheld the fair,
And sighing cried, How came I here?
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Petrarch |
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The Project
Gutenberg
eBook, Poems of the Past and the Present, by Thomas
Hardy
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other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He tells me further that in Andrew
Clark's edition of the University Matriculation Registers it
is stated that the date of his
matriculation
was between Oct.
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John Donne |
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This
prepared
me for something serious, since it was usually my mother
who wrote, and he only added a few lines at the end.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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am I by fate, 'tis clear,
To find no grace with her my soul holds dear:
I'd nothing left; and when I saw the bird,
To kill it instantly the thought occurred;
Those naught we grudge nor spare to entertain,
Who o'er our feeling bosoms sov'reign reign:
All I can do is
speedily
to get,
Another falcon: easily they're met;
And by to-morrow I'll the bird procure.
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La Fontaine |
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We want nothing but an
increased
supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally interesting record of Early
English minds.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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) Long live our mighty
sovereign!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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By night, by day, a-field, at hame,
The
thoughts
o' thee my breast inflame;
And aye I muse and sing thy name--
I only live to love thee.
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Robert Burns |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life explodes
everywhere?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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The
portrait
of Atticus, on the other hand, was, as we know,
the work of years.
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Alexander Pope |
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{o}u
ne mayst wel
p{er}forme
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
And of him-self
imagened
he ofte
To ben defet, and pale, and waxen lesse
Than he was wont, and that men seyden softe,
`What may it be?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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l paubres quan jai el ric ostal
No more than a beggar dare complain,
Estat ai gran sazo
I've felt, for so long, so
Raimbaut de
Vaqueiras
(c1155- fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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In newer days of war and trade,
Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
When Science armed and guided war,
And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
When France, where poet never grew,
Halved and dealt the globe anew,
GOETHE, raised o'er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life
And brought
Olympian
wisdom down
To court and mart, to gown and town.
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Emerson - Poems |
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reads mōdega for gōda, "because the attribute cannot be
separated from the word
modified
unless the two alliterate.
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Beowulf |
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This allowed the fashionable lady who rose
at noon time to do a little
shopping
and perform "the long labours of
the toilet.
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Alexander Pope |
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A just applause the cares of dress impart,
And give soft
transport
to a parent's heart.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I never thought that Jason sought
For any golden fleece;
But then I am a rural man,
With
thoughts
that make for peace.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Who writes a keener
epigram?
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Poe - 5 |
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What my private
sentiments
are, you will
find out without an interpreter.
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Robert Forst |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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228, 627, 1780, 2798);
_according
as_ (l.
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Beowulf |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And
nobility
of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the
approaching
steeds your contest end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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This
gentleman
of mine hath serv'd me long;.
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Shakespeare |
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Again, if
it be too little, there ariseth no
pleasure
out of the object; it affords
the view no stay; it is beheld, and vanisheth at once.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" Tied for life to a woman with whom he
had not one essential sympathy, the whole of his nature was put out of
focus; and perhaps nothing but "the joy of grief," and the terrible and
fettering power of
luxuriating
over his own sorrows, and tracing them to
first principles, outside himself or in the depths of his sub-
consciousness, gave him the courage to support that long, everpresent
divorce.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"To thy wife's eyes I'll bring their long-lost gleam,
I'll bring back to thy child his
strength
and light,
To him, life's fragile athlete I will seem
Rare oil that firms his muscles for the fight.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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We were glad at last to come to a place of rest,
With wine enough to drink
together
to our fill,
Long I sang to the tune of the Pine-tree Wind;
When the song was over, the River-stars[46] were few.
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Li Po |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Of
resemblance
of specific details not much can be made.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For this reason there is no
truth
comparable
to sorrow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A maiden shining bright of blee,
As Myrtle
branchlet
Asia bred,
Which Hamadryad deity
As toy for joyance aye befed
With humour of the dew.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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All her curls are yellow and her eyes are blue,
And her cheeks were rosy red till a secret care made
Hollow whiteness of their
brightness
as a care will do.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The rats are
underneath
the piles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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I will confine myself to one instance:
Waving his hat, the shepherd, from the vale,
Directs his winding dog the cliffs to scale,--
The dog, loud barking, 'mid the
glittering
rocks,
Hunts, where his master points, the intercepted flocks.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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Stephen Crane |
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The son
Of the Terrible--But stay--
(Goes to the door and
examines
it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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| Question: |
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Villon |
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She often accuses me and tries me,
And lays false charges now, at will,
Yet
whenever
she acts vilely
All the fault's laid at my door still!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I can't believe in God's goodness;
I can believe
In many
avenging
gods.
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Imagists |
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_Ourt arraie_ is what a
military
handbook
calls 'open order' and _thight_ is 'well-built', well put together
(Bailey's Dictionary).
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Much use for years
Had
gradually
worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"I fear thee and thy
glittering
eye
"And thy skinny hand so brown"--
Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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nealles Hetware hrēmge
þorfton
(i.
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Beowulf |
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It was translated into English by Mary
Collyer, a 12th edition of her version
appearing
in 1780.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
Once, I know, there was a nest,
Held there by the
sideward
thrust
Of those twigs that touch his breast;
Though 'tis gone now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_Panchaia_, a
fabulous
spice island in the Erythrean Sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
He is a seer--he is individual--he is
complete
in
himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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[50] The verb _la'atu_, to pierce, devour, forms its
preterite
_ilut_;
see VAB.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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GREECE
THE sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
For the blue lands that to the
eastward
lie.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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A ce veoir, vierge, veus
Soie par toy et receus,
Oste
chaussement
d'ordure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And
chanting
voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels earthward rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Wast for such a name, O most
puissant
father-in-law and
son-in-law, that ye have spoiled the entire world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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'
ast Amor
euigilans
dixit 'mea pinna, uolemus'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Now springs on these, now those, with
vigorous
bound;
And these and those betake themselves to flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Or that thy sense shall ever meet
The bean-flower's deep-embosom'd sweet
Exhaling
with an evening blast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the
meanings
are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
In
"The Twa Herds," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Unco Guid,"
"The Holy Fair," and others, he
manifested
sympathy with the protest of
the so-called "New Light" party, which had sprung up in opposition to
the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant "Auld Lichts.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
| Guess: |
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Thus we find, both in
the Homeric poems and in Hesiod, [several
examples
of common
phrases, in Greek].
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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High-eminent amid the works divine,
Where heaven's far-beaming brazen
mansions
shine.
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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nō hīe fæder cunnon, hwæðer him ǣnig wæs
ǣr ācenned dyrnra gāsta, _they_ (the people of the country) _do not know
his_ (Grendel's) _father, nor whether any evil spirit has been before born
to him_ (whether he has
begotten
a son), 1357.
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Beowulf |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first
recorded
vernacular lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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Sometimes you will see many small ones in a swamp turned quite crimson
when all other trees around are still perfectly green, and the former
appear so much the
brighter
for it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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Imagists |
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