THE
STATIONER
TO THE READER.
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Milton |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with
marvellous
keen pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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By
sunlight
or by starlight ever thou
Art excellent in beauty manifold;
The still star victory ever gems thy brow;
Age cannot age thee, ages make thee old.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The world were blest did bliss on them depend,
Ah, that "the
friendly
e'er should want a friend!
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Robert Burns |
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The feerie[6] heaulmets, wythe the wreathes amielde[7], 5
Supportes the rampynge lyoncell[8] orr beare,
Wythe
straunge
depyctures[9], Nature maie nott yeelde,
Unseemelie to all orderr doe appere,
Yett yatte[10] to menne, who thyncke and have a spryte[11],
Makes knowen thatt the phantasies unryghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yes; and in yon field below,
A thousand years of silenced
factions
sleep--
The Forum, where the immortal accents glow,
And still the eloquent air breathes--burns with Cicero!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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INDEX OF NAMES
[The
references
are to the chapters of the Latin text as given in the
margin.
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Tacitus |
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Individual
was
precipitated.
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James Russell Lowell |
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IX
Villa Serbelloni, Bellaggio
The
fountain
shivers lightly in the rain,
The laurels drip, the fading roses fall,
The marble satyr plays a mournful strain
That leaves the rainy fragrance musical.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
principal
prisoners for whom Petrarch was commissioned to plead,
were the Counts Minervino, di Lucera, and Pontenza.
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Petrarch |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This Diamond he greetes your Wife withall,
By the name of most kind Hostesse,
And shut vp in
measurelesse
content
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Not from those that will jest
at their own outward imperfections, but hide their ulcers within, their
pride, lust, envy, ill-nature, with all the art and
authority
they can.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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O
countless
the brave acts, courageousness
Concealed itself from knowledge in the darkness,
Where each, the sole true witness of his blows,
Could not discern whose side fortune chose!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What noble work is ours,
To have our bodies proper for your love,
The means of your
delight!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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tis a syghte of myckle woe, 15
To kenne these
Normannes
everich rennome gayne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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je veux qu'on me couche
Parmi les Morts des eaux
nocturnes
abreuves!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The stars which gleamed in the
empyrean
dome,
Under the thousand arches in heaven's space
Shone as through meshes of the blackest lace.
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Hugo - Poems |
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120
Will these awkward
scruples
always hold you back?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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VIII
Alors l'ame pourrie et l'ame desolee
Sentiront
ruisseler
tes maledictions.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At first, the elf-like laughter of a streamlet roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which hastened onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till
unobserved
its sobbing echoes died.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, for the sergeant does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a
sweetheart
spend her money on a chap.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Chiefs, soldiers,
comrades
died.
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Hugo - Poems |
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In
almost every wood, you will see where the red or gray squirrels have
pawed down through the snow in a hundred places, sometimes two feet
deep, and almost always
directly
to a nut or a pine cone, as directly
as if they had started from it and bored upward,--which you and I
could not have done.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Enclosing
the song of "Charming, lovely
Davies"
CXLIV.
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Robert Burns |
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You make me strange
Euen to the
disposition
that I owe,
When now I thinke you can behold such sights,
And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes,
When mine is blanch'd with feare
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The Muse of men is coy,
Oft courted will not come;
In palaces and market squares
Entreated, she is dumb;
But my
minstrel
knows and tells
The counsel of the gods,
Knows of Holy Book the spells,
Knows the law of Night and Day,
And the heart of girl and boy,
The tragic and the gay,
And what is writ on Table Round
Of Arthur and his peers;
What sea and land discoursing say
In sidereal years.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the splendour of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew,
fashioned
this--
street after street alike.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP
Soft and
softlier
hold me, friends!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Squire Hal besides had in this case
Pretensions
rather brassy,
For talents to deserve a place
Are qualifications saucy;
So, their worships of the Faculty,
Quite sick of merit's rudeness,
Chose one who should owe it all, d'ye see,
To their gratis grace and goodness.
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Robert Burns |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Heaps fell on heaps, sad trophies of his art,
A Trojan ghost
attending
every dart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon I heard again a tapping
somewhat
louder than before.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep
thoughts
are a duty--
Where Love's a grown up God--
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But the Emperour is verily come back,
--So tells me now my man, that Sulian--
Ten great columns he's set them in their ranks;
He's a proof man who sounds that olifant,
With a clear call he rallies his comrades;
These at the head come cantering in advance,
Also with them are fifteen
thousand
Franks,
Young bachelors, whom Charles calls Infants;
As many again come following that band,
Who will lay on with utmost arrogance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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1020
He turn'd--there was a
whelming
sound--he stept,
There was a cooler light; and so he kept
Towards it by a sandy path, and lo!
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Keats |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The fleet
of the zamorim almost
immediately
fled.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If this
interpretation
be correct
the preterite _edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Time, which hath wronged thee with ten thousand rents
Of thine imperial garment, shall deny,
And hath denied, to every other sky,
Spirits which soar from ruin:--thy decay
Is still
impregnate
with divinity,
Which gilds it with revivifying ray;
Such as the great of yore, Canova is to-day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying
combinations
touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Darkness arose from her
dissolving
frame,
Which gathering, filled that dome of woven light, _620
Blotting its sphered stars with supernatural night.
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Shelley |
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The truth, I fancy, this: bodies there are
Whose clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes
Produce the fire and which, by order changed,
Do change the nature of the thing produced,
And are thereafter nothing like to fire
Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies
With impact
touching
on the senses' touch.
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Lucretius |
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er nys
som
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a
whirlwind
I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And Kenmure's lord's the bravest lord,
That ever
Galloway
saw.
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Robert Burns |
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Shall I forget in peace of
Paradise?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Since with
pleasure
I'm out of tune,
And nothing can I force her to,
For I know that I'll win nothing,
Except by praising, and by loving.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It changed its position and colors as
we moved, and was the
brighter
because the sun shone so clearly and
the mist was so thick.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk,"
published
in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Touch and waken so, to a far hereafter,
Ebb and flow, the deep, and the dead in their longing:
Till at last, on the
hungering
face of the waters,
There shall be Light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_
FOURTH OPAL
We were alone: the
perfumed
night,
Moonlighted, like a flower
Grew round us and exhaled delight
To bless that one sweet hour.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And now his life, suspended by her breath,
Ran out impetuously to
hastening
Death.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The "Liber
Epistolarum
sine Titulo" contains, as it is printed
in his works (Basle edit.
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Petrarch |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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772) composed a poem on the dawn court gathering in the newly
restored
court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" It was a
collection of the work of various young poets,
presented
together as a
school.
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Imagists |
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From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf,
From
monument
and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of HALE shall burn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[11]
Going from one another ten thousand "li,"
Each in a
different
corner of the World.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Not so
decrepid
.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Snatch me, ye
whirlwinds!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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Sappho |
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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!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But on we must, and thither tend,
Where Ancus and rich Tullus blend
Their sacred seed;
Thus has
infernal
Jove decreed;
We must be made,
Ere long a song, ere long a shade.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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No beach nor reef but was with corpses strewn,
And every keel of our
barbarian
host
Hurried to flee, in utter disarray.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The ground looks
like a
platform
before a grocery, where the gossips of the village sit
to crack nuts and less savory jokes.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And thee the province
declares
to be lovely?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Gather ye
rosebuds
while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Keats - Lamia |
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Will those bright eyes
With
gladness
come, which, weeping, made me haste
To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down,
Or wander where thou wilt.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Paradiso
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Spurreynge
his palfrie oere the watrie plaine.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He said, and fired their
heavenly
breasts with rage.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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He died at an
advanced
age in Montpellier.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Victorious
then in every solemn game,
Ordain'd to Amarynces' mighty name;
The brave Epeians gave my glory way,
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Swallows check their winding flight,
And
twittering
on the chimney light.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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" A blow from an unthought-of
quarter, one of those
terrible
accidents which peculiarly mark the
hand of Omnipotence, overset your career, and laid all your fancied
honours in the dust.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"In heaven's name where is Marya
Ivanofna?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith
thought renews her--
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised to abuse her--
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Let the
superstitious
wife
Near the child's heart lay a knife:
Point be up, and haft be down
(While she gossips in the town);
This, 'mongst other mystic charms,
Keeps the sleeping child from harms.
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Robert Herrick |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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To mortal combat I defy you both
Singly; or, if you will, I'm nothing loth
With two
together
to contend; choose here
From out the heap what weapon shall appear
Most fit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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' too,
And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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Troubador Verse |
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Yet the sibyl with
Latinate
face still sleeps
Under the arch of Constantine
- And the austere portico nothing disturbs.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Experience, this; by man's
oppression
curst,
They seek the second not to lose the first.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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of receipt of the work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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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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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das ist noch lange nicht voruber,
Ich kenn es wohl, so klingt das ganze Buch;
Ich habe manche Zeit damit verloren,
Denn ein vollkommner Widerspruch
Bleibt gleich
geheimnisvoll
fur Kluge wie fur Toren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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