XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A French translator of
the poem speaks in his introduction as follows: "This Faust, conceived by
him in his youth,
completed
in ripe age, the idea of which he carried with
him through all the commotions of his life, as Camoens bore his poem with
him through the waves, this Faust contains him entire.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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This was partly done with
reference
to the character of
Oswald, and his persevering endeavour to lead the man he disliked into
so heinous a crime; but still more to preserve in my distinct
remembrance, what I had observed of transitions in character, and the
reflections I had been led to make, during the time I was a witness of
the changes through which the French Revolution passed.
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William Wordsworth |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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He next
delivered
a pompous and elaborate speech in the senate, 37
where he was loaded with far-fetched compliments by the members.
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Tacitus |
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Leonor
But Madame, how far your
thoughts
leap apace
From a duel which perhaps may not take place.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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"You must work the sum to prove it," clanked the
careless
tonga-bar.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Peter, on the
above-mentioned 28th of September, dealing with the natives, Cartier
says: "We inquired of them by signs if this was the route to Hochelaga
[Montreal]; and they answered that it was, and that there were yet
three days'
journeys
to go there.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to discry the crafty cunning traine,
By which deceipt doth maske in visour faire,
And cast her colours dyed deepe in graine,
To seeme like Truth, whose shape she well can faine, 5
And fitting gestures to her purpose frame;
The
guiltlesse
man with guile to entertaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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What cant assumes, what
hypocrites
will dare,
Speaks home to truth and shows it what they are.
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John Clare |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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Yeats |
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*9
LAND OF THE FREE By
Gertrude
Cornwell Hopkins
There is a man within a grimy window-square; —
I do not know how long it is he has been there
Three years of working-days I've passed on trains high in the air, And always he was there.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There I beheld the emblem of a mind 70
That feeds upon infinity, that broods
Over the dark abyss, [B] intent to hear
Its voices issuing forth to silent light
In one continuous stream; a mind sustained
By recognitions of transcendent power, 75
In sense
conducting
to ideal form,
In soul of more than mortal privilege.
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William Wordsworth |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its freshest novelty,
Cull, ah cull your
youthful
bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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La Fontaine |
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When my off'ring next I make,
Be thy hand the
hallowed
cake,
And thy breast the altar whence
Love may smell the frankincense.
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Robert Herrick |
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A poem was
frequently
kept back, from some doubt as to its worth,
or from a wish to alter and amend it.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see
injustice
done.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some
strangle
with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
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Wilde - Poems |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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John Donne |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This
Cleonymus
is a riddle worth propounding among guests.
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Aristophanes |
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34, only 19 comprise the
standard
text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2 sizeable columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special-blest,
By new
unfolding
his imprison'd pride.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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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.
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Sidney Lanier |
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CL
Oliver feels death's anguish on him now;
And in his head his two eyes swimming round;
Nothing he sees; he hears not any sound;
Dismounting then, he kneels upon the ground,
Proclaims his sins both firmly and aloud,
Clasps his two hands,
heavenwards
holds them out,
Prays God himself in Paradise to allow;
Blessings on Charles, and on Douce France he vows,
And his comrade, Rollanz, to whom he's bound.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Asphodel scents did Gilgal's breezes bring--
Through nuptial shadows, questionless, full fast
The angels sped, for momently there passed
A
something
blue which seemed to be a wing.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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[3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Project of 20% of the
net profits you derive calculated using the method you
already use to
calculate
your applicable taxes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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That wine is the
suddenest
wine man ever tasted.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"O eyes, no eyes, but
fountains
fraught with tears"--
There's a conceit!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes,
masculine
trades,
sights and sounds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A true land of Cockaigne, where all is beautiful, rich, tranquil, and
honest; where luxury is pleased to mirror itself in order; where life is
opulent, and sweet to breathe; from whence disorder, turbulence, and the
unforeseen are excluded; where happiness is married to silence; where
even the food is poetic, rich and
exciting
at the same time; where all
things, my beloved, are like you.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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From salty spray
The brown tint of his glowing cheek still rough;
Fruit quickly ripe,
'Neath foreign suns in
scorching
airs and heat.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thus she
lamented
day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Camilla
with her
Volscian
array meets him face to face in the gateway; the
princess leaps from her horse, and all her squadron at her example slide
from horseback to the ground.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with chattering teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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None the less I cannot really believe that, if we make
patient use of our available knowledge, the
_Alcestis_
presents any
startling enigma.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The King of Aragon is James I, cousin of Count Raymond
Berenger
IV.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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CLI
Count Rollant is a noble and brave soldier,
Gualter del Hum's a right good chevalier,
That
Archbishop
hath shewn good prowess there;
None of them falls behind the other pair;
Through the great press, pagans they strike again.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Achilles
spake, to whom I thus replied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Yet through my court the noise of revel rings,
And waste the wise
frugality
of kings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Superstition
has indeed
played its part among them; but it has never, as in Europe, been
perpetually dominant.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"The rest of my speech" (he
explained
to his men)
"You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Now lat hir wende un-to hir owne place,
And torne we to Troilus a-yein,
That gan ful lightly of the lettre passe 220
That
Deiphebus
hadde in the gardin seyn.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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Ad hunc uersum
respexit
Plinius H.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Myrriades
of neders pre upponne thie spryte!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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)
During the four succeeding years he made numerous
excursions
amid
the beautiful countries which from the basin of the Euxine--and
amongst these the Crimea and the Caucasus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
constellation
Orion was named from a giant hunter who was
beloved by Aurora and slain by Diana.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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By the eighth
milestone
on the road to nowhere
He drops his sack, and lights once more the pipe
There often lighted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Noble
Hesperian
dragon, I call you courageous and forthright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In other cases, as in the
few poems of
shipwreck
or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid imagination by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XLIV
Triumphs--their own or those of friends--
Hopes, frolics, dreams and sentiment
Their harmless
conversation
blends
With scandal's trivial ornament.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Here the visiter bowed and withdrew--in what manner could not precisely
be ascertained--but in a well-concerted effort to discharge a bottle
at "the villain," the slender chain was severed that
depended
from the
ceiling, and the metaphysician prostrated by the downfall of the lamp.
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Poe - 5 |
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Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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These men err not by chance, but
knowingly and willingly; they are like men that affect a fashion by
themselves; have some
singularity
in a ruff cloak, or hat-band; or their
beards specially cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark upon
themselves.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e
emperour
with his erles bolde,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,
Nor
murdering
hate, can enter in.
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Emerson - Poems |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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John Donne |
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_Po, ben puo' tu
portartene
la scorza.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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That lends
corruption
lighter wings to fly!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Quanti si tegnon or la su gran regi
che qui staranno come porci in brago,
di se
lasciando
orribili dispregi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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860
What a fearful inheritance for my poor
children!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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