'
No things of air these antics were,
That
frolicked
with such glee:
To men whose lives were held in gyves,
And whose feet might not go free,
Ah!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Und das mit Recht; denn alles, was entsteht,
Ist wert, dass es
zugrunde
geht;
Drum besser war's, dass nichts entstunde.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My soul burns with the
quenchless
fire
That lit my lover's funeral pyre:
Alas!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
He has
certainly
found a Snark!
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Lewis Carroll |
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But him Orestes, aflame with
passionate
desire for his stolen
bride, and driven by the furies of crime, catches unguarded and murders
at his ancestral altars.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fear seized his slacken'd limbs and beating heart,
As thus he
communed
with his soul apart;
"Ah me!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"I changed the cruel prayer I made,
And bowed my
meekened
face, and prayed
That God would do His will; and thus
He did it, nurse!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A
perfumed
thought--no more I ask, for the sake of all dead soldiers.
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Whitman |
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Cicero says, the commonwealth and
the interests of literature
suffered
greatly by his untimely end.
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Tacitus |
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To that dome on
marvellous
pilasters,
To that tent roofed o'er with colored bars,
That blue garden full of stars like lilies,
And of lilies beautiful as stars.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XII
Marphisa piercing her first victim's breast,
(Two yards beyond his back the lance did pass)
In briefer time than 'tis by me exprest,
Broke with her sword four helms which flew like glass;
No less did
Bradamant
upon the rest;
But them her spear reduced to other pass.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The erring painter made Love blind,--
Highest Love who shines on all;
Him, radiant, sharpest-sighted god,
None can bewilder;
Whose eyes pierce
The universe,
Path-finder, road-builder,
Mediator, royal giver;
Rightly seeing, rightly seen,
Of joyful and
transparent
mien.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
"But are you a saint
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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though ye have gone,
Through paths of wickedness and woe,
After the
Babylonian
harlot;
And, though your sins be red as scarlet,
They shall be white as snow!
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William Wordsworth |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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Two children lovelier than Love, adown the lea are singing,
As they gambol, lilygarlands ever stringing:
Both in
blosmwhite
silk are frocked:
Like, unlike, they roam together
Under a summervault of golden weather;
Like, unlike, they sing together
Side by side,
Mid May's darling goldenlocked,
Summer's tanling diamondeyed.
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Tennyson |
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Er hebt sich mit Gewalt,
Das ist nicht eines Hundes
Gestalt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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PHERES, _his father,
formerly
King but now in retirement_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ivi cosi una cornice lega
dintorno
il poggio, come la primaia;
se non che l'arco suo piu tosto piega.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Out in the evening roam,
Out from thy room thou know'st in every part,
And far in the dim
distance
leave thy home,
Whosoever thou art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to
rehearse?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Now three times turn'd in prospect of the goal,
The panting chief to Pallas lifts his soul:
"Assist, O
goddess!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Woe-full
Catullus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[1]
I started--seeming to espy 5
The home and sheltered bed,
The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by
My Father's house, in wet or dry
My sister Emmeline and I
Together
visited.
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William Wordsworth |
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To use the
language
of common speech, but to employ always the _exact_
word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.
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Imagists |
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More
beautiful
than whom Alcaeus wooed,
The Lesbian woman of immortal song!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Un soir fait de rose et de bleu mystique,
Nous
echangerons
un eclair unique,
Comme un long sanglot, tout charge d'adieux;
Et plus tard un Ange, entr'ouvrant les portes,
Viendra ranimer, fidele et joyeux,
Les miroirs ternis et les flammes mortes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But the tone
of the letter, melancholy and reflective, is that of the letters to
Goodyere written at Mitcham, and the general theme of the letter, a
comparison of the
different
Churches, is that of other letters of
the same period.
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John Donne |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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O wiselier then, from feeble
yearnings
freed,
_While_, and _on whom_, thou may'st--shine on!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And
whatever
man praises her,
Speaks well of her, he tells no lie!
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah, thou
mistrustful
angel, thou!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Conceytes
wronge,
What harm they doon, for now live I to longe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Myself will seek
My own
apartment
at the palace-top,
And there will lay me down on my sad couch,
For such it hath been, and with tears of mine
Ceaseless bedew'd, e'er since Ulysses went 740
To that bad city, never to be named.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They steered by stars the elder shipmen knew,
And laid their courses where the currents draw
Of ancient wisdom
channelled
deep in law.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thee, Furius, and Fabricius, thee,
Rough Curius too, with untrimm'd beard,
Your sires'
transmitted
poverty
To conquest rear'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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renewed every morning, and that in
such incredible profusion that the tree appears
silvered
over with
them, and the ground beneath covered with the fallen flowers.
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William Wordsworth |
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His
wife had
recently
died, he was ill himself, his life seemed to others
broken up.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Bot on I wolde yow pray,
displeses
yow neuer;
2440 Syn 3e be lorde of ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Which, oh, which
Your
dreadful
fault?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Hold ice up to the sun,
And wax before the fire;
Nor triumph oer the reign
Which they so soon resign;
In this world's ways they gain,
Insurance
safe as thine.
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John Clare |
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_First
published
in_ 1869.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Stricken
with terror, Sigismund recoiled
Into the open trap.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Asking what happened, scrambling to pull my
whiskers
88 who could glare or scold them just then?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If so I must my destiny fulfil,
And Love to close these weeping eyes be doom'd
By Heaven's
mysterious
will,
Oh!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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_heare ill of_ (it): To be
censured
for.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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to telle the daie, 730
The daie whyche scal astounde the herers rede,
Makeynge
oure foemennes envyynge hartes to blede,
Ybereynge thro the worlde oure rennomde name for aie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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in whom I fix my every hope,
Who canst and will'st assist me in great need,
Forsake me not in this my worst extreme,
Regard not me but Him who made me thus;
Let his high image stamp'd on my poor worth
Towards one so low and lost thy pity move:
Medusa spells have made me as a rock
Distilling
a vain flood;
Virgin!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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As less the olden glow abides,
And less the
chillier
heart aspires,
With drift-wood beached in past spring-tides
We light our sullen fires.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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She sentimentalized
over the lovers, and even wept over them; each visit supplied the
household with
conversation
for a week.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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s post as
Reminder
was also a Chancellery post.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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E come quei che con lena affannata,
uscito fuor del pelago a la riva,
si volge a l'acqua
perigliosa
e guata,
cosi l'animo mio, ch'ancor fuggiva,
si volse a retro a rimirar lo passo
che non lascio gia mai persona viva.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Distracted
Luvah
Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror
Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers
Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down
From heaven of joy into this Deep.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The whole
Universe
one system of Society, v.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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A life of dance and pleasure she has known--
A woman always; in her
jewelled
crown
It is the pearl she loves--not cutting gems,
For these can wound, and mark men's diadems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And now the
dreadful
day was at hand; the rites were being ordered for
me, the salted corn, and the chaplets to wreathe my temples.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought
a Voice within the Tavern cried,
"When all the Temple is prepared within,
"Why nods the drowsy Worshiper outside?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They listend to the Elemental Harps & Sphery Song
They view'd the dancing Hours, quick
sporting
thro' the sky
With winged radiance scattering joys thro the ever changing light
[The shades of]But Luvah & Vala standing in the bloody sky
On high remaind alone forsaken in fierce jealousy
They stood above the heavens forsaken desolate suspended in blood
Descend they could not.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"We shall not quarrel for a year or two;
By
courtesy
of England, he may do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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XLVII
The
courtyard
full of serfs he sees,
And from the country all around
Had come both friends and enemies--
Funeral amateurs abound!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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[Adnotatio 1: Extat epigramma siue _uersus domini
Beneuenuti
de
Campexanis de Vicencia de resurrectione Catulli poetae Veronensis_
Ad patriam uenio longis de finibus exul,
causa mei reditus compatriota fuit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening, grandmother appeared at
Versailles
at the Queen's
gaming-table.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking
of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His sly, polite, insinuating style
Could please at Court, and make
Augustus
smile:
An artful manager, that crept between
His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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with cruell spies
Does seeke to perce:
repining
courage yields 150
No foote to foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The/
Poetical
Works/ of/ Lord Byron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
By what star
Did I steer
homeward?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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J'ecoute en
fremissant
chaque buche qui tombe;
L'echafaud qu'on batit n'a pas d'echo plus sourd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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5 is
largely devoted to the
description
of one, and _Tale Tub_ 5.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the poem entitled _Pont Du
Carrousel_, written in Paris a few years later, Rilke has
visioned
the
blind beggar aloof amid the fluctuating crowds of the metropolis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The two
exceptions
must have suffered from sunstroke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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He went into direful thickets,
And
ultimately
he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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CCXVI
Through all the field dismount the Frankish men,
Five-score
thousand
and more, they arm themselves;
The gear they have enhances much their strength,
Their horses swift, their arms are fashioned well;
Mounted they are, and fight with great science.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless
bear names that the mosses mar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
, _ship whose stem is
provided
with iron rings_
(cramp-irons), especially of sea-going ships (cf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
A
[Illustration]
A was an ape,
Who stole some white tape,
And tied up his toes
In four
beautiful
bows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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And, to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pass his quarter or offend the stream
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At
heaviest
answer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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perspicimus
caelum; cur non et munera caeli?
| 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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"
Herman
trembled
like a leaf as the appointed hour drew near.
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Death is, then, to us
Much less--if there can be a less than that
Which is itself a nothing: for there comes
Hard upon death a
scattering
more great
Of the throng of matter, and no man wakes up
On whom once falls the icy pause of life.
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if thou know'st not to rise;
Sit up, thou tortured
sluggard!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Are there
nurseries
in _that_ house, too?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already
distracted
at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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nous secouerons toute la nuit les sistres
La voix ligure etait-ce donc un talisman
Et si tu n'es pas de droite tu es sinistre
Comme une tache grise ou le pressentiment
Puisque l'absolu choit la chute est une preuve
Qui double devient triple avant d'avoir ete
Nous avouerons que les grossesses nous emeuvent
Les ventres pourront seuls nier l'aseite
Vois les vases sont pleins d'humides fleurs morales
Va-t'en mais denude puisque tout est a nous
Ouis du choeur des vents les cadences plagales
Et prends l'arc pour tuer l'unicorne ou le gnou
L'ombre equivoque et tendre est le deuil de ta chair
Et sombre elle est humaine et puis la notre aussi
Va-t'en le crepuscule a des lueurs legeres
Et puis aucun de nous ne croirait tes recits
Il brillait et
attirait
comme la pantaure
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
Et les femmes la nuit feignant d'etre des taures
L'eussent aime comme on l'aima puisqu'en effet
Il etait pale il etait beau comme un roi ladre
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Au lieu du roseau triste et du funebre faix
Que n'alla-t-il vivre a la cour du roi D'Edesse
Maigre et magique il eut scrute le firmament
Pale et magique il eut aime des poetesses
Juste et magique il eut epargne les demons
Va-t'en errer credule et roux avec ton ombre
Soit!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And next to him malicious Envie rode,
Upon a
ravenous
wolfe, and still did chaw
Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode,
That all the poison ran about his chaw; 265
But inwardly he chawed his owne maw
At neighbours wealth, that made him ever sad;
For death it was when any good he saw,
And wept, that cause of weeping none he had,
But when he heard of harme, he wexed wondrous glad.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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On him, who squatted down, they stuck their fangs,
And having rent him
piecemeal
bore away
The tortur'd limbs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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There, O my Friend, beneath the chestnut bough,
Gazing on thee immerged in modern strife,
I framed a prayer of fervency -- that thou,
In soul and stature larger than thy kind,
Still more to this strong Form might'st liken thee,
Till thy whole Self in every fibre find
The
tranquil
lordship of thy chestnut tree.
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