I that was man,
With a man's heart, am now all king again,
Remembering
that the seed I come of, though
A hundred kings have sown it and resown it,
Has neither trembled nor shrunk backward yet
Because of the hard business of a king.
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Yeats |
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' 1190
What mighte or may the sely larke seye,
Whan that the
sperhauk
hath it in his foot?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad,
Who of some
frequent
fever waits the blow,
E'en so I felt--for how could I foreknow
Such near end of the half-joys I have had?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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II
KING OLAF'S RETURN
And King Olaf heard the cry,
Saw the red light in the sky,
Laid his hand upon his sword,
As he leaned upon the railing,
And his ships went sailing, sailing
Northward
into Drontheim fiord.
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Longfellow |
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of receipt of the work.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And in things unknown to a man, not
to give his opinion, lest by the
affectation
of knowing too much he lose
the credit he hath, by speaking or knowing the wrong way what he utters.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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One way all travel; the dark urn
Shakes each man's lot, that soon or late
Will force him,
hopeless
of return,
On board the exile-ship of Fate.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
He is old, and kind, and deaf, and blind,
And very, very pleased with his
charming
moat
And the swans which float.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'Tis ourselves asked for this transformation, and, as
Aeschylus has it, "These are no
borrowed
feathers, but truly our
own.
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Aristophanes |
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10
Then all was silent, till there smote my ear
A
movement
in the stream that checked my breath:
Was it the slow plash of a wading deer?
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James Russell Lowell |
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See some strange comfort every state attend,
And pride
bestowed
on all, a common friend;
See some fit passion every age supply,
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Such to our wish the warrior soon restore,
As when contending on the Lesbian shore
His prowess Philomelidies confess'd,
And loud-acclaiming Greeks the victor bless'd;
Then soon the invaders of his bed and throne
Their love
presumptuous
shall with life atone.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ma
perciocche
giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The wretch should have died;
But age robbed me of my noble pride;
And this blade my hand can
scarcely
bear,
I place in yours to punish and repair.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Imagists |
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Tydeus already with his onset-cry
Storms at the gate called Proetides; but him
The seer
Amphiaraus
holds at halt,
Nor wills that he should cross Ismenus' ford,
Until the sacrifices promise fair.
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Aeschylus |
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]
Mak haste an' turn King David owre,
And lilt wi' holy clangor;
O' double verse come gie us four,
An' skirl up the Bangor:
This day the kirk kicks up a stoure;
Nae mair the knaves shall wrang her,
For Heresy is in her pow'r,
And
gloriously
she'll whang her
Wi' pith this day.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I have no objection to prefer
prodigality
to avarice, in some few
instances; but I appeal to your observation, if you have not met, and
often met, with the same disingenuousness, the same hollow-hearted
insincerity, and disintegritive depravity of principle, in the
hackneyed victims of profusion, as in the unfeeling children of
parsimony.
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Robert Burns |
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Is there a single final
farewell?
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Whitman |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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If you
had hope in appeal to
Aetolian
arms, abandon it; though each man's hope
is his own, you discern how narrow a path it is.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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1202)
Born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in the service of the Count of Turenne, he
travelled
widely in France, Spain, and Hungary.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Humphreys
1911
(Miscellaneous aphorisms,
followed
by The Soul of Man.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Cosi parlar
conviensi
al vostro ingegno,
pero che solo da sensato apprende
cio che fa poscia d'intelletto degno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The End
* * * * * * * *
VOLUME II BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS
BALLADS
THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall
meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand
presently
at God's great Judgment
Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Forests at the bottom of the sea--the branches and leaves,
Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds--the thick tangle, the
openings, and the pink turf,
Different colours, pale grey and green, purple, white, and gold--the play
of light through the water,
Dumb swimmers there among the rocks--coral, gluten, grass, rushes--and the
aliment of the swimmers,
Sluggish existences grazing there, suspended, or slowly crawling close to
the bottom:
The sperm-whale at the surface, blowing air and spray, or
disporting
with
his flukes,
The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy
sea-leopard, and the sting-ray.
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Whitman |
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Bridges in
this
connexion)
from an admirer of his beautiful poetry.
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John Donne |
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If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's
dazzling
sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of Blasphemy scattered through the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Theseus
Oenone is dead: and you wish to die,
Phaedra?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Assai
leggeramente
quel salimmo;
e volti a destra su per la sua scheggia,
da quelle cerchie etterne ci partimmo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
And at night by the light of the Mulberry moon
They danced to the Flute of the Blue Baboon,
On the broad green leaves of the
Crumpetty
Tree,
And all were as happy as happy could be,
With the Quangle Wangle Quee.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or
fricassee
wad make her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Go, on the Neva's bank appear,
My very latest
composition!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And yet I have seen things,
And heard things, that were strangely meaning this,--
Telling me strangely that life can be all
One power undisturbed, one perfect honour,--
Waters at noonday
sounding
among hills,
Or moonlight lost among vast curds of cloud;--
But never knew I it is only Love
Can rule the noise of life to heavenly quiet.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Tennyson |
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Pale as the silver cross of Savoy
When the hand that bears the flag is brave,
And not a breath is stirring, save
What is blown
Over the war-trump's lip of brass,
Ere
Garibaldi
forces the pass!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I could not but obey my dream, and toil
To break the nations and to sift them fine,
Pounding them with my warfare into dust,
And
searching
with my many iron hands
Through their destruction as through crumbs of marl,
Until my palms should know the jewel-stone
Betwixt them, the Woman who is Beauty,--
Nature so long hath like a miser kept
Buried away from me in this heap of Jews!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That
confirms
it home.
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Shakespeare |
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, three of the four rivers that watered
Eden, the
Hiddekel
being omitted.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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520
What savage manners, what hardened hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly
softened?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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" cried,
"Oh, my own
brother!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It is
needless
for me to advise you to have
a reverend care of your health.
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Robert Forst |
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e sterres {and}
attempre?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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And som men seyn, he was of tunge large;
And heir he was of
Calidoine
and Arge.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--Three crowns rejoined the man;
Then thou'rt a silly ass, said
mistress
Nan;
To-day, by my address, I've gained a crown,
And sold the same for twenty shillings down:
My bargain luckily the first was made;
The buyer, (who of flaws is much afraid)
Examines now if ev'ry part is tight;
He's in the tub to see if all be right.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Yonder,
lightening
other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,
But here in London streets I ken
No such helpmates, only men;
And these are not in plight to bear,
If they would, another's care.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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nam sapiens
quicumque
fuit uerumque fidemque
qui coluit, comitem se tibi, Censor, agat.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For its frequent use in this sense in Shakespeare see Schmidt
and note on
_Macbeth_
3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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DIE HEXE (tanzend):
Sinn und
Verstand
verlier ich schier,
Seh ich den Junker Satan wieder hier!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What, I, who lurk about
In dismal suburbs and
unwholesome
lanes
I, who am housed worse than the galley slave;
I, who am fed worse than the kennelled hound;
I, who am clothed in rags,--Beltran Cruzado,--
Not poor!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Its Sybillic
splendor
is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night--
See!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Seal'd lips have blessings sure to come:
Who drags Eleusis' rite to day,
That man shall never share my home,
Or join my voyage: roofs give way
And boats are wreck'd: true men and thieves
Neglected
Justice oft confounds:
Though Vengeance halt, she seldom leaves
The wretch whose flying steps she hounds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I wish there to be in my house:
O lion,
miserable
image
Don't be fearful and lascivious
There's another cony I remember
With his four dromedaries
Sweet days, the mice of time,
I carry treasure in my mouth,
Look at this pestilential tribe
Work leads us to riches.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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It is to you I owe the cruel gift,
Leda, my mother, and the Swan, my sire,
To you the beauty and to you the bale;
For never woman born of man and maid
Had wrought such havoc on the earth as I,
Or troubled heaven with a sea of flame
That climbed to touch the silent whirling stars
And blotted out their
brightness
ere the dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Alive was he still,
still
wielding
his wits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Very beautiful instances of this are the sunset and
sunrise in Book I, when the departure of the sun-god and his return to
earth are so
described
that the pictures we see are of an evening and
morning sky, an angry sunset, and a grey and misty dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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He painted, as they allege, the popes and
cardinals in the
gloomiest
colouring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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To Fancy's eye--
Prompt her affections to personify--
It is the fresh and frolic hour, arrayed
In guise of Andalusian dancing maid,
Appealing
by a crevice fine and rare,
As of a door oped in "th' incorporal air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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NATURE IN LEASTS
As sings the pine-tree in the wind,
So sings in the wind a sprig of the pine;
Her strength and soul has
laughing
France
Shed in each drop of wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
XII
The
doubtfull
Damzell dare not yet commit 100
Her single person to their barbarous truth;?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Hence comes
the epidemical infection; for how can they escape the
contagion
of the
writings, whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from
reading?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Not first time this
it was
destined
to do a daring task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But from these crazing
thoughts
my brain, escape!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_"
His
regiment
comes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The Originatress comes,
The land of Paradise--land of the Caucasus--the nest of birth,
The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,
Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,
Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and
glittering
eyes,
The race of Brahma comes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
As a boxer, as a runner, past
compare!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
645),
Spenser speaks of the ignorance and blind devotion of the Irish Papists in
the
benighted
country places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
King
To win a war, then duel
immediately!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Naught else was talked of but her beauteous face,
And chastity that adds the highest grace;
From ev'ry quarter numbers flocked to see
This belle,
regarded
as from errors free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
]
[Sidenote F: Come again to my abode, and abide there for the
remainder
of
the festival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
With
tranquil
air Oneguine leads
Tattiana to a corner, bids
Her on a shaky bench sit down;
His head sinks slowly, rests upon
Her shoulder--Olga swiftly came--
And Lenski followed--a light broke--
His fist Oneguine fiercely shook
And gazed around with eyes of flame;
The unbidden guests he roughly chides--
Tattiana motionless abides.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The moving Moon went up the sky,
And no where did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside--
Her beams
bemocked
the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt alway
A still and awful red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
unequal is the strife between
A young man and an old with mis'ry worn;
But hunger, always
counsellor
of ill,
Me moves to fight, that many a bruise received,
I may be foil'd at last.
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how hast thou dealt
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War was now raging between the States of the
Venetian
League and Milan,
united with Genoa, when a new actor was brought upon the scene.
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Petrarch |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Here's where I sat at a table surrounded by good-natured Germans;
Over on that side the girl, finding a seat for herself
Next to her mother where, frequently shifting her bench, she arranged
Nicely for me to perceive profile and curve of her neck;
Speaks just a little more loudly than women in Rome are accustomed;
Significant glance as she pours--misses the glass with the wine
So that it spills on the table, and she with a delicate finger
Over its surface can draw circles in damp arabesque:
Her name
entwining
in mine, while my eyes most eagerly follow
All that her fingertip writes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Northumbria
threw thee off, she will not have thee,
Thou hast misused her: and, O crowning crime!
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Tennyson |
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Who but the women can deliver us
From this
continual
siege of the wolves' hunger?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We hold our Saxon
woodcock
in the springe,
But he begins to flutter.
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Tennyson |
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--"'Tis a
stranger
sues,
A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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For sev'n long months the nymph her visits paid;
Her inexperience
doubtless
wanted aid.
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La Fontaine |
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In the
meantime
her spirit sinks,
Her weary eyes are filled with tears--
A horse's hoofs she hears--She shrinks!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Meredith - Poems |
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My heart replied: It's never enough
We'll never have had enough of sadness:
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past pain dearer to us, and
sweeter?
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And
shipwrecked
there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Agitators
were sent all over Gaul to stir up war.
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Tacitus |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Among these was a Miss
Margaret
Leland who lived with her mother,
the widow of the late Henry Leland, ship-broker, on the eastern side
of St.
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Yeats |
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