at ne han non endes {and} 4744
bytidynges
necessaryes
yif ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Vane, young in yeares, but in sage
counsell
old,
Then whome a better Senatour nere held
The helme of Rome, when gownes not armes repelld
The feirce Epeirot & the African bold,
Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelld,
Then to advise how warr may best, upheld,
Move by her two maine nerves, Iron & Gold
In all her equipage: besides to know
Both spirituall powre & civill, what each meanes 10
What severs each thou hast learnt, which few have don
The bounds of either sword to thee wee ow.
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Milton |
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Where is the shade, within whose sweet recess
My wearied spirit still forgot its sighs,
And all my
thoughts
their constant record found?
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Petrarch |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a
whirlwind
I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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active links or
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_l_) O sed Madano _Ge(l)lius_ potius
uisum est:
_Lelius_
GCDB Laurentiani || _solere_ Parthenius:
_flere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"Alastor" was
composed
on his return.
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Shelley |
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Is it word from Ninus or Arbela,
Babylon the great, or
Northern
Imbros?
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Sappho |
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So
slumbered
the stout-heart.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And now the
trumpets
blare; the watchword for war passes along.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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This Troilus, with-outen reed or lore,
As man that hath his Ioyes eek forlore,
Was
waytinge
on his lady ever-more
As she that was the soothfast crop and more 25
Of al his lust, or Ioyes here-tofore.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ou vergier ot arbres domesches,
Qui
chargoient
et coins et pesches,
Chataignes, nois, pommes et poires,
Nefles, prunes blanches et noires,
<<
Notes, aleys, and bolas,
That for to seen it was solas;
With many high lorer and pyn
Was renged clene al that gardyn; 1380
With cipres, and with oliveres,
Of which that nigh no plente here is.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I am one, my Liege,
Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World
Hath so incens'd, that I am
recklesse
what I doe,
To spight the World
1.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The saints and sages in history--but you
yourself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They
strewed flowers alike on the graves of the
Confederate
and of the
National soldiers.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
Christian
overcomes the devil by means of the whole armor of
God (shield of faith, helmet of salvation, sword of the Spirit, etc.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A raft was formed to cross the surging sea;
Herself
supplied
the stores and rich array,
And gave the gales to waft me on my way,
In seventeen days appear'd your pleasing coast,
And woody mountains half in vapours lost.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In
changing
moon and tidal wave
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
As here we sometimes in the looks may see
Th'
affection
mark'd, when that its sway hath ta'en
The spirit wholly; thus the hallow'd light,
To whom I turn'd, flashing, bewray'd its will
To talk yet further with me, and began:
"On this fifth lodgment of the tree, whose life
Is from its top, whose fruit is ever fair
And leaf unwith'ring, blessed spirits abide,
That were below, ere they arriv'd in heav'n,
So mighty in renown, as every muse
Might grace her triumph with them.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What
martyrdom
endurest thou!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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illic est,
cuicumque
rapax Mors uenit amanti,
et gerit insigni myrtea serta coma.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Saveliitch, though keeping up to me
tolerably
well, did not give over
his lamentable supplications.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The first of these,
originally
published
in 1846, and brought out in an enlarged form in 1863,
is exclusively devoted to nonsense-verses of one type.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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His sister may have helped him, and he may possibly have gone mad
afterwards; but these painful issues are kept
determinedly
in the shade.
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Euripides - Electra |
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We spur, we reine the starres, and in their race
They're
diversly
content t'obey our pace.
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John Donne |
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'_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_' _was published anonymously under the
signature
of C.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Flesh-and-blood is weak and frail,
Susceptible
to nervous shock;
While the True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thou shalt prove
How salt the savour is of other's bread,
How hard the passage to descend and climb
By other's stairs, But that shall gall thee most
Will be the
worthless
and vile company,
With whom thou must be thrown into these straits.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Struggling
in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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blake-poems |
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faces
Aureas
quatiunt
comas:
prodeas noua nupta.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Into the lonely house she went,
Wherein a space
Oneguine
spent.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Then I left my friend and
approached
the blind man and greeted him.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Quickly, as soon as I've seen,
She interlaces the circles, reducing them all to ornatest
Patterns--but still the sweet IV stood as
engraved
in my eye.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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There will the river
whispering
runne 5
Warm'd by thy eyes, more then the Sunne.
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John Donne |
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She had an air at once
imperious
and sordid, and her eyes, though
heavy, held a certain power of fascination.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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293)
The
following
extract from a letter of Mr.
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William Wordsworth |
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elfe now, a
_Mathematicall_
broker.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight,
The moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease;
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I to my leader's side adher'd, mine eyes
With fixt and
motionless
observance bent
On their unkindly visage.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Illustrious the pale
reflection
on the new
moon in the western sky!
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Whitman |
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He seems not to know that simplicity was as rare and
as needful a beauty in prose as in verse; he covets the pauses of
Sterne and the point and
antithesis
of Junius, like one who believes
that to write prose well he must be ever lively, ever pointed, and
ever smart.
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Robert Forst |
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All through the night we knelt and prayed,
Mad
mourners
of a corse!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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On shore the
truthless
monarch arms his bands,
And for the fleet's approach impatient stands;
That, soon as anchor'd in the port they rode
Brave GAMA'S decks might reek with Lusian blood:
Thus weening to revenge Mozambique's fate,
And give full surfeit to the Moorish hate;
And now their bowsprits bending to the bay
The joyful crew the pond'rous anchors weigh,
Their shouts the while resounding.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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glory of the people
Smothered
in ashes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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That little, pretty,
bleeding
part, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Barrett was a man of
intellect
and culture, and
therefore able to direct his daughter's education, but be that so or
not, he obtained for her the tutorial assistance of the well-known Greek
scholar Hugh Stuart Boyd .
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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Till of a sudden,
Maybe killed, unknown to her mate,
One forenoon the she-bird
crouched
not on the nest,
Nor returned that afternoon, nor the next,
Nor ever appeared again.
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Whitman |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I
am indebted for the precise
reference
to Dr.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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And last, a matron now, of sober mien,
Yet radiant still and with no earthly sheen,
Whom as a faery child my childhood woo'd
Even in my dawn of thought--Philosophy;
Though then unconscious of herself, pardie,
She bore no other name than Poesy;
And, like a gift from heaven, in lifeful glee,
That had but newly left a mother's knee,
Prattled and play'd with bird and flower, and stone,
As if with elfin
playfellows
well known,
And life reveal'd to innocence alone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For I shall sing thy grotto ilex-crowned,
Whence fall thy waters of the
babbling
sound.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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How is earth good to look on, woods and fields
The seasons' garden, and the
courageous
hills,
All this green raft of earth moored in the seas?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--Do pens but slily further her
advance?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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At nine o'clock
Strickland
wanted to go to bed, and I was tired too.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Queen Leonora, treated
with indifference by her daughter and son-in-law,
resolved
on the murder
of the latter, but the plot was discovered, and she was sent prisoner to
Castile.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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1070
Eager for the help I expect from your care,
For this greater need I
retained
my prayer.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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His food
allowance
was ten thousand cash;
Three times a day the Emperor came to his house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the
clusters
of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Just when the sufferer begins to burn,
Then it is free to him; and from an urn,
Still fed by melting ice, he takes a draught--
Young Semele such
richness
never quaft
In her maternal longing.
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Keats |
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But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of
a deepening interest in the real issues of life
distracted
men's
attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Spenser
substitutes silver for horn, mirrors being
overlaid
with silver in his
time.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thy brother, drowned in daily woe,
Is
thankful
when thou sleepest;
For if I laugh, however low,
When thou'rt awake, thou weepest!
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Lewis Carroll |
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and high disdaine,
And
knitting
all his force got one hand free,
Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine, 170
That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Lo ciel seguente, c'ha tante vedute,
quell' esser parte per diverse essenze,
da lui
distratte
e da lui contenute.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What time bestows and claims (the fleeting breath
Of Fame) is but, at best, a second death--
A death that none of mortal race can shun,
That wastes the brood of time, and
triumphs
o'er the sun.
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Petrarch |
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We know now that Pope
was mistaken, but there was beyond question some reason at the time for
his
thinking
as he did, and it is to the bitterness which this incident
caused in his mind that we owe the famous satiric portrait of Addison as
Atticus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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A hundred
thousand
wounds he had in strife
Received, yet none could ever take his life.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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|| _aureis_ GOVen: _aureis_ RBC
4 _liquantur_ OD || _catule_ OLa1
5 _ager_ (_acer_ BLa) _ruber
estuore_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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<>, cantava, <
che '
marinari
in mezzo mar dismago;
tanto son di piacere a sentir piena!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He had the art
to join the most winning
affability
with all the manly dignity of the
sovereign.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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þā þæt monige gewearð, þæt hine
sēo
brimwylf
ābroten hæfde, _many believed that the sea-wolf_ (Grendel's
mother) _had killed him_, 1600; hī hyne .
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Beowulf |
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One can see the same in households of slaves,
where each obeys his own
interest
and the common welfare counts for
nothing.
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Tacitus |
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Your
spurs are in a
shameful
state.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_The
consequence
of all, the_ absolute submission
_to the end_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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As
sentinel
you guard the gate
'Twixt life and death, and unto death
Speed the brave soul whose failing breath
Shudders not at the grip of Fate,
But answers, gallant to the end,
"Christ is the Word--and I his friend.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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This bodiless
creation
ecstasy
Is very cunning in.
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Shakespeare |
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Sin leads the way, but as it goes, it feels
The
following
plague still treading on his heels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Accepted almost
on his first
appearance
as one of the leading poets of the day, he
rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age.
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Alexander Pope |
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A cry is up in England, which doth ring
The hollow world through, that for ends of trade
And virtue and God's better worshipping,
We henceforth should exalt the name of Peace
And leave those rusty wars that eat the soul,--
Besides their
clippings
at our golden fleece.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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II
East and west and south and north
The
messengers
ride fast,
And tower and town and cottage
Have heard the trumpet's blast.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I must
proclaim
the truth.
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Longfellow |
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The provinces and their armies being thus divided,
Vitellius
could 77
only win the throne by fighting.
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Tacitus |
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They shall behold
Each one his dream that
fashions
me anew;--
With hair like lakes that glint beneath the stars
Dark as sweet midnight, or with hair aglow
Like burnished gold that still retains the fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Vedi che sdegna li
argomenti
umani,
si che remo non vuol, ne altro velo
che l'ali sue, tra liti si lontani.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their jingling keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his
separate
Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly
deceiving
me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Haste, Euryclea, and despatchful spread
For me, and me alone, the
imperial
bed,
My weary nature craves the balm of rest.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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