Ils tressaillent souvent a la claire voix d'or
Du timbre matinal, qui frappe et frappe encor
Son refrain
metallique
en son globe de verre.
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And I too gained the lot for which I craved,
And
oftentimes
led out a goodly host,
Yet never brought disaster such as this
Upon the city.
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ei
worchipeden
him alle wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The second of the two conditions which favoured literary creation in
Rome was a social system which afforded to a great and
influential
class
the leisure for literary studies and the power to forward them.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The star about the Pole
conceals
its bright rays.
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Troubador Verse |
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Traduzione
di Andrea Maffei.
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Byron |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A century has passed since at thy knee
We learnt the speech of freemen, caught the fire
That would not brook thy menaces, when sire
And
grandsire
hurled injustice back to thee.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 292 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You're neither
blanched
nor blackened,
For your tint of olive's clear;
Yours are lips of ripest cherry,
You are straight as Arab spear.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"Here Lisbon's
spacious
harbour meets the view:
How vast the foe's, the Lusian fleet how few!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Look up the
classical
references in xvi and xviii.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Who didst create these best and
beauteous
beings,
To be beloved, more than all, save thee--
Let me love thee and them:--All Hail!
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Byron |
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Seek, then,
No
learning
from the starry men,
Who follow with the optic glass
The whirling ways of stars that pass;
Seek, then--for this is also sooth--
No word of theirs: the cold star-bane
Has cloven and rent their hearts in twain,
And dead is all their human truth.
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Yeats |
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CXVI
Let me not to the
marriage
of true minds
Admit impediments.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, facades, tell their
inimitable
tales;
Thy windows rich, and huge hotels--thy side-walks wide;)
Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Or a swift meteor, may be,
Across the gloom of heaven would sail
And disappear in space; then she
Would haste in agitation dire
To mutter her
concealed
desire
Ere the bright messenger had set.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his
judgment
in political matters.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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SEMI-CHORUS
Yea, and her child is Desire: in the train of his
mother he goeth--
Yea and
Persuasion
soft-lipped, whom none can deny
or repel:
Cometh Harmonia too, on whom Aphrodite bestoweth
The whispering parley, the paths of the rapture that
lovers love well.
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Aeschylus |
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"While yet he spoke, the prophet I obey'd,
And in the scabbard plunged the
glittering
blade:
Eager he quaff'd the gore, and then express'd
Dark things to come, the counsels of his breast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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References
to the
chopine are common in the literature of the period (see Nares
and _NED.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sacerdotem
de Tropis (Grammat.
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Latin - Catullus |
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lo
The beasts are by their dens expressed,
And birds
contrive
an equal nest ;
The low-roof *d tortoises do dwell
In cases fit of tortoise-shell ;
No creature loves an empty space ; is
Their bodies measure out their place.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Art is always more
abstract
than
we fancy.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I think of you,
faithful
soldiers;
Your service shall not be forgotten.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The poet moulds that which appears
evanescent and
ephemeral
in image and in mood into everlasting values.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Below, 'twas still all a-roar,
As the ships went by the shore,
But the fire of the fort had slacked,
(So fierce their volleys had been)--
And now, with a mighty din,
The whole fleet came grandly in,
Though sorely
battered
and wracked.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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LXXVI
"Find Silence first, and bid him, on my part,
On this emprize attend thee, at thy side:
Since he for such a quest, with
happiest
art
Will know what is most fitting to provide.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" Henoch cried:
"Then must we make a circle vast of towers,
So
terrible
that nothing dare draw near;
Build we a city with a citadel;
Build we a city high and close it fast.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I knelt there, and it seemed, — One moment, that my torture had been dreamed
I drank most
thankfully
.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_e_) D:
_confutere_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with
inviolable
voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This is the
manuscript which I have called
_O'F_, because it was at one time in the
possession
of the Rev.
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John Donne |
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But where of ye, O
tempests!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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O
strange!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it
erewhile
made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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Poi, come nel percuoter d'i ciocchi arsi
surgono innumerabili faville,
onde li stolti
sogliono
agurarsi,
resurger parver quindi piu di mille
luci e salir, qual assai e qual poco,
si come 'l sol che l'accende sortille;
e quietata ciascuna in suo loco,
la testa e 'l collo d'un'aguglia vidi
rappresentare a quel distinto foco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Still ever that slip and slide
Of the feet that shuffle or glide,
And linger or haste through the
populous
waste
Of the shadowy, dim-lit square!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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s face, 80 and the
innocent
girls combed their own hair.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Feared by the Paynim's dark divan,
The Templars next advance;
Then the tall
halberds
of Lausanne,
Foremost to stand in battle van
Against the foes of France.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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clernesse of 2316
renou{n}
folwe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Boldly
defending
your own beautiful apples of gold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He was the shadow of the lusty child _65
Who, when the time of summer season smiled,
Did earn for her a meal of honesty,
And with affectionate
discourse
beguiled
The keen attacks of pain and poverty;
Till Power, as envying her this only joy, _70
From her maternal bosom tore the unhappy boy.
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Shelley |
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I feel no spring, while spring is wellnigh blown,
I find no nest, while nests are in the grove:
Woe's me for mine own heart that dwells alone,
My heart that
breaketh
for a little love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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They expect to have their
imaginations
pleased.
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Tacitus |
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But unto us she hath a spell beyond
Her name in story, and her long array
Of mighty shadows, whose dim forms despond
Above the dogeless city's vanished sway;
Ours is a trophy which will not decay
With the Rialto; Shylock and the Moor,
And Pierre, cannot be swept or worn away--
The
keystones
of the arch!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ah then at times I
drooping
sit,
And spend many an anxious hour;
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with the dreary shower.
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blake-poems |
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Vanity of vanities, yea all is vain
Which then will not avail or help or heal:
Disfeatured
faces, worn-out knees that kneel,
Will more avail than strength or beauty then.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But there he hangs for tavern sign,
With foolish bold regard
For cock and hen and
loitering
men
And wagons down the yard.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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sernede]]
in one ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--Good gracious me, how merrily they fare:
One sees a fairer cowslip than the rest,
And off they shout--the foremost bidding fair
To get the prize--and earnest half and jest
The next one pops her down--and from her hand
Her basket falls and out her cowslips all
Tumble and litter there--the merry band
In laughing friendship round about her fall
To helpen gather up the
littered
flowers
That she no loss may mourn.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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A father
mother
surviving
him
in sad existence
like two extremes -
ill fused in him
that are parted
-hence his death -
cancelling this small
child's 'self'
2.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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e
p{ur}ueaunce
of god wolde demen ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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UN COUP DE DES JAMAIS, QUAND BIEN MEME LANCE DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ETERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE, Soit que l'Abime blanchi, etale, furieux sous une inclinaison planche desesperement d'aile, la sienne, par avance
retombee
d'un mal a dresser le vol et couvrant les jaillissements, coupant au ras les bonds tres a l'interieur resume l'ombre enfouie dans la profondeur, par cette voile alternative jusqu'adapter sa beante profondeur entant que la coque d'un batiment penche de l'un ou l'autre bord
LE MAITRE, hors d'anciens calculs, ou la manoeuvre avec l'age oubliee surgi jadis, il empoignait la barre inferant de cette configuration a ses pieds de l'horizon unanime, que se prepare s'agite et mele au poing qui l'etreindrait, comme on menace un destin et les vents, l'unique Nombre, qui ne peut pas etre un autre Esprit, pour le jeter dans la tempete en reployer la division et passer fier; hesite, cadavre par le bras ecarte du secret qu'il detient plutot que de jouer, en maniaque: chenu la partie au nom des flots, un envahit le chef, coule en barbe, soumise naufrage, cela direct de l'homme sans nef, n'importe ou vaine
ancestralement a n'ouvrir pas la main crispee par dela l'inutile tete, legs en la disparition, a quelqu'un ambigu, l'ulterieur demon immemorial, ayant de contrees nulles induit le vieillard vers cette conjonction supreme avec la probabilite, celui son ombre puerile caressee et polie et rendue et lavee assouplie par la vague, et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais ne d'un ebat, la mer par l'aieul tentant ou l'aieul contre la mer, une chance oiseuse, Fiancailles dont le voile d'illusion rejailli leur hantise, ainsi que le fantome d'un geste chancellera, s'affalera, folie N'ABOLIRA
COMME SI Une insinuation simple au silence, enroulee avec ironie, ou le mystere precipite, hurle, dans quelque proche tourbillon d'hilarite et d'horreur, voltige autour du gouffre sans le joncher ni fuir et en berce le vierge indice COMME SI
plume solitaire eperdue, sauf que la rencontre ou l'effleure une toque de minuit et immobilise au velours chiffonne par un esclaffement sonore, cette blancheur rigide, derisoire en opposition au ciel, trop pour ne pas marquer exigument quiconque prince amer de l'ecueil, s'en coiffe comme de l'heroique, irresistible mais contenu par sa petite raison, virile en foudre
soucieux expiatoire et pubere muet rire que SI La lucide et seigneuriale aigrette de vertige au front invisible scintille, puis ombrage, une stature mignonne tenebreuse, debout en sa torsion de sirene, le temps de souffleter, par d'impatientes squames ultimes, bifurquees, un roc faux manoir tout de suite evapore en brumes qui imposa une borne a l'infini
C'ETAIT LE NOMBRE, issu stellaire, EXISTAT-IL autrement qu'hallucination eparse, d'agonie; COMMENCAT-IL ET CESSAT-IL, sourdant que nie, et clos, quand apparu enfin, par quelque profusion repandue en rarete; SE CHIFFRAT-IL evidence de la somme, pour peu qu'une; ILLUMINAT-IL, CE SERAIT, pire non davantage ni moins indifferemment mais autant, LE HASARD Choit la plume, rythmique suspens du sinistre, s'ensevelir aux ecumes originelles nagueres, d'ou sursauta son delire jusqu'a une cime fletrie par la neutralite identique du gouffre
RIEN de la memorable crise ou se fut l'evenement accompli, en vue de tout resultat nul humain, N'AURA EU LIEU, une elevation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inferieur clapotis quelconque, comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement, qui sinon par son mensonge eut fonde la perdition, dans ces parages du vague, en quoi toute realite se dissout
EXCEPTE a l'altitude PEUT-ETRE, aussi loin qu'un endroit fusionne avec au-dela, hors l'interet quant a lui signale, en general, selon telle obliquite, par telle declivite de feux, vers ce doit etre le Septentrion aussi Nord UNE CONSTELLATION froide d'oubli et de desuetude, pas tant qu'elle n'enumere, sur quelque surface vacante et superieure, le heurt successif, sideralement, d'un compte total en formation, veillant, doutant, roulant, brillant et meditant avant de s'arreter a quelque point dernier qui le sacre Toute pensee emet un Coup de Des.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Look from west to east along:
Father, old Himla weakens,
Caucasus
is bold and strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Where is now your
sourquydrye
& your conquestes,
312 Your gry[n]del-layk, & your greme, & your grete wordes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But that your
trespass
now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Add too: these germs he feigns are far too frail--
If they be germs
primordial
furnished forth
With but same nature as the things themselves,
And travail and perish equally with those,
And no rein curbs them from annihilation.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Thus, as so often the suggestion was
from the facts of geography, the rest soon became an
allegorical
myth,
and to attempt to identify and localise "the Happy Isles" is as great an
absurdity as to attempt to identify and localise the island of
Shakespeare's 'Tempest'.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and
warrantise
of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Not with such
transport
would my eyes run o'er,
Again to hail them in their native shore,
As loved Ulysses once more to embrace,
Restored and breathing in his natal place.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sir Henry Savile,
grave, and truly lettered; Sir Edwin Sandys,
excellent
in both; Lord
Egerton, the Chancellor, a grave and great orator, and best when he was
provoked; but his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor is he
who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which
may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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{34a} That is, although Eanmund was brother's son to Onela, the
slaying of the former by Weohstan is not felt as cause of feud, and
is
rewarded
by gift of the slain man's weapons.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The wind hath all thy holy hair
To kiss and to sing through and to flare
Like torch-flames in the
passionate
air,
About thee, O Miranda.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I
felt a calm but inquisitive
interest
in every thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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'"
And the old man, looking sadly
Across the garden-lawn,
Where here and there a dew-drop
Yet
glittered
in the dawn,
Said "Go to the Adelphi,
And see the 'Colleen Bawn.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Thou art not He,
But some
Divinity
beguiles my soul
With mock'ries to afflict me still the more;
For never mortal man could so have wrought
By his own pow'r; some interposing God
Alone could render thee both young and old,
For old thou wast of late, and foully clad,
But wear'st the semblance, now, of those in heav'n!
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Darkly he moved on,
A hideous spectre hesitating, white,
And ever as he went, a drop of blood
Implacably from the
darkness
broke away
And stained that awful whiteness.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet
glimmers
with some streakes of Day.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In his farthest wanderings still he sees it;
Hears the talking flame, the
answering
night-wind,
As he heard them
When he sat with those who were, but are not.
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Longfellow |
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Each quickly
gathered
his fellow soldiers round him, and from
abuse they came to bloodshed.
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Tacitus |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
There are in _The Book of Pictures_ poems in which this will to
concentrate a mood into its essence and finality is applied to purely
lyrical poems as in _Initiation_, that stands out in this volume like
"the great dark tree" itself so immeasurable is the straight line of its
aspiration
reaching
into the far distant silence of the night; or as in
the poem entitled _Autumn_, with its melancholy mood of gentle descent
in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Nay--let me rather
Turn unto the
wilderness!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It is
decided!
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Longfellow |
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66
// he
besought
nyght & day
heuen king, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Has Life much
purport?
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Whitman |
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VII
And though the shady gloom
Had given day her room,
The Sun himself with-held his wonted speed,
And hid his head for shame, 80
As his
inferior
flame,
The new enlightened world no more should need;
He saw a greater Sun appear
Then his bright Throne, or burning Axletree could bear.
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Milton |
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Though low and poor and broken down,
Am I to think myself
distrest?
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John Clare |
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when
Millions of fierce encountring Angels fought 220
On either side, the least of whom could weild
These Elements, and arm him with the force
Of all thir Regions: how much more of Power
Armie against Armie numberless to raise
Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,
Though not destroy, thir happie Native seat;
Had not th' Eternal King Omnipotent
From his strong hold of Heav'n high over-rul'd
And limited thir might; though numberd such
As each divided Legion might have seemd 230
A numerous Host, in strength each armed hand
A Legion; led in fight, yet Leader seemd
Each Warriour single as in Chief, expert
When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway
Of Battel, open when, and when to close
The ridges of grim Warr; no thought of flight,
None of retreat, no unbecoming deed
That argu'd fear; each on himself reli'd,
As onely in his arm the moment lay
Of victorie; deeds of eternal fame 240
Were don, but infinite: for wide was spred
That Warr and various; somtimes on firm ground
A standing fight, then soaring on main wing
Tormented all the Air; all Air seemd then
Conflicting Fire: long time in eeven scale
The Battel hung; till Satan, who that day
Prodigious power had shewn, and met in Armes
No equal, raunging through the dire attack
Of fighting Seraphim confus'd, at length
Saw where the Sword of Michael smote, and fell'd 250
Squadrons at once, with huge two-handed sway
Brandisht aloft the horrid edge came down
Wide wasting; such destruction to withstand
He hasted, and oppos'd the rockie Orb
Of tenfold Adamant, his ample Shield
A vast circumference: At his approach
The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toile
Surceas'd, and glad as hoping here to end
Intestine
War in Heav'n, the arch foe subdu'd
Or Captive drag'd in Chains, with hostile frown 260
And visage all enflam'd first thus began.
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Milton |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Thus ne'er at all have heavier from above
Been swift to strike the lighter, gendering strokes
Which cause those divers motions, by whose means
Nature
transacts
her work.
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Lucretius |
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Yet tender
thoughts
dwell there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that
brightness
doth not grace the day?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Imprisoned
is the song,
It lingers and longs in the reeds where it lies;
Your young life is strong, but how much more strong
Is the longing that through your music sighs.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Holt and the
_Atlantic
Monthly_:--"England and
America.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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270
"Within the breast of Peter Bell
These silent
raptures
found no place; [24]
He was a Carl as wild and rude
As ever hue-and-cry pursued,
As ever ran a felon's race.
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William Wordsworth |
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I receiue peyne of fals felonie in
gerdou{n}
of verray
vertue.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Her captain then was I, I was her crew,
The mind that laid her course, the wake she drew,
The waves that rose against her bows, the gales,--
Nay, I was more: I was her very sails
Rounded before the wind, her eager keel,
Her straining mast-heads, her responsive wheel,
Her pennon
stiffened
like a swallow's wing;
Yes, I was all her slope and speed and swing,
Whether by yellow lemons and blue sea
She dawdled through the isles off Thessaly,
Or saw the palms like sheaves of scimitars
On desert's verge below the sunset bars,
Or passed the girdle of the planet where
The Southern Cross looks over to the Bear,
And strayed, cool Northerner beneath strange skies,
Flouting the lure of tropic estuaries,
Down that long coast, and saw Magellan's Clouds arise.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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They seek the cisterns where
Phaeacian
dames
Wash their fair garments in the limpid streams;
Where, gathering into depth from falling rills,
The lucid wave a spacious bason fills.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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My heart and soul in the work'll be found;
Only, of course, it would give me pleasure,
When summer holidays come round,
To have for
amusement
a little leisure.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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