Before the flame
Eurymachus
now stands,
And turns the bow, and chafes it with his hands
Still the tough bow unmoved.
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Flit, flit, o'er the fertile land
'Mid hovering insects' hums;
Fall into the sower's hand:
Then, when his harvest comes,
The seed and the song shall have
flowered
together.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For what remains,
Zeal
unsubdued
by sleep shall nerve my hand
To work as right and as the gods command.
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Each, each, where thou art lowly laid,
Stands, a suppliant,
homeless
made:
Ah, and all is full of ill,
Comfort is there none to say!
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Aeschylus |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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This also shall they gain by thir delay
In the wide Wilderness, there they shall found
Thir government, and thir great Senate choose
Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by Laws ordaind:
God from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top
Shall tremble, he descending, will himself
In Thunder Lightning and loud Trumpets sound
Ordaine them Lawes; part such as appertaine
To civil Justice, part religious Rites 230
Of sacrifice, informing them, by types
And shadowes, of that destind Seed to bruise
The Serpent, by what meanes he shall achieve
Mankinds
deliverance.
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Milton |
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_]
[12 compassed ] compos'd _A11_
foyle] field _Chambers_]
[19 tooke] book _Grosart and Chambers_]
[20 all
spiritts]
like spirits _Grosart and Chambers_]
[25 figures] fables _A11_]
[26 commandeth] commands _A11_]
[29 you have skill _L77_, _TCD_, _&c.
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
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Imagists |
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From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf,
From
monument
and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of HALE shall burn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Doubtfull it stood,
As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together,
And choake their Art: The mercilesse Macdonwald
(Worthie to be a Rebell, for to that
The
multiplying
Villanies of Nature
Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles
Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd,
And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling,
Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake:
For braue Macbeth (well hee deserues that Name)
Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele,
Which smoak'd with bloody execution
(Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage,
Till hee fac'd the Slaue:
Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him,
Till he vnseam'd him from the Naue toth' Chops,
And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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They are new not only in the
sense that (with two
exceptions)
they cannot be found in book form, but
most of them have never previously been published.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling
my ANNABEL LEE;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up, in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
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Poe - 5 |
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Thou didst but sleep, bright lady, a brief sleep,
In bliss amid the chosen spirits to wake,
Who gaze upon their God, distinct and near:
And if my verse shall any value keep,
Preserved and praised 'mid noble minds to make
Thy name, its memory shall be
deathless
here.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The circle thereto most conjoin'd observe;
And know, that by
intenser
love its course
Is to this swiftness wing'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Have the same mists another side,
To be the
appanage
of pride,
Gracing the rich man's wood and lake,
His park where amber mornings break,
And treacherously bright to show
His planted isle where roses glow?
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Emerson - Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between
mountain
and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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Sappho |
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'
And she to-laugh, it
thoughte
hir herte breste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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Ronsard |
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LUSTIGE PERSON:
Wenn ich nur nichts von
Nachwelt
horen sollte.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Does not the
smartness
in your wits, Katrina,
Make your food smack sourly?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'
Ther nis no more, but here-after sone,
The voyde dronke, and travers drawe anon,
Gan every wight, that hadde nought to done 675
More in the place, out of the
chaumber
gon.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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After what
Rodrigue
has said today,
Who is brave enough to make a play?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--Oh no, it is the seed of the soil
Which
persecutes
me: but my native earth
Will take me as a mother to her arms.
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yet
unspoiled
by wealth!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LXVI
But of Angelica I now no more
Shall speak, who first have many things to say;
Nor shall to the
Circassian
or the Moor
Give for long space a rhyme; thence called away
By good Anglante's prince, who wills, before
I of those others tell, I should display
The labours and the troubles he sustained,
Pursuing the great good he never gained.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps
somewhere
out in the world
Weeps without cause in the world
Weeps over me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Alas when sighs are traders' lies,
And heart's-ease eyes and violet eyes
Are
merchandise!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Then fearfully a quake
Pervades
the lands, and 'long the lofty skies
Run the far rumblings.
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Lucretius |
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Li Po |
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For we, though lapped in earth we then shall lie,
By thwart
adversities
will work our will
On them who shall transgress this oath of mine,
Paths of despair and journeyings ill-starred
For them ordaining, till their task they rue.
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Aeschylus |
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"
She clipped a
precious
golden lock,
She dropped a tear more rare than pearl,
Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red:
Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flowed that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
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Christina Rossetti |
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And when at Eve the
unpitying
sun
Smiled grimly on the solemn fun,
"Alack," he sighed, "what _have_ I done?
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Lewis Carroll |
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"What illustrious deed did Jesus accomplish worthy of a God, who beholds
from on high with contempt [the trifling pursuits of] men, and derides
and
considers
as sport terrestrial events?
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Tacitus |
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"
And then he sometimes interwove 85
Fond [12]
thoughts
about a father's love:
"For there," said he, "are spun
Around the heart such tender ties,
That our own children to our eyes
Are dearer than the sun.
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William Wordsworth |
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Elvire
One way or the other, you're satisfied,
You are avenged, or
Rodrigue
has not died;
And whatever destiny ordains for you
You've honour, glory and a husband too.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ill-omened vapors fill the
imperial
city, 4 in the human world parting is hard.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Perfect
love and perfect
friendship
are indeed incompatible; for the one is a
battlefield where shadows war beside the combatants, and the other a
placid country where Consultation has her dwelling.
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Yeats |
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OLD AND NEW YEAR DITTIES
1
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of
favourite
things I had
Baulked of much desired:
Yet farther on my road to-day
God willing, farther on my way.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
"But are you a saint
yourself?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So soon as their minds were quieted, and their hurrying lips
hushed, the king, first calling on the gods, begins from his lofty
throne:
[302-336]'Ere now could I wish, O Latins, we had
determined
our course
of state, and it had been better thus; not to meet in council at such a
time as now, with the enemy seated before our walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Day after day, night after night,
Laura kept watch in vain,
In sullen silence of
exceeding
pain.
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Christina Rossetti |
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These young
performers, he observes, were of
unblemished
character, a
circumstance which he probably mentioned because, among the
Greeks, and indeed, in his time among the Romans also, the morals
of singing boys were in no high repute.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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They
seem to say, 'Fashion has not made us, nor ever do its
caprices
pass
our sand-cleaned doorsteps.
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Yeats |
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e
sellokest
swyn swenged out ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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5
Wi' thee I'm
angered!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou
shouldst
depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Quando mi vide star pur fermo e duro,
turbato un poco disse: <
tra
Beatrice
e te e questo muro>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Papiol,
straight
to my Lover,
Go, for me now, sing to her,
That love's all disregarded, gone
From the heights, fallen headlong.
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Troubador Verse |
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Before this part of our work can be begun, it will be necessary to
create a
household
of living art in Dublin, with principles that have
become habits, and a public that has learnt to care for a play because
it is a play, and not because it is serviceable to some cause.
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Yeats |
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permission
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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cui tulit
hesterna
gaudia nocte Venus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Rilke - Poems |
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For who that feel this burden and this strain,
This wide vacuity of hope and heart,
Would bring their
cherished
well-beloved again:
To bleed with them and wince beneath the smart,
To have with stinted bliss such lavish bane,
To hold in lieu of all so poor a part?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nay, lord; thy father, walking old and grey;
And
followers
bearing burial gifts and brave
Gauds, which men call the comfort of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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For were it not, things could in nowise move;
Since body's
property
to block and check
Would work on all and at an times the same.
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Lucretius |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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Bumptious and vain and proud he
shoulders
up
And would be something if he knew but how;
To any man on earth he will not stoop
But cracks of work, of horses and of plough.
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John Clare |
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Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I never liked the idea that we knew of Christ's own
words only through a
translation
of a translation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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is worlde ne had[de] neuer
bygynnynge
of tyme.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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He had his cellar
underneath
his pulpit,
And so preached o'er his liquor, just as you do.
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Longfellow |
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"
And I
believed
him--for now I too have forgotten the language of
that other world.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
IX
On moonlit heath and
lonesome
bank
The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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blake-poems |
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it has not scared the buck
Who stands
astonished
at the meteor light,
Then turns to bound away,--is it too late?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Note the skill
with which Spenser arouses
interest
before telling of the interview with
Despair.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What man, what hero, Clio sweet,
On harp or flute wilt thou
proclaim?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[3] For what is said here of this poetry of
primitive
magic cf.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Blacksmiths
with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in
the fire.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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An exquisite sense
of the ridiculous belonged to the Greek character; and closely
connected with this faculty was a strong
propensity
to flippancy
and impertinence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He is said to have
discovered
the elixir of
life, the philosopher's stone, and many other equally marvelous things.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Is this the verray mede of your
beheste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Our more modern
Scholiasts
are
equally acute.
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Poe - 5 |
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But the
prudence
of Gama had not
been asleep.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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should the axle crack, which bears a weight
Of huge
Ligurian
stone, and pour the freight
On the pale crowd beneath, what would remain,
What joint, what bone, what atom of the slain?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_"
[Burns
composed
this lyric in August, 1793, and tradition says it was
produced by the charms of Jean Lorimer.
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Robert Burns |
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an
vnwar stroke
ouert{ur}ne?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Aboard at a Ship's Helm
Aboard at a ship's helm,
A young
steersman
steering with care.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Will the same style, and the direction
of genius to similar points, be
satisfactory
now?
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Whitman |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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On the Central Plain they are
fighting
now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They say the
Embroidered
City is a pleasant place, but I had rather be
safe at home.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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An ambassador also arrived
from the Christian Emperor of Abyssinia, and Pedro de Covillam and
Alonzo de Payva were sent by land to penetrate into the East, that they
might acquire whatever
intelligence
might facilitate the desired
navigation to India.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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neas joins
Pandarus
to oppose him;
Pandarus is killed, and ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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the
youthful
lover slain,
Poetical enthusiast,
A friendly hand thy life hath ta'en!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"'
INITIAL, DAEMONIC AND
CELESTIAL
LOVE
I.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
-- "Here is my honour all at sake," apart,
"Meseemeth," said Marphisa, and forewent
Her claim for Gryphon's sake, with
courteous
cheer;
And, as his gift, in fine received the gear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I will teach the
children
their behaviours; and I will
be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my
taber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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He hath beene in
vnusuall
Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Why speaks my father so
ungently?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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