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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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Why shulde men sey me such a thing,
If it hadde been
gabbing?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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at is
to seyn he let sleen {and}
slitte{n}
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was stillness as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the
Volscians
were coming o'er the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This
translation
or rather adaptation contains many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then certes
sheeniest
suns for thee did shine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"Madonna, leave me not all alone,
To die
forgotten
and live forlorn.
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Tennyson |
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_Sweet Basil_, a fragrant
aromatic
plant.
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Keats |
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But I move in uncertainty of Jove's ordinance, whether he will
that Tyrians and
wanderers
from Troy be one city, or approve the
mingling of peoples and the treaty of union.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thus perished in the thirty-eighth year of
his age this
distinguished
poet, in a manner and amid surroundings
which make the duel scene in the sixth canto of this poem seem
almost prophetic.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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day — perhaps more than ever in her
history—is
in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and romantic episodes of her past are timely.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Who seeks for
friendship
sake
A beggar's house?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Degas and Zuloaga seem to have combined their
art on one canvas to give to this dancer the abundant elasticity of
grace and the
splendid
fantasy of colour.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Cato's long wig,
flowered
gown, and lacquered chair.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious
moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Where
darkness
found him he lay glad at night;
There the red morning touched him with its light.
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Emerson - Poems |
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To ease my mind I gazed to the South East;
As my eyes wandered, my
thoughts
went far away.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Lo, in mid flight swoln
Amasenus
ran foaming with
banks abrim, so heavily had the clouds burst in rain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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active links or
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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) Fanusi khiyal, a Magic-lanthorn still used in India; the
cylindrical Interior being painted with various Figures, and so
lightly poised and
ventilated
as to revolve round the lighted Candle
within.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That thou towards him with hand so various,
Or might I say contrarious,
Temperst thy providence through his short course, 670
Not evenly, as thou rul'st
The Angelic orders and inferiour
creatures
mute,
Irrational and brute.
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Milton |
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_The Fallen Elm_
Old elm, that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem autumn ever made
And into mellow whispering calms would drop
When showers fell on thy many
coloured
shade
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made--
While darkness came as it would strangle light
With the black tempest of a winter night
That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root--
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without--while all within was mute.
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John Clare |
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Still
Parleying with Renard, all the day with Renard,
And scarce a
greeting
all the day for me--
And goes to-morrow.
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Tennyson |
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But as she sat allone and thoughte thus, 610
Thascry aroos at
skarmish
al with-oute,
And men cryde in the strete, `See, Troilus
Hath right now put to flight the Grekes route!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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That tear fell not on Thee,
Beloved, yet thou
stirrest
in thy slumber!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Comes
Wealhtheow
forth,
under gold-crown goes where the good pair sit,
uncle and nephew, true each to the other one,
kindred in amity.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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`But, sith that thou hast don me this servyse
My lyf to save, and for noon hope of mede, 415
So, for the love of god, this grete empryse
Performe
it out; for now is moste nede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ah, deadly thought, as I speak, at this moment, here,
They brave the fury of a
maddened
lover!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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{34e} Gering would
translate
"kinsman of the nail," as both are made
of iron.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The _Gipsies_ is more original; indeed the poet himself has been
identified with Aleko, the hero of the tale, which may well be
founded on his own
personal
adventures without involving the guilt
of a double murder.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
corruption
of taste is a portion or a pendant of the
dollar-manufacture.
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Poe - 5 |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses
chaunting
clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long melodious moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Poor little
children!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Every
sensible
man must give his
help to the State.
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Aristophanes |
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[58] _pataku_ has apparently the same sense
originally
as _bataku_,
although the one forms its preterite _iptik_, and the other
_ibtuk_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist
Till some
resistless
hour shall rise and move
Your hearts to wake and hunger after love,
And thirst with passionate longing for the things
That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
[12] 55
_That_ Silence, once in deathlike fetters bound,
Chains that were loosened only by the sound
Of holy rites chanted in
measured
round?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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not overfond of the stench
choking native respiration,
poked down off the shelf
with the aid of some
mere blades of grass;
and deliberately climbing up,
brazenly
usurping one end
of the new America,
now waves his spears aloft
and shouts down valleys,
across plains,
over mountains,
into heights:
Come, what man of you
dares climb the other?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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" At that,
terrified
by the divine warning, the Etruscan lines
have encamped on the plain; Tarchon himself hath sent ambassadors to me
with the crown [506-539]and sceptre of the kingdom, and offers the
royal attire will I but enter their camp and take the Tyrrhene realm.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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e
borelych
burne on bent, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thou much hast moved me; thy unhandsome phrase
Hath roused my wrath; I am not, as thou say'st,
A novice in these sports, but took the lead 220
In all, while youth and
strength
were on my side.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It was nightfall before he had cut enough for
his purpose, and well-nigh
midnight
before he had carried the last
bundle to its place, and gone back for the roses and the lilies.
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Yeats |
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'Tis Phoebus, Phoebus gifts my tongue
With minstrel art and minstrel fires:
Come, noble youths and maidens sprung
From noble sires,
Blest in your Dian's guardian smile,
Whose shafts the flying silvans stay,
Come, foot the Lesbian measure, while
The lyre I play:
Sing of Latona's glorious boy,
Sing of night's queen with crescent horn,
Who wings the
fleeting
months with joy,
And swells the corn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In the end the Lady told him, that unlesse
that armour which she brought would serve him (that is, the armour of a
Christian man
specified
by Saint Paul, V.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
XXXVIII
THAT battle-toil bade he at burg to announce,
at the fort on the cliff, where, full of sorrow,
all the morning earls had sat,
daring shieldsmen, in doubt of twain:
would they wail as dead, or welcome home,
their lord
beloved?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
So gayly he paced with the wife and the child to his chosen stand;
But he hurried tall Hamish the
henchman
ahead: "Go turn," --
Cried Maclean -- "if the deer seek to cross to the burn,
Do thou turn them to me: nor fail, lest thy back be red as thy hand.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,
Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;
The violets are blooming and nestling their heads
In richest
profusion
on moss-coated beds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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fēla lāfe (_the
leavings of files_ = swords, Grein), 1033; so, homera lāfe, 2830; on him
gladiað gomelra lāfe, heard and
hringmǣl
Heaðobeardna gestrēon (_on him
gleams the forefather's bequest, hard and ring-decked, the Heaðobeardas'
treasure_, i.
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Beowulf |
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the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And
flashing
adown the river, a flame of blue!
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
I sold a sheep as they had said,
And bought my little
children
bread,
And they were healthy with their food;
For me it never did me good.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What better tale could any lover tell
When age or death his
reckoning
shall write
Than thus, 'Love taught me only to rebel
Against these things,--the thieving of delight
Without return; the gospellers of fear
Who, loving, yet deny the truth they bear,
Sad-suited lusts with lecherous hands to smear
The cloth of gold they would but dare not wear.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We were
approaching
the deep
ravines which served as natural fortifications to the little settlement.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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,
_enjoyment
of the air_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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What dens, what forests these,
Thus in
wildering
race I see?
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, where there's room for one or two,
And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;
Where the
standing
line wears thinner and the dropping dead lie thick;
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But what foul wrong have I done to thee, Ozias,
That thou shouldst go about to put such wrong
Into my life as these
defiling
words?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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distributed
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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III
Doth o'er us pass, when, as th'
expanding
eye
To the loved object-so the tear to the lid
Will start, which lately slept in apathy?
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Herman thought she might be deaf, so he put his lips close to her
ear and
repeated
his remark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Which through his looks that piercing
sweetness
siied ;
That port, vvliich so majestic was and strong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Fragrant
herbs banish evil smells
And the scholar's harp has a clear note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_The Men of the House of Colonna_, _The Czars_, _Charles XII Riding
Through the Ukraine_ are portrayed each with his
individual
historical
gesture, with a luminosity as strong as the colour and movement which
they gave to their time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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WORLDS
Through the pale green forest of tall bracken-stalks,
Whose interwoven fronds, a jade-green sky,
Above me glimmer, infinitely high,
Towards my giant hand a beetle walks
In glistening emerald mail; and as I lie
Watching his
progress
through huge grassy blades
And over pebble boulders, my own world fades
And shrinks to the vision of a beetle's eye.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Finery,
haughtiness
do not entice me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thou Who hast borne all burdens, bear our load,
Bear Thou our load
whatever
load it be;
Our guilt, our shame, our helpless misery,
Bear Thou Who only canst, O God my God.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Guardate
che 'l venir su non vi noi>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Loving
offenders
thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As that other voice of his was
worthier
a
headsman than a head when he wished the people of Rome had but one neck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ils vont prendre le train de huit heures
Prolonger leurs miseres de Padoue a Milan
Ou se trouvent le Cene, et un
restaurant
pas cher.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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OUR envoy kept two books, in which he wrote
The names of all the married pairs of note;
But that assigned to couples satisfied,
He
scarcely
for it could a name provide,
Which made the demon almost blush to see,
How few, alas!
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if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will wail thee like a
makeless
wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look!
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hoc misso in Syriam requierant omnibus aures:
Audibant eadem haec leniter et leviter,
Nec sibi postilla metuebant talia verba,
Cum subito
adfertur
nuntius horribilis, 10
Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,
Iam non Ionios esse, sed Hionios.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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HE
COMPARES
HER TO A LAUREL, WHICH HE SUPPLICATES APOLLO TO DEFEND.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Footnote 1: For the last two lines of this stanza,
I am
indebted
to Mr.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Amor Mundi
A
Christmas
Carol
By the Waters of Babylon
Paradise
"I will lift up mine Eyes unto the Hills"
Saints and Angels
"When my Heart is Vexed, I will Complain"
After Communion
A Rose Plant in Jericho
Who shall Deliver Me?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The narrow street was full of cries,
Of bickering and snarling lies
In many keys--
The tongues of Egypt and of Rome
And lands beyond the
shifting
foam
Of windy seas.
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Sara Teasdale |
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It is
scarcely
two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but radiantly glad?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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the soaring genius'd Sylvester
That earlier loosed the knot great Newton tied,"
An
algebraic
theorem announced by Newton was demonstrated and extended
by Sylvester.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant
stripling
shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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LXVIII
You ask how love can keep the mortal soul
Strong to the pitch of joy
throughout
the years.
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Sappho |
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And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet by the
conquest
of two kings grown great,
He on the peace extends a warlike power,
And Israel, silent, saw him rase the tower.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Hard
fighting
gets no reward or praise;
Steadfastness and truth cannot be rightly known.
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Li Po |
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FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME SPRING
Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear
Reclothed
in fresh and verdant diaper;
Thaw'd are the snows; and now the lusty Spring
Gives to each mead a neat enamelling;
The palms put forth their gems, and every tree
Now swaggers in her leafy gallantry.
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