Is there
division
'twixt my lord and Cassio?
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Shakespeare |
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Me Love and Fortune then
supremely
bless'd!
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Petrarch |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Soul dazed by love and sorrow, cheer thy mood;
More blest art thou than mortal tongue can tell:
Ring not thy funeral but thy
marriage
bell,
And salt with hope thy life's insipid food.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Yes, looking with
dreaming
eyes, I have found them sitting
under the olives, in their grave, strong, antique beauty--Etruscan
gods!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Well, on, brave boys, to your lord's hearth,
Glitt'ring with fire, where, for your mirth,
Ye shall see first the large and chief
Foundation of your feast, fat beef:
With upper stories, mutton, veal
And bacon (which makes full the meal),
With sev'ral dishes
standing
by,
As here a custard, there a pie,
And here all-tempting frumenty.
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Robert Herrick |
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But fire in this fight I must fear me now,
and
poisonous
breath; so I bring with me
breastplate and board.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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CYPRIAN:
Now, since the fury
Of this earthquaking hurricane is still, _95
And the
crystalline
Heaven has reassumed
Its windless calm so quickly, that it seems
As if its heavy wrath had been awakened
Only to overwhelm that vessel,--speak,
Who art thou, and whence comest thou?
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Shelley |
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[Burns in these careless words makes us
acquainted
with one of his
sweetest songs.
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Robert Forst |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We might have thought they were going for a holiday--
Except for
something
in the air,
Except for the weeping of the ruddy old women of Finistere.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For we are right, but these
gluttons
are wrong.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is found in _W_,
following the _Satyres_ and _Elegies_ and
preceding
the _Letters_,
being probably the only one written when the collection in the first
part of that MS.
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John Donne |
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This poem was printed
in the
_Morning
Post_ of December 4, 180O, under the title: "The two
Round Spaces: a Skeltoniad;" and it is this text which is here given, from
Campbell's edition.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in
sportive
mood
To Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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These are their gifts,
And Time, who keeps God's word, brings on the day
To seal the
marriage
of these minds with thine,
Thine everlasting lovers.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And don't go choosing your words
Without some
confusion
of vision:
Nothing's dearer than shadowy verse
Where precision weds indecision.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Stretching, arching his
muscular
loins, a breath
From his gaping muzzle heavy with thirst
Issues with a sudden shock, quick and harsh,
And great lizards warm from the noon heat stir,
Then vanish gleaming through the tawny grass.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened
and prospered?
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Sappho |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For example, his
exclamations
at cafes or in
public places, such as: "Have you ever eaten a baby?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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l fuelh
Like to him who bends the leaves
And picks the
loveliest
flower of all
I from the highest branch have seized,
Of them, the one most beautiful,
One God has made, without a stain,
Made her out of His own beauty,
And He commanded that humility
Should her great worth grace again.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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'Come learn with me the fatal song
Which knits the world in music strong,
Come lift thine eyes to lofty rhymes,
Of things with things, of times with times,
Primal chimes of sun and shade,
Of sound and echo, man and maid,
The land
reflected
in the flood,
Body with shadow still pursued.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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E'en now th'
eleventh
year its course fulfils,
That I have bow'd me to the tyranny
Relentless most to fealty most tried.
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Many of
the lines, however, are rough and
difficult
of scansion.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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Only the leaves are gently stirred
By the soft breathing of the gale,
And in the almond-scented vale
The lonely
nightingale
is heard.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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How sank his heart beneath that cruel blow,
'Twere long to say; how
prostrate
lay his sprite.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For of all those who have been known
To lodge with our kind host, the sun,
I envy one for just one thing:
In Cordova of the Moors
There dwelt a passion-minded King,
Who set great bands of marble-hewers
To fashion his heart's thanksgiving
In a tall palace, shapen so
All the
wondering
world might know
The joy he had of his Moorish lass.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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)
No single parts
unequally
surprize,
All comes united to th' admiring eyes; 250
No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear;
The Whole at once is bold, and regular.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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O reckless,
despairing
carols!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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But you will thank me soon for leaving you:
'Tis the best
courtesy
I can do.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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is
questiou{n}
ne ben nat spedeful ynou?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
|
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Lucretius |
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Donne as usual is
pedantically
accurate in the details of his
metaphor.
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John Donne |
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myseses {and}
greuaunces
oute of noumbre.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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SYLVA
_Rerum et
sententiarum
quasi ?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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By the same author
Rivers to the Sea
"There is hardly another
American
woman-poet whose poetry is generally
known and loved like that of Sara Teasdale.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
breathing
pestilence that rose like smoke!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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1630: _mina|||_ dein _minacis_ R
7 _insula
uegeladas_
O
8 _tractam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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)
_insert_
your _after_ to.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and
whispering
tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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12, still another law was passed,
whereby the second offense was
declared
a felony.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
* * * * *
It is
remarkable
how few events or crises there are in our histories,
how little exercised we have been in our minds, how few experiences we
have had.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Through yon wide host this arm shall scatter fear,
And thin the
squadrons
with my single spear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE ETEXT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Soft darkness o'er its latest gleams is stealing;
The buzzing dor-hawk, round and round, is wheeling,--
That
solitary
bird
Is all that can be heard [1] 5
In silence deeper far than that of deepest noon!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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XXIII
"I in the hope, belief, and certitude
My wife to me was faithful evermore,
Should with contempt the beauty have eschewed
Of that famed
daughter
which fair Leda bore;
And all the wit and wealth wherewith was wooed
The illustrious shepherd upon Ida hoar.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ere
Ne
woldestou
noman tellen here
?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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bǣdde
byre geonge,
_encouraged
the youths_ (at the banquet), 2019.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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When he walks in waterproof white,
The
children
run after him so!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"
So all the
children
of each family thanked their parents; and, making in
all forty-nine polite bows, they went into the wide world.
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--
Augment your tide, O streams, with
fruitless
tears,
For the beloved Bion is no more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[When the book appeared it bore a
dedication
to E.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,
But even so,
honoured
still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Goetz, the hero himself, is a
champion
of a good cause--the cause
of freedom and self-reliance.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What is he
bragging
still that he will come
To thrust our Harold's throne from under him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Lesbia
beautiful
seems, and when all over she's fairest, 5
Any Venus-gift stole she from every one.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
To what malicious merriment,
It may be, I yield
nutriment!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The messages of great poets to each man and woman are,--Come to us on equal
terms, only then can you
understand
us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Petrarch did not return to
Venice till the
expedition
had sailed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Nay; it was sure, and was wrought
Under
inscrutable
powers:
Bravely the two armies fought
And left the land, that was greater than they, still theirs and ours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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With fat of bulls I fed the
constant
flame,
And ask'd destruction to the Trojan name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such
discipline
of Sarrazins he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
"
"Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in
flintiest
rock,
States climb to power by; slippery those with gold
Down which they stumble to eternal mock:
No chafferer's hand shall long the sceptre hold,
Who, given a Fate to shape, would sell the block.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Oh,
sweetest
mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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of infinite ill;
And mine is worse because
immortal
still,
Since from the heart the spirit may not tear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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The man's rank, the magnitude of the offence,
Demand your concession and submission,
Beyond the
customary
reparation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Teems not each ditty with the
glorious
tale?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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o hymenee hymen_ 5 _O hymenee hymen_
5 _O Hymen
Hymenaee_
Lachm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the terrible
breakers
are silent
from this place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is finished using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished
threading
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Libertad
and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face
of the earth,
The rapt promises and lumine of seers, the spiritual world, these
centuries-lasting songs,
And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements
of any.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Your folds ye
gateways
wide-ope swing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
(Exeunt Guests: he
conducts
them to the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
XXXIX
The prop so placed, Orlando now secure
That the fell beast his mouth no more can close,
Unsheathes
his sword, and, in that cave obscure,
Deals here and there, now thrusts, now trenchant blows.
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that dost apparel thee in smiles,
How
lustrous
was thy semblance in those sparkles,
Which merely are from holy thoughts inspir'd!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have snatched at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your
necklace
snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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The present
text aims to be an exact
reproduction
of that of the 1631 edition.
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But it is threaded with gold and
powdered
with scarlet beads.
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