Aquilant, who was at his brother's side,
Tore off the rest, and made the buckler blaze:
The splendour struck the valiant
brothers
blind,
And Guido in their rear, who spurred behind.
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Thus, this
telluric
earth
Out-streams with all these dread effluvia
And breathes them out into the open world
And into the visible regions under heaven.
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L'enfant se doit surtout a la maison, famille
Des soins naifs, des bons travaux abrutissants,
Ils sortent,
oubliant
que la peau leur fourmille
Ou le Pretre du Christ a mis ses doigts puissants.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I hear faint bridal-sighs of brown and green
Dying to silent hints of kisses keen
As far lights fringe into a
pleasant
sheen.
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Sidney Lanier |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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Yet higher tower'd the monarchs
ancients
boast,
Of old one sov'reign rul'd the spacious coast.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It is the dusk before dawn_; APOLLO,
_radiant
in the
darkness, looks at the Castle.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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-- They were
clansmen
good.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Go out and see if you can find the
eyes-brain-and-stomach
business
again.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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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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UNDER THE ALLEGORY OF A LAUREL HE AGAIN
DEPLORES
HER DEATH.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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and through my own
relatives
too!
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Aristophanes |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And if the higher
knowledge
quenches love,
What must _he be_ you cannot love when known?
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Byron |
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2
Approaching
old age, my loneliness in travel is extreme, 8 pained by these times, the chance to meet is remote.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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That this proved a difficult and
laborious task was due rather to the high situation of the town and
the stubborn superstition of its inhabitants than to any adequate
provision enabling them to endure the
hardships
of the siege.
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Tacitus |
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Of course I speak subject to correction,
but I believe I am right in saying that China has never produced a
poet
comparable
with Homer, Dante, Virgil, or Milton.
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Li Po |
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No less these loaded the lordly gifts,
thanes' huge treasure, than those had done
who in former time forth had sent him
sole on the seas, a
suckling
child.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The robin is the one
That overflows the noon
With her
cherubic
quantity,
An April but begun.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A cheek and lip--but why
proceed?
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Byron |
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e marchal,
In
stretfor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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With him the guilt and
falsehood
little weigh,
Of which the offended myrtle told above.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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NOTICES OF AN
INDEPENDENT
PRESS
NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE
INTRODUCTION
NO.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Dost think that pride exalts
Thyself in other's eyes,
And hides thy folly's faults,
Which reason will
despise?
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John Clare |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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te sine nil altum mens incohat: en age segnis
rumpe moras; uocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron,
Taygetique canes
domitrixque
Epidaurus equorum,
et uox adsensu nemorum ingeminata remugit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Too easily kindled was the ecstasy
Of fleshly passion, with a joyous flame
Too readily
answering
the Spirit's fire!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And
offering
me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
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Stephen Crane |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I watched the
careless
spring too many times
Light her green torches in a hungry wind;
Too many times I watched them flare, and then
Fall to forsaken embers in the autumn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Canute drew back,
trembling
to be alone,
And wished he had not left his burial couch.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Glorious
is the legacy of Taizong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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is this the land
Which bare a triple empire in her hand
When
Cromwell
spake the word Democracy!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Newspaper, the,
wonderful,
a strolling theatre,
thoughts
suggested by tearing wrapper of,
a vacant sheet,
a sheet in which a vision was let down,
wrapper to a bar of soap,
a cheap impromptu platter.
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James Russell Lowell |
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HOW I do love thee, Beaumont, and thy muse,
That unto me dost such
religion
use!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thus, when they say there "is" the ravishment
Of Princess Helen, "is" the siege and sack
Of Trojan Town, look out, they force us not
To admit these acts existent by themselves,
Merely because those races of mankind
(Of whom these acts were accidents) long since
Irrevocable
age has borne away:
For all past actions may be said to be
But accidents, in one way, of mankind,--
In other, of some region of the world.
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Lucretius |
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XXIX
Twenty-six
thousand
were the troop that manned
Those ready barks of every sort and kind.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The godlike father, and th'
intrepid
son?
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Iliad - Pope |
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ei ne
forleten
nat 3296
oonly to ben my?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,
It helps not, it
prevails
not.
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Shakespeare |
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I loved: you know it; to avenge my father,
I was willing to condemn my lover:
Your Majesty, Sire, yourself could see
How my love was
sacrificed
to duty.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Stephen Crane |
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"
At this moment the door opened, and Marya
Ivanofna
appeared, with a
smile on her pale face.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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e
aue{n}t{ur}e
476
of fortune.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
vibration
shatters a glass on the
_étagère_.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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_ But you have owned that true
felicity
is the
sovereign good; then you must also grant that God is that true
felicity.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They think of towns to ease their
feverish
eyes,
And make them stand and meditate forever,
Domes of astonishment, to heal the mind.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She did not know what else beside the row of beehives and the new
thatch her son's mind ran on as he walked among the
marketing
country
people, and the gooseberry sellers, and the merchants of 'Peggie's
leg,' and the boys playing marbles in odd corners, and the men in
waistcoats with flannel sleeves driving carts, and the women driving
donkeys with creels of turf or churns of milk.
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Yeats |
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The nightingale, the nightingale, thou tak'st for thine
example!
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Longfellow |
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cetera de genere hoc quae sunt portenta perempta,
si non uicta forent, quid tandem uiua
nocerent?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Back alive, I face these
children
and almost forget my hunger and thirst.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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OFFERING
My body glows in every vein and blooms
To fullest flower since I first knew thee,
My walk unconscious pride and power assumes;
Who art thou then--thou who
awaitest
me?
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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For now prone he saw
Grendel
stretched
there, spent with war,
spoiled of life, so scathed had left him
Heorot's battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The foundations of
_Deirdre_
and of _On Baile's Strand_ are stories
called respectively the 'Fate of the Sons of Usnach' and 'The Son of
Aoife' in _Cuchulain of Muirthemne_.
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Yeats |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"My new wife,
although
her talk is clever,
Cannot charm me as my old wife could.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But by a
thousand
distant hills
The louder roar a thousand rills,
And many a spring which now is dumb,
And many a stream with smothered hum,
Doth swifter well and faster glide,
Though buried deep beneath the tide.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Were you given me to lose my
Chimene?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The East and West kneel down to thee, the North
And South, and all for thee their shoulders bear
The load of
fourfold
place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Daily the bending skies solicit man,
The seasons chariot him from this exile,
The rainbow hours bedeck his glowing chair,
The storm-winds urge the heavy weeks along,
Suns haste to set, that so remoter lights
Beckon the
wanderer
to his vaster home.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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'But for as moche as man and wyf
Shuld shewe hir paroche-prest hir lyf
Ones a yeer, as seith the book, 6385
Er any wight his housel took,
Than have I pryvilegis large,
That may of moche thing discharge;
For he may seye right thus, pardee:--
"Sir Preest, in shrift I telle it thee, 6390
That he, to whom that I am shriven,
Hath me assoiled, and me yiven
Penaunce soothly, for my sinne,
Which that I fond me gilty inne;
Ne I ne have never
entencioun
6395
To make double confessioun,
Ne reherce eft my shrift to thee;
O shrift is right y-nough to me.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The perfidies I recollect
Should make me much more circumspect,
Reform me both in deed and word,
And this fifth canto ought to be
From such
digressions
wholly free.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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's banner
uplifted
began to pursue
the Swede-men.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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A
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard
Aldington
and H.
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Imagists |
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_ii_
Ceu canis umbrosam lustrans Gortynia uallem,
si celeris potuit ceruae comprendere lustra,
saeuit in absentem et circum uestigia latrans
aethera per nitidum tenues sectatur odores:
non amnes illam medii, non ardua tardant,
perdita nec serae meminit
decedere
nocti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To attaine
The highth and depth of thy Eternal wayes
All human thoughts come short, Supream of things;
Thou in thy self art perfet, and in thee
Is no
deficience
found; not so is Man,
But in degree, the cause of his desire
By conversation with his like to help,
Or solace his defects.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But he worked as ever and put forth those
polished
intaglios
called Poems in Prose, for the form of which he had
taken a hint from Aloys Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Parsifal
Parsifal has conquered the girls, their sweet
Chatter, amusing lust - and his inclination,
A virgin boy's, towards the Flesh, tempted
To love the little tits and gentle babble;
He's conquered lovely Woman, of subtle
Heart, showing her cool arms,
provoking
breast;
He's conquered Hell, returned to his tent,
With a weighty trophy on his boyish arm.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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How is our wrong
delightful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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SYRACUSE
and DROMIO OF SYRACUSE
COURTEZAN.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The
speeches
of the zamorim and of GAMA, which follow,
are also founded in truth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Madman, by Khalil Gibran
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
If he be hungry, one huge fin
Drives seven
thousand
fishes in;
And when he drinks what he may need,
The rivers of the earth recede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers
all pass through,
The
officers
speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands
and bids good-by to the army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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We do no longer heap up quarrels thus,
But better know how
projects
to discuss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
recent tracks of the fox or otter, in the yard, remind us that each
hour of the night is crowded with events, and the
primeval
nature is
still working and making tracks in the snow.
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The process is termed "setting" by Composers,
and any one, that has ever experienced the emotion of being unexpectedly
set down in a heap of mortar, will recognise the
truthfulness
of this
happy phrase.
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For many tymes I have it seen,
That many have bigyled been,
For trust that they have set in Hope,
Which fel hem
aftirward
a-slope.
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þē þū hēr tō lōcast (_upon which thou
here lookest_), 1655; folc tō sǣgon (_the folk looked on_), 1423; þæt hī
him tō mihton gegnum gangan (_might proceed thereto_), 313; sē þe him
bealwa tō bōte
gelȳfde
(_who believed in help out of evils from him_, i.
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Its wings beat gently, its note no more calls,
Its flight has been spent by you,
dreaming
Boy!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Heere abiure
The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe,
For
strangers
to my Nature.
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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So plausible this prophet's tale appeared,
Each word he dropt was
thoroughly
revered.
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La Fontaine |
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I adore her, and my soul, rebelling at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be
inspired
by her.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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There's
something
in that.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
'Twas thus the general voice the hero praised,
Who, rising, high the imperial sceptre raised:
The blue-eyed Pallas, his
celestial
friend,
(In form a herald,) bade the crowds attend.
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