Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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{14a} Unferth, Beowulf's
sometime
opponent in the flyting.
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une
chandelle
aux doigts,
Descendre dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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AEeolus, a seller of money, as is
supposed
by some.
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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LXXXIX
Not with intent, in his defence to bear
What he had taken, of the prize possest;
For he still held it an
ungenerous
care
To go with vantage on whatever quest:
But with design to cast the weapon where
It never more should living wight molest;
And, what was appertaining to it, all
Bore off as well, the powder and the ball.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a
radiance
so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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If the only
thing that he ever said had been, 'Her sins are
forgiven
her because she
loved much,' it would have been worth while dying to have said it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Imagists |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Even the awful Goddess felt, herself,
Compassion, and,
approaching
me, began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nor Ocean's God
His threats forgot
denounced
against divine
Ulysses, but with Jove thus first advised.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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thou sleepest--
See the angelic band,
Who
foreknow
the trials
That for man are planned;
Seeing him unarmed,
Unfearing, unalarmed,
With their tears have warmed
This unconscious hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In marble-paved pavilion, where a spring
Of living water from the centre rose,
Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling,
And soft voluptuous couches breathed repose,
ALI reclined, a man of war and woes:[160]
Yet in his lineaments ye cannot trace,
While Gentleness her milder radiance throws[161]
Along that aged
venerable
face,
The deeds that lurk beneath, and stain him with disgrace.
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Byron |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rebelling against our care, deaf to our discourse,
Will you let your last days take this
pitiless
course?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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Finally, it
may be taken up again by the courts, and become poetry of much greater
sophistication and nicety than it was in either of the
preceding
stages.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And thus she sette hir woful herte a-fyre 720
Through
remembraunce
of that she gan desyre.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But close around the body, where stood the little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain,
No cries were there, but teeth set fast, low
whispers
and black
frowns,
And breaking up of benches, and girding up of gowns.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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{124a} The shame of speaking
unskilfully
were
small if the tongue only thereby were disgraced; but as the image of a
king in his seal ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the wax, or
the signet that sealed it, as to the prince it representeth, so
disordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth,
as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so
negligently expressed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Tennyson |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Though winter frosts are done,
And birds pair every one,
And leaves peep out, for
springtide
is begun.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
For all thy
adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Calico jam,
The little Fish swam
Over the
Syllabub
Sea.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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/)
CONTEMPORARY VERSE VOtUMK III FEBRUARY, 1917 Number 3
THE MAN TO HIS DEAD POET By John Hall Wheelock
In the small, bare room brimmed up with
twilight
Hours long in silence I had sat
By the bed on which my youth lay dying And the poet that I once had been.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Resignedly beneath the sky
The
melancholy
waters lie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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Still take her, and make her
Thy most
peculiar
care!
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Robert Forst |
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Two
Cossacks
held his
arms and helped him into the saddle.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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ROME
THE VATICAN--SALA DELLE MUSE
(1887)
I SAT in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the
chiselled
shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The
shepherd
threw his hook and tottered past;
The ploughman ran but none could go so fast;
The woodman threw his faggot from the way
And ceased to chop and wondered at the fray.
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John Clare |
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And
strength
is in the tranquil mind.
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Sappho |
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Robinson from this year's
_Miscellany_ is a source of regret not only to all the
contributors
but
to the poet himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To pass thy plains with cities scant between,
Thy stately arches flung o'er deep ravine,
Thy palaces, of Moor's or Roman's time;
Or the swift makings of thy Guadalquiver,
Save in those gilded cars, where bells forever
Ring their
melodious
chime.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild, declares that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some adventurous thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some encounter of arms has
occurred
to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Himself too among the foremost,
splendid
in beauty of body, Turnus moves
armed and towers a whole head over all.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The solemn contract of a life
Was
ratified
this way.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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Whom do you fly,
infatuate?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Strangely
the soldier paused: "Well, they were
punished.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ON saying this, her garment off he took;
Put on his spectacles to overlook;
And parson John, without delay, began;
Said he (as o'er her person now he ran),
This part umbilical will make the mare
A noble breast, and strength at once declare:
Then further on the pastor placed his hand,
While, with the other, (as a magick wand,)
He set about transforming mounts of snow;
That in our climes a genial warmth bestow,
And semi-globes are called, while those that rise
In t'other hemisphere, of larger size,
Are seldom mentioned, through respect no doubt,
But these howe'er the parson, quite devout,
Would not neglect, and whatsoe'er he felt,
He always named, and on its beauties dwelt;
The ceremony this, it seems, required,
And fully ev'ry
movement
John admired.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It is I,
The wronged
Orestes!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream
and its
guarding
depends the final realization of his life's work.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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This monarch had the happiness of giving
additional
publicity to
Petrarch's reputation.
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Petrarch |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Go, command
Hippodamia
and Autonoe
That they attend me to the hall, and wait
Beside me there; for decency forbids
That I should enter to the men, alone.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Wherefore
it seems
The source of seeing is in images,
Nor without these can anything be viewed.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The next is Sichem, he who found his death
In circumcision; his father hath
Like
mischief
felt; the city all did prove
The same effect of his rash violent love.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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what a bad thing it is to let
yourself
be led away by other
women!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Royalty payments must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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So
moveless
in time past,
Hath Fortune girded up her loins at last?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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1210
I was no private but a person rais'd
With strength
sufficient
and command from Heav'n
To free my Countrey; if their servile minds
Me their Deliverer sent would not receive,
But to thir Masters gave me up for nought,
Th' unworthier they; whence to this day they serve.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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In this new book we have
followed
a slightly different arrangement to that
of the former Anthology.
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Imagists |
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MOPSUS
You are the elder, 'tis for me to bide
Your choice, Menalcas, whether now we seek
Yon shade that quivers to the
changeful
breeze,
Or the cave's shelter.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Till
fattening
the winds of the morning, an odour of new-mown hay
Came, and my forehead fell low, and my tears like berries fell down;
Later a sound came, half lost in the sound of a shore far away,
From the great grass-barnacle calling, and later the shore-weeds brown.
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Yeats |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit appellation for this
dazzling
frame?
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Keats |
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Tnou'st heard the knave, abusing those in power,
Bawl freedom loud and then oppress the free;
Thou'st
sheltered
hypocrites in many a shower,
That when in power would never shelter thee.
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John Clare |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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True, they may lay your proud
despoilers
low,
But not for you will Freedom's altars flame.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I wonder it so long
delights
you?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then he
stripped
the shirt of wampum
From the back of Megissogwon,
As a trophy of the battle,
As a signal of his conquest.
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Longfellow |
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Then with its
backward
swirl
The sands and the stones, how they whirl!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and
warriors
and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and loosened again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The name was later spelt
Talleyrand!
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Troubador Verse |
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We needn't talk of
your mother; she has never touched a drop of
anything
since she was
born, except '_kvass_.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It will be as
wonderful
as the personality of a child.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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