O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'All
precious
souls are there
Most safe, elect by grace,
All tears are wiped for ever from their face:
Untired in prayer 30
They wait and praise
Hidden for a little space.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The illustrious
head of the
aristocratical
party, Marcus Furius Camillus, might
perhaps be, in some measure, protected by his venerable age and
by the memory of his great services to the state.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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An acquaintance that begins with a
compliment
is sure to develop into a
real friendship.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Tell him your parents have
strictly forbidden you to play for
anything
but nuts.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Queen Gulnaar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a
wildwood
fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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* * * * *
JOHN FREEMAN
I WILL ASK
I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you
Their smell and hue,
And the bold,
trembling
anemone awhile to spare
Her flowers starry fair;
Or the flushed wild apple and yet sweeter thorn
Their sweetness to keep
Longer than any fire-bosomed flower born
Between midnight and midnight deep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It has not weakened your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus
choosing
one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I laugh his laughter
and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance
his
brighter
thoughts.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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150
Is this a neighbourhood of men endued
With voice
articulate?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[13] Here this late text
includes
both variants _pasaru_ and
_zakaru_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They also
considered
the former as assisting the soul in its ascent to
its pristine state of felicity; but the latter as of a
punishing and avenging characteristic.
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Tacitus |
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In a certain great assembly, of which you are a
distinguished member, panegyrics on your private virtues have so often
wounded your delicacy, that we shall not
distress
you with anything on
the subject.
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Robert Burns |
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"
Then began the
greatest
battle
That the sun had ever looked on,
That the war-birds ever witnessed.
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Longfellow |
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'
'Be gin'rous for yourselves, where _you_'re to pay,
Thet's the best prectice,' sez a
shepherd
gray;
'Ez for their oaths they wun't be wuth a button,
Long 'z you don't cure 'em o' their taste for mutton;
Th' ain't but one solid way, howe'er you puzzle:
Tell they're convarted, let 'em wear a muzzle.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Into the secret
wilderness
of their love.
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Yeats |
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Can I let this
offender
go free?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I'll stride out with only my thought in sight,
Seeing nothing beyond, without hearing a sound,
Alone and unknown, back bowed, folded hands,
Sad, since
daylight
to me will seem night.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"Leave me with mine own,
"And take you yours away;
"I can't buy of your
patterns
of God,
"The little Gods you may rightly prefer.
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Stephen Crane |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one unmatched
exemplar
of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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Ed elli a me: <
che sempre al
cominciar
di sotto e grave;
e quant' om piu va su, e men fa male.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--
That so your happiness in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The
buoyancy
of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
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Poe - 5 |
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[100]
The song of mountain-streams, unheard by day,
Now hardly heard, beguiles my
homeward
way.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His poems, written during the War and Siege, collected under the title of
"L'Annee Terrible" (The
Terrible
Year, 1870-71), betray the long-tried
exile, "almost alone in his gloom," after the death of his son Charles and
his child.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
third, in what follows, puts from time to time fragrant
herbs into the fire so that it
flickers
up into
brighter flame.
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Yeats |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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The first is that stage plays are known
to have been
performed
in Rome as early as the middle of the fourth
century.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Youths and boys minding geese and ducks:
Women and girls tending
mulberries
and hemp.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So
deliciously
you, Mery, that I dream
Of what impossibly flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When
knowledge
only could have filled,
And virtue all those furrows tilled.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Poe - 5 |
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_Herry_, to plunder; most
properly
to plunder birds' nests.
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Robert Forst |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Chatterton had shown (by his article on
Christmas
games, &c.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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See, all our fools
aspiring
to be knaves!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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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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But feare not yet
To take vpon you what is yours: you may
Conuey your pleasures in a
spacious
plenty,
And yet seeme cold.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What,
shrinking
from thine own delightsomeness?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In support of this tradition, the
etymology
of their
name is adduced as a proof.
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Tacitus |
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On these
occasions his daughter Emily emerged from her wonted
retirement
and
did her part as gracious hostess; nor would any one have known from
her manner, I have been told, that this was not a daily occurrence.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude:
Gaudete vosque, o Libuae lacus undae:
Ridete,
quidquid
est domi cachinnorum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Li tuoi
ragionamenti
sian la corti;
mentre che torni, parlero con questa,
che ne conceda i suoi omeri forti>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I
cannot be a man with wishing;
therefore
I will die a woman with
grieving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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To Heorot came she, where
helmeted
Danes
slept in the hall.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While,
leafless
now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout populace is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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should the branded
character
be mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Who else like you
Could sift the seedcorn from our chaff,
And make us with the pen we knew
Deathless at least in
epitaph?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
[43] Text has
erroneous
form.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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It
imitates
the public riot.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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From the sweet
thoughts
of home,
And from all hope I was forever hurled.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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en
stabeled
his stede stif men in-no3e.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XLV
Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
Are the loving hands of my dear lover,
When she sleeps beside me in the starlight
And her beauty
drenches
me with rest.
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Sappho |
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cyning
æðelum
gōd, _the king
noble in birth_, 1871; gumcystum gōd, 2544; w.
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Beowulf |
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What a
miserable
little town this
is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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If Nature hold another heart
That knows a purer flame than me,
I too therein could
challenge
part
And learn of love a new degree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Those who are happy regret the
shortness
of the day;
Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the
rarities
of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Itte lacketh notte a
doughtie
honde to speke; 465
The cocke saiethe drefte[75], yett armed ys he alleyne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I had not told posterity this but for their
ignorance
who chose
that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted; and
to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his
memory on this side idolatry as much as any.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls, --
I
speculate
no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(16)
At the
beginning
of winter a cold spirit comes,
The North Wind blows--chill, chill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Mak'st thou this shame thy
pastime?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
'If
Bialacoil
be swete and free,
Dogged and fel thou shuldist be;
Froward and outrageous, y-wis;
A cherl chaungeth that curteis is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lucentio
is your name?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
_
[16] See letters on
Chivalry
and Romance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
net
Title: Alcools
Author:
Guillaume
Apollinaire
Release Date: March 25, 2005 [EBook #15462]
[This file last updated October 31, 2010]
Language: French
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALCOOLS ***
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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1137-1152)
Born
apparently
in Gascony, his real name unknown, he probably spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and Eble III of Ventadorn.
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Troubador Verse |
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[26]
Quotation
from the Yangtze boatman's song:
"When Yen-yu is as big as a man's hat
One should not venture to make for Ch'u-t'ang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
A little oak spreads oer it,
And throws a shadow round,
A green sward close before it,
The greenest ever found:
There is not a
woodland
nigh nor is there a green grove,
Yet stood the fair maid nigh me and told me all her love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
]
[Footnote 14: It would have been _charitable_, if the author had not
pointed at
personal
characters in this Ballad of Charity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
In thia
letter, after describing Marvell as a man of " sin-
gular desert," both from " report " and personal
"converse,*' he
proceeds
to say — "He hath spent
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XIV NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Though e'er so high I sate above, though e'er so low he spake,
As clear as thunder I should hear the new oath he might take,
That hers, forsooth, were
heavenly
eyes--ah me, while very dim
Some heavenly eyes (indeed of heaven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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There
will be none till the Southern Soudan is
reoccupied
by our troops.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I envy death the body far less than
the
oppressors
the minds of those whom they have torn from me.
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Shelley |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans sur la vie
Du grand desert, ou luit la Liberte ravie,
Forets, soleils, rives,
savanes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
"A little snow had fallen in the night, and
everything
was white except
the greasy fat clouds that blew down and down from the north.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Herein wonder not
How 'tis that, while the seeds of things are all
Moving forever, the sum yet seems to stand
Supremely
still, except in cases where
A thing shows motion of its frame as whole.
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Lucretius |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Aricia
Dear Ismene, my heart hears it so eagerly, 415
Your speech that owes so little to
reality!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But when my simple hope I would disclose,
My o'er-fraught
faltering
tongue the crowded thoughts oppress.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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