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Hear how it
babbles!
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Imagists |
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And in your kind
yourselves
prefer.
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Marvell - Poems |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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"A
glorious
devil, large in heart
and brain, that did love beauty only.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thou wert not to share the search for Italian borders
and destined fields, nor the dim
Ausonian
Tiber.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Be where you list, your charter is so strong
That you yourself may privilage your time
To what you will; to you it doth belong
Yourself
to pardon of self-doing crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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In one he doth
accounts
behold,
Here bottles stand in close array,
There jars of cider block the way,
An almanac but eight years old.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Among the rocks--an empty hollow,
Secret, still,
mysterious!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Stephen Crane |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By
soldiers
battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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MORTAL HELP
ONE hears in the old poems of men taken away to help the gods in a
battle, and Cuchulain won the goddess Fand for a while, by helping her
married sister and her sister's husband to
overthrow
another nation of
the Land of Promise.
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Yeats |
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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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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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nec mirum: maculae paris utrisque,
urbana altera et illa Formiana,
impressae
resident nec eluentur: 5
morbosi pariter, gemelli utrique,
uno in lectulo, erudituli ambo,
non hic quam ille magis uorax adulter,
riuales sociei puellularum.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The eternal change
But grasps
Humanity
with quicker range; 160
And they who fall but fall as worlds will fall,
To rise, if just, a Spirit o'er them all.
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Byron |
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I
recollected my duel and guessed without any
difficulty
that I had been
wounded.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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How pleasant and
beautiful
it is to be
At last obedient to love!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A marvel--
The dead child all at once began to
tremble!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This
second element is that which the French sculptor in a
different
medium
has carried to perfection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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--Nothing can suppose,
(And sure the power of wisdom only knows,)
What need requireth thee:
So free and liberal as thy bounty flows,
Some necessary cause must surely be;
But disappointments, pains, and every woe
Devoted wretches feel,
The universal plagues of life below,
Are
mysteries
still neath Fate's unbroken seal.
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John Clare |
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350
Chatillion hyt the erlie on the hede,
Thatt splytte eftsoons his cristed helm in twayne;
Whiche he
perforce
withe target covered,
And to the battel went with myghte ameine.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In
these dreams which he has told to his mother he receives premonition
concerning the advent of the satyr Enkidu, destined to join with him
in the
conquest
of Elam.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling
across the floors of silent seas.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Superiority to fate
Is
difficult
to learn.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Bree,
Who
frequented
the depths of the sea;
She nurs'd the small fishes, and washed all the dishes,
And swam back again into Bree.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Je croyais voir unis par un nouveau dessin
Les hanches de l'Antiope au buste d'un imberbe,
Tant sa taille faisait
ressortir
son bassin.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We
were
perfectly
respectable till you came in.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one scorching swallow; dreadful faint I felt and hollow,
Standing
there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Only with speeches fair
She woos the gentle air
To hide her guilty front with
innocent
snow;
And on her naked shame,
Pollute with sinful blame,
The saintly veil of maiden white to throw;
Confounded, that her Maker's eyes
Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
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Golden Treasury |
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But mark
How she scatters o'er the wool
Woven shapes, till it is full
Of men that struggle close, complex;
Short-clipp'd steeds with
wrinkled
necks
Arching high; spear, shield, and all
The panoply that doth recall
Mighty war; such war as e'en
For Helen's sake is waged, I ween.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For the king of Erech of the wide places
open,
addressing
thy speech as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The rat is the
concisest
tenant.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What race
Are these, who seem so
overcome
with woe?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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" A copy is in the
possession
of Mr.
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Byron |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one scorching swallow; dreadful faint I felt and hollow,
Standing
there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A
swelling
of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Those chiefs, that used her utmost rage to meet,
Lie pierced with wounds, and
bleeding
in the fleet.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Around me stretched a wild and dreary
desert,
intersected
by little hills and deep ravines.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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.
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Wilde - Poems |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob
Gerritsz
Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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I won't speak common boasts or praise,
But truth, with a thousand witnesses,
Let all desire what I wish always,
The lance of love for the joyous
That wounds the
unprotected
heart
With friendship's pleasant pleasing;
Yet I have felt such blow's assailing,
That from the deepest sleep I start.
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Troubador Verse |
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--these
scoundrels
have obtained
Such pow'r and sway, without them nothing's done;
But hell will get them when their course is run.
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La Fontaine |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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But we shall not do full justice to his public
integrity, if we do not bear in mind the corruption
of the age in whicb he lived; the manifold apos-
tasies amidst which he retained his
conscience
;
and the effect which such wide -spread profligacy
must have had in making thousands almost scep-
tical as to whether there were such a thing as
public virtue at all.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The naked Hulk
alongside
came
And the Twain were playing dice;
"The Game is done!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Once an Eternal Friend, that heard my cries,
Came to my rescue,
glorious
in his might,
Arm'd with all-conquering love, then took his flight,
That I in vain pursued Him with my eyes.
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Petrarch |
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and,
Catching the windes
together
in a net,
Mu?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But rest,
In chaffing restlessness, is yet more drear
Than to be crush'd, in striving to uprear 40
Love's standard on the
battlements
of song.
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Keats |
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And now, when through the royal dome they pass'd,
High on a throne the king each
stranger
placed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder
crawling
coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help--for It
As impotently moves as you or I.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
"Certainly,
whenever
you like," replied I, joyfully; for at that moment
I was ready to tear him in pieces.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Such Tydeus was, the
foremost
once in fame!
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Iliad - Pope |
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for pandering to their sweet loves,
he beds
together
the nice lad and the nice aunt.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It is this edition which has been chiefly used by European readers and
to which
references
are made in the present paper.
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Li Po |
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[550] Demeter is represented wandering, torch in hand, about the universe
looking for her lost child
Proserpine
(Persephone).
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Aristophanes |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of
destinie
be seen;
For what he be that ouphant faieries stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Out of
ourselves
we can never pass, nor can there be in creation what in
the creator was not.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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His
Highness
doats on milky cheeks,
So do not make us dally"--
We, eighty strong, who send along
The dreaded Pirate Galley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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What is the use
of knocking about and fighting as we do unless we get the chance to
drink more wine and kiss more women than lasting peaceable men through
their long
lifetime?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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supplies a
supposed
gap here:
[banan ēac fundon bennum sēocne
(nē) ǣr hī þǣm gesēgan syllīcran wiht]
wyrm on wonge.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
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Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
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La Fontaine |
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After much country seen, a forest gray
She reached, where, sorely wounded in mid breast,
Between two dead companions on the ground,
The royal maid a
bleeding
stripling found.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A mere pause from
thinking!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thus in
_Eastward Ho_ Slitgut, who is
impersonating
the cuckold at
Horn-fair, says: 'Slight!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He was a gift from God--a sign of pardon--
That child vouchsafed me in my
eightieth
year!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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one of
ourselves
(Companions!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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I considered a simple prose or free verse
translation
of these poems, but to show the Troubadours without their rhyme schemes, their form, seemed to me too great an admission of failure.
| Guess: |
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Troubador Verse |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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GD}
For Elemental Gods their
thunderous
Organs blew; creating
Delicious Viands.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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High from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees
As he esteemed them trifles,
And then he spied a breeze,
And
situated
softly
Upon a pile of wind
Which in a perturbation
Nature had left behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If 'towring' is not right, 'lowring' is
the most
probable
emendation.
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"
He
followed
towards the hill, climbed high above,
Lifted his voice, and, as the sowers sow
The seed down wind, thus did that lion throw
His message far enough the town to reach:
"King!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
smallest
"robe" will fit me,
And just a bit of "crown;"
For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Li Po |
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ne god ne may nat ben
desseiuid
in no manere.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yea, and strange largeness in this power of love
For men too much
limited!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He even
thought of resigning his commission and going to Paris to force a
fortune from
conquered
fate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No savage mountain
climbing
to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the astonished eyes.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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As I slept, methought
Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,
Appear'd to me, with other
spritely
shows
Of mine own kindred.
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Shakespeare |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Remember
it
will be life or death to thee.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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