Now men say "They are not":
But in the dusk
Ere the white sun comes--
A gay child that bears a white candle--
I am afraid of their rustling,
Of their
terrible
silence,
The menace of their secrecy.
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"I'll try him," answered Gareth with a smile that
maddened
Lynette.
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days--
Albeit bright
memories
of that sunlit shore
Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!
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]
[Sidenote G:
Meanwhile
many a weary way goes Sir Gawayne.
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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BOOK VII
Song of the Open Road
1
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading
wherever
I choose.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Aricia
And you think Hippolytus, kinder than his father,
Being more humane, will make my chains
lighter?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What strange
disguise
hast now put on,
To _make believe_, that thou art gone?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I'll follow thee
Like an
avenging
spirit I'll follow thee
Even unto death.
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Poe - 5 |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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non illi
quisquam
bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis uastabit tertius heres.
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Latin - Catullus |
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From his
essaying
hand the string, let fly,
Twang'd short and sharp like the shrill swallow's cry.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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{and} yif he be
felonous
{and} wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Oh, this
horrible
dream!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Qua superos spectat ratilans,
obscurior
infra,
Caetera dedignaus, ardet amore poli.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane |
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--
Castera justly
observes
the happiness with which Camoens introduces the
name of this truly great man.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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22 _Denique
Catullus cum maledicta
minaretur
sic ait: At non effugies meos
iambos
4 _si non omnia.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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Tacitus |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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fruitful
in caresses and treacheries.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then in the dark
hillsides
the Cherry-trees
Gleam white with loads of blossom where the gleams
Of piled snow lately hung, and richer streams
The honey.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Part pays, and justly, the
deserving
steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In
summertime
on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In steeples far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Chacun de vous m'a fait un temple dans son coeur;
Vous avez, en secret, baise ma fesse
immonde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Many of those
adventurers
were
living when this lie was printed.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I will reveal a great, a terrible
conspiracy
against the gods
to you.
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Aristophanes |
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of
Replacement
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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That some spot in
darkness
could be found
That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
And I noted with joy
Those
sensational
simpers:
And I said "This is scrumptious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Wherefore
his ridges are not curls
And ripples of an inland mere?
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Tennyson |
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A lash like mine no honest man shall dread,
But all such babbling
blockheads
in his stead.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto
unknown portion of the epic, henceforth to be
assigned
to the second
book.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Hence "Notre Dame" long stood
unique: it was
translated
in all languages, and plays and operas were
founded on it.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Might he know
How
conscious
consciousness could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Posthumous Fame_
EDE tuos tandem populo, Faustine, libellos
et cultum docto pectore profer opus,
quod nec Cecropiae damnent Pandionis arces
nec sileant nostri
praetereantque
senes.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"Non tifidar" it is the sword that speaks
1
Thou trusted'st in thyself and met the blade Thout mask or gauntlet, and art laid
As memorable broken blades that be
Kept as bold
trophies
of old pageantry.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
"Of course you can't leave
_children_
free,"
Said I, "to pick and choose:
But, in the case of men like me,
I think 'Mine Host' might fairly be
Allowed to state his views.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Imagists |
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The
art of war was too laborious for their delicacy, and the generous warmth
of heroism and
patriotism
was incompatible with their effeminacy.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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A
reckless
traitor,
Planned this outrage to his father's honour?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Each in the left side smitten, see them laid--
The
children
of one womb,
Slain by a mutual doom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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that woe, the blood of many beasts,
And victims
manifold
to many gods,
Alone can cure.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And the men of France, bareheaded, bowing lowly,
Led out each a proud signora to the space
Which the
startled
crowd had rounded for them--slowly,
Just a touch of still emotion in his face,
Not presuming, through the symbol, on the grace.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
Mandassero
a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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{28a}
"Nor haply will like it the Heathobard lord,
and as little each of his
liegemen
all,
when a thane of the Danes, in that doughty throng,
goes with the lady along their hall,
and on him the old-time heirlooms glisten
hard and ring-decked, Heathobard's treasure,
weapons that once they wielded fair
until they lost at the linden-play {28b}
liegeman leal and their lives as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Verginius
(L.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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liebe Frau,
verzweifelt
nicht!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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_
"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were spousyde in goddys laue;
Atte here
spousyng
I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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All that comyn thyder ?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Rock, like something starting from a sleep,
Took up the Lady's voice, and laughed again; 55
That ancient Woman seated on Helm-crag
Was ready with her cavern; Hammar-scar,
And the tall Steep of Silver-how, sent forth
A noise of laughter; southern Loughrigg heard,
And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone; 60
Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky
Carried the Lady's voice,--old Skiddaw blew
His speaking-trumpet;--back out of the clouds
Of Glaramara
southward
came the voice;
And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXIX
Agramant
recognized this truth; but thought
That ill his royal word could be repealed;
Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought
That they the right, conferred by him, would yield:
More; that the question was a thing of nought,
Nor worthy to be tried in martial field;
And prayed them -- would they not obey his hest
At least somewhile, to let their quarrel rest.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meantime some rude Arion's restless hand
Wakes the brisk harmony that sailors love:
A circle there of merry
listeners
stand,
Or to some well-known measure featly move,
Thoughtless, as if on shore they still were free to rove.
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Laughs at the holy
writings
and the text divine,
O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my credit in this World much wrong:
Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup,
And sold my
reputation
for a Song.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This object swives
girls enow, and fancies himself a
handsome
fellow, and is not condemned to
the mill as an ass?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - 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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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But
microscopes
are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Muffling his face, of
greeting
friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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