I will attempt to do so; but not
till I have
discussed
_rhyme_, the other main element in Chinese
prosody.
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Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' costs,
Of more delight than hawks and horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
Wretched
in this alone, that thou mayst take
All this away, and me most wretchcd make.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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John's Gate, we took a caleche in Market
Square for the Falls of the Chaudiere, about nine miles
southwest
of
the city, for which we were to pay so much, besides forty sous for
tolls.
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_iii_
_His Aunt_
Et amita Veneria properiter obiit,
cui breuia melea modifica recino:
cinis ita placidulus
adoperiat
eam
locaque tacita celeripes Erebi adeat.
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'Tis said you are a misanthrope,
In country solitude you mope,
And we--an
unattractive
set--
Can hearty welcome give alone.
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To steel our souls against the lust of ease;
To bear in silence though our hearts may bleed;
To spend ourselves, and never count the cost,
For others' greater need;--
To go our quiet ways, subdued and sane;
To hush all vulgar clamour of the street;
With level calm to face alike the strain
Of triumph or defeat;
This be our part, for so we serve you best,
So best confirm their prowess and their pride,
Your warrior sons, to whom in this high test
Our
fortunes
we confide.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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"His Takhallus or poetical name (Khayyam) signifies a Tent-maker, and
he is said to have at one time exercised that trade, perhaps before
Nizam-ul-Mulk's
generosity
raised him to independence.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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Imagists |
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Pace volli con Dio in su lo stremo
de la mia vita; e ancor non sarebbe
lo mio dover per
penitenza
scemo,
se cio non fosse, ch'a memoria m'ebbe
Pier Pettinaio in sue sante orazioni,
a cui di me per caritate increbbe.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
As when, upon a tranced summer-night,
Those green-rob'd
senators
of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave;
So came these words and went; the while in tears
She touch'd her fair large forehead to the ground, 80
Just where her falling hair might be outspread
A soft and silken mat for Saturn's feet.
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Keats |
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Th' applause of
listening
senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes
Their lot forbad; nor circumscribed alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;
The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
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Golden Treasury |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the
families
connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Would she had not plunged thus into warfare
and
provoked
the Trojans by attack!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
repeated
he, while his eyes still
Relented not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nor has the darkness power to usher in
Fear to those sheets that know no sin;
But still thy wife, by chaste
intentions
led,
Gives thee each night a maidenhead.
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Robert Herrick |
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Title: The Poetical Works of
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
Volume II
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33363]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETICAL WORKS OF E.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Light-foot May with Meggan
Sought the
choicest
spot,
Clothed with thyme-alternate grass:
Then, while day waxed hot,
Sat at ease to play and rest,
A gracious rest and play;
The loveliest maidens near or far,
When Margaret was away,
Who sat at home to sing and sew.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Then you
received
the Imperial Mandate:
You were ordered to go far away to the City.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Say, can thy noble spirit stoop
To join the
gormandising
troop
Who find a solace in the soup?
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Lewis Carroll |
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I know how to punish other
offenders
bigger than you.
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Aristophanes |
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THE VILLAGE STREET
IN these rapid,
restless
shadows,
Once I walked at eventide,
When a gentle, silent maiden,
Wal ked in beauty at my side
She alone there walked beside me
All in beauty, like a bride.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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NATHAN, _in
travelling
dress_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"O fatuous man, this truth infer,
Brides are not what they seem;
Thou lovest what thou
dreamest
her;
I am thy very dream!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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At whiche day was taken Antenor, 50
Maugre
Polydamas
or Monesteo,
Santippe, Sarpedon, Polynestor,
Polyte, or eek the Troian daun Ripheo,
And othere lasse folk, as Phebuseo.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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400
What shallow hope makes you think he'll pity me,
And respect a sex he treats
disdainfully?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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, which
signifies
to make or
feign.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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while he
Still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
Should fall on me, this hireling
shepherd
here
Wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
Filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Opera
naturale
e ch'uom favella;
ma cosi o cosi, natura lascia
poi fare a voi secondo che v'abbella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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(5)
Chill and harsh the year draws to its close:
In my cotton dress I seek
sunlight
on the porch.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He had never looked upon his
acquaintance
with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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' how low,
How soft the words; and all the while
Her blush was
rippling
with a smile
Like summer after snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Forman
suggested
the above emendation, which has since been discovered
to be the true MS.
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Keats |
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Thus was Ulysses left
Alone, and planning sat in solitude,
By Pallas' aid, the
slaughter
of his foes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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La
miserella
intra tutti costoro
pareva dir: <
di mio figliuol ch'e morto, ond' io m'accoro>>;
ed elli a lei rispondere: <
tanto ch'i' torni>>; e quella: <>,
come persona in cui dolor s'affretta,
<
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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roEsu
IS
EFFIGIEM
OLIYERI CROICWELL.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Grange,
Whose manners were
scroobious
and strange;
He sailed to St.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Opens the
Mandamus
and hands it to BELLINGHAM; and, while he is
reading, ENDICOTT walks up and down the room.
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Longfellow |
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at may
gone by
nat{ur}el
office of feet.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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inlacrima
patris pestibus,
miserere: gentes nostras flebunt miserias.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Have you possess'd
yourself
of the Federal Constitution?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Nisus had a purple hair
and so long as it was
untouched
he was unconquerable.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thus vanish'd
gradually
from my sight
The triumph, which plays ever round the point,
That overcame me, seeming (for it did)
Engirt by that it girdeth.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If thou,
composed
of gentle mould,
Art so unkind to me;
What dismal stories will be told
Of those that cruel be!
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Robert Herrick |
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through a marble
wilderness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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at
shrewednesse
maki?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I cannot now think symbols less than the greatest of all powers
whether they are used
consciously
by the masters of magic, or half
unconsciously by their successors, the poet, the musician and the
artist.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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King
My daughter, be not ashamed of this love,
Nor seek the means its power to disprove;
An
honourable
shame urges you in vain;
Your duty is done, your honour true again;
Your father's satisfied, as his avenger
You have so often placed his life in danger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
The wind has flattened the yellow mother-wort:
Above it in the
distance
they see the walls of a house.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Come and behold this
gladsome
thing that
laugheth in the sun.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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No sage physician's ever-watchful zeal,
No skilful surgeon's gentle hand to heal,
Were found: each dreary
mournful
hour we gave
Some brave companion to a foreign grave.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Though
correspondence
as a rule
He used to hate--and was no fool--
Yet suffering emotional
Had rendered him an invalid;
But word for word his letter read.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"And in my dream, methought, I went
To search out what might there be found;
And what the sweet bird's trouble meant,
That thus lay
fluttering
on the ground.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O the
trembling
fear!
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those
of the earth,
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
theory of the earth,
No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality,
rectitude
of
the earth.
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They
felt ashamed to ask any more questions--and declared
unanimously
for
Vitellius.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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They brought a bier, and hung it with many a cypress crown,
And gently they
uplifted
her, and gently laid her down.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Slepinge
at hoom, whanne out of Troye I sterte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Those mighty periods of years
Which seem to us so vast,
Appear no more before Thy sight
Than
yesterday
that's past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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All are at peace, who once so
fiercely
warred:
Brother and brother, now, we chant a common chord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Meredith - Poems |
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e_--omitted
_shulde_--sholde
2239 _foule_--fowl
_faire_--fayr
_ne_--omitted
2240
_desceiuaunce
of ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The good
instructor
spake; "Now seest thou, son!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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Darthula
will enter the battle of steel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey creature on that head
She was so
stricken
to behold--you mind it?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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der Kerl ist
vogelfrei!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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t; that time is yours: My right
I haue
departed
with.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This is a crucial set of revisions,
reflecting
some ambiguity about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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She later
associated
herself more with New York City.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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He is thinking, and the walls are pierced with beams
of sunshine,
slipping
through young green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Imagists |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
And when thou to a rose shalt come
That hath begun to show her bloom,
Say, I send her
greeting!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust: and when
Can man its
shattered
splendour renovate,
Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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J'enlace et je berce son ame
Dans le reseau mobile et bleu
Qui monte de ma bouche en feu,
Et je roule un
puissant
dictame
Qui charme son coeur et guerit
De ses fatigues son esprit.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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He is the blending of the poem's human
plane with its
supernatural
plane.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ils se croient
endormis
dans un paradis rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
can you really be of human kind
Breathing
pure air of heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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e
prophecie
ylome; 148
After hym ?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ADMETUS (_steadily
refusing
to look_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns
measureless
to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And still dost ask what stifles so
The
fluttering
heart within thy breast?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Now, this displeased Guy, who
said, "Out of such a lot of pudding as you have got, I must say, you might
have spared a
somewhat
larger quantity.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus stand we with a woe on either hand:
Stay they, or go at my
commandment
forth,
Perplexity or pain must needs befall.
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Aeschylus |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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That's good, by
Posidon!
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Aristophanes |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Sara Teasdale |
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When their ships held the deep, nor any land farther appears, the seas
all round, and all round the sky, a dusky shower drew up overhead,
carrying night and storm, and the wave
shuddered
and gloomed.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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