PHERES, _his father,
formerly
King but now in retirement_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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All hearts are touched and softened at her name,
Alike the bandit, with the bloody hand,
The priest, the prince, the scholar, and the peasant,
The man of deeds, the
visionary
dreamer,
Pay homage to her as one ever present!
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Longfellow |
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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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If you submit, the thunderer stands appeased;
The
gracious
power is willing to be pleased.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Not liche to the
apostles
twelve,
They deceyve other and hem-selve;
Bigyled is the gyler than.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hence perdition-doom'd I rove
A prey to
rankling
sorrow in this garb.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Quand tu vas balayant l'air de ta jupe large,
Tu fais l'effet d'un beau
vaisseau
qui prend le large,
Charge de toile, et va roulant
Suivant un rythme doux, et paresseux, et lent.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If
consequence
do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
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Shakespeare |
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_Dublin
University
Magazine_
EVIRADNUS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
jubilation
and welcome.
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Sidney Lanier |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He was received within the humble cell;
The friar's thoughts were on his smiling belle,
Her simple manners,
fascinating
grace,
Complexion, age; each feature he would trace;
The heaving bosom, and the beauteous charms;
That made him wish to clasp her in his arms.
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La Fontaine |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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Meantime the menial train with
unctious
wood
Heap'd high the genial hearth, Vulcanian food:
When, early dress'd, advanced the royal heir;
With manly grasp he waved a martial spear;
A radiant sabre graced his purple zone,
And on his foot the golden sandal shone.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Habt ihr das wohl
gefasst?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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quem (precor, aspires), qua sit ratione creatus,
quo genitus factusue modo, da nosse uolenti;
da, pater,
augustas
ut possim noscere causas,
mundanas olim molis quo foedere rerum
sustuleris animamque leui quo maximus olim
texueris numero, quo congrege dissimilique,
quidque id sit uegetum, quod per cita corpora uiuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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Drunk with love,
But with confused and bashful air,
Lenski at intervals would dare,
If Olga
smilingly
approve,
Dally with a dishevelled tress
Or kiss the border of her dress.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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What have I said,
Ornella?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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But heaven in thy
creation
did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Like a wounded
bird
Easily caught, ensnare him, O ye Nymphs,
Ye Oreads chaste, ye dusky
Dryades!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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SECOND OPAL
If, from a
careless
hold,
One gem of these should fall,
No power of art or gold
Its wholeness could recall:
The lustrous wonder dies
In gleams of irised rain,
As light fades out from the eyes
When a soul is crushed by pain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Hier ist ein
Flaschchen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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ATHENA
Skill they, or not, the path to find
Of
favouring
speech and presage kind?
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Aeschylus |
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[212] The owl was dedicated to Athene, and being
respected
at Athens, it
had greatly multiplied.
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Aristophanes |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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How dear to me, Sire, such
banishment!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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Beowulf |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she realized how
imprudently
she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Modern Paris is often the
background
of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Rilke - Poems |
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What now befits it that I do,
What meditate, what
undergo?
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Aeschylus |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Vestue ot une sorquanie,
<<
Hir
thoughte
it elles a vilanye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Rilke sees in Rodin the
dominant
personification in our age of the
"power of servitude in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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Phylides' dart (as Amphidus drew nigh)
His blow prevented, and
transpierced
his thigh,
Tore all the brawn, and rent the nerves away;
In darkness, and in death, the warrior lay.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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and lo,
Debaucheries
and every breed of sloth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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Latin - Catullus |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's
citizens
be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared destruction!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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[68]
And what if ospreys, cormorants, herons cry,
Amid tempestuous vapours driving by, [69] 255
Or hovering over wastes too bleak to rear
That common growth of earth, the foodful ear; [70]
Where the green apple shrivels on the spray,
And pines the unripened pear in summer's
kindliest
ray; [71]
Contentment shares the desolate domain [72] 260
With Independence, child of high Disdain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A CERTAIN Citizen, with fortune large,
When settled with a handsome wife in charge,
Not long
attended
for the marriage fruit:
The lady soon put matters 'yond dispute;
Produced a girl at first, and then a boy,
To fill th' expecting parent's breast with joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
I will make the true poem of riches,--
To earn for the body and the mind
whatever
adheres, and goes forward, and
is not dropped by death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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He did not
understand
display.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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make my watchful care
Close up its bloodshot eyes, nor see
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
an so 3428
as bounte {and}
prowesse
ben ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The sun is setting, for the light is red,
And you are
outlined
in a golden fire,
Like Ursula upon an altar-screen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
I deem that I with but a crumb
Am
sovereign
of them all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Yes, and not only words that thou and I
Out of our sexes with a flame's escape
Are
fashioned
into one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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This man -- which his name it was also Jones --
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills and stones,
Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but
yallerish
cotton,
And little o' THAT, and his fences was rotten,
And what little corn he had, HIT was boughten
And dinged ef a livin' was in the land.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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| Question: |
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Golden Treasury |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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His feigned gravity
disappeared
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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seed] Thence from the Flood relates,
and by degrees
explains
who that seed 1667.
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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He
maintained
that women were both clever and thrifty, that they
never divulged the Mysteries of Demeter, while you and I go about
babbling incessantly about whatever happens at the Senate.
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XXVI
In my young days of wild delight
On balls I madly used to dote,
Fond declarations they invite
Or the
delivery
of a note.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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