1173)
Raimbaut, Lord of Orange,
Corethezon
and other lands in Provence and Languedoc, was the first troubadour originating from Provence proper.
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Troubador Verse |
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Smoothing
her aged husband's silvery hair,
Bids me the joys of rural music prove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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) Who is this
Who cometh in dyed
garments
from the South?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Incipit
Prohemium
Liber Quartus.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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is
questiou{n}
q{uo}d she.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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_Laurence Binyon_
THE RED CROSS NURSES
Out where the line of battle cleaves
The horizon of woe
And sightless
warriors
clutch the leaves
The Red Cross nurses go.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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54:
The meanest
floweret
of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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III [ERROR:
unhandled
comment start] SIC -->
ur-(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Why, nothing, only,
Your
inference
therefrom!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Of thee we now should ask forgiving boon;
And of thy spicy myrtles as they blow,
And of thy roses amorous of the moon,
And of thy lilies, that do paler grow
Now they can no more hear thy ghittern's tune, 150
For venturing
syllables
that ill beseem
The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
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Keats |
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`And
trusteth
this, that certes, herte swete, 1590
Er Phebus suster, Lucina the shene,
The Leoun passe out of this Ariete,
I wol ben here, with-outen any wene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I lent a helping hand; and, in a trice we had
the box upon the table, in the midst of all the bottles and glasses, not
a few of which were
demolished
in the scuffle.
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Poe - 5 |
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His is
stronger
every way.
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Euripides - Electra |
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at he was
honoured
soo,
And made grete doloure; 513
For swiche honoure & swiche glorie,
As it is writen in his storye,
He ne loued in toun ne toure.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
The
stranger
vanished .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And while he slept
he saw a
wonderful
vision in a dream.
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Tennyson |
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[Illustration]
He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court,
Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye,
Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig
On the charge of
deserting
its sty.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Then out he lets her run; away she snorts
In bundling gallop for the cottage door,
With hungry hubbub begging crusts and orts,
Then like the
whirlwind
bumping round once more;
Nuzzling the dog, making the pullets run,
And sulky as a child when her play's done.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Poebel, who also copied this text, has shown that
_Nin-lil_ is an
erroneous
reading for _Nin-sun_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--First
published
in _Times of India_, Bombay, July, 1874.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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END OF CANTO THE FIFTH
CANTO THE SIXTH
The Duel
'La, sotto giorni
nubilosi
e brevi,
Nasce una gente a cui 'l morir non duole.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Osgood, was
published
in the "Broadway Journal" for September, 1845.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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APRIL
The April winds are magical
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden walks are passional
To
bachelors
and dames.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I reached
Uglich, repair unto the holy minster,
Hear mass, and, glowing with zealous soul, I weep
Sweetly, as if the
blindness
from mine eyes
Were flowing out in tears.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But his last words, his message-words,
They burn, lest
friendly
eye
Should read how proud and calm
A patriot could die,
With his last words, his dying words,
A soldier's battle-cry.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in
On the length and the breadth of the
marvellous
marshes of Glynn.
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Sidney Lanier |
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Chanson de Roland |
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Nicht hemmte dann den gottergleichen Lauf
Der wilde Berg mit allen seinen Schluchten;
Schon tut das Meer sich mit
erwarmten
Buchten
Vor den erstaunten Augen auf.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Alway me lyked for to dwelle, 1635
To seen the cristal in the welle,
That shewed me ful openly
A
thousand
thinges faste by.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_Questa
leggiadra
e gloriosa Donna.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Harp and psaltery, harp and
psaltery
make drunk my spirit.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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No gift of theirs, in
whatsoever
shape
It comes to me, with whatsoever charm
To fascinate my sense, will I receive.
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Longfellow |
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]
MAMMON:
I wonder that gray wizards _340
Like you should be so
beardless
in their schemes;
It had been but a point of policy
To keep Iona and the Swine apart.
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Shelley |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XL
Ah, what detains thee, Phaon,
So long from Mitylene,
Where now thy
restless
lover
Wearies for thy coming?
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Sappho |
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This translation or rather adaptation
contains
many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Of these
literary
records nothing has survived to us:
even of epitaphs preserved to us in inscriptions none is earlier than
the age of Cato.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Of course there are many things
of which I was
convicted
that I had not done, but then there are many
things of which I was convicted that I had done, and a still greater
number of things in my life for which I was never indicted at all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
According
to Strabo, it was at Noreia, a town of the Taurisci, near Aquileia, that Carbo was defeated.
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Tacitus |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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68, remarks that
the "worship of Sminthean Apollo, in various parts of the Troad and
its neighboring territory, dates before the
earliest
period of
Aeolian colonization.
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Iliad - Pope |
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For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of
thoughtless
youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then, with his faulchion drawn, Amphinomus
Advanced to drive Ulysses from the door, 100
And fierce was his assault; but, from behind,
Telemachus between his
shoulders
fix'd
A brazen lance, and urged it through his breast.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Sun is in the Lion mounted high,
The Syrian star
Barks from afar,
And with his sultry breath infects the sky;
The ground below is parched, the heavens above us fry;
The shepherd drives his fainting flock
Beneath the covert of a rock
And seeks
refreshing
rivulets nigh.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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By Me
created?
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If you've knocked a nigger
edgeways
when 'e's thrustin' for your life,
You must leave 'im very careful where 'e fell;
An' may thank your stars an' gaiters if you didn't feel 'is knife
That you ain't told off to bury 'im as well.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Lawrence, on
the north side, leaving the further
examination
of Quebec till our
return.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[Illustration]
But this upsetting was of no consequence, because all the party knew how to
swim very well: and, in fact, they
preferred
swimming about till after the
moon rose; when, the water growing chilly, they sponge-taneously entered
the boat.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Many thanks, my much-esteemed friend, for your kind letters; but why
will you make me run the risk of being
contemptible
and mercenary in
my own eyes?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Whoso with riches deals,
And thinks peace bought and sold,
Will find them slipping eels,
That slide the firmest hold:
Though sweet as sleep with health
Thy lulling luck may be,
Pride may
oerstride
thy wealth,
And check prosperity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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_The Poetry Review_:--"The
Messines
Road," by Captain J.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What fields, or waves, or
mountains?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And yet I could look beyond all this,
To a place of infinite beauty;
And I could see the
loveliness
of her
Who walked in the shade of the trees.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The Cossack who had the letter
quivered
and
fell from his horse; the others fled at full speed.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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feor-cȳððe bēoð sēlran
gesōhte
þǣm þe him selfa dēah, _foreign lands are
better sought by him who trusts to his own ability_, 1839.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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rise:'
surpass the
ordinary
scenes of nature.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Pitiless
Death my every good has ta'en!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took
Archipiades
to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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too frail
Always to keep
inviolate
the house
Of her first Lord, and wait for his return.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Now, down here, in this unknown angle,
A glimmering furrow of
melancholy
ruby,
A sweetly twinkling sun-spark trembles:
A patriarchal guide leads his family.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Since his lofty
exploits
have no equal
In such a matter he will have no rival.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The visualization is elevated to
the impersonal objective level which gives to the rhythm of these poems
an imperturbable calm, to the figures
presented
a monumental erectness.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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This duke is rich, great, prosperous,
No blot
attaches
to his ancient name.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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III
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and
sheepfolds
seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat,
And apple-orchards green;
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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An oak-tree
smouldered
there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
country-folk be gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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[34] The Hebrew cognate of _masu_, to forget, is _nasa_, Arabic
_nasijia_, and occurs here in
Babylonian
for the first time.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Tell of ancient architects finishing their works on the
tops of columns as
perfectly
as on the lower and more visible parts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own
district
a notorious rogue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Ful
rewfully
she loked up-on Troye,
Biheld the toures heighe and eek the halles; 730
`Allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There will soon be
threescore and ten miles of permanent distance between us; and now
that your
friendship
and friendly correspondence is entwisted with the
heart-strings of my enjoyment of life, I must indulge myself in a
happy day of "The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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While
cheerful
Peace, with linnet song,
Chants the lowly dells among.
| 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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_Song of the
Soldiers
within_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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The yellow leopards,
strained
and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of screaming shell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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qualis in aerei perlucens uertice montis
riuus muscoso prosilit e lapide,
qui cum de prona
praeceps
est ualle uolutus,
per medium densi transit iter populi, 60
dulce uiatori lasso in sudore leuamen,
cum grauis exustos aestus hiulcat agros:
hic, uelut in nigro iactatis turbine nautis
lenius aspirans aura secunda uenit
iam prece Pollucis, iam Castoris implorata, 65
tale fuit nobis Allius auxilium.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"
Zim pierced to the very quick by these
repeated
stabs,
Sprang to his feet, while from him pealed a fearful shout,
And, furious, flung down upon the marble slabs
The richly carved and golden Lamp, whose light went out--
Then glided in a form strange-shaped,
In likeness of a woman, moulded in dense smoke,
Veiled in thick, ebon fog, in utter darkness draped,
A glimpse of which, in short, one's inmost fears awoke.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
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the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When he has thoroughly gorged himself, then I
overthrow
and
crush him.
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Aristophanes |
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This well I knew, nor was at all surpris'd,
But warn'd by oft experience: did not she
Of Timna first betray me, and reveal
The secret wrested from me in her highth
Of Nuptial Love profest,
carrying
it strait
To them who had corrupted her, my Spies,
And Rivals?
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Milton |
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Now weary grown, my life I had arraign'd
That in its error, check'd (to my belief)
Blest virtue's seeds--now, in my yellow leaf,
I grieve the
misspent
years, existence stain'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Now near the Greeks the black battalions drew;
And first two leaders valiant Hector slew:
His force Anchialus and
Mnesthes
found,
In every art of glorious war renown'd;
In the same car the chiefs to combat ride,
And fought united, and united died.
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Iliad - Pope |
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" Therewith, it seem'd,
A little
wheeling
in his airy tour
Terrible as the lightning rush'd he down,
And snatch'd me upward even to the fire.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
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Li Po |
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A single glance of it mocks
all the
investigations
of man, and all the instruments and books of the
earth, and all reasoning.
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Whitman |
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"The
mountain
of Tsang-wu shall fall and the waters of the Hsiang
shall cease, sooner than the marks of our tears shall fade from these
bamboo-leaves.
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Li Po |
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I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Right as him list, he
laugheth
at my peyne,
And I ne can myn herte not restreyne, 235
That I ne love him alwey, never-the-les;
And of al this I not to whom me pleyne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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