I've
confessed
an unworthy love he'll deplore.
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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'Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I
counselled
Juturna, I confess it, to succour
her hapless brother, and for his life's sake favoured a greater daring;
yet not the arrow-shot, not the bending of the bow, I swear by the
merciless well-head of the Stygian spring, the single ordained dread of
the gods in heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A strange
choice to our mind, but
apparently
the poem was greatly admired as
a masterpiece of wit.
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John Donne |
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Heresy, holy Patriarch;
downright
heresy.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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Where is he
driving?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Far off he stands
In sunset land, and on his shoulder bears
The pillar'd mountain-mass whose base is earth,
Whose top is heaven, and its
ponderous
load
Too great for any grasp.
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Aeschylus |
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What
obligation
to divulge the fact?
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La Fontaine |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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X
When you were small, you say, neither did others consider you f air, nor
Even your mother find praise--and I believe it--
Till you grew bigger,
developing
quietly over the years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_Glare_ is a leading error in the philosophy of
American
household
decoration--an error easily recognised as deduced from the perversion of
taste just specified.
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Poe - 5 |
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He had due rites and
tendance?
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Euripides - Electra |
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MARMADUKE O
wretched
Human-kind!
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William Wordsworth |
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Then in his elocution to behold what
word is proper, which hath ornaments, which height, what is beautifully
translated, where figures are fit, which gentle, which strong, to show
the
composition
manly; and how he hath avoided faint, obscure, obscene,
sordid, humble, improper, or effeminate phrase; which is not only praised
of the most, but commended (which is worse), especially for that it is
naught.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"For,
although
common Snarks do no manner of harm,
Yet I feel it my duty to say
Some are Boojums--" The Bellman broke off in alarm,
For the Baker had fainted away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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_All insert_ ryght
_before_
so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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1 This refers either to the recall of the
northwestern
armies or to Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Riddel
occasioned
these repentant
strains: they were accepted as they were meant by the party.
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Robert Burns |
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who can curiously behold
The
smoothness
and the sheen of beauty's cheek,
Nor feel the heart can never all grow old?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Air, soil, water, fire--these are words;
I myself am a word with them--my qualities interpenetrate
with theirs--my name is nothing to them;
Though it were told in the three
thousand
languages, what would air, soil,
water, fire, know of my name?
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Whitman |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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How elegant your
Frenchmen?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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We're told, howe'er, when ready to depart,
With flowing tears she press'd him to her heart;
And on his arm a
brilliant
bracelet plac'd,
With hair around her picture nicely trac'd;
This guard in full remembrance of my love,
She cried;--then clasped her hands to pow'rs above.
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La Fontaine |
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As feathers and hairs and
bristles
are begot
The first on members of the four-foot breeds
And on the bodies of the strong-y-winged,
Thus then the new Earth first of all put forth
Grasses and shrubs, and afterward begat
The mortal generations, there upsprung--
Innumerable in modes innumerable--
After diverging fashions.
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Lucretius |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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)
Song at Sunset
Splendor of ended day floating and filling me,
Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
Inflating
my throat, you divine average,
You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Nay, she is sometimes
tortured
by convulsions.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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" cried he, snatching the
paper out of the hands of the Secretary and
throwing
it in Saveliitch's
face.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
| Guess: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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So four of them went up to the top of it, and looked about them; while the
other three waddled up and down, and
repeated
poetry, and their last six
lessons in arithmetic, geography, and cookery.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many vulgar people expressed surprise, but Wang replied: 'The
reason why vulgar people find Li Po's poetry
congenial
is that it is
easy to enjoy.
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Li Po |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I doubt na fortune may you shore
Some mim-mou'd
pouthered
priestie,
Fu' lifted up wi' Hebrew lore,
And band upon his breastie:
But Oh!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a
thousand
fighting men in ambush lie!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Thus Rilke's
monograph
on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's testament on Life and Art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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FIGHTING
Last year we were
fighting
at the source of the San-kan;
This year we are fighting at the Onion River road.
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Li Po |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up
By ignorance and
parching
poverty,
His energies roll back upon his heart,
And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison,
They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks--
And this is their best cure!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ididnotknow One half the
substance
of his speech with me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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180
'Father,' I said, ''tis known to Thee
How Thou thy Saints preparest;
But this I see,--Saint Charity
Is still the first and
fairest!
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
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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Villon |
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ei
wexen
eschaufed
in to hat[e] of hem ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Judith, we are two upright minds in this
Herd of
grovelling
cowardice.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Through him the whole system of
Monopolies
is indirectly
criticised.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ise freres don also; prechen aboute ylome,
ffor of
prechyng
it wor?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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69 Certain of these animals, milk-white, and untouched by earthly labor, are
pastured
at the public expense in the sacred woods and groves.
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Tacitus |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
descent into the valley on the Nashua side is by far the most sudden;
and a couple of miles brought us to the
southern
branch of the Nashua,
a shallow but rapid stream, flowing between high and gravelly banks.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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TRIBOULET:: Obey me,
Blanche!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
Pitch camp in every part of my heart:
Neither, in war, can take the victor's part,
Equal in
fortitude
and forcefulness.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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In one he doth
accounts
behold,
Here bottles stand in close array,
There jars of cider block the way,
An almanac but eight years old.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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"Be silent, darling, you must come--
The wind is off shore blowing;
You only change your prison dull
For one that's splendid,
glowing!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Vers le ciel quelquefois, comme l'homme d'Ovide,
Vers le ciel ironique et cruellement bleu,
Sur son cou convulsif tendant sa tete avide,
Comme s'il adressait des
reproches
a Dieu!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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There Was a Child Went Forth
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or
stretching
cycles of years.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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or in womanly
housework?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Was he afraid, or
tranquil?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Now the court-sins did every place defile,
And plagues and war fall heavy on the isle ;
Pride
nourished
folly, folly a delight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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But first I mean
To
exercise
him in the Wilderness,
There he shall first lay down the rudiments
Of his great warfare, e're I send him forth
To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes,
By Humiliation and strong Sufferance: 160
His weakness shall o'recome Satanic strength
And all the world, and mass of sinful flesh;
That all the Angels and Aetherial Powers,
They now, and men hereafter may discern,
From what consummate vertue I have chose
This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
To earn Salvation for the Sons of men.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Of all the things I crave,
The
thousand
things, or all that others have,
What should I pray for?
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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A dust-bin and a lumber-garret,
At most a mock-heroic play[8]
With fine,
pragmatic
maxims teeming,
The mouths of puppets well-beseeming!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Wenn ihr euch so im Kreise drehen wolltet,
Wie er's in seiner alten Muhle tut
Das hiess' er allenfalls noch gut
Besonders
wenn ihr ihn darum begrussen solltet.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And even for husbands (whose own wives,
Although
of fertile wombs, have borne for them
No babies in the house) are also found
Concordant natures so that they at last
Can bulwark their old age with goodly sons.
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Lucretius |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And
Goodyere
preserved
his letters and his poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
{40d} A hard saying,
variously
interpreted.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The warden of Geats,
with bolt from bow, then balked of life,
of wave-work, one monster, amid its heart
went the keen war-shaft; in water it seemed
less doughty in
swimming
whom death had seized.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The learned man
profits others rather than himself; the good man rather himself than
others; but the prince
commands
others, and doth himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
--
One morning we set forth with
thoughts
aflame,
Or heart o'erladen with desire or shame;
And cradle, to the song of surge and breeze,
Our own infinity on the finite seas.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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(2) From among these vices we may
distinguish in nearly every play a single
character
as in a preeminent
degree the embodiment of evil.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The night's
performance
was "King John.
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Lewis Carroll |
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We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You filthy
villainous
fellow!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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It is all I need
to make my life perfect, for the very 'Spirit of Delight' that
Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the
music of birds in the garden and
children
in the long arched
verandah.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Chiefe_
has put mee here in flesh, [141]
To ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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they need not seem
Brighter
or stiller in my dream.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This
precipice
is not sloped, nor is the material soft and crumbling
slate as at Montmorenci, but it rises perpendicular, like the side of
a mountain fortress, and is cracked into vast cubical masses of gray
and black rock shining with moisture, as if it were the ruin of an
ancient wall built by Titans.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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