She carries in the candles
And lights the
curtained
room,
Shy in the doorway
And shy in the gloom;
And shy as a rabbit,
Helpful and shy.
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Remote from sheltering village green,
Upon a bleak hill-side, she dwelt,
Where from sea-blasts the
hawthorns
lean,
And hoary dews are slow to melt.
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THROUGH the
casement
a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so rejoiced and keen.
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She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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CONTENTS
PART I
PAGE
INTRODUCTION
3
THE METHOD OF TRANSLATION 19
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 21
CHAPTER I:
Battle 23
The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind 24
Master T?
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" The letters were
reviewed
under the
heading of "Illustrations of Vetus," in the _Morning Chronicle_,
December 2, 10, 16, 18; 1813.
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Byron |
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13, 1862]
The increasing
moonlight
drifts across my bed,
And on the churchyard by the road, I know
It falls as white and noiselessly as snow.
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totum sudor habet corpus multumque laborat,
nec respirandi fit copia: praepete ferro
Histri tela manu
iacientes
sollicitabant.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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From this the good Astolpho took a chain,
And with the gyve his hands behind him laced:
His arms and breast he
swaddled
in such guise,
He could not loose himself; then let him rise.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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She's past the bridge that's in the dale,
And now the thought
torments
her sore,
Johnny perhaps his horse forsook,
To hunt the moon that's in the brook,
And never will be heard of more.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I am afraid some
dreadful
news awaits me!
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Longfellow |
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OSWALD Patience, hear me
further!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is
forced to be
niggardly
in its show of grief.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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how, in your youthful sway,
Ye deem secure your
citadels
of sky,
Beyond the reach of sorrow or of fall!
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Aeschylus |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Distracted
Luvah
Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror
Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers
Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down
From heaven of joy into this Deep.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Je veux m'aneantir dans ta gorge profonde,
Et trouver sur ton sein la
fraicheur
des tombeaux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And the next time she did not well
understand
what he
was saying, but as far as she could hear, it had the sound of poetry
though it was not rhymed, and this is what she heard him say: 'The sun
and the moon are the man and the girl, they are my life and your life,
they are travelling and ever travelling through the skies as if under
the one hood.
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Yeats |
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Now speed the gay celerities of art,
What in the desert was impossible
Within four walls is
possible
again,--
Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,
Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife
Of keen competing youths, joined or alone
To outdo each other and extort applause.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The thick-ribbed walls that o'ershadow the gate
Resound; and the dungeons unfold:
I pause; and at length, through the
glimmering
grate,
That outcast of pity behold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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]
He appoints
Francesco
da Brossano, citizen of Milan, his heir, and
desires him, not only as his heir, but as his dear son, to divide into
two parts the money he should find--the one for himself, the other for
the person to whom it was assigned.
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Petrarch |
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Greasy and foul and beggarly her vest;
Nor half her
hideousness
have I exprest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Two
regiments
of
cavalry from Pannonia and Moesia.
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Tacitus |
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XXXV
Meanwhile the Tuscan army,
Right glorious to behold,
Come
flashing
back the noonday light,
Rank behind rank, like surges bright
Of a broad sea of gold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A distinguished Scandinavian
writer has
pronounced
_Das Stunden-Buch_ one of the supreme literary
achievements of our time and its deepest and most beautiful book of
prayer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I see the market-man
driving into the village, and
disappearing
under its canopy of
elm-tops, with _his_ crop, as into a great granary or barn-yard.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of
unswerving
indifference to me?
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Imagists |
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Why, from what whim of yours,
Do you leave the field open to your
accusers?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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So that not fainting, but refresht and astonisht
And strangely
spirited
and divinely angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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ou mayst wel seen how greet[e]
apparailes
{and}
aray ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I'll echo his discretion, and flee your presence,
So that I'm not
required
to break my silence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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When was it ever known that the Ammonites proved wanting to
their own
interests?
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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True mourning in
rooms
- not the
cemetery
-
to find only
absence -
- in presence
of things
60.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Hear the wail o' the
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Elizabeth Browning |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Love was
pleasant
enough, and the days went fast;
Pleasant while it lasted, but it needn't last;
Awhile on the wax and awhile on the wane,
Now dropped away into the past.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Another than
yourself
might here
observe, 'Shakespeare is in possession of the world's good opinion, and
yet Shakespeare is the greatest of poets.
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Poe - 5 |
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But you'll be present, said the
courteous
knight.
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La Fontaine |
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AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and
fluttering
leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Think of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives
proportions
to your Soul somehow to
live in other spheres;
I do not know how, but I know it is so.
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Whitman |
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is pouert 729
ffulle
seuentene
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A nature too
decorous
and severe,
Too self-respectful in its griefs and joys,
For ardent girls and boys
Who find no genius in a mind so clear 270
That its grave depths seem obvious and near,
Nor a soul great that made so little noise.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Meanwhile
I am not dressed--
ROUZYA.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs encircling distant heights and hollows,
You lost
yourself
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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comme un reve de pierre,
Et mon sein, ou chacun s'est meurtri tour a tour,
Est fait pour
inspirer
au poete un amour
Eternel et muet ainsi que la matiere.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He, however, made
a little clasped paper book his treasurer, and under the head of
"Observations, Hints, Songs, and Scraps of Poetry," we find many a
wayward and
impassioned
verse, songs rising little above the humblest
country strain, or bursting into an elegance and a beauty worthy of
the highest of minstrels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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For the tidings of thy might,
By the festal cities' blaze,
Whilst the wine-cup shines in light;
And yet amidst that joy and uproar,
Let us think of them that sleep
Full many a fathom deep
By thy wild and stormy steep,
Elsinore!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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A clock stopped -- not the mantel's;
Geneva's
farthest
skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[_The funeral
procession
has formed and moves slowly out, followed
by_ ADMETUS _and the_ CHORUS.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O
glorious
magnanimity of soul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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A book is written before a certain event, in which this event is
foretold; how could the prophet have
foreknown
it without inspiration?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
Sped a shepherd from the height
Headlong down to look,
(White lambs followed, lured by love
Of their shepherd's crook):
He turned neither east nor west,
Neither north nor south,
But knelt right down to May, for love
Of her sweet-singing mouth;
Forgot his flocks, his panting flocks
In
parching
hillside drouth;
Forgot himself for weal or woe.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our
beginnings
never know our ends!
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Sara Teasdale |
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[Picture: Last, the
youngest
son was taken]
Last, the youngest son was taken:
Very rough and thick his hair was,
Very round and red his face was,
Very dusty was his jacket,
Very fidgety his manner.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Quick to the country let us wend
In vehicles
surcharged
with freight;
In coach or post-cart duly placed
Beyond the city-barriers haste.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Apollo
reinspires
Hector with vigour, brings him
back to the battle, marches before him with his aegis, and turns the
fortune of the fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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at euery wicked shrew {and} for
hys
wickednesse
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the
blossoms
softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Each one
therefore
was joyful; his evil humour left him.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st,
Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt,
And, half
perceiving
that thou half perceiv'st,
Stand'st at thy temple door, heart in, head out!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Through pity, she at last, to please the chief,
Consented
to bestow on him relief;
For, favours, when conferred with sullen air,
But little gratify she was aware.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Come, my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready;
Have you your
pistols?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And Harold stands upon this place of skulls,
The grave of France, the deadly
Waterloo!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For now no longer men
Did
mightily
esteem the old Divine,
The worship of the gods: the woe at hand
Did over-master.
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Lucretius |
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Festivals no longer celebrate Ceres, the
nourishing
goddess
Who replaced acorns of old, giving man golden wheat.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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" At this a surpris'd start
Frosted the
springing
verdure of his heart; 190
For as he lifted up his eyes to swear
How his own goddess was past all things fair,
He saw far in the concave green of the sea
An old man sitting calm and peacefully.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Tacitus |
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And then I go the furthest off
To
counteract
a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thou'rt aye sae free informing me,
Thou hast nae mind to marry;
I'll be as free informing thee,
Nae time hae I to tarry:
I ken thy frien's try ilka means
Frae wedlock to delay thee;
Depending
on some higher chance,
But fortune may betray thee.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here by the labouring highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till
doomsday
morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_hostile
act, feud, battle_:
nom.
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Beowulf |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A fierce outburst of persecution
often evokes in the persecuted some of the noblest qualities of human
nature; but a long-continued and
crushing
tyranny that extends to all
the details of daily life is only too likely to have the most
unfortunate results on those who are subjected to it.
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Alexander Pope |
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Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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At fourteen years our Kitty's charms
Were all that could be wished--plump arms,
A
swelling
bosom; on her cheeks
Roses' and lilies' mingled streaks,
A sparkling eye--all these, you know,
Speak well for what is found below.
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La Fontaine |
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The prince and
stranger
shared the genial feast,
Till now the rage of thirst and hunger ceased.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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līc-homa lǣne
gedrēoseð, _the body,
belonging
to death, sinks down_, 1755; inf.
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Beowulf |
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With shouts we rose, with gasps and incredulous cries,
With bursts of singing, and silence, and
awestruck
eyes,
With broken laughter, half tears, we rose from the sod,
With welling tears and with glad lips, whispering, "God.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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