In su le man commesse mi protesi,
guardando il foco e
imaginando
forte
umani corpi gia veduti accesi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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The bound rage of the
uncreated
Spirit
Whose striving doth impassion us and the world?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Eftsoones
the Gard, which on his state did wait, 310
Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait:
Who seeming sorely chauffed at his band,
As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" For all the civic garlands due
^ To him, our branches are but few ;
" Nor are our trunks enough to bear
" The
trophies
of one fertile year.
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Marvell - Poems |
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He had a thirst for
knowledge at large--for any kind of information, and as the merest
child read with a careless
voracity
books of heraldry, history,
astronomy, theology, and such other subjects as would repel most
children, and perhaps one may say, most men.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[90] Driven out by the invasions of the Peloponnesians, the people of the
outlying
districts
had been obliged to seek refuge within the walls of
Athens, where they were lodged wherever they could find room.
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Aristophanes |
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Or sooner hatch, or higher build ;
The mower now
commands
the field ;
In whose new traverse seemeth wrought
A camp of battle newly fought, <»
Where, as the meads with hay, the plain
Lies quilted o'er with bodies slain :
The women that with forks it fling.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Constant
suspicion
Is the most common fruit of a second union.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"If I show that I want
anything
now, I'm lost," he said to himself.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_alad_,
protecting
genius, 154, 18.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
The voice returns like the
insistent
out-of-tune
Of a broken violin on an August afternoon:
"I am always sure that you understand
My feelings, always sure that you feel,
Sure that across the gulf you reach your hand.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then lifts he Mahaud to the ducal chair,
And shuts the trap with noiseless, gentle care;
And puts in order
everything
around,
So that, on waking, naught should her astound.
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
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Rilke - Poems |
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With my mood at its height I wield my brush
And the Five Hills quake;
When the poem is done, my
laughter
soars
To the Blue Isles[32] of the sky.
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Li Po |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
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Stephen Crane |
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THE STAND
Jonson, who sung this of him, ere he went,
Himself to rest,
Or taste a part of that full joy he meant
To have expressed,
In this bright
Asterism!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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In such lines we can perceive not one of those higher attributes of
Poesy which belong to her in all circumstances and
throughout
all
time.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For laughter there is weeping,
And waking instead of sleeping,
And a
desperate
sorrow
Morrow after morrow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XXII
Soone as she parted thence, the
fearfull
twaine, 190
That blind old woman and her daughter deare,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Do you think that he,
conscious
of Theseus' honour, 845
Will conceal what I am burning with, this ardour?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A
compleynt
hadde I, writen, in myn hond,
For to have put to Pite as a bille,
But whan I al this companye ther fond, 45
That rather wolden al my cause spille
Than do me help, I held my pleynte stille;
For to that folk, withouten any faile,
Withoute Pite may no bille availe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Nicolas himself is puzzled by some
"bizarres" and "trop Orientales" allusions and images--"d'une
sensualite
quelquefois
revoltante" indeed--which "les convenances" do
not permit him to translate; but still which the reader cannot but
refer to "La Divinite.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 333 Old men, let me make a song for you, I am put to shame by your deep feelings in hardship.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the
blackest
crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I remember all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Now, true love
No such effects doth prove;
That is an essence far more gentle, fine,
Pure, perfect, nay, divine;
It is a golden chain let down from heaven,
Whose links are bright and even;
That falls like sleep on lovers, and combines
The soft and
sweetest
minds
In equal knots: this bears no brands, nor darts,
To murder different hearts,
But, in a calm and god-like unity,
Preserves community.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Luoyang can be taken as easily as
pointing
to the palm,4 the Western Capital is not even worth seizing.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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<
ti scaldi, s'i' vo' credere a' sembianti
che soglion esser
testimon
del core,
vegnati in voglia di trarreti avanti>>,
diss' io a lei, <
tanto ch'io possa intender che tu canti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The
chevaliers
of France do much repine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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his boat and
twinkling
oar.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Charlevoix
says that the first
horses were introduced in 1665.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The lady's
delightful
and greatly pleases
Her beauty draws to her many gazes,
Yet in her heart love loyally blazes,
Ah, God, Ah, God, the dawn!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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What cloud o'er
Tiridates
lowers,
I care not, I.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But no such
everlastingness
for me!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I from a nete of hopelen am adawed,
Awhaped[67] atte the fetyveness of daie; 400
AElla, bie nete moe thann hys
myndbruche
awed,
Is gone, and I moste followe, toe the fraie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thus to the more worthy part he held,
That, what for hope and
Pandarus
biheste,
His grete wo for-yede he at the leste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
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Poe - 5 |
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'
[467] In 'Aeolus,'
Macareus
violates his own sister; in 'The Clouds,'
this incest, which Euripides introduced upon the stage, is also
mentioned.
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Aristophanes |
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Do not be decoy'd elsewhere,
That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice,
That is the fluttering, the
fluttering
of the spray,
Those are the shadows of leaves.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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{117a} Ocean
trembles
as if indignant that you quit the land.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Light is light which radiates,
Blood is blood which circulates,
Life is life which generates,
And many-seeming life is one,--
Wilt thou
transfix
and make it none?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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but from the Universal
Brotherhood
of Eden John I c.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The same day
As many
entertainments
be!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ajax and
Menelaus
came to rescue Patroclus' body; Hector fled, but
had already stripped off the armour of Achilles, which he now put on
in place of his own.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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XXXVIII cum XXXVII
continuant
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Know you aught
That doth concern this
Herbert?
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William Wordsworth |
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The withdrawn and
tense sky seems groined like the aisles of a cathedral, and the
polished air sparkles as if there were crystals of ice
floating
in it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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t ful of
souereyne
p{er}fit
goode.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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During my
residence
at Alfoxden, I used to see much of him, and had
frequent occasions to admire the course of his daily life, especially
his conduct to his labourers and poor neighbours; their virtues he
carefully encouraged, and weighed their faults in the scales of charity.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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wherefore
weep you so?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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]
[Footnote 50: Torture of the "_batogs_," little rods, the
thickness
of a
finger, with which a criminal is struck on the bare back.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The lady's
delightful
and greatly pleases
Her beauty draws to her many gazes,
Yet in her heart love loyally blazes,
Ah, God, Ah, God, the dawn!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Hence the definition is liable either to be too strict, or to admit work
which does not properly satisfy the
criterion
of feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--
Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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An
individual
who has to make things for the use of others, and with
reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest,
and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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My Mary, dear
departed
shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Now comes our
constantly
increased reward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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By which means it happens that what they have
discredited
and
impugned in one week, they have before or after extolled the same in
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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ecquid, ubi audieris, tota
turbabere
mente,
et feries pauida pectora fida manu?
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Must I thus leave thee
Paradise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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= Catapuce is one of the laxatives that Dame
Pertelote recommended to
Chauntecleer
in Chaucer's _Nonne Preestes
Tale_, l.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
One stroke
Rolled the smith's head from his neck, and gave
him
remembrance
undying.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
IX
Two and two behind the twins
Their trusty
comrades
go,
Four and forty valiant men,
With club, and axe, and bow.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Draghignazzo
anco i volle dar di piglio
giuso a le gambe; onde 'l decurio loro
si volse intorno intorno con mal piglio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Like ape or clown, in
monstrous
garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
{15a} There is no
horrible
inconsistency here such as the critics
strive and cry about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Schaff du ihr gleich ein neu
Geschmeid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Have you eyes to find the five
Which five hundred did
survive?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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At morn, I heard, was the murderer killed
by kinsman for kinsman, {33a} with clash of sword,
when
Ongentheow
met Eofor there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Have you not felt, I mean, a serious
intention?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Horatius
There can be little doubt that among those parts of early Roman
history which had a
poetical
origin was the legend of Horatius
Cocles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
He would joke with hyaenas, returning their stare
With an
impudent
wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits," he said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Be she too wealthy or too poor, be sure
_Love in
extremes
can never long endure_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
A pact he offered:
another dwelling the Danes should have,
hall and high-seat, and half the power
should fall to them in Frisian land;
and at the fee-gifts, Folcwald's son
day by day the Danes should honor,
the folk of Hengest favor with rings,
even as truly, with
treasure
and jewels,
with fretted gold, as his Frisian kin
he meant to honor in ale-hall there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
805
Pandare, which that sent from Troilus
Was to Criseyde, as ye han herd devyse,
That for the beste it was
accorded
thus,
And he ful glad to doon him that servyse,
Un-to Criseyde, in a ful secree wyse, 810
Ther-as she lay in torment and in rage,
Com hir to telle al hoolly his message,
And fond that she hir-selven gan to trete
Ful pitously; for with hir salte teres
Hir brest, hir face, y-bathed was ful wete; 815
The mighty tresses of hir sonnish heres,
Unbroyden, hangen al aboute hir eres;
Which yaf him verray signal of martyre
Of deeth, which that hir herte gan desyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ours to mould our weakling sons
To nobler
sentiment
and manlier deed:
Now the noble's first-born shuns
The perilous chase, nor learns to sit his steed:
Set him to the unlawful dice,
Or Grecian hoop, how skilfully he plays!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Must I the
warriors
weep,
Whelm'd in the bottom of the monstrous deep?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The wretch should have died;
But age robbed me of my noble pride;
And this blade my hand can
scarcely
bear,
I place in yours to punish and repair.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Returning
Home On Foot: A Ballad 323 I suffer being tied down by a minor post, 8 lowering my head, I am shamed before men of the wilds.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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HILDA (_with happy,
wondering
eyes_): Oh, heavens, how
lovely!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Sharply thou hast
insisted
on rebuke,
And urg'd me hard with doings, which not will
But misery hath rested from me; where 470
Easily canst thou find one miserable,
And not inforc'd oft-times to part from truth;
If it may stand him more in stead to lye,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or abjure?
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Milton |
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"
In this little book we have some of the best thoughts of one of the most
vigorous minds that ever added to the
strength
of English literature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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