xlv
even without any acknowledgment on his own
part, that Swift studied and
profited
by the prose
of Marvell.
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Marvell - Poems |
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MAY DAY
THE shining line of motors,
The swaying motor-bus,
The
prancing
dancing horses
Are passing by for us.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Now wounded men with gallant eyes
Go hobbling down the street,
And nurses from the hospitals
Speed by with
tireless
feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_15
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and
desolate?
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Shelley |
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Note: Ronsard's later
tributes
to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose mistress Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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[_She
suddenly
kisses him_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust
Upon unstaid
perverseness!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Queen Gulnaar sighed like a
murmuring
rose:
"Give me a rival, O King Feroz.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So in
distracted flight Turnus darts afar over the plain, and now this way and
now that crosses in wavering circles; for on all hands the Teucrians
locked him in crowded ring, and the dreary marsh on this side, on this
the steep city
ramparts
hem him in.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
remember
I said before my leaves sprang at all,
I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"Ah, my poor
husband!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And as that Theban Monster that propos'd
Her riddle, and him, who solv'd it not, devour'd;
That once found out and solv'd, for grief and spight
Cast her self headlong from th' Ismenian steep,
So strook with dread and anguish fell the Fiend,
And to his crew, that sat consulting, brought
Joyless
triumphals
of his hop't success,
Ruin, and desperation, and dismay,
Who durst so proudly tempt the Son of God.
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Milton |
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Our ships complete
We thus
supplied
(for twelve were all the fleet).
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I pondered on the woes of lost mankind, _5
I pondered on the ceaseless rage of Kings;
My rapt soul dwelt upon the ties that bind
The mazy volume of
commingling
things,
When fell and wild misrule to man stern sorrow brings.
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Shelley |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair &
Everlasting
brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Therefrom your eyes
have remained green and your cheeks
extraordinarily
pale.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
The analogy, which this fable bore to the sedition of the Roman
people, was
understood
and felt.
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Tacitus |
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blue sky and ocean blue,
Thine eagles with one sweep beyond the view--
The sun in golden beauty ever pure,
The distance where rich warmth doth aye endure--
Thy
language
so mellifluously bland,
Mixed with sweet idioms from Italia's strand,
As Baya's streams to Samos' waters glide
And with them mingle in one placid tide.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Those
heavenly
features make my bosom sigh,
To think from earthly praise they mean to fly.
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La Fontaine |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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A weight
Of pitiable weakness thou must bear
And move as it were thine own strength; tell my heart
How not to sicken in abomination,
Show me the way to loathe this vile man's rage,
Now close to seize me into the use of his pleasure,
With the
loathing
that is terrible delight.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
{19c} "No art is
discovered
at once and absolutely.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then grant, what here all sons of wine obtain
(For here affliction never pleads in vain);
Be chosen youth prepared, expert to try
The vast
profound
and hid the vessel fly;
Launch the tall back, and order every oar;
Then in our court indulge the genial hour.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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One day this lovely maiden having read,
How certain pious, holy saints were led,
The better to observe religious care,
To seek retirement in some lorn repair,
Where they, like Heav'nly Angels, moved around,
Some here, some there, were in concealment found,
Was quite delighted, strange as it may seem,
And presently she formed the
frantick
scheme,
Of imitating those her mind revered,
And to her plan most rigidly adhered.
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La Fontaine |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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They weep:--from off their delicate stems
Perennial
tears descend in gems.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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As Youth and Love with sprightly dance,
Beneath thy morning star advance,
Pleasure with her siren air
May delude the
thoughtless
pair;
Let Prudence bless Enjoyment's cup,
Then raptur'd sip, and sip it up.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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to live content with only one husband,
Praise is and truest of praise ever
bestowed
upon wife.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Some say that bright majority
Of
vanished
dames and men!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"
He put on his spectacles and read as follows:--
"_To the
Commandant
of Fort Belogorsk,
"Captain Mironoff, these.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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, _he who is
connected
with another, relation, companion_:
gen.
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Beowulf |
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Here was this atom in full breath,
Hurling defiance at vast death;
This scrap of valor just for play
Fronts the north-wind in
waistcoat
gray,
As if to shame my weak behavior;
I greeted loud my little savior,
'You pet!
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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We want nothing but an increased supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally
interesting
record of Early
English minds.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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King of this happy land, Troezen's his destiny:
And he knows that the law will grant to your son
Those proud
ramparts
of Minerva's creation.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Behold where Dryden's less
presumptuous
car
Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear
Two coursers of ethereal race
With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Keats - Lamia |
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7a _uinctos_ BLa1Aah et sic Benoist, Giri: _uictos_ O
9a
_langoribus_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ich halt es
wenigstens
fur reichlichen Gewinn,
Dass ich nicht Kaiser oder Kanzler bin.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And why
Doth he himself allow it, nor spare the same
Even for his
enemies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Respondi id quod erat, nihil neque ipsis
Nec praetoribus esse nec cohorti, 10
Cur
quisquam
caput unctius referret,
Praesertim quibus esset inrumator
Praetor, non faciens pili cohortem.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious
thunderings
the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I read
in every face I meet a standing
advertisement
of information wanted in
regard to A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Derriere les rochers une chienne inquiete
Nous regardait d'un oeil fache,
Epiant le moment de
reprendre
au squelette
Le morceau qu'elle avait lache.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Certe ego te in medio versantem turbine leti
Eripui, et potius
germanum
amittere crevi, 150
Quam tibi fallaci supremo in tempore dessem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An
interloper
own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former husbandmen!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Softly he'd stirred the bells to ring at Rheims,
He'd knocked at high Montmartre, hardly asleep;
Heard the sweet carillon of doomed Louvain,
Boylike, had tarried for a moment's play
Amid the traceries of Amiens,
And then was hast'ning on the road to Dieppe,
When he o'ertook me drowsy from the hours
Through which I'd walked, with no
companions
else
Than ghostly kilometer posts that stood
As sentinels' of space along the way.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"--This story of Omar reminds me of another so naturally--and when
one
remembers
how wide of his humble mark the noble sailor aimed--so
pathetically told by Captain Cook--not by Doctor Hawkworth--in his
Second Voyage (i.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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De Beranger has wrought innumerable
things, pungent and spirit-stirring, but in general they have been too
imponderous to stamp
themselves
deeply into the public attention, and
thus, as so many feathers of fancy, have been blown aloft only to be
whistled down the wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The minstrel harp, for the
strained
string?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Lazily I lounge through labyrinthine corridors,
And with eyes suddenly altered,
I peer into an office I do not know,
And wonder at a
startled
face that penetrates my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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HYMN
AT morn--at noon--at
twilight
dim--
Maria!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The sky with burning towns flared red,
Nearer the noise of
fighting
rolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Linquantur
Phrygii, Catulle, campi
Nicaeaeque ager uber aestuosae: 5
Ad claras Asiae volemus urbes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Was reitst du so
schnelle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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, Munro
8 _derecta_ Statius:
_detecta_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
Better be jocund with the
fruitful
Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new
politeness
took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their curtains by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O fearful
meditation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Whoever, in attempting to describe their sublime features, should
confine himself to the cold rules of painting would give his reader but
a very imperfect idea of those
emotions
which they have the irresistible
power of communicating to the most impassive imaginations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Her conscious tail her joy declared:
The fair round face, the snowy beard,
The velvet of her paws,
Her coat that with the
tortoise
vies,
Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes--
She saw, and purr'd applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
A new
acquaintance
we must scan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ich schau in diesen reinen Zugen
Die
wirkende
Natur vor meiner Seele liegen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Phantom
assigned
to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed uselessly by his cold dream of defiance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
CXIX
Nor
Rodomont
to Nimrod yields in might,
Proud and untamed; and who would not forbear
To scale the lofty firmament till night,
Could he in this wide world descry the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The quiet nonchalance of death
No
daybreak
can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
YOU did not come,
And
marching
Time drew on, and wore me numb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Now these same films I name are borne about
And tossed and
scattered
into regions all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Wherefore
they washed their horses
In Vesta's holy well,
Wherefore they rode to Vesta's door,
I know, but may not tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
FAUST:
Verruchter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical
Latitude
of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to
his own Country.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Was never wight yit half so wo
As that hir semed for to be,
Nor so
fulfilled
of ire as she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Did I call him
heretic?
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Tennyson |
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"Or if, by happy chance, thy soul might flee
Thy victims, after, thou
shouldst
surely see
And hear thy crimes relate;
Streaked with the guileless gore drained from their veins,
Greater in number than the reigns on reigns
Thou hopedst for thy state.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Pennant:
Come up here, bard, bard,
Come up here, soul, soul,
Come up here, dear little child,
To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the
measureless
light.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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As when AEneas hangs up and
consecrates
the arms of Abas with this
inscription:--
"AEneas haec de Danais victoribus arma.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of Dalmatic field
By Triumph crown'd with
deathless
bay.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Laud 740, in the
Bodleian
Library; Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short 1798.
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William Wordsworth |
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VI
Into the district then to boot
A new proprietor arrived,
From whose
analysis
minute
The neighbourhood fresh sport derived.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I flee, I confess, from young Aricia, 50
Last of a deadly race that
conspires
against me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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