Many of
the lines, however, are rough and
difficult
of scansion.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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Only the leaves are gently stirred
By the soft breathing of the gale,
And in the almond-scented vale
The lonely
nightingale
is heard.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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How sank his heart beneath that cruel blow,
'Twere long to say; how
prostrate
lay his sprite.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Canzon That my heart is half afraid
For the
fragrance
on him laid; Even so love's might amazes !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For of all those who have been known
To lodge with our kind host, the sun,
I envy one for just one thing:
In Cordova of the Moors
There dwelt a passion-minded King,
Who set great bands of marble-hewers
To fashion his heart's thanksgiving
In a tall palace, shapen so
All the
wondering
world might know
The joy he had of his Moorish lass.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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)
No single parts
unequally
surprize,
All comes united to th' admiring eyes; 250
No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear;
The Whole at once is bold, and regular.
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Alexander Pope |
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O reckless,
despairing
carols!
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Whitman |
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But you will thank me soon for leaving you:
'Tis the best
courtesy
I can do.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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is
questiou{n}
ne ben nat spedeful ynou?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Lucretius |
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Donne as usual is
pedantically
accurate in the details of his
metaphor.
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John Donne |
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myseses {and}
greuaunces
oute of noumbre.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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SYLVA
_Rerum et
sententiarum
quasi ?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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By the same author
Rivers to the Sea
"There is hardly another
American
woman-poet whose poetry is generally
known and loved like that of Sara Teasdale.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
breathing
pestilence that rose like smoke!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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1630: _mina|||_ dein _minacis_ R
7 _insula
uegeladas_
O
8 _tractam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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)
_insert_
your _after_ to.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and
whispering
tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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12, still another law was passed,
whereby the second offense was
declared
a felony.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
* * * * *
It is
remarkable
how few events or crises there are in our histories,
how little exercised we have been in our minds, how few experiences we
have had.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Through yon wide host this arm shall scatter fear,
And thin the
squadrons
with my single spear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE TO YOU AS
TO THE ETEXT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Soft darkness o'er its latest gleams is stealing;
The buzzing dor-hawk, round and round, is wheeling,--
That
solitary
bird
Is all that can be heard [1] 5
In silence deeper far than that of deepest noon!
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William Wordsworth |
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You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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XXIII
"I in the hope, belief, and certitude
My wife to me was faithful evermore,
Should with contempt the beauty have eschewed
Of that famed
daughter
which fair Leda bore;
And all the wit and wealth wherewith was wooed
The illustrious shepherd upon Ida hoar.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ere
Ne
woldestou
noman tellen here
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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bǣdde
byre geonge,
_encouraged
the youths_ (at the banquet), 2019.
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Beowulf |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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When he walks in waterproof white,
The
children
run after him so!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
So all the
children
of each family thanked their parents; and, making in
all forty-nine polite bows, they went into the wide world.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--
Augment your tide, O streams, with
fruitless
tears,
For the beloved Bion is no more.
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Shelley |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[When the book appeared it bore a
dedication
to E.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,
But even so,
honoured
still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Goetz, the hero himself, is a
champion
of a good cause--the cause
of freedom and self-reliance.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What is he
bragging
still that he will come
To thrust our Harold's throne from under him?
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Tennyson |
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Lesbia
beautiful
seems, and when all over she's fairest, 5
Any Venus-gift stole she from every one.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To what malicious merriment,
It may be, I yield
nutriment!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The messages of great poets to each man and woman are,--Come to us on equal
terms, only then can you
understand
us.
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Whitman |
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Petrarch did not return to
Venice till the
expedition
had sailed.
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Petrarch |
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Nay; it was sure, and was wrought
Under
inscrutable
powers:
Bravely the two armies fought
And left the land, that was greater than they, still theirs and ours!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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With fat of bulls I fed the
constant
flame,
And ask'd destruction to the Trojan name.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When Charles my lord shall come into this field,
Such
discipline
of Sarrazins he'll see,
For one of ours he'll find them dead fifteen;
He will not fail, but bless us all in peace.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
"Rough are the steps, slow-hewn in
flintiest
rock,
States climb to power by; slippery those with gold
Down which they stumble to eternal mock:
No chafferer's hand shall long the sceptre hold,
Who, given a Fate to shape, would sell the block.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Oh,
sweetest
mine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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of infinite ill;
And mine is worse because
immortal
still,
Since from the heart the spirit may not tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The man's rank, the magnitude of the offence,
Demand your concession and submission,
Beyond the
customary
reparation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Teems not each ditty with the
glorious
tale?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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o hymenee hymen_ 5 _O hymenee hymen_
5 _O Hymen
Hymenaee_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the terrible
breakers
are silent
from this place.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is finished using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished
threading
too.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Libertad
and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face
of the earth,
The rapt promises and lumine of seers, the spiritual world, these
centuries-lasting songs,
And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements
of any.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Your folds ye
gateways
wide-ope swing!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
(Exeunt Guests: he
conducts
them to the door.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
XXXIX
The prop so placed, Orlando now secure
That the fell beast his mouth no more can close,
Unsheathes
his sword, and, in that cave obscure,
Deals here and there, now thrusts, now trenchant blows.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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that dost apparel thee in smiles,
How
lustrous
was thy semblance in those sparkles,
Which merely are from holy thoughts inspir'd!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have snatched at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your
necklace
snapped.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
The present
text aims to be an exact
reproduction
of that of the 1631 edition.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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But it is threaded with gold and
powdered
with scarlet beads.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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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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Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop, striking a
shriveled
leaf.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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So please you, it is true: our Thane is comming:
One of my
fellowes
had the speed of him;
Who almost dead for breath, had scarcely more
Then would make vp his Message
Lady.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A great festival was kept to their honor on the
Ides of Quintilis, supposed to be the
anniversary
of the battle;
and on that day sumptuous sacrifices were offered to them at the
public charge.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Keats refers to the storm which is said to have raged that night, which
Tennyson also
describes
in _Merlin and Vivien_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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'neath the
pressure
yield
Its groaning woods; the torrents' flow
With clear sharp ice is all congeal'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His
greatness
only adds to my sorrow,
Seeing his worth I see what I forgo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are
responsible
for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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OUR hermit, when he thought his darling youth;
Well fixed in duty and
religious
truth,
Conveyed him 'mong his pious friends, to learn
How food to beg, and other ways discern.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
This again refers to
Xuanzong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
For any
tentative
advance on Miltonic
significance, even for any real acceptance of it, we must go to poetry
which tries to put epic intention into a new form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise,
ornament
this hill,
The sepulchre where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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// {and} I haue shewyd q{uod} she that thilke same oon is
thilke that is good // B // ye
forsothe
q{uod} I.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Three days in the cathedral did I visit
His corpse,
escorted
thither by all Uglich.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
NIGHT IN NEW YORK
Haunted by unknown feet--
Ways of the
midnight
hour!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
_ Remember, then, what I foretell;
Nor by
calamity
pursued
Blame fortune, nor e'er say
That Zeus into unforeseen
Ill has cast you; surely not, but yourselves
You yourselves; for knowing,
And not suddenly nor clandestinely,
You'll be entangled through your folly
In an impassable net of woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
How commonly in the fall you see the
cheek-pouches of the striped
squirrel
distended by a quantity of nuts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
E mentre ch'e' tenendo 'l viso basso
essaminava
del cammin la mente,
e io mirava suso intorno al sasso,
da man sinistra m'appari una gente
d'anime, che movieno i pie ver' noi,
e non pareva, si venian lente.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Padmaja, aetat 3
Lotus-maiden, you who claim
All the
sweetness
of your name,
Lakshmi, fortune's queen, defend you,
Lotus-born like you, and send you
Balmy moons of love to bless you,
Gentle joy-winds to caress you.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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VII
Enkindled by my votive work
No burning faith I find;
The deeper
thinkers
sneer and smirk,
And give my toil no mind;
From nod and wink
I read they think
That I am fool and blind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
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Sappho |
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It is
therefore likely that the Censors and Pontiffs, when they had
resolved to add a grand procession of knights to the other
solemnities annually
performed
on the Ides of Quintilis, would
call in the aid of a poet.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Looked neither north nor south,
Neither east nor west,
But sat him down at Meggan's feet
As love-bird on his nest,
And wooed her with a silent awe,
With trouble not expressed;
She sang the tears into his eyes,
The heart out of his breast:
So he loved her,
listening
so.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But at a later, sterile age,
The solstice of our earthly years,
Mournful Love's deadly trace appears
As storms which in chill autumn rage
And leave a marsh the fertile ground
And
devastate
the woods around.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I know not that: but certainly I know
A mind, that has been feeling for long time
The greatness of some hovering event
Poised over life, will rejoice marvellously
When the event falls, suddenly seizing life:
Like faintness when a thunderstorm comes down,
That turns to
exulting
when the lightning flares,
Shattering houses, making men afraid.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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My little son
pretended
he knew what to do, he kept seeking bitter plums to eat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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