Sound understanding and good sense
Speak out with little art or rule;
And when you've
something
earnest to utter,
Why hunt for words in such a flutter?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'
forgotten
by those who wish
to make exceptions to these laws.
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'It is not difficult to sympathize with
everyone
if you have no true
principles and convictions.
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Yeats |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yes, I may sing the Thyiad crew,
The stream of wine, the
sparkling
rills
That run with milk, and honey-dew
That from the hollow trunk distils;
And I may sing thy consort's crown,
New set in heaven, and Pentheus' hall
With ruthless ruin thundering down,
And proud Lycurgus' funeral.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And on your garb red-faced was other red;
And how you stooped as men whose strength was spent,
I knew that we had
suffered
each as other,
And could have grasped your hand and cried, "My brother!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and
returned
to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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For pious poet it behoves be chaste 5
Himself; no chastity his verses need;
Nay, gain they finally more salt of wit
When over softy and of scanty shame,
Apt for exciting
somewhat
prurient,
In boys, I say not, but in bearded men 10
Who fail of movements in their hardened loins.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ein Nebel
verdichtet
die Nacht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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had at that port
contracted for
military
stores.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Still an
attentive
ear he lent
But could not fathom what she meant:
She was not deep, nor eloquent.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But thou brook'st not disturbance at thy wine:
And France is wild for one to lead her souls;
But thou art huge and fat and laggest back
Among the remnants of
forsaken
camps.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now odorous wines the goblets fill;
Gold-cradled meats the menials bear
From gilded chair to gilded chair:
Now roars the talk like
crashing
seas,
Foams upward to the painted frieze,
Echoes and ebbs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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Have you made any
applications
elsewhere?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Therefore
bring violets.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Fresh sprigs of green box-wood, not six months before,
Filled the funeral basin [B] at Timothy's door; [1] 10
A coffin through Timothy's
threshold
had past;
One Child [C] did it bear, and that Child was his last.
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William Wordsworth |
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After our departure,
the servants will
probably
all go out, or go to sleep.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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guarda qua giuso a la nostra
procella!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Her image floating on that noble tide,
Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold,
But now whereon a
thousand
keels did ride
Of mighty strength, since Albion was allied,
And to the Lusians did her aid afford
A nation swoll'n with ignorance and pride,
Who lick, yet loathe, the hand that waves the sword.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Thus oft before fair temples of the gods,
Beside the incense-burning altars slain,
Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast
Breathing warm streams of blood; the orphaned mother,
Ranging meanwhile green woodland pastures round,
Knows well the footprints, pressed by cloven hoofs,
With eyes regarding every spot about,
For sight somewhere of youngling gone from her;
And,
stopping
short, filleth the leafy lanes
With her complaints; and oft she seeks again
Within the stall, pierced by her yearning still.
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Lucretius |
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The shores of the
Strophades
first receive me
thus won from the waves, Strophades the Greek name they bear, islands
lying in the great Ionian sea, which boding Celaeno and the other
Harpies inhabit since Phineus' house was shut on them, and they fled in
terror from the board of old.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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King
To win a war, then duel
immediately!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Who recruits him recruits horse and foot: he
fetches parks of artillery, the best that
engineer
ever knew.
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Whitman |
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To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth
my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Him never shall the wolves with ravening maw
Rend and devour: I do forbid the
thought!
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Aeschylus |
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Rilke - Poems |
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ai
schullen
on er?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'
This
courageous
young person of Norway.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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SYMBOLS
From infinite longings finite deeds rise
As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies,
But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And
trembling
from their lack of power descend--
So through the falling torrent of our fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Apollo sings, his harp resounds: give room,
For now behold the golden pomp is come,
Thy pomp of plays which thousands come to see
With
admiration
both of them and thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"And must we then part from a
dwelling
so fair?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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For there hath been
An
interposed
pause of life, and wide
Have all the motions wandered everywhere
From these our senses.
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Lucretius |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Three words th' apostle taught: be these your care;
FAITH, CHARITY, and
PRUDENCE
learn to share.
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La Fontaine |
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"Why do you wish me to write
to Prince
Banojik?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It crumbled the dusk of the deep
That folds the worlds in sleep,
And shot through night with
noiseless
stir.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Dramatitseskaya
poema v" trekh" dy?
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Byron |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"
Yon
wandering
rill that marks the hill,
And glances o'er the brae, Sir,
Slides by a bower, where mony a flower
Sheds fragrance on the day, Sir;
There Damon lay, with Sylvia gay,
To love they thought no crime, Sir,
The wild birds sang, the echoes rang,
While Damon's heart beat time, Sir.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Petrarch
was much attached to him.
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Petrarch |
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3
Distressed
that I don?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my
birthday
guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--
Not for this morning, but some other time:
I must be getting back to
breakfast
now.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Methinks
the air
Is balmier now than it was wont to be--
Rich melodies are floating in the winds--
A rarer loveliness bedecks the earth--
And with a holier lustre the quiet moon
Sitteth in Heaven.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
"I tire of my beauty, I tire of this
Empty splendour and
shadowless
bliss;
"With none to envy and none gainsay,
No savour or salt hath my dream or day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
Those in the town could see and hear
A shaded river flowing near;
The broad deep bed could hardly hold
Its
plenteous
waters calm and cold.
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Christina Rossetti |
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hē him frēondlārum hēold, _supported him with
friendly
advice_,
2378.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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sēo ecg ge-swāc
þēodne
æt þearfe (_the
sword failed the prince in need_), 1525.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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A narrow wind
complains
all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my
powerful
controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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But it's to Bacchus, the sensuous dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in
sweetest
desire--even in marble they're damp.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet we do not in practice accept the
judgment
of other nations upon
their own literature.
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Li Po |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Dolce color d'oriental zaffiro,
che s'accoglieva nel sereno aspetto
del mezzo, puro infino al primo giro,
a li occhi miei ricomincio diletto,
tosto ch'io usci' fuor de l'aura morta
che m'avea
contristati
li occhi e 'l petto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung
arranged
in chronological order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The Wine
I cannot die, who drank delight
From the cup of the crescent moon,
And
hungrily
as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen
character
of this
part of the epic.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen,
With throngs
promiscuous
strow the level green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Why am I the neighbour always
Of those who force to sing thy trembling
strings?
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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No profit grows where is no
pleasure
ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I close
Will at thy
garments
walk, and then rejoin
My troop, who go mourning their endless doom.
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yet this handsome one may sell
Catullus
and his
tribe if from three men of note he can gain kisses of salute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Therefore 'twas
Men would take refuge in consigning all
Unto divinities, and in
feigning
all
Was guided by their nod.
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Lucretius |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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' Gifford says on this passage:
'The usual
gradation
in infamy.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Not without cause therefore
some both Italian and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rime
both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best
English Tragedies, as a thing of it self, to all judicious eares,
triveal and of no true musical delight: which consists only in apt
Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out
from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings,
a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good
Oratory This neglect then of Rime so little is to be taken for a defect
though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be
esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty
recover'd to Heroic Poem from the
troublesom
and modern bondage of
Rimeing.
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Milton |
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With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his
seraphic
self!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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120
XVI
'Do souls alone clear-eyed, strong-kneed,
To Him true service render,
And they who need his hand to lead,
Find they his heart
untender?
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time
freighter
is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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By
considering
this Index, we
come to know the best editions of many good books.
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where she sits beneath yon shaggy rock,
A
cowering
shape half-seen through curling smoke.
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William Wordsworth |
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Buried in air, the deep blue sky of Rome,
And looking to the stars; they had contained
A spirit which with these would find a home,
The last of those who o'er the whole earth reigned,
The Roman globe, for after none sustained
But yielded back his conquests:--he was more
Than a mere Alexander, and unstained
With
household
blood and wine, serenely wore
His sovereign virtues--still we Trajan's name adore.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Besides, this Duncane
Hath borne his Faculties so meeke; hath bin
So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues
Will pleade like Angels, Trumpet-tongu'd against
The deepe damnation of his taking off:
And Pitty, like a naked New-borne-Babe,
Striding the blast, or Heauens Cherubin, hors'd
Vpon the sightlesse
Curriors
of the Ayre,
Shall blow the horrid deed in euery eye,
That teares shall drowne the winde.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He licked my hand
wondering
to see me muse so,
And wished I would lead on the journey or home,
As though not a moment of spring were to go
In brooding; but I stood, if her spirit might come
And tell me her life, since we left her that day
In the white lilied coffin, and rained down our tears;
But the grave held no answer, though long I should stay;
How strange that this clay should mingle with hers!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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So brief the time, so fugitive the thought
Which Laura yields to me, though dead, again,
Small
medicine
give they to my giant pain;
Still, as I look on her, afflicts me nought.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with
permission
of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dost
sometimes
counsel take--and sometimes Tea.
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Alexander Pope |
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it
al*gates
nis it no 5000
swiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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Petrousha shall not go to
Petersburg!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Power all their end, but beauty all the means:
In youth they conquer, with so wild a rage,
As leaves them scarce a subject in their age:
For foreign glory, foreign joy, they roam;
No thought of peace or
happiness
at home.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Was I a
careless
woman set at ease
That this so bitter cup is brimmed for me?
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Christina Rossetti |
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There the grape-pickers at their harvesting
Shall lightly tread and load their wicker trays,
Blessing his memory as they toil and sing
In the slant
sunshine
of October days.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What, is the jay more precious than the lark
Because his
feathers
are more beautiful?
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Shakespeare |
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