Yet would thy share of woe not equal mine,
Since the loved mate thou weep'st doth haply live,
While death, and heaven, me of my fair deprive:
But hours less gay, the season's drear decline;
With
thoughts
on many a sad, and pleasant year,
Tempt me to ask thy piteous presence here.
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Petrarch |
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During the bitter
persecution
raised against his family by Boniface
VIII.
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Petrarch |
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After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more
ungainly
Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 180
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But time is too
precious
to be wasted thus;
I'll forgo speech, wishing you to leave us.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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| Obvious
typographical
errors have been corrected in |
| this text.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Indessen konnt Ihr ganz allein
An aller
Hoffnung
kunft'ger Freuden
In ihrem Dunstkreis satt Euch weiden.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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LAUGHING
SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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blake-poems |
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But I hold myself
absolved
from such a
task; for the sixty poems which follow will enable the reader to perform
it for himself.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Little poet people
snatching
ivy,
Trying to prevent one another from snatching ivy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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JUDITH _appears,
standing
against
the night and the Assyrian fires.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So, till the judgment that
yourself
arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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or doon goode decertes
to
p{ro}fit
of ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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to my
comrades
true
Rich cups, rare bronzes, gladly would I send:
Choice tripods from Olympia on each friend
Would I confer, choicer on none than you,
Had but my fate such gems of art bestow'd
As cunning Scopas or Parrhasius wrought,
This with the brush, that with the chisel taught
To image now a mortal, now a god.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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After exchanging presents with the Redcross
Knight, he bids
farewell
to Una and her companions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He views new
knowledge
with suspicious eyes
And thinks it blasphemy to be so wise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The old
soldiers,
inexpert
at speaking, often lost the day.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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And will your mother pity me,
Who am a maiden most
forlorn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Nevertheless
these rulers, although appearing
in the pretentious nomenclature as gods, appear to have been real
historic personages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XXX
Tranquil he lay, and strange to view
The peace which on his forehead beamed,
His breast was riddled through and through,
The blood gushed from the wound and steamed
Ere this but one brief moment beat
That heart with inspiration sweet
And enmity and hope and love--
The blood boiled and the
passions
strove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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She has a baby on her arm, 5
Or else she were alone:
And
underneath
the hay-stack warm,
And on the greenwood stone,
She talked and sung the woods among,
And it was in the English tongue.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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AUTOMNE MALADE
Automne malade et adore
Tu mourras quand l'ouragan soufflera dans les roseraies
Quand il aura neige
Dans les vergers
Pauvre automne
Meurs en blancheur et en richesse
De neige et de fruits murs
Au fond du ciel
Des eperviers planent
Sur les nixes nicettes aux cheveux verts et naines
Qui n'ont jamais aime
Aux lisieres lointaines
Les cerfs ont brame
Et que j'aime o saison que j'aime tes rumeurs
Les fruits tombant sans qu'on les cueille
Le vent et la foret qui pleurent
Toutes leurs larmes en automne feuille a feuille
Les feuilles
Qu'on foule
Un train
Qui roule
La vie
S'ecoule
HOTELS
La chambre est veuve
Chacun pour soi
Presence neuve
On paye au mois
Le patron doute
Payera-t-on
Je tourne en route
Comme un toton
Le bruit des fiacres
Mon voisin laid
Qui fume un acre
Tabac anglais
O La Valliere
Qui boite et rit
De mes prieres
Table de nuit
Et tous ensemble
Dans cet hotel
Savons la langue
Comme a Babel
Fermons nos Portes
A double tour
Chacun apporte
Son seul amour
CORS DE CHASSE
Notre histoire est noble et tragique
Comme le masque d'un tyran
Nul drame hasardeux ou magique
Aucun detail indifferent
Ne rend notre amour pathetique
Et Thomas de Quincey buvant
L'opium poison doux et chaste
A sa pauvre Anne allait revant
Passons passons puisque tout passe
Je me retournerai souvent
Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse
Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent
VENDEMIAIRE
Hommes de l'avenir souvenez-vous de moi
Je vivais a l'epoque ou finissaient les rois
Tour a tour ils mouraient silencieux et tristes
Et trois fois courageux devenaient trismegistes
Que Paris etait beau a la fin de septembre
Chaque nuit devenait une vigne ou les pampres
Repandaient leur clarte sur la ville et la-haut
Astres murs becquetes par les ivres oiseaux
De ma gloire attendaient la vendange de l'aube
Un soir passant le long des quais deserts et sombres
En rentrant a Auteuil j'entendis une voix
Qui chantait gravement se taisant quelquefois
Pour que parvint aussi sur les bords de la Seine
La plainte d'autres voix limpides et lointaines
Et j'ecoutai longtemps tous ces chants et ces cris
Qu'eveillait dans la nuit la chanson de Paris
J'ai soif villes de France et d'Europe et du monde
Venez toutes couler dans ma gorge profonde
Je vis alors que deja ivre dans la vigne Paris
Vendangeait le raisin le plus doux de la terre
Ces grains miraculeux qui aux treilles chanterent
Et Rennes repondit avec Quimper et Vannes
Nous voici o Paris Nos maisons nos habitants
Ces grappes de nos sens qu'enfanta le soleil
Se sacrifient pour te desalterer trop avide merveille
Nous t'apportons tous les cerveaux les cimetieres les murailles
Ces berceaux pleins de cris que tu n'entendras pas
Et d'amont en aval nos pensees o rivieres
Les oreilles des ecoles et nos mains rapprochees
Aux doigts allonges nos mains les clochers
Et nous t'apportons aussi cette souple raison
Que le mystere clot comme une porte la maison
Ce mystere courtois de la galanterie
Ce mystere fatal fatal d'une autre vie
Double raison qui est au-dela de la beaute
Et que la Grece n'a pas connue ni l'Orient
Double raison de la Bretagne ou lame a lame
L'ocean chatre peu a peu l'ancien continent
Et les villes du Nord repondirent gaiement
O Paris nous voici boissons vivantes
Les viriles cites ou degoisent et chantent
Les
metalliques
saints de nos saintes usines
Nos cheminees a ciel ouvert engrossent les nuees
Comme fit autrefois l'Ixion mecanique
Et nos mains innombrables
Usines manufactures fabriques mains
Ou les ouvriers nus semblables a nos doigts
Fabriquent du reel a tant par heure
Nous te donnons tout cela
Et Lyon repondit tandis que les anges de Fourvieres
Tissaient un ciel nouveau avec la soie des prieres
Desaltere-toi Paris avec les divines paroles
Que mes levres le Rhone et la Saone murmurent
Toujours le meme culte de sa mort renaissant
Divise ici les saints et fait pleuvoir le sang
Heureuse pluie o gouttes tiedes o douleur
Un enfant regarde les fenetres s'ouvrir
Et des grappes de tetes a d'ivres oiseaux s'offrit
Les villes du Midi repondirent alors
Noble Paris seule raison qui vis encore
Qui fixes notre humeur selon ta destinee
Et toi qui te retires Mediterranee
Partagez-vous nos corps comme on rompt des hosties
Ces tres hautes amours et leur danse orpheline
Deviendront o Paris le vin pur que tu aimes
Et un rale infini qui venait de Sicile
Signifiait en battement d'ailes ces paroles
Les raisins de nos vignes on les a vendanges
Et ces grappes de morts dont les grains allonges
Ont la saveur du sang de la terre et du sel
Les voici pour ta soif o Paris sous le ciel
Obscurci de nuees fameliques
Que caresse Ixion le createur oblique
Et ou naissent sur la mer tous les corbeaux d'Afrique
O raisins Et ces yeux ternes et en famille
L'avenir et la vie dans ces treilles s'ennuyent
Mais ou est le regard lumineux des sirenes
Il trompa les marins qu'aimaient ces oiseaux-la
Il ne tournera plus sur l'ecueil de Scylla
Ou chantaient les trois voix suaves et sereines
Le detroit tout a coup avait change de face
Visages de la chair de l'onde de tout
Ce que l'on peut imaginer
Vous n'etes que des masques sur des faces masquees
Il souriait jeune nageur entre les rives
Et les noyes flottant sur son onde nouvelle
Fuyaient en le suivant les chanteuses plaintives
Elles dirent adieu au gouffre et a l'ecueil
A leurs pales epoux couches sur les terrasses
Puis ayant pris leur vol vers le brulant soleil
Les suivirent dans l'onde ou s'enfoncent les astres
Lorsque la nuit revint couverte d'yeux ouverts
Errer au site ou l'hydre a siffle cet hiver
Et j'entendis soudain ta voix imperieuse
O Rome
Maudire d'un seul coup mes anciennes pensees
Et le ciel ou l'amour guide les destinees
Les feuillards repousses sur l'arbre de la croix
Et meme la fleur de lys qui meurt au Vatican
Macerent dans le vin que je t'offre et qui a
La saveur du sang pur de celui qui connait
Une autre liberte vegetale dont tu
Ne sais pas que c'est elle la supreme vertu
Une couronne du triregne est tombee sur les dalles
Les hierarques la foulent sous leurs sandales
O splendeur democratique qui palit
Vienne le nuit royale ou l'on tuera les betes
La louve avec l'agneau l'aigle avec la colombe
Une foule de rois ennemis et cruels
Ayant soif comme toi dans la vigne eternelle
Sortiront de la terre et viendront dans les airs
Pour boire de mon vin par deux fois millenaire
La Moselle et le Rhin se joignent en silence
C'est l'Europe qui prie nuit et jour a Coblence
Et moi qui m'attardais sur le quai a Auteuil
Quand les heures tombaient parfois comme les feuilles
Du cep lorsqu'il est temps j'entendis la priere
Qui joignait la limpidite de ces rivieres
O Paris le vin de ton pays est meilleur que celui
Qui pousse sur nos bords mais aux pampres du nord
Tous les grains ont muri pour cette soif terrible
Mes grappes d'hommes forts saignent dans le pressoir
Tu boiras a longs traits tout le sang de l'Europe
Parce que tu es beau et que seul tu es noble
Parce que c'est dans toi que Dieu peut devenir
Et tous mes vignerons dans ces belles maisons
Qui refletent le soir leurs feux dans nos deux eaux
Dans ces belles maisons nettement blanches et noires
Sans savoir que tu es la realite chantent ta gloire
Mais nous liquides mains jointes pour la priere
Nous menons vers le sel les eaux aventurieres
Et la ville entre nous comme entre des ciseaux
Ne reflete en dormant nul feu dans ses deux eaux
Dont quelque sifflement lointain parfois s'elance
Troublant dans leur sommeil les filles de Coblence
Les villes repondaient maintenant par centaines
Je ne distinguais plus leurs paroles lointaines
Et Treves la ville ancienne
A leur voix melait la sienne
L'univers tout entier concentre dans ce vin
Qui contenait les mers les animaux les plantes
Les cites les destins et les astres qui chantent
Les hommes a genoux sur la rive du ciel
Et le docile fer notre bon compagnon
Le feu qu'il faut aimer comme on s'aime soi-meme
Tous les fiers trepasses qui sont un sous mon front
L'eclair qui luit ainsi qu'une pensee naissante
Tous les noms six par six les nombres un a un
Des kilos de papier tordus comme des flammes
Et ceux-la qui sauront blanchir nos ossements
Les bons vers immortels qui s'ennuient patiemment
Des armees rangees en bataille
Des forets de crucifix et mes demeures lacustres
Au bord des yeux de celle que j'aime tant
Les fleurs qui s'ecrient hors de bouches
Et tout ce que je ne sais pas dire
Tout ce que je ne connaitrai jamais
Tout cela tout cela change en ce vin pur
Dont Paris avait soif
Me fut alors presente
Actions belles journees sommeils terribles
Vegetation Accouplements musiques eternelles
Mouvements Adorations douleur divine
Mondes qui vous rassemblez et qui nous ressemblez
Je vous ai bus et ne fut pas desaltere
Mais je connus des lors quelle saveur a l'univers
Je suis ivre d'avoir bu tout l'univers
Sur le quai d'ou je voyais l'onde couler et dormir les belandres
Ecoutez-moi je suis le gosier de Paris
Et je boirai encore s'il me plait l'univers
Ecoutez mes chants d'universelle ivrognerie
Et la nuit de septembre s'achevait lentement
Les feux rouges des ponts s'eteignaient dans la Seine
Les etoiles mouraient le jour naissait a peine
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yea, whole
mountains
fall,
And instantly from spot of that big jar
There quiver the tremors far and wide abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
FRANCIS MILES FINCH
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
_The women of Columbus, Mississippi, had shown themselves
impartial in the
offerings
made to the memory of the dead.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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quae quoniam uerae nascuntur pectore ab imo,
uos nolite pati nostrum uanescere luctum,
sed quali solam Theseus me mente reliquit, 200
tali mente, deae,
funestet
seque suosque.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints
on the sands of time;--
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Were I a man among you, I would not stay
Behind the walls to weep this insolence;
I'ld take a sword in my hand and God in my mind,
And seek under the friendship of the night
That tent where Holofernes' crimes and hate
Sleep in his
devilish
brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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inges by
certeyne
ende.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
'
This
Pandarus
gan on hir for to stare,
And seyde, `Now is this the grettest wonder
That ever I sey!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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travelling
along even to its destind end
Then falling down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Otherwise
you would not
have shrieked so loud at us, who have done nothing to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
LFS}
Rising upon his Couch of Death Albion beheld his Sons
Turning his
Eyesoutward
to Self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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And the period which
preceded
it, the period
after the failure of Roman civilization, was sufficiently "dark" and
devoid of individuality, to make the sudden plenty of potent and
splendid individuals seem a phenomenon of the same sort as that which
has been roughly described; it can scarcely be doubted that the age
which is exhibited in the _Poem of the Cid_, the _Song of Roland_, and
the lays of the Crusaders (_la Chanson d'Antioche_, for instance), was
similar in all essentials to the age we find in Homer and the
_Nibelungenlied_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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That sword
Shrink into a
sceptre!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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er for it
so{ur}mou{n}te?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
Each
answering
all, each sharing the earth with all.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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telle vous serez, o la reine des graces,
Apres les derniers sacrements,
Quand vous irez sous l'herbe et les
floraisons
grasses,
Moisir parmi les ossements.
| Guess: |
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If anybody's friend be dead,
It 's sharpest of the theme
The
thinking
how they walked alive,
At such and such a time.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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e waye,
[D] Preuely
aproched
to a prest, & prayed hym ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" The "foregoing note" is the note
appended
to 'The Horn
of Egremont Castle'; and the "reason given" in it is "to avoid a
needless multiplication of the Classes" into which Wordsworth divided
his poems.
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1090, he seized the castle of Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which
lies in the mountainous tract south of the Caspian Sea; and it was
from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the
Crusaders as the OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through
the Mohammedan world; and it is yet disputed where the word Assassin,
which they have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark
memorial, is derived from the hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the
Indian bhang), with which they maddened
themselves
to the sullen pitch
of oriental desperation, or from the name of the founder of the
dynasty, whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days, at Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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The moon was high, _2665
And clouds, as of a coming storm, were spread
Under its orb,--loud winds were
gathering
overhead.
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Shelley |
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He ordered that he should be unofficially
attached to the Han Lin Academy, but Po went on
drinking
in the
market-place with his boon-companions.
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Li Po |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Where's
childhood?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Beyond the city, gardens hidden from view
Sent odors of sweet
blossoms
on the breeze
And singing sounded through the far off trees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
LINES WRITTEN A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON
REVISITING
THE BANKS
OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR, July 13, 1798.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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`Wherfore
I wol deffyne in this matere,
That trewely, for ought I can espye, 835
Ther is no verray wele in this world here.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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The aggregated Soyle
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote, and fix't as firm
As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
And with Asphaltic slime; broad as the Gate,
Deep to the Roots of Hell the gather'd beach
They fasten'd, and the Mole immense wraught on 300
Over the foaming deep high Archt, a Bridge
Of length prodigious joyning to the Wall
Immoveable
of this now fenceless world
Forfeit to Death; from hence a passage broad,
Smooth, easie, inoffensive down to Hell.
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Milton |
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nē him inwit-sorh on
sefan
sweorceð
(_darkens his soul_), 1738.
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Beowulf |
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Richly caparisoned, a ready row
Of armed horse, and many a warlike store,
Circled the wide-extending court below;
Above, strange groups adorned the corridor;
And
ofttimes
through the area's echoing door,
Some high-capped Tartar spurred his steed away;
The Turk, the Greek, the Albanian, and the Moor,
Here mingled in their many-hued array,
While the deep war-drum's sound announced the close of day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" In this mock trial two days were wasted;
Tiberius, all the while, animating the sons of Piso to defend their
mother: when the
pleaders
and witnesses had vigorously pushed the
charge, and no reply was made, commiseration prevailed over hatred.
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Tacitus |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair,
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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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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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Tennyson |
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Cease then, nor ORDER
Imperfection
name:
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Alexander Pope |
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"Stout be the heart, nor slow
The foot to follow the
impetuous
will,
Nor the hand slack upon the loom of deeds.
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Sappho |
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* * * * *
The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the
elements
through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Along that wilderness of glass--
No
swellings
tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea--
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Wīglāf maðelode, Wīhstānes sunu:
"Oft sceall eorl monig ānes willan
"wrǣc ādrēogan, swā ūs
geworden
is.
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Beowulf |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Winter Stars
I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have
drenched
my spirit's wings--
I bore my sorrow heavily.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XLII
The Saracenic squadrons had begun
To bend, and all the army of the Moor
Had turned, disordered, broken, and undone,
Never to be arrayed or rallied more,
But that Grandonio stood, and Falsiron,
Tried oftentimes in greater ill before,
With Serpentine and
Balugantes
proud,
And the renowned Ferrau, who cried aloud:
XLIII
"O valiant men," he -- "O companions," cries,
"O brethren, stand, and yet your place maintain;
Like cobweb-threads our cruel enemies
Will find their works, if we our part sustain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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A
careless
shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Gehorchen
soll man mehr als immer,
Und zahlen mehr als je vorher.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It was later made a temple, and was clearly
abandoned
by the time Du Fu saw it.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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When will you bring back the
standard
and axe,1 40 unite our forces and sweep away the ill-omened comet?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Cependant elle etait
charmante, nous dit Theodore de Banville, << elle portait bien sa brune
tete ingenue et superbe, couronnee d'une chevelure
violemment
crespelee
et dont la demarche de reine pleine d'une grace farouche, avait a la
fois quelque chose de divin et de bestial >>.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Betrayed
you has he that to guard you ought;
Mad is the King who left you in this post.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In all the clam'rous cry of starving want,
They dun
benevolence
with shameless front;
Oblige them, patronize their tinsel lays,
They persecute you all your future days!
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Robert Burns |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
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Shelley |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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She is praised by
contrast
with the
antitype, Thryth, just as Beowulf was praised by contrast with
Heremod.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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is pretty
certainly
what Donne wrote.
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John Donne |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that confiding prodigal,
The
blissful
oriole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I visit these, to whose
indulgent
cares
I owe the nursing of my tender years:
For strife, I hear, has made that union cease
Which held so long that ancient pair in peace.
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Iliad - Pope |
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XVII
"And is it,"
meditates
Eugene.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Though braced within by iron bands,
that building bright was broken sorely; {15a}
rent were its hinges; the roof alone
held safe and sound, when, seared with crime,
the
fiendish
foe his flight essayed,
of life despairing.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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