They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax' self the blessing of a friend;
Or find some doctor that would save the life
Of
wretched
Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright--
We safely may trust to a gleaming
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it
flickers
up to Heaven through the night.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As printed, the two clauses (57-8)
simply
contradict
each other.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O would they stay aback frae courts,
An' please
themsels
wi' country sports,
It wad for ev'ry ane be better,
The laird, the tenant, an' the cotter!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I am come,
Fresh from the
cleansing
of Apollo, home
To Argos--and my coming no man yet
Knoweth--to pay the bloody twain their debt
Of blood.
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Euripides - Electra |
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TO OUR LADY OF VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT
(BALLATA)
i
WHOare you that the whole world's song
Is shaken out beneath feet your
Leaving you comfortless, Who, that, as wheat
Is garnered, gather in The blades of man's sin And bear that sheaf?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Which
augments
and secures his own profit and
peace.
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Marvell - Poems |
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HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS
Translation from the Greek
I
WREATHED
in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal
Like those champions devoted and brave,
When they plunged in the tyrant their steel,
And to Athens deliverance gave.
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Poe - 5 |
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Laying down his spear,
Mezentius
whirled thrice round his head
the tightened cord of his whistling sling, pierced him full between the
temples with the molten bullet, and stretched him all his length upon
the sand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'Twere long to tell who launched the cruel dart,
And how the lovers
wandered
in the wood;
Now guided by the sun, and now benighted,
Here first since that encounter reunited.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan
For making a separate sally;
And had fixed on a spot
unfrequented
by man,
A dismal and desolate valley.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For the Muse gave special charge
His learning should be deep and large,
And his training should not scant
The deepest lore of wealth or want:
His flesh should feel, his eyes should read
Every maxim of dreadful Need;
In its fulness he should taste
Life's honeycomb, but not too fast;
Full fed, but not intoxicated;
He should be loved; he should be hated;
A
blooming
child to children dear,
His heart should palpitate with fear.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Different virtue compact different
Makes with the
precious
body it enlivens,
With which it knits, as life in you is knit.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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þenden
rēafode
rinc ōðerne, 2986; wæl rēafode, 3028; pret.
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Beowulf |
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His relations with his
rich and
powerful
friends were marked by the same independent spirit.
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Alexander Pope |
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There were blue eyes from turfy Shannon,
There were black orbs from palmy Niger--
But there,
alongside
the cannon,
Each man fought like a tiger!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In Macedonian fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur,
prospering
everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A mist,
Unclean and yellow,
inundated
space--
A scene that would have pleased an actor's soul.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Rodrigue
May your Majesty, Sire, spare my
blushes!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Ems
Who
casually
fell in the Thames;
And when he was found, they said he was drowned,
That unlucky Old Person of Ems.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran, changing sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the
forsaken
west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"But I can't
understand
it!
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Kipling - Poems |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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<
vagliami
'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore
che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I watch'd, and long with firm
expectance
stood
To see a mortal by a god subdued,
The usual fate of man!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It bore all other sinnes, but is it fit 5
That it should beare the sinne of
scorning
it?
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John Donne |
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How far, since then, the ocean streams
Have swept us from that land of dreams,
That land of fiction and of truth,
The lost
Atlantis
of our youth!
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Longfellow |
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CCLVI
The count Oger no
cowardice
e'er knew,
Better vassal hath not his sark indued.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I am thy father's wedded wife;
And underneath the
spreading
tree
We two will live in honesty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Morpheus
was the god of sleep.
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Keats |
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Who would show such courage or
temerity?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Yet heavier far than your
Petrarchan
stuff-
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Play the old role, the role that is great or small,
according
as one makes
it!
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Whitman |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
LV
Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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Sappho |
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VIII) was the first writer to study
this new type of character--the young man of the lower middle classes,
full of
grandiose
dreams and wild ambitions and strange weaknesses,
who thought to arrive by intrigue at the high position which the great
soldiers of the preceding generation had won on the battlefield.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_]
Long, long after,
When
settlers
put up beam and rafter,
They asked of the birds: "Who gave this fruit?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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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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ROBINSON
THINKS
NO.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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" and as each came
The shadow, streaming forth
effulgence
new,
Witness'd augmented joy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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" I
answering
thus:
"Forese!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But I, the
bantling
of a country Muse,
Abandon all those toys with speed to obey
The King whose meek ambassador I go.
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| Question: |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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)
Red, from
mainmast
to bitts!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I, habitue of the Alleghanies, treating man as he is in himself, in his own
rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom
exhibited
itself, the great
pride of man in himself;
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be;
I project the history of the future.
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Whitman |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Barrett has a
small leaf of vellum (given to him by
Chatterton
as one of Rowley's
original MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Rilke - Poems |
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This was a capital fault, for the young are
naturally ingenuous; so that the
acquisition
of their confidence is the
very first step towards their docility; and, for maintaining parental
authority, there is no need to overawe them.
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Petrarch |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Between the blossoms red and white,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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{23c} The blade slowly
dissolves
in blood-stained drops like
icicles.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The first-named lines foreshadow death; the latter, the
"kashourka," or "kitten song," indicates
approaching
marriage.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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if our own hands
Have thus our weal betray'd, who shall our cause
sustain?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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To Harmony's
enchanting
notes,
As moves the mazy dance, man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Now,
dwellers
afar,
ocean-travellers, take from me
simple advice: the sooner the better
I hear of the country whence ye came.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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* * * * *
Many of the themes in the _New Poems_ bear testimony to the fact that
Rilke
travelled
extensively, prior to the writing of these volumes, in
Italy, Germany, France, and Scandinavia.
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Rilke - Poems |
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As to Spenser's specific indebtedness, though he owed much in
incident and diction to Chaucer's version of the
_Romance
of the Rose_ and
to Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, the great epic poets, Tasso and Ariosto,
should be given first place.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She soon shall see her tender brood,
The pride, the
pleasure
o' the wood,
Amang the fresh green leaves bedew'd,
Awake the early morning.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_
I have been so throng printing my Poems, that I could
scarcely
find as
much time as to write to you.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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THE KING OF ARGOS
O
stranger
maids, I may not trust this word,
That ye have share in this our Argive race.
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Aeschylus |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
apieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Longfellow |
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But the
earth of the hill
crumbled
and heroes[20] perished.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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| Question: |
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Villon |
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and bend within my reach
The fiery
blossoms
of the peach!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Inefficient,
Craven
spirits!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
They had
restored
the city to the senate and people of
Rome, and their Temples to the gods: the soldier's pride is his camp,
it is his country and his home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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no, I cannot shed the pitying tear,
This breast is cold, this heart can feel no more--
But I can rest me on thy
chilling
bier, _30
Can shriek in horror to the tempest's roar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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And for these words, thus woven into song,
It may be that they are a
harmless
wile,--
The colouring of the scenes which fleet along,
Which I would seize, in passing, to beguile
My breast, or that of others, for a while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The barges wash
Drifting
logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Upton thinks that
Sir Satyrane
represents
"Sir John Perrot, whose behaviour, though honest,
was too coarse and rude for a court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Leonor
You wish to remain here in
reverie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great
purchaser
suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the merchant buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
On t'other hand, where dire distress prevailed,
And death, in various ways, our spark assailed,
A beauty
suddenly
his senses charmed,
Who might a prelate's bosom have alarmed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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THE couple left their bed at break of day,
And to the cell
repaired
without delay
Our tale to shorten, Lucius kind appeared
To rigid rules no longer he adhered.
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La Fontaine |
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But this alchemy is, you
know, only the
material
counterpart of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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FAUST:
Du
Spottgeburt
von Dreck und Feuer!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Suche
fantasyes
ben in myn hede
So I not what is best to do.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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qui
desponsa
tua firmes conubia flamma,
quae pepigere uiri, pepigerunt ante parentes,
nec iunxere prius quam se tuus extulit ardor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Chanson de Roland |
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V
ARISE,
AMERICAN!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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