Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip
Was deeply dug, while sharply
challenged
they:
"Were you one of this currish crew?
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[110] The pun--rather a far-fetched one--is between the words [Greek:
D_orh_osti] (in the Dorian mode) and [Greek:
d_orhon]
(a bribe).
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Aristophanes |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Si quicquam mutis gratum
acceptumve
sepulcris
Accidere a nostro, Calve, dolore potest,
Quo desiderio veteres renovamus amores
Atque olim missas flemus amicitias,
Certe non tanto mors inmatura dolorist 5
Quintiliae, quantum gaudet amore tuo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A PEASANT,
_husband
of Electra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Two puissant people
are flying to arms; two flourishing cities are
agitated
by the approach
of war.
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Petrarch |
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Oh dear, night and day
the
experiments
are going on, and every man who brings a new
prescription is welcome as a brother.
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though
daughter
of a king,
Though faire as ever living wight was faire, 15
Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting,
Is from her knight divorced in despaire,
And her due loves?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The black ducks
mounting
from the lake,
The pigeon in the pines,
The bittern's boom, a desert make
Which no false art refines.
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Emerson - Poems |
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20
Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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I, too, have passed her on the hills
Setting her little water-mills
By spouts and
fountains
wild--
Such small machinery as she turned 250
Ere she had wept, ere she had mourned,
A young and happy Child!
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William Wordsworth |
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"
XLIII
There came
whisperings
in the winds
"Good bye!
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Stephen Crane |
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And in his heart kind
influences
shed
Of country's love, by truth and justice bred.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[_He
snatches
Helmet at the last word.
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Yeats |
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How
seriously
we may
take this swing of the pendulum is to be noted in a speech of the poet's
at the time of the Revolution: "Come," he said, "let us go shoot General
Aupick!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thy
sensitive
beauty
Is become part of the fleeting
Loveliness, merged in the pathos
Of all things mortal.
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Sappho |
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" Naturally, people
stared and
Baudelaire
was happy--he had startled a bourgeois.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She leaps: they shake and pale; she glows--
And who but knows
How the rejoiced heart aches
When Venus all his starry vision shakes;
When through his mind
Tossing with random airs of an unearthly wind,
Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd,
The mistress of his starry vision arises,
And the boughs glittering sway
And the stars pale away,
And the enlarging heaven glows
As Venus light-foot mid the twined
branches
goes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
And she to-laugh, it
thoughte
hir herte breste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I was
abasshed
never a del, 805
But it me lykede right wel,
That Curtesye me cleped so,
And bad me on the daunce go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thee of thy faith who hath bereft,
And torn the ensigns from thy brow,
And sunk the
immortal
eye so low?
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Emerson - Poems |
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O lovelier than the lovely dame
That bore you, sentence as you please
Those scurril verses, be it flame
Your
vengeance
craves, or Hadrian seas.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His wretched body was
dominated by a high and eager mind, and he combined in an unparalleled
degree the fiery energy of the born poet with the tireless
patience
of
the trained artist.
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Alexander Pope |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Rilke - Poems |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet he
concedes
not any void in things,
Nor any limit to cutting bodies down.
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Lucretius |
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No, for the
gods are immortal, and one might still find them loitering in
some
solitary
dell on the grey hillsides of Fiesole.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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1745
Criseyde
loveth the sone of Tydeus,
And Troilus mot wepe in cares colde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
THE STUDENT'S TALE
EMMA AND EGINHARD
When Alcuin taught the sons of Charlemagne,
In the free schools of Aix, how kings should reign,
And with them taught the
children
of the poor
How subjects should be patient and endure,
He touched the lips of some, as best befit,
With honey from the hives of Holy Writ;
Others intoxicated with the wine
Of ancient history, sweet but less divine;
Some with the wholesome fruits of grammar fed;
Others with mysteries of the stars o'er-head,
That hang suspended in the vaulted sky
Like lamps in some fair palace vast and high.
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Longfellow |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Is there a man whose
judgment
clear,
Can others teach the way to steer,
Yet runs himself life's mad career,
Wild as the wave?
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William Wordsworth |
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How all heroic
martyrdoms
to it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--
SILENUS:
Aetna, the
loftiest
peak in Sicily.
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Shelley |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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El Desdichado (The Disinherited)
I am the darkness - the widower - the un-consoled,
The prince of
Aquitaine
in the ruined tower;
My sole star is dead - and my constellated lute
Bears the black sun of Melancholy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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HE IS NEVER WEARY OF
PRAISING
THE EYES OF LAURA.
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Petrarch |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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When any book has a wide
influence
upon opinion, its general
ideas pass into the minds of many people who have never read it.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine
Macdonald
(London) 1913
Irradiations Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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hark, the roar
Of the great
landstorm
with its waves of men!
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Aeschylus |
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if France be still thy
guardian
care,
Oh!
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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| Answer: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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editions
means that no one
owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and
you!
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Stephen Crane |
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I hope he is a poor young scholar, filled
With noble
thoughts
rather than noble blood.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Youth
flickers
out like wind-blown flame,
Sweets of to-day to-morrow sour,
For Time and Death, relentless, claim
Our little hour.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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On hope that man seduces,
On
patience
last, not least, of all!
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--it
flickers
up the sky through the night!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Chiefs, soldiers,
comrades
died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Lady Mary had been for years
acknowledged
as one of the wittiest, most
learned, and most beautiful women of her day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Seest thou not also how the clouds be sped
By contrary winds to regions contrary,
The lower clouds
diversely
from the upper?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Steamer, straining at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic
rawness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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--My Lord
Glencairn
and the Dean of Faculty, Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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What is your
tidings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I saw, with its celestial keys,
Its chords of air, its frets of fire,
The Samian's great Aeolian lyre,
Rising through all its
sevenfold
bars,
From earth unto the fixed stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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I
returned
with the newspaper and met my host
and hostess in the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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How can one say he was
fortunate
at first?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Now ask the
husbandmen
to be off.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Golden Treasury |
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Pleaseth
your Majesty to give me leave,
I'll muster up my friends and meet your Grace
Where and what time your Majesty shall please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His youth was fully blown,
Shewing like
Ganymede
to manhood grown; 170
And, for those simple times, his garments were
A chieftain king's: beneath his breast, half bare,
Was hung a silver bugle, and between
His nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen.
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Keats |
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Oft have I seen with solemn funeral games
Heroes and kings committed to the flames;
But
strength
of youth, or valour of the brave,
With nobler contest ne'er renown'd a grave.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There at a board by tome and paper sat,
With two tame
leopards
couched beside her throne,
All beauty compassed in a female form,
The Princess; liker to the inhabitant
Of some clear planet close upon the Sun,
Than our man's earth; such eyes were in her head,
And so much grace and power, breathing down
From over her arched brows, with every turn
Lived through her to the tips of her long hands,
And to her feet.
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Say, would thy star like Merope's grow dim
If thou
shouldst
wed beneath thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
]
SLEEP
ESCAPING
FROM THE WRATH OF JUPITER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The visualization is elevated to
the impersonal
objective
level which gives to the rhythm of these poems
an imperturbable calm, to the figures presented a monumental erectness.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Byron |
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e dedes of men by a bonde of
causes nat able to ben
vnbou{n}den
(indissolubili).
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Bend o'er th' abyss, the else
impervious
gloom 1820.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I wish there to be in my house:
O lion, miserable image
Don't be fearful and lascivious
There's another cony I remember
With his four dromedaries
Sweet days, the mice of time,
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
Look at this pestilential tribe
Work leads us to riches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
He does not believe that the
reformation
of society can bring this
beauty, this divine order, among men without the regeneration of the
hearts of men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The woods closed in,
The stream grew dark,
And then
The boat was
grounded
sudden on the shoals,
And I
Said quickly that perhaps
We'd come too far.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Next Aethiopia's utmost bound explore,
And the parch'd borders of the Arabian shore;
Then warp my voyage on the
southern
gales,
O'er the warm Lybian wave to spread my sails;
That happy clime, where each revolving year
The teeming ewes a triple offspring bear;
And two fair crescents of translucent horn
The brows of all their young increase adorn:
The shepherd swains, with sure abundance blest,
On the fat flock and rural dainties feast;
Nor want of herbage makes the dairy fail,
But every season fills the foaming pail.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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He starts in
revulsion
on
seeing_ APOLLO.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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us by so
many
dyu{er}se
studies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Thus pains and
pleasures
turn by turn succeed:
He smarts at last who does not first take heed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
O lead,
Lead me to deeper shades and
lonelier
glooms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
And
statesmen
boast
Of wealth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
"This Herman,"
continued
Tomsky, "is a romantic character; he has the
profile of a Napoleon and the heart of a Mephistopheles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Still surges in,
To yelp of hautboy and violin,
Plumed and bedazzling, rosed and rare,
Dance-bemused, with cheek aglow,
Stooping the green-twined portal through,
Sighing with laughter, debonair,
That
concourse
of the proud and fair--
And lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Dinda in sing-song stretching out one hand
Calls for the playthings; mother does not hear:
Her mind sails far away on a
patchwork
Ocean,
And all the world must wait till she touches land;
So Dinda cries in fear,
Then Mother turns, laughing like a young fairy,
And Dinda smiles to see her look so kind,
Calls out again for playthings, playthings, playthings;
And now the shadows make an Umbrian _Mary
Adoring_, on the blind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"That one, who on the ground beneath the rest
Sits lowest, yet his gaze directs aloft,
Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause
The deed of Alexandria and his war
Makes Conferrat and
Canavese
weep.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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ALCESTIS,
_daughter
of Pelias, his wife_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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LXIII
"Needing to quit my home upon a day,
And journey through the country, (as you can
Haply remember ye) we are on our way,
Were
overtaken
by an Arab clan.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He
honoureth
not the hand that gave the bride.
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Euripides - Electra |
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May the Lord have mercy on your position,
You wretched,
wrangling
culler of herbs!
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Longfellow |
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THE INDIAN GIPSY
In
tattered
robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He
hath in him two things that make youth most
easy to be managed —
modesty*
which is the bri-
dle to vice — and emulation, which is the spur to
virtue Above all, I shall labour
to make him sensible of his duty to God ; for
then we begin to serve faithfully when we con-
sider He is our master.
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Marvell - Poems |
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