Then, his sad head upon his hands inclined,
He wept; that father-heart all unconfined,
Outpoured
in love alone.
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Hugo - Poems |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
CXLI
The count Rollanz, back to the field then hieing
Holds Durendal, and like a vassal striking
Faldrun of Pui has through the middle sliced,
With twenty-four of all they rated highest;
Was never man, for
vengeance
shewed such liking.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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The world, for so it thought, 20
Owed him no service; wherefore he at once
With
indignation
turned himself away, [4]
And with the food of pride sustained his soul
In solitude.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then the rolling thunder gets awake,
And from black clouds the
lightning
flashes break.
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John Clare |
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But yesterday a hundred drums were heard when I went by;
Full forty agas turned their looks respectful on mine eye,
And
trembled
with contracted brows within their hall of state.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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How can they feed him with
intelligence?
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John Donne |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Murmuring
all and singing,
Hark!
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Hugo - Poems |
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to behold again no more, loud charging o'er the plain,
Their squadrons, in the hostile shot
diminished
all in vain,
Burst grandly on the heavy squares, like clouds that bear the storms,
Enveloping in lightning fires the dark resisting swarms!
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Hugo - Poems |
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_uriosque_
G) GD: _uiuosque_ cod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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O Hymen
Hymenaeus
io, O Hymen Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Aux murs des lithographies et des tableaux
signes de son ami Delacroix, pures
merveilles
presque sans importance
alors, mais que se disputeraient aujourd'hui a coups de millions les
princes de la finance americaine.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For
peaceful
sleep and meditative snores,
To ceaseless din and mindless merriment
And waste of shoes and floors.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And on the wall, by the seat,
Break the
entangled
ivy,
Scatter buds for a carpet,
Let all be balmy and sweet.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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NIGHT
The night has cut
each from each
and curled the petals
back from the stalk
and under it in crisp rows;
under at an
unfaltering
pace,
under till the rinds break,
back till each bent leaf
is parted from its stalk;
under at a grave pace,
under till the leaves
are bent back
till they drop upon earth,
back till they are all broken.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Drummer
detested
that animal, and the best
of the Band-horses put back their ears and showed the whites of their
eyes at the very sight of him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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4 The
reference
is to Yang Guozhong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But heaven in thy creation did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but
sweetness
tell.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet here must the hand of the henchman peerless
lave with water his winsome lord,
the king and
conqueror
covered with blood,
with struggle spent, and unspan his helmet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They
grumbled
aloud, and Iwan Ignatiitch, who
executed the Commandant's orders, heard them with his own ears say
pretty clearly--
"Only wait a bit, you garrison rat!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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What strange words, how
grievous
to hear!
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Troubador Verse |
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_
Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Contributions to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by
U.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_ [A humorous
misspelling
of _sceptic_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I prefer deeper patience,
Monotony
of stalled beasts.
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Imagists |
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Canst thou be thus
incredulous?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Even in heaven that dear voice
pleaseth
well,
So winning are its words, its sound so sweet,
None can conceive, save who had heard, their spell;
Thus, in the same small space, visibly, meet
All charms of eye and ear wherewith our race
Art, Genius, Nature, Heaven have join'd to grace.
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Petrarch |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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`Ector,' quod they, `what goost may yow enspyre
This womman thus to shilde and doon us lese
Daun
Antenor?
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with
inviolable
voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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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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The effect was, still more
elevated
views
Of human nature.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame puissante au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors
paisiblement
dans une pose etrange
Tes appas faconnes aux bouches des Titans!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A regular change
followed
by all editors is wiues] wife's.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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" said Dick, who had been
watching
the
scarred and chapped hands.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
"That face of thine," I answer'd him, "which dead
I once bewail'd,
disposes
me not less
For weeping, when I see It thus transform'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I will away, and, bringing from within
A seemly royal robe, will
straightway
strive
To meet and greet my son: foul scorn it were
To leave our dearest in his hour of shame.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Victory, Maids of Argos,
Victory!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Then my Joy grew pale and weary because no other heart but mine
held its
loveliness
and no other lips kissed its lips.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'
"He ceased: heart wounded with
afflictive
pain,
(Doom'd to repeat the perils of the main,
A shelfy track and long!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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)
FAUST (allein):
Wie nur dem Kopf nicht alle Hoffnung schwindet,
Der immerfort an schalem Zeuge klebt,
Mit gier'ger Hand nach
Schatzen
grabt,
Und froh ist, wenn er Regenwurmer findet!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'They made a ful good engendring,'
Quod Love, 'for who-so soothly telle, 6115
They
engendred
the devel of helle!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I sent him into thieves'
company!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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She rises
crescented!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no
recognition
in those orbs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Byron's
injunction
was not carried out
till 1832.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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I am the princess up in the tower,
And I dream my dreams by day,
But
sometimes
I wake, and my eyes are wet,
When the dusk is deep and gray.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And yet those years that since thy birth have run
Would hardly style thee Nestor's
youngest
son.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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finished so
tragically
his unfortunate life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE
OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Each corse lay flat,
lifeless
and flat;
And by the Holy rood
A man all light, a seraph-man,
On every corse there stood.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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20
XCVIII
I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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_101_
FRIEND, if the mute and shrouded dead
Are touched at all by tears,
By love long fled and friendship sped
And the
unreturning
years,
O then, to her that early died,
O doubt not, bridegroom, to thy bride
Thy love is sweet and sweeteneth
The very bitterness of death.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As, at one bound, our swift spring heaps
The
orchards
full of bloom and scent,
So clove her May my wintry sleeps;--
I only know she came and went.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Spirit,
substantial
form, with matter join'd
Not in confusion mix'd, hath in itself
Specific virtue of that union born,
Which is not felt except it work, nor prov'd
But through effect, as vegetable life
By the green leaf.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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light]] Let us plat a Scourge O Sister City
cChildren are nourishd for the Slaughter; once the Child was fed
With Milk; but wherefore now are Children fed with blood
PAGE 15 {This page appears to be a later insert by Blake, for it was not
numbered
in his original sequence.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The whirling, whizzing magic-choir
Darts forth ten
thousand
sparks of fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Fire of the heaven, whose
splendor
all-glowing
Soon, soon shall end, and in darkness must perish;
Sea-bird and flame-wreath and foam lightly blowing;--
Soon, soon tho' we lose you, your beauty we cherish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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From 1815 to 1832, the following two couplets
followed
line 546.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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VII
None looked upon her but he
straightway
thought
Of all the greenest depths of country cheer, 50
And into each one's heart was freshly brought
What was to him the sweetest time of year,
So was her every look and motion fraught
With out-of-door delights and forest lere;
Not the first violet on a woodland lea
Seemed a more visible gift of Spring than she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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It was enough for my hand to touch it lightly, 750
To render it distasteful to that inhuman man:
And for that
wretched
blade to soil his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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--
though thou wast the bane {9a} of thy
brethren
dear,
thy closest kin, whence curse of hell
awaits thee, well as thy wit may serve!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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What soft, cherubic creatures
These
gentlewomen
are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Miggy dies of cholera once a week in the Rains, and gets drunk
on
chlorodyne
in between.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XXXVIII
Once more to
idleness
consigned,
He felt the laudable desire
From mere vacuity of mind
The wit of others to acquire.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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outen any
grucchyng
word,
Mete ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis
uastabit
tertius heres.
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And when the doors are shut, what of the girls
Who gave
themselves
away, and still must live?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Thou hast
suffered
her to do
Thine office, her, no kin to me nor you,
Yet more than kin!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Come, draw a drap o' the best o't yet;
Come, draw a drap o' the best o't yet;
Gae seek for
pleasure
where ye will,
But here I never miss'd it yet.
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Robert Burns |
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Leopards, tigers, play
Round her as she lay;
While the lion old
Bowed his mane of gold,
And her bosom lick,
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame,
Ruby tears there came;
While the lioness
Loosed her slender dress,
And naked they conveyed
To caves the
sleeping
maid.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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hygebendum
fæst (beorn him
langað), _fast (shut) in the bonds of his bosom, the man longs for_ (i.
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Beowulf |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of
Shrewsbury
gleam
Islanded in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He is a middle-aged gentleman, of reprobate
and
romantic
tendencies, and tries to be a friend of mine.
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Kipling - Poems |
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e
p{ro}pre
fortunes of poure feble
folke.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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