Verbs of hearing and seeing are often
followed
by acc.
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þæt wæs Hrōðgāre
hrēowa tornost þāra þe
lēodfruman
lange begeāte, _the bitterest of the
troubles that for a long time had befallen the people's chief_, 2131.
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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- Ihr Ende wurde
Verzweiflung
sein
Nein, kein Ende!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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Imagists |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
His people
gathered
round the hero, and drew their shining swords.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Now, in
this contest, by Jove's decree, all the
Olympian
gods were suffered to
take part.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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] When I see a
certificate of character with everybody's name to it, I regard it as a
letter of
introduction
from the Devil.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Li-shih, who thought such a task beneath him, took
revenge by
affecting
to discover in one of Po's poems a veiled attack
on [the Emperor's mistress] Yang Kuei-fei.
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Li Po |
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25) a conversation with Wordsworth, in which he said
of this poem, that "he
purposely
made the narrative as prosaic as
possible, in order that no discredit might be thrown on the truth of the
incident.
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William Wordsworth |
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Page 54
A-gayne xvij wyntersende,
Whane he
schowlde
owte of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I roam anew,
Scarce
conscious
of my late distress .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The phrase is
possibly
derived
from `hackle', an instrument used in the breaking of flax.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Stage,
displaying
clothes on, 151; stools on, 125.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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Redgrave
notes certain minute differences between
these two issues.
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Byron |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' She
ended, and
advancing
side by side along the shadowy ways, they pass over
and draw nigh the gates.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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quo motu tellus atque horrida contremuerunt 205
aequora
concussitque
micantia sidera mundus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Drink, and keep your thoughts to yourself,*
Father
Varlaam!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the
swinging
and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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Poe - 5 |
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Emerson - Poems |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We know
The joy of
sufferings
deep
That blend with a love divine,
And the hidden warmth of the snow!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of poems for
the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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During the Licinian conflict, Appius Claudius Crassus
signalized himself by the ability and
severity
with which he
harangued against the two great agitators.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Masson, who in his excellent edition
argues the point and decides in favour of modern spelling, allows that
there are peculiarities of Milton's
spelling
which are really
significant, and ought therefore to be noted or preserved.
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Milton |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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{111a} They
are to be chosen
according
to the persons we make speak, or the things we
speak of.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some 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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Stephen Crane |
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")
"And folk that sup on things like these--"
He muttered, "eggs and bacon--
Lobster--and duck--and toasted cheese--
If they don't get an awful squeeze,
I'm very much
mistaken!
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Lewis Carroll |
|
Improvements
but rarely appear such to
those who, after long intervals of time, revisit places they have had
much pleasure in.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Mon canot
toujours
fixe; et sa chaine tiree
Au fond de cet oeil d'eau sans bords--a quelle boue?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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Stephen Crane |
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5 _confutuere_ a:
_confuture_
(suprascr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He who regards it directly and
intensely
sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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it's no thy neebor sweet,
The bonnie lark,
companion
meet!
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Robert Forst |
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--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most
ambiguous
atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring
hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
XXVI
"He for his sore an evil salve had found,
And, where he should retire, encreased his woes;
Who, with the mention of his wife, that wound
Inflamed
and opened, which he sought to close.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But we neo-pagans may not after all be
abandoned
entirely:
Yet there is speeding a god mercifully over the earth,
Quick and assiduous.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[The
gentleman
to whom this imperfect note is addressed was Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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Poetry in
Translation
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The Ruins of Rome
(Les Antiquites de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French
Renaissance
poet 16th century
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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II
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares
Washed
marvellously
with sorrow, swift to mirth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
_785
NOTE:
_762 thy edition 1822; my
editions
1839.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
I, for friendship's sake,
Watching each wing,
Ere to his haunt, the stagnant marsh,
The
harbinger
of tempest flies,
Will call the raven, croaking harsh,
From eastern skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
What peace,
unravished
of our ken,
Annihilate from the world of men?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
I was
filled with astonishment at the
extraordinary
connection of events.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
authorship
of
these is discussed later.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
'We know not what will come--yet, Laon, dearest, _3640
Cythna shall be the
prophetess
of Love,
Her lips shall rob thee of the grace thou wearest,
To hide thy heart, and clothe the shapes which rove
Within the homeless Future's wintry grove;
For I now, sitting thus beside thee, seem _3645
Even with thy breath and blood to live and move,
And violence and wrong are as a dream
Which rolls from steadfast truth, an unreturning stream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The Hare, when pursued by Orion, was saved by Mercury, and placed in
heaven, to signify that Mercury presides over
melancholy
dispositions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
BOOK V
PROEM
O WHO can build with
puissant
breast a song
Worthy the majesty of these great finds?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
AUTUMN SONG
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
The sunset hangs on a cloud;
A golden storm of glittering sheaves,
Of fair and frail and
fluttering
leaves,
The wild wind blows in a cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
]
[Footnote 14: It is curious that a poet so scrupulous as
Tennyson
should
have retained to the last the italics.
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Tennyson |
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_Pien d'
infinita
e nobil maraviglia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Such an account he gave me of his
journey!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"
MENALCAS
"It
profiteth
me naught, Amyntas mine,
That in your very heart you spurn me not,
If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
' The Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was
really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted
him a yearly pension of 1200
mithkals
of gold from the treasury of
Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
]
She is so little--in her hands a rose:
A stern duenna watches where she goes,
What sees Old Spain's Infanta--the clear shine
Of waters
shadowed
by the birch and pine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
On the
nineteenth
of October, by eleven of the clock,
The sky turned black as midnight and a sudden storm came on--
Awful and sudden--and the cables felt the shock;
Our anchors they all broke away and every sheet was gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,
Painting
thy outward walls so costly gay?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
we jostle each other at the
Assembly
for three obols, and am I
going to let Plutus in person be stolen from me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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when she
perceived
her Johnny,
And understood what he had done
All and only for her sake,
She sobbed as if her heart must break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Death has taken your
invincible
husband,
You only were unaware that it has happened.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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, _when we
promised
our lord that_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Oenone, nurse and
confidante
to Phaedra.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of American Poetry, 1922, by
Edna St.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
]
A charming
beverage
for you to carouse,
This bitter night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Was she not
So honoured--and conspicuously there,
Where meaner relics must not dare to rot,
Placed to
commemorate
a more than mortal lot?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I make my
fierceness
of a mind to set
My spirit high up in the winds of joy,
Before I tumble down into the darkness.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
And I
remember
nothing more
That I can clearly fix,
Till I was sitting on the floor,
Repeating "Two and five are four,
But _five and two_ are six.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
When all the Jews go home to Syria,
When Chinese cooks go back to Canton, China,
When Japanese photographers return
With their black cameras to Tokio,
And Irish
patriots
to Donegal,
And Scotch accountants back to Edinburgh,
You will go back to India, whence you came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
And the packed
wilderness
was very full of danger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Are you
surprised
in adultery?
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Could it mean
To last, a love set
pendulous
between
Sorrow and sorrow?
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Two came up, and one bore a squash which weighed 1231/2 pounds,
the other bore four,
weighing
together 1861/4 pounds.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'35-36'
A regular formula in
classical
epics.
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Yet if a fear,
Or shadow of a fear, lest the strange Saints
By whom thou swarest, should have power to balk
Thy
puissance
in this fight with him, who made
And heard thee swear--brother--_I_ have not sworn--
If the king fall, may not the kingdom fall?
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At Alexander, long ago,
We marked thee bend thy vengeful bow,
But long and warily withhold
The eager shaft, which, uncontrolled
And loosed too soon or
launched
too high,
Had wandered bloodless through the sky.
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Aeschylus |
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He Losanswer'd, darkning more with indignation hid in smiles *
I die not
Enitharmon
tho thou singst thy Song of Death *
Nor shalt thou me torment For I behold the Fallen Man *
Seeking to comfort Vala [[word]]she will not be comforted *
She rises from his throne and seeks the shadows of her garden
Weeping for Luvah lost, in the bloody beams of your false morning
Sickning lies the Fallen Man his head sick his heart faint *
Mighty atchievement of your power!
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Blake - Zoas |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THE FLOWER MARKET
In the Royal City spring is almost over:
Tinkle, tinkle--the coaches and
horsemen
pass.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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, nullo spatio relicto
1, 3 _magus_ Dap:
_magnus_
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Latin - Catullus |
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The _Gipsies_ is more original; indeed the poet himself has been
identified with Aleko, the hero of the tale, which may well be
founded on his own personal adventures without
involving
the guilt
of a double murder.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This is life
Flaming to heaven in a minute's span
When the breath of battle blows the
smouldering
spark.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,
That with exhilerating vapour bland
About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers
Made erre, was now exhal'd, and grosser sleep
Bred of unkindly fumes, with
conscious
dreams 1050
Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose
As from unrest, and each the other viewing,
Soon found thir Eyes how op'nd, and thir minds
How dark'nd; innocence, that as a veile
Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gon,
Just confidence, and native righteousness,
And honour from about them, naked left
To guiltie shame: hee cover'd, but his Robe
Uncover'd more.
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Milton |
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