Is this your
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And if she faintly
glimmers
here,
And paled is her light,
Yet alway in her proper sphere
She's mistress of the night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
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Invocation
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Peire
Cardenal
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"You are here on
business?
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Thence through his breast its bloody passage tore;
Flat falls he
thundering
on the marble floor,
And his crush'd forehead marks the stone with gore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Count
Your brave boy aims higher than before;
And the new
brilliance
of your nobility
Must swell his heart with greater vanity.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[The command which the Comyns held on the Nith was lost to the
Douglasses: the Nithsdale power, on the downfall of that proud name,
was divided; part went to the Charteris's and the better portion to
the Maxwells: the
Johnstones
afterwards came in for a share, and now
the Scots prevail.
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And when he died
The palace was with holy
fragrance
filled.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Therefore the end of
instruction
should be happiness; and
happiness is another name for pleasure;-therefore the end of instruction
should be pleasure: yet we see the above-mentioned opinion implies
precisely the reverse.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Before long, however, they rebelled, and thus sullied
their great
services
to the Roman people.
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Tacitus |
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"
The young
gamesters
were all attention.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Not unless God made sharp thine ear
With sorrow such as mine,
Out of that
delicate
lay could'st thou
Its heavy tale divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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His choice will prove to
courtiers
as in this
That there's but scant reward for present service.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The way of
paradoxes
is the way of truth.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A raft was formed to cross the surging sea;
Herself supplied the stores and rich array,
And gave the gales to waft me on my way,
In seventeen days appear'd your
pleasing
coast,
And woody mountains half in vapours lost.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody
on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Bright
ministers
of God and grace--of grace
Because of God!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Bright and brave,
That picture was accounted, mark, of old:
A king stood bare before its sovran grace,[7]
A reverent people shouted to behold
The picture, not the king, and even the place
Containing such a miracle grew bold,
Named the Glad Borgo from that beauteous face
Which
thrilled
the artist, after work, to think
His own ideal Mary-smile should stand
So very near him,--he, within the brink
Of all that glory, let in by his hand
With too divine a rashness!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Yes, oft beside the ruined
labyrinth
_820
Which skirts the hoary caves of the green deep,
Did Laon and his friend, on one gray plinth,
Round whose worn base the wild waves hiss and leap,
Resting at eve, a lofty converse keep:
And that this friend was false, may now be said _825
Calmly--that he like other men could weep
Tears which are lies, and could betray and spread
Snares for that guileless heart which for his own had bled.
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Shelley |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,
If like a lamb he could his looks
translate!
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Shakespeare |
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Imagists |
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"
"But if they won't take the trouble to vote, why do you
anticipate
that
Mohammedans, proprietors, and the rest would be crushed by majorities of
them?
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Kipling - Poems |
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She brooded o'er the luxury alone:
His image in the dusk she seem'd to see,
And to the silence made a gentle moan,
Spreading
her perfect arms upon the air,
And on her couch low murmuring "Where?
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Keats |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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We are sometimes told by
Frenchmen
or Russians that Oscar Wilde
is greater than Shakespeare.
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Li Po |
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"
"If then my fortunes can delight my friend,
A story fruitful of events attend:
Another's sorrow may thy ears enjoy,
And wine the lengthen'd
intervals
employ.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An interloper own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former
husbandmen!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For, Pandarus, sin I have trouthe hir hight, 445
I wol not been untrewe for no wight;
But as hir man I wol ay live and sterve,
And never other
creature
serve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
Then I
stretched
forth my arms.
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Stephen Crane |
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You stars and suns, Canopus, Deneb, Rigel,
Let me, as I lie down, here in this dust,
Hear, far off, your
whispered
salutation!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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,
_hostile
at evening, night-enemy_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite
indifferent!
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Whitman |
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And
everywhere
it is endless, etc.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As Appius Claudius was that day, so may his
grandson
be!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION
(Paris in May, 1903)
The white veiled maids to
confirmation
go
Through deep green garden paths they slowly wind;
Their childhood they are leaving now behind:
The future will be different, they know.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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RETURNING SPRING BRINGS TO HIM ONLY
INCREASE
OF GRIEF.
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Petrarch |
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WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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None knows enough of love
To speak without trembling,
Yet I've seen
laughter
move,
Though not from joy arising,
And many the sighs that prove
No more than clever feigning;
Yet Love is leading me,
Towards the best I see,
Without shame or cheating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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By
shedding
my blood, appease Chimene:
I'll not resist, I consent to every pain;
With no complaint of harshness, I'll yet
Die without dishonour, without regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"These fields"--an unknown voice beyond the wall
Murmurs--"were once the
province
of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Cruell since that thou dost not feare the curse
W^{ch} thy disdayne, and my
despayre
procure,
My prayer for thee shall torment thee worse
Then all the payne thou coudst thereby endure.
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John Donne |
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184
The First Anniversary of the Government under his
Highness the Lord Protector 139
A Poem upon the Death of his late
Highness
the
Lord Protector 166
Digitized by VjOOQIC
CONTEXTS.
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Marvell - Poems |
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heare mie dernie[6] plainte,
To fyghte for Yorke mie love ys dyghte[7] in stele;
O maie ne sanguen steine the whyte rose peyncte, 10
Maie good Seyncte
Cuthberte
watche Syrre Roberte wele.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The World-soul knows his own affair,
Forelooking, when he would prepare
For the next ages, men of mould
Well embodied, well ensouled,
He cools the present's fiery glow,
Sets the life-pulse strong but slow:
Bitter winds and fasts austere
His quarantines and grottoes, where
He slowly cures
decrepit
flesh,
And brings it infantile and fresh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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He heard the
bleating
of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Ah,
happiest
spot of earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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What though she milk no cow with
crumpled
horn,
Yet _aye_ she haunts the dale where erst she stray'd;
And _aye_ beside her stalks her amorous knight!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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For
straight
those giddy rockets fail,
Which from the putrid earth exhale,
But by her flames, in heaven tried.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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"
The
separation
was a heavy blow to Po Chu-i.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hymen O Hymenaee, Hymen ades O
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Quand tout le bois frissonnant saigne
Muet d'amour
De chaque branche, gouttes vertes,
Des
bourgeons
clairs,
On sent dans les choses ouvertes
Fremir des chairs;
Tu plongerais dans la luzerne
Ton long peignoir,
Divine avec ce bleu qui cerne
Ton grand oeil noir,
Amoureuse de la campagne,
Semant partout,
Comme une mousse de champagne,
Ton rire fou!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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After the World's soft bed,
Its rich and dainty fare,
Like down seemed Love's coarse pillow to my head,
His cheap food seemed as manna rare;
Fresh-trodden prints of bare and
bleeding
feet,
Turned to the heedless city whence I came,
Hard by I saw, and springs of worship sweet
Gushed from my cleft heart smitten by the same;
Love looked me in the face and spake no words,
But straight I knew those footprints were the Lord's.
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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what a
splendid
city!
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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She was reflecting
on the
meannesses
of Dick, and on other meannesses with which he had
nothing to do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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That way the noise is: Tyrant shew thy face,
If thou beest slaine, and with no stroake of mine,
My Wife and
Childrens
Ghosts will haunt me still:
I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes
Are hyr'd to beare their Staues; either thou Macbeth,
Or else my Sword with an vnbattered edge
I sheath againe vndeeded.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I taste a liquor never brewed,
From
tankards
scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As by the
kindling
of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis; sprinkle meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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cras erit quom primus aether
copulauit
nuptias.
| Guess: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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170
But Egelred, before he sunken downe,
With all his myghte amein his spear besped,
It hytte Bertrammil Manne upon the crowne,
And bothe together
quicklie
sunken dede.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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back then they scattered so
swiftly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
HYPSEUS' DAUGHTER CYRENE
PYTHIA IX, 31-44
He reared the white-armed child Cyrene,
Who loved neither the alternating motion of the loom,
Nor the superintendence of feasts,
With the pleasures of companions;
But, with javelins of steel
And the sword contending,
To slay wild beasts;
Affording surely much
And tranquil peace to her father's herds;
Spending little sleep
Upon her eyelids,
As her sweet bedfellow,
creeping
on at dawn.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Know, ytte beseies[60] thee notte a masse to synge;
Servynge
thie leegefolcke[61] thou arte servynge Godde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop,
striking
a shriveled leaf.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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for much we need
Without disguise
ourselves
explain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The crickets all are brave;
Glad is the red
autumnal
earth
And the blue sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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You'll know it by the row of stars
Around its
forehead
bound.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Funebrem
Tabulam Cu-
ravimus 881
Edmundi Trottii Epitaphium.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Some to _Conceit_ alone their taste confine,
And glitt'ring
thoughts
struck out at ev'ry line; 290
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My bliss, my wealth, my worship, and my law,
My
Universe!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the
palpitating
air!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Spenser
took
suggestions
for this stanza from Ariosto and Tasso.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh
together
with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lucmones, genus Etrusca de stirpe profectum,
uoluier ingentem cladem
pestemque
monebant,
tum legum exitium constanti uoce ferebant,
templa deumque adeo flammis urbemque iubebant
eripere et stragem horribilem caedemque uereri;
atque haec fixa graui fato ac fundata teneri,
nei posta excelsum ad columen formata decore
sancta Iouis species claros spectaret in ortus:
tum fore ut occultos populus sanctusque senatus
cernere conatus posset, si solis ad ortum
conuorsa inde patrum sedes populique uideret.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You loiter at the corner of the street;
I in the distance
silently
entreat.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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If you are
redistributing or providing access to a work with the phrase "Project
Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the work, you must comply
either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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were
substitutes
for
names of heathen gods, and magic spells for victory.
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Beowulf |
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The smallest
housewife
in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then the Eye Divinest, from the Deepest, flaming,
On the mystic courser shall look out in fire:
Blind the beast shall stagger where It
overcame
him,
Meek as lamb at pasture, bloodless in desire.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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net
Title: The Golden Threshold
Author:
Sarojini
Naidu
Posting Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #680]
Release Date: October, 1996
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD ***
Produced by Judith Boss.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster,
Cenabis bene: nam tui Catulli
Plenus
sacculus
est aranearum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As that lady
truthfully
says, a man is never so happy as when he is
talking about himself.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The
Wasteland
(with reference to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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