The
natural thing to do, then, would be to use the familiar substance of
early epic, but to use it as a
convenient
and pleasant solvent for the
novel intention.
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This
circumstance
is alluded to in the first stanza of
the following poem.
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Keats has, no doubt, in his mind Titian's
picture of Bacchus and Ariadne in the
National
Gallery.
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Cursed ambition,
detestable
obsession
Whose tyranny sways the noblest of men!
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O
Captain!
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
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"
It is not bird, it has no nest;
Nor band, in brass and scarlet dressed,
Nor tambourine, nor man;
It is not hymn from pulpit read, --
The morning stars the treble led
On time's first
afternoon!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But let the frame of things dis-ioynt,
Both the Worlds suffer,
Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe
In the affliction of these
terrible
Dreames,
That shake vs Nightly: Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gayne our peace, haue sent to peace,
Then on the torture of the Minde to lye
In restlesse extasie.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When he came to the river he
lingered
awhile upon
the bank among the flowers of the flag, but presently rode out into the
middle and stopped his horse in a foaming shallow.
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"
NOW would I weave her
portrait
out of all dim
splendour.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I am a
Dilettante
curtain-lifter.
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Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the sunlight 5
Sleeps in the
vineyard?
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ELEANOR Alas, for my poor
husband!
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God loves from whole to parts: but human soul
Must rise from
individual
to the whole.
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You fear the
sovereign
power so little.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Summer Sadness
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair,
Melting the incense on your hostile features,
Mixing an amorous liquid with the tears.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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coniugis
haec, haec patris et haec gerit hospitis ensem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Twas in no scorn, no
bitterness
to thee,
I hid my wife's death and my misery.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You are wealthy, you have friends
And kindred, and a thousand
pleasant
hopes
That fill your heart with happiness; but I
Am poor, and friendless, having but one treasure,
And you would take that from me, and for what?
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Longfellow |
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Your
unfortunate
lover finds here less pain,
Death at your hand, than life with your disdain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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High on the topmost
thrilling
of the surge
I saw, afar, two hosts to battle urge.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Ah, what an enviable
creature
you are!
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Robert Burns |
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What others have with
cheapness
seen and ease, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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A number of personal
references
are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the passage of
Lucretius
(ii.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Since the soul touched it, not in vain,
With pathos of
Immortal
gain,
'Tis here her fondest memories stay.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last
infirmity
of noble mind)
To scorn delights and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears
And slits the thin-spun life.
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Golden Treasury |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was bleaching the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my
footsteps
With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
It
descended
tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Colonel Hugo had become General, and there, besides being
governor
over
three provinces, was Lord High Steward at King Joseph's court, where his
eldest son Abel was installed as page.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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There were others
there who admired her, but he
addressed
her, and had the luck to win
her regard from them all.
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Robert Forst |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Growin' up a man, he
scarcely
met
Other white folks; an' his heart was set
On this red girl.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And, thus, to these
Would men attribute sense, because they seemed
To move their limbs and speak pronouncements high,
Befitting
glorious
visage and vast powers.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Hide in My heart till the
vengeance
be past.
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Christina Rossetti |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(fur sich):
Nun mach ich mich beizeiten fort!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Prodigious chaos, streets in ashes lost,
Dwellings
devoured
and vomited again.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Vain to this
sickening
heart these scenes appear:
No form but hers can meet my tearful eyes;
In every passing gale her voice I hear;
It seems to tell me, "I have heard thy sighs.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then says Rollanz: "Fair comrade Olivier,
You were the son of the good count Reinier,
Who held the march by th' Vale of Runier;
To shatter spears, through buckled shields to bear,
And from hauberks the mail to break and tear,
Proof men to lead, and prudent counsel share,
Gluttons
in field to frighten and conquer,
No land has known a better chevalier.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Hearken, oh
hearken!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
I know not if I here too far presum'd,
But in this strain I answer'd: "Tell me now,
What
treasures
from St.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,
Thy circumnavigation of the world begin,
Of man, the voyage of his mind's return,
To reason's early paradise,
Back, back to wisdom's birth, to
innocent
intuitions,
Again with fair creation.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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after Grendel's
mother had penetrated into the hall, the former perilous condition, of the
time of the visits of Grendel,
returned
to the men), 1282.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Filled with secret fire, there's
heaviness
in your eyes.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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And see the third house on the left, with that gleam 20
Of red burnished copper--the hinge of the door
Whereat I shall enter,
expected
so oft
(Let love be your sea-star!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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How down they pulled the Duke's arms
everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Upon the table bright
Shrill sang the
_samovar_
at eve,(44)
The china teapot too ye might
In clouds of steam above perceive.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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200
Of all the Causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with
strongest
bias rules,
Is _Pride_, the never-failing voice of fools.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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One is tempted to quarrel with Wang An-shih's
statement
that
people liked the poems because they were easy to enjoy.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Then, packing up a peplus clean,
She took the
shortest
path thence,
And opened, with a mind serene,
A Sunday-school in Athens.
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James Russell Lowell |
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seruatur tamen in poena uultusque pudorque;
supplicia
ipsa decent; niuea ceruice reclinis
molliter ipsa suae custos est casta figurae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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So, in the man who sings,
All of the voiceless horde
From the cold dawn of things
Have their reward;
All in whose pulses ran
Blood that is his at last,
From the first stooping man
Far in the
winnowed
past.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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As daylight broke,
along with his earls the
atheling
lord,
with his clansmen, came where the king abode
waiting to see if the Wielder-of-All
would turn this tale of trouble and woe.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving
famishes
the craving.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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With
restless
feet awhile they beat the air,
Then ceas'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Not
troublous
seemed
the enemy's end to any man
who saw by the gait of the graceless foe
how the weary-hearted, away from thence,
baffled in battle and banned, his steps
death-marked dragged to the devils' mere.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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_The Crow Sat on the Willow_
The crow sat on the willow tree
A-lifting up his wings,
And glossy was his coat to see,
And loud the
ploughman
sings,
"I love my love because I know
The milkmaid she loves me";
And hoarsely croaked the glossy crow
Upon the willow tree.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What's
happened
to my wife?
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But there was
something
else, something hardly
personal, something which belonged to a consciousness older than the
Christian, which I realised, wondered at, and admired, in her passionate
tranquillity of mind, before which everything mean and trivial and
temporary caught fire and burnt away in smoke.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I shall lie low in earth, in
crumbling
wood.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Meanwhile over the surface of the watery plain,
A liquid
mountain
rose through boiling waves:
Neared us, shattered, and from the foaming breaker 1515
Vomited to our eyes a raging monster.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It may mean, according as
we read it, either "long-lived," or "bowless," the latter epithet
indicating
that they did not depend upon archery for subsistence.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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This has
doubtless
been the practice of many
distinguished authors of fiction whose names will readily occur to
the reader.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some
loquacious
Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ GOD, non RVen
130 _querellis_ a: _querelis_ GORVen
132 et 134
_siccine_
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Like the sea that brooks no voyaging With the winds
unleashed
and free, Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret Wi' twey words spoke' suddently.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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From
murderous
Epigrams flee,
Cruel Wit and Laughter impure
That brings tears to the high Azure,
And all that base garlic cuisine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms,
Whose chance on these
defenceless
doors may seize,
If deed of honour did thee ever please;
Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The poet moulds that which appears
evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into
everlasting
values.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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For it is seyd, `Man maketh ofte a yerde 740
With which the maker is him-self y-beten
In sondry maner,' as thise wyse treten,
And namely, in his counseyl tellinge
That
toucheth
love that oughte be secree;
For of him-self it wolde y-nough out-springe, 745
But-if that it the bet governed be.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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th,
For Iesu cristes swete loue; to
susteyne
?
| 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 |
|
"Though wounded, they had retained their strength and
activity
in
battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
]
There was a king in Thule,
To whom, when near her grave,
The
mistress
he loved so truly
A golden goblet gave.
| 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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"A fine-looking old
lady" she has been termed in her
advanced
age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Each corse lay flat,
lifeless
and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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A hundred, a
thousand
years
hence perhaps some one will come who will understand them as you have
done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The poet
submitted
an essay dealing
with current events.
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Li Po |
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And turning
straight
with his priceless freight,
He reached the dying one,
Whose passing sprite had been stayed for the rite
Without which bliss hath none.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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that creep between
The rigid stems of heath and bitten furze,
Within whose scanty shade, at summer-noon,
The mother-sheep hath worn a hollow bed--
Ye, that now cool her fleece with
dropless
damp,
Now pant and murmur with her feeding lamb.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Change as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be
The
faithful
compass that still points to thee.
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Golden Treasury |
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This refers to the
relation
between the Consort Zheng Qianyao and Zheng Qian.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Or make that morn, from his cold crown
And crystal silence creeping down,
Flood with full
daylight
glebe and town?
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Tennyson |
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Discobbolos
answered,
"At first it gave me pain,
And I felt my ears turn perfectly pink
When your exclamation made me think
We might never get down again!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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