The faint light cast from every distant star
Showed thirty ships now
crossing
the bar;
The waves swelled beneath, and their effort
Brought the tide-borne Moors within the port.
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why hath not the Mind 45
Some element to stamp her image on
In nature
somewhat
nearer to her own?
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Et nous nous le
rappelons
et il voyage.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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While my beloved, I grant it, deprives me of moments of daylight,
She in the nighttime hours gives
compensation
in full.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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my Song, and, where the bold
Tarpeian lifts his brow, shouldst thou behold,
Of others' weal more thoughtful than his own,
The chief, by general Italy revered,
Tell him from me, to whom he is but known
As one to Virtue and by Fame endear'd,
Till stamp'd upon his heart the sad truth be,
That, day by day to thee,
With suppliant attitude and
streaming
eyes,
For justice and relief our seven-hill'd city cries.
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Petrarch |
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here thy might;
This gem of chastity, this emerald,
And eke of
martyrdom
this ruby bright,
There, where with mangled throat he lay upright, 160
The _Alma Redemptoris_ 'gan to sing
So loud, that with his voice the place did ring.
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William Wordsworth |
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doves) of _P_ gives the plural as in the other
nouns, and a closer
parallel
in poetic vividness.
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John Donne |
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How
gallantly
he charged
Today in the last battle, and when wounded,
How swiftly bore me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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FAUST:
Furwahr, es sind die Augen einer Toten,
Die eine
liebende
Hand nicht schloss.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Do not believe it; these are but jealous crows, that caw against
me; but never cease to cherish your good hawk; never forget that he
brought you those
Lacedaemonian
fish, loaded with chains.
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Aristophanes |
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Eftsoons her peaceful joie of mynde was fledde; 45
Elstrid ametten with the kynge Locryne;
Unnombered beauties were upon her shedde,
Moche fyne, moche fayrer thanne was Gendolyne;
The mornynge tynge, the rose, the lillie floure,
In ever
ronneynge
race on her dyd peyncte theyre powere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Already would they pass their life, hedged round
By the strong towers; and
cultivate
an earth
All portioned out and boundaried; already
Would the sea flower and sail-winged ships;
Already men had, under treaty pacts,
Confederates and allies, when poets began
To hand heroic actions down in verse;
Nor long ere this had letters been devised--
Hence is our age unable to look back
On what has gone before, except where reason
Shows us a footprint.
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Lucretius |
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You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon, for all your
glimmering language and
spirituality!
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Whitman |
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His sister, wife, and children yawned,
With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
All human
patience
far beyond; _715
Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
Anywhere else to be.
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Shelley |
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He lyfted up his voice, and lowdlie cryd; 35
Like wolfs in wintere did the Normanne yell;
Girthe drew hys swerde, and cutte hys burled hyde;
The proto-slene manne of the fielde he felle;
Out streemd the bloude, and ran in
smokynge
curles,
Reflected bie the moone seemd rubies mixt wyth pearles.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Childe Harold sailed, and passed the barren spot
Where sad
Penelope
o'erlooked the wave;
And onward viewed the mount, not yet forgot,
The lover's refuge, and the Lesbian's grave.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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]
[Sidenote D: In
cleanness
and courtesy he was never found wanting,]
[Sidenote E: therefore was the endless knot fastened on his shield.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Chanson de Roland |
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e halme grype3,
&
sturnely
sture3 hit aboute, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For a people's homage is in the sound;
And the even tread, in
measured
rote,
As a leader is laid beneath the ground,
Rumors the hum of a pilgrim train
That shall trample the earth as tramples the rain,
Seeking the door of the hero's tomb,
Seeking him where he lies low in the gloom,
Paying him tribute of worker and mage,
Through age on age!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I am perhaps wrong, however, because Flaxman
even at his best has not yet touched me very deeply, and I hardly ever
hope to escape this
limitation
of my ruling stars.
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Yeats |
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Who knowes if
Donalbane
be with his brother?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XLIII
He smiled on those bold Romans
A smile serene and high;
He eyed the
flinching
Tuscans,
And scorn was in his eye.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But she, the child, knew not the solemn words,
And suddenly yielded to a troublous wailing,
As helpless as the cry of
frightened
birds
Whose untried wings for flight are unavailing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Earth, methinks,
Will disinherit thy philosophy
For a new
doctrine
suited to thine heirs,
And class these present dogmas with the rest
Of the old-world traditions, Eden fruits
And Saurian fossils.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Lupton, Donald, _London and the
Countrey
Carbonadoed_, lv.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Keats - Lamia |
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All that hard this tydynges, 211
Theye
worshippyd
Iesu, hewyn kyng.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Anon her herte gan to erme; 80
And for that hir
thoughte
evermo
Hit was not wel [he dwelte] so,
She longed so after the king
That certes, hit were a pitous thing
To telle hir hertely sorwful lyf 85
That hadde, alas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Was it not enough, Stars, to have given me
This
marriage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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From
trellised
balconies, languid and luminous
Faces gleam, veiled in a splendour voluminous.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Infanta
The sacred bond twixt
Rodrigue
and Chimene
Will quench the hatred between warring flames;
And we shall swiftly see your love the stronger:
Through a happy marriage, stifling all anger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Within six weeks of the battle, it was a disgusting and horrible
sight; mangled bodies,
mutilated
limbs, rotting carcasses of men and
horses, the ground foul with clotted blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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[e] We find in the Annals and the History of Tacitus, a number of
instances to justify the
sentiments
of Maternus.
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Tacitus |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the
solicitation
requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Taking
advantage
of their
scare, I put spurs to my horse, and dashed off at full gallop.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The most
interesting
object in Canada to me was the River St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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þūhte him eall tō rūm, wongas and
wīc-stede (_fields and
dwelling
seemed to him all too broad_, i.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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But what ails the
creature?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"They should, by rights,
Give them a chance--because, you know,
The tastes of people differ so,
Especially
in Sprites.
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Lewis Carroll |
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XLII
The sixt had charge of them now being dead, 370
In seemely sort their corses to engrave,
And deck with dainty flowres their bridall bed,
That to their
heavenly
spouse both sweet and brave
They might appeare, when he their soules shall save.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Nice,
Whose
associates
were usually Geese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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590
But now a secret regret
agitates
my mind.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She then applies herself to the god of sleep, and, with some
difficulty, persuades him to seal the eyes of Jupiter: this done, she goes
to mount Ida, where the god, at first sight, is
ravished
with her beauty,
sinks in her embraces, and is laid asleep.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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245
His eyen two, for pitee of his herte,
Out
stremeden
as swifte welles tweye;
The heighe sobbes of his sorwes smerte
His speche him refte, unnethes mighte he seye,
`O deeth, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Mysteriously glowing through a background dim
When he was
suffering
she came to him,
And all the heavy pain within his heart
Rose in his hands and stole into his art.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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ARIEL:
Gab die
liebende
Natur,
Gab der Geist euch Flugel,
Folget meiner leichten Spur,
Auf zum Rosenhugel!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For to the limit of each land, each sea,
I roamed, obedient to Apollo's hest,
And come at last, O Goddess, to thy fane,
And
clinging
to thine image, bide my doom.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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XXXVI
So raging, to the pigmy dwarf who bore
The news,
exclaimed
the king, "Now hence away!
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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If I have erred, he can (in a
favourite
phrase of Donne's)
'control' me.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Li Po |
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Hear me, sweet
dreamer!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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An' knows thet freedom ain't a gift
Thet tarries long in han's o'
cowards!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The forms which peopled this terrific trance
I well remember--like a choir of devils,
Around me they involved a giddy dance;
Legions seemed gathering from the misty levels
Of Ocean, to supply those ceaseless revels, _1310
Foul, ceaseless shadows:--thought could not divide
The actual world from these entangling evils,
Which so bemocked themselves, that I descried
All shapes like mine own self,
hideously
multiplied.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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All tongues, all carrols dyd unto hym synge,
Wondryng
at one soe wyse, and yet soe yinge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Full Project
Gutenberg
License
_Please read this before you distribute or use this work.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He had long been
desirous
that these Poems should be printed;
and therefore readily undertook the charge of superintending the
edition.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The green talons grasp
The land, that stood
erewhile
the proof so long,
And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The first course was announced with
cracking
of trumpets, with the
noise of nakers and noble pipes.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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' 1115
With that they wenten arm in arm y-fere
In-to the gardin from the
chaumbre
doun.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY"
Secure those golden early joys,
That youth
unsoured
with sorrow bears,
Ere withering time the taste destroys
With sickness and unwieldy years.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We require an
infusion
of hemlock spruce or arbor-vitae
in our tea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In Anna's wars, a soldier poor and old
Had dearly earned a little purse of gold;
Tired with a tedious march, one
luckless
night,
He slept, poor dog!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Cor di mortal non fu mai si digesto
a divozione e a
rendersi
a Dio
con tutto 'l suo gradir cotanto presto,
come a quelle parole mi fec' io;
e si tutto 'l mio amore in lui si mise,
che Beatrice eclisso ne l'oblio.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Events that are not begotten in joy
are
misbegotten
and darken the world, and nothing is begotten in joy if
the joy of a thousand years has not been crushed into a moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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For he was after
traytour
to the toun
Of Troye; allas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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with reinless speed
A black
Tartarian
horse of giant frame
Comes trampling over the dead, the living bleed _2500
Beneath the hoofs of that tremendous steed,
On which, like to an Angel, robed in white,
Sate one waving a sword;--the hosts recede
And fly, as through their ranks with awful might,
Sweeps in the shadow of eve that Phantom swift and bright; _2505
20.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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_ Ovid xi; Ariosto,
_Orlando
Furioso_, Canto
xiv; Spenser, _Faerie Queene_, I.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Clarence
and the Malmesey over again;
'Twas a delightful death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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He
afterwards
married successively Miss Lin, Miss Lu, and Miss Sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Such havock, howling all abroad,
Their utter ruin bring,
The base
apostates
to their God,
Or rebels to their King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Wait till in
everlasting
robes
This democrat is dressed,
Then prate about "preferment"
And "station" and the rest!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Of Doctor
Ponnonner
nothing better was to be expected.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Whatever presents Constance might receive,
Still pensive sighs her breast
appeared
to heave:
Her tints of beauty too, began to fail,
And o'er the rose, the lily to prevail.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I
announce
a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an old age that shall lightly and joyfully meet its
translation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The
absolutions
granted by the clergy.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Scattered
over the valley are to be found eleven stones, with
this inscription, 1388, the year the battle was fought, marking out as I
was told upon the spot, the several places where the Austrians
attempting to make a stand were repulsed anew.
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William Wordsworth |
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The army thus in sacred rites engaged,
Atrides still with deep
resentment
raged.
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Iliad - Pope |
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One of my
sweetest
hope makes an end,
The other robs me of her hand.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Ne
þynceð
mē gerysne, þæt wē rondas beren
2655 "eft tō earde, nemne wē ǣror mǣgen
"fāne gefyllan, feorh ealgian
"Wedra þīodnes.
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Beowulf |
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XVI
But
wherefore
do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For Juno, headstrong and
imperious
still,
She claims some title to transgress our will.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
insertion
of this pastoral
landscape, between the terrific scenes which precede and follow, has a
fine effect.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that
brightness
doth not grace the day?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[Burns took farewell of the
hospitalities
of the Scottish Highlands in
these happy lines.
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Robert Burns |
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at clerkes
schullen
fordo ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And at midnight,
As she lay upon her bed,
She heard a voice
Call to her from the garden,
And, looking forth from her window,
She saw a
beautiful
youth
Standing among the flowers.
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Longfellow |
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