- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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neither need we shun,
But
skilfully
to each should yield its due.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He seems the center around which stars glow
While all earth's
ostentations
surge below.
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Rilke - Poems |
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ou hat3 dalt
disserued
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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My friends, I confess it:
Great
displeasure
I take lying alone in my bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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80
Go, slash thy flank with lashing tail and sense the strokes of thee,
Make the whole
mountain
to thy roar sound and resound again,
And fiercely toss thy brawny neck that bears the tawny mane!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But Caesar rode into the city of Rome in
triple triumph, and
dedicated
his vowed [716-731]offering to the gods
to stand for ever, three hundred stately shrines all about the city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Can you
remember
that name?
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Aristophanes |
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Beloved,
Tho' sorrow, futility, defeat
Surround
us,
They cannot bear us down.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A Song of the Virgin Mother In the play " Los
Pastores
de Belen.
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Nacimientos |
| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Exult-at-Ions |
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[$
fiiE;a$:::=
ggFFIiigEiEst?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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THE HERDSMEN
A
conversation
between a goatherd named Battus and his fellow goatherd Corydon, who is acting oxherd in place of a certain Aegon who has been persuaded by one Milon son of Lampriadas to go and compete in a boxing-match at Olympia.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Against diseases here the
strongest
fence
Is the defensive virtue, abstinence.
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Robert Herrick |
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Verily, the white
Will rise more readily, is sooner born
Out of no colour, than of black or aught
Which stands in hostile
opposition
thus.
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Lucretius |
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And everich of hem did his besy cure
Benignely
to chese or for to take, 370
By hir acord, his formel or his make.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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" A minute later,
they heard
unmilitary
noises, and saw, far across the plain, the White
Hussars scattered, and broken, and flying.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XXVI
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"Lo, we
seafarers
say our will,
far-come men, that we fain would seek
Hygelac now.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet do thou regard, with pity 5
For a
nameless
child of passion,
This small unfrequented valley
By the sea, O sea-born mother.
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Sappho |
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they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death's indomitable power;
Not though three hundred bullocks flame
Each year, to soothe the tearless king
Who holds huge Geryon's triple frame
And Tityos in his watery ring,
That circling flood, which all must stem,
Who eat the fruits that Nature yields,
Wearers of
haughtiest
diadem,
Or humblest tillers of the fields.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What lands, what space of seas hast thou
traversed
to reach me,
through what surge of perils, O my son!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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oru our
lauedies
comandement,*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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All fallen the blossom that no
fruitage
bore,
All lost the present and the future time,
All lost, all lost, the lapse that went before:
So lost till death shut-to the opened door,
So lost from chime to everlasting chime,
So cold and lost for ever evermore.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep
eternity!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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En toi je tomberai, vegetale ambroisie,
Grain
precieux
jete par l'eternel Semeur,
Pour que de notre amour naisse la poesie
Qui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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My song take flight,
present
yourself
to her sweetly,
but for her might
Arnaut might strive more lightly.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Where now the sheep graze, mermaids were at play,
Sea-horses galloped, and the great jeweled tortoise
Walked slowly, looking upward at the waves,
Bearing upon his back a thousand barnacles,
A white
acropolis
.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_an_
179 _ponti_ O:
_pontum_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Therefore
they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and enduring bone.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Yet why,
distraught
with woe, do I vainly
lament to the unknowing winds, which unfurnished with sense, can neither
hear uttered complaints nor can return them?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Drenched in these waves, does lose its fire,
Yea oft the
Thunderer
pity takes.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Let no cry of patriot men
Distract
thee from the stern analysis
Of masses who cry only!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, 310
Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait:
Who seeming sorely
chauffed
at his band,
As chained Beare, whom cruell dogs do bait,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And such are we--
Unreasoning, sanguine, visionary--
That I can hope
Health, love, friends, scope
In full for thee; can dream thou'lt find
Joys seldom yet
attained
by humankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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sweet indeed
To see the
heavenly
herdsman call his white-fleeced flock to feed.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I reason that in heaven
Somehow, it will be even,
Some new
equation
given;
But what of that?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But you are
nothing!
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a
specious
view.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Clean shall he be, without, within,
From the old
adhering
sin,
All ill dissolving in the light
Of his triumphant piercing sight:
Not vain, sour, nor frivolous;
Not mad, athirst, nor garrulous;
Grave, chaste, contented, though retired,
And of all other men desired.
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Emerson - Poems |
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* * * * *
ROBERT NICHOLS
NIGHT RHAPSODY
How
beautiful
it is to wake at night,
When over all there reigns the ultimate spell
Of complete silence, darkness absolute,
To feel the world, tilted on axle-tree,
In slow gyration, with no sensible sound,
Unless to ears of unimagined beings,
Resident incorporeal or stretched
In vigilance of ecstasy among
Ethereal paths and the celestial maze.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And yet by us
neglected!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the
_Iliad_ and
_Beowulf_
and the _Song of Roland_ from what it is in Milton
and Tasso and Virgil.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sweet hue of eastern sapphire, that was spread
O'er the serene aspect of the pure air,
High up as the first circle, to mine eyes
Unwonted joy renew'd, soon as I 'scap'd
Forth from the
atmosphere
of deadly gloom,
That had mine eyes and bosom fill'd with grief.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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e
emperoures
bour,
A mayde good, of greth honur,
To wedde wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It is quite
sufficient
to print the
relative passage from Landor's poem at the foot of the page.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I saw the
fourfold
River flow,
And deep it was, with golden sand;
It flowed between a mossy land
With murmured music grave and low.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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MOPSUS
What if he also strive
To out-sing
Phoebus?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Baudelaire was one of the elect, an
aristocrat, who dealt with the
quintessence
of art; his delicate air of
a bishop, his exquisite manners, his modulated voice, aroused unusual
interest and admiration.
| Guess: |
essence |
| Question: |
elegant |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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"At five,
tomorrow
then," said the Venus Annodomini.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our starboard bow,
Out of the
drifting
fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XX
I'd like to turn the deepest of yellows,
Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower,
Into her lap, my lovely Cassandra's,
As sleep is
stealing
over her brow.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to
unseeing
eyes thy shade shines so!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Herrick uses the noun and its adjective rather
curiously
of
the dead: cp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Jupiter punished the temerity of the
Titan by
chaining
him to a rock of Caucasus, and causing a vulture to
devour his still-renewed heart.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The fourth, _Leaves of
Grass_, is not so
specially
applicable to the particular poems of that
section here as I should have liked it to be; but I could not consent to
drop this typical name.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Just as I was nearing the Gate of the Silver Terrace,
After I had left the suburb of Hsin-ch'ang
On the high causeway my horse's foot slipped;
In the middle of the journey my lantern
suddenly
went out.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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' she said,
In
springtime
ere the bloom was old:
The crimson wine was poor and cold
By her mouth's richer red.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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O pearls that hang on your little silver chains, The innumerable voices that are whispering
Among you as you are drawn aside by the wind, Have brought to my mind the soft and eager speech Of one who hath great loveliness,
Which is subtle as the beauty of the rains That hang low in the
moonshine
and bring
The May softly among us, and unbind
The streams and the crimson and white flowers and
reach
Deep down into the secret places.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Some, when the
resinous
torch of burning wood
Flares in lost pagan caverns dark and deep,
Call thee to quench the fever in their blood,
Bacchus, who singest old remorse to sleep!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,
My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all
movements
that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Dass er diese Unterscheidung gerade in den blauen
Farbentönen vornahm, liegt wohl daran, dass die meisten
Prismen die blaue Hälfte des Spectrums unverhältnissmässig
ausdehnen, und Newton die Breite der Farbenstreifen un-
mittelbar mit den
musikalischen
Intervallen vergleichen wollte.
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| Source: |
Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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Our very Father hath
forsaken
us,
Our God hath cast us from Him: we oppress'd
Unto our foes are even marvellous,
A hissing and a butt for pointing hands,
Whilst God Almighty hunts and grinds us thus;
For He hath scattered us in alien lands,
Our priests, our princes, our anointed king,
And bound us hand and foot with brazen bands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(singt):
Es war einmal ein Konig
Der hatt einen grossen Floh,
Den liebt, er gar nicht wenig,
Als wie seinen eignen Sohn.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Hyslop, of
Lochrutton, enclosed an
invitation
to dinner.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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--from my house hath outcast me;
She hath borne
children
to our enemy;
She hath made me naught, she hath made Orestes naught.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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But
presently
Hilmar comes to tell him that Olaf has run away in the
_Indian Girl_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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' She spoke, and poured liquid libation on the board, which
done, she first herself touched it lightly with her lips, then handed it
to Bitias and bade him speed; he valiantly drained the foaming cup, and
flooded him with the
brimming
gold.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_oracle_, a sacred place where the god was
supposed
to
answer questions of vital import asked him by his worshippers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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You were always afraid of a shower,
Just like a flower:
I
remember
you started and ran
When the rain began.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Leader
infatuate
at their head appear'd
Eupithes, hoping to avenge his son
Antinous, but was himself ordain'd 550
To meet his doom, and to return no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an
enchanter
fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; Hear, O hear!
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SAILING SHIPS
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,
The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;
Tall cliffs; and long sea-line of marbled surf
From Cornish Lizard to the Kentish Nore
Lipping the bulwarks of the English shore,
While many a lovely ship below sailed by
On unknown errand, kempt and leisurely;
And after each, oh, after each, my heart
Fled forth, as, watching from the Downs apart,
I shared with ships good joys and fortunes wide
That might befall their beauty and their pride;
Shared first with them the blessèd void repose
Of oily days at sea, when only rose
The porpoise's slow wheel to break the sheen
Of satin water
indolently
green,
When for'ard the crew, caps tilted over eyes,
Lay heaped on deck; slept; mumbled; smoked; threw dice;
The sleepy summer days; the summer nights
(The coast pricked out with rings of harbour-lights),
The motionless nights, the vaulted nights of June
When high in the cordage drifts the entangled moon,
And blocks go knocking, and the sheets go slapping,
And lazy swells against the sides come lapping;
And summer mornings off red Devon rocks,
Faint inland bells at dawn and crowing cocks;
Shared swifter days, when headlands into ken
Trod grandly; threatened; and were lost again,
Old fangs along the battlemented coast;
And followed still my ship, when winds were most
Night-purified, and, lying steeply over,
She fled the wind as flees a girl her lover,
Quickened by that pursuit for which she fretted,
Her temper by the contest proved and whetted.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Glosa // who so wole seken the dep[e] grounde / of soth 2843
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that goon amys fro the trouthe // lat hym wel
examine / {and} rolle w{i}t{h} inne hym self the natur{e} {and}
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hat by naturel pryncyplis kyndeliche y-hyd w{i}t{h} in
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The
great majority of readers suppose that the device by which
Elfleda was substituted for her young mistress, the artifice by
which Athelwold obtained the hand of Elfrida, the detection of
that artifice, the hunting party, and the vengeance of the
amorous king, are things about which there is no more doubt than
about the
execution
of Anne Boleyn, or the slitting of Sir John
Coventry's nose.
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_'Twixt truth and error there's this
difference
known;
Error is fruitful, truth is only one.
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This content
downloaded
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et iam complerat genitor sua fata, nouemque
addiderat
lustris altera lustra nouem.
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annos |
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Why is the age of the character's father important enough to mention in this sentence? |
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The age of the character's father is important enough to mention in this sentence because it signifies that he had lived a full life and had completed his fate before passing away. |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet some
consoling
utterance had been well
Though sadder 'twere than Simonidean tears.
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fetching
it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child?
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--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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I have brought a few
Plums and these pears for you,
A dozen kinds of apples, one or two
Melons, some figs all
bursting
through
Their skins, and pearled with dew
These damsons violet-blue.
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Christina Rossetti |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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At this sight
Coroebus
burst forth infuriate, and flung
himself on death amid their columns.
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The
inverted
form used here, liuzhui ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must each day say o'er the very same;
Counting
no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
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In this mission to Clement at Avignon there was joined with
Petrarch
the
famous Nicola Gabrino, better known by the name Cola di Rienzo, who,
very soon afterwards, attached the history of Rome to his biography.
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