elit final

• so his mind turned

  to hall-building; he handed down orders

  for men to work on a great mead-hall

  meant to be a wonder of the world forever...

  heorot
• none of them expected he would ever see

  his homeland again or get back

  to his native place and the people who reared him.

  beowulf
• [hrothgar's] highest-placed adviser,

  his dearest companion, was dead and gone.

  aeschere
• his father before him was called ecgtheow.

  beowulf
• adorned in her gold, she graciously saluted

  the men in her hall, then handed the cup

  first to hrothgar ...

  wealththeow
• then he who had harrowed the hearts of men

  with pain and affliction in former times

  and had given offense also to god

  found that his bodily powers failed him

  grendel
• a rare and ancient sword ...

  the iron blade withits ill-boding patterns

  had been tempered in blood. it had never

  failed the hand of anyone who hefted it in battle

  hrunting
• that swamp-thing from hell,

  the tarn-hag in all her terrible strength

  grendel's mother
• everywhere the havoc he wrought was in evidence.

  far and near, the geat nation

  bore and brunt of his brutal assaults

  and virulent hate.

  dragon
• ... with his own hands washed [beowulf's] wounds

  wiglaf
• [it] looped and unleashed itself.

  swaddled in flames, it came gliding and flexing

  and racing toward its fate.

  dragon
• they said that of all the kings upon earth

  he was the man most gracious and fair-minded,

  kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.

  beowulf
• [he] discovered deadly poison suppurating inside him

  beowulf
• a manly man, to been an abbot able.

  ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable...

  monk
• he knew the cause of every malady,

  were it of hot, or cold, or moist, or dry elements,

  and where they were engendered, and by what bodily fluid.

  doctor of medicine
• for he would rather have at the head of his bed

  twenty books, bound in black or red,

  of aristotle and his philosophy

  than rich robes, or a fiddle, or an elegant psaltery.

  clerk
• she was a worthy woman all her life:

  she had (married) five husbands at the church door,

  not counting other company in youth...

  wife of bath
• that he had an open sore on his shin.

  as for white pudding, he made that of the best quality.

  cook
• but christ's teaching and his twelve apostles

  he taught; but first he followed it himself.

  parson
• it was not suitable, in view of his official position,

  to have acquaintance with sick lepers.

  friar
• she wiped her upper lip so clean

  that in her cup there was seen no tiny bit

  of grease, when she had drunk her drink.

  prioress
• [he] had hauled very many a cartload of dung;

  he was a true and good worker,

  living in peace and perfect love.

  plowman
• he was a loudmouth and a buffoon,

  and that was mostly of sin and deeds of harlotry.

  miller
• singing he was, or fluting, all the day;

  he was as fresh as in the month of may.

  his gown was short, with long and wide sleeves.

  he well knew how to sit on horse and handsomely ride.

  square
• he wore a tunic of coarse cloth

  all stained (with rust) by hist coat of mail ...

  knight
• one short sleep past, we wake eternally

  and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

  donne
• farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;

  my sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.

  jonson
• let me not to the marriage of true minds

  admit impediments. love is not love

  which alters when it alteration finds,

  or bends with the remover to remove

  marvell
• as well a well-wrought urn becomes

  the greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,

  and by these hymns, all shall approve

  us canonized for love.

  donne
• lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,

  through foolishly he lost the same,

  till he became

  most poore:

  with thee

  o let me rise

  as larks, harmoniously,

  and sing this day thy victories:

  then shall the fall further the flight in me.

  herbert
• gather ye rose-buds while ye may,

  old time is still a-flying;

  and this same flower that smiles today

  tomorrow will be dying.

  herrick
• mark but this flea, and mark in this,

  how little that which thou deniest me is;

  it sucked me first, and now sucks thee,

  and in this flea our two bloods mingled be;

  donne
• if they be two, they are two so

  as stiff twin compasses are two;

  thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

  to move, but doth, if the other do.

  donne