Generously trust
Thy fortune's web to the
beneficent
hand
That until now has put his world in fee
To thee.
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"As old mythologies relate,
Some draught of Lethe might await
The
slipping
thro' from state to state.
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Charles, our great soul, this only
understands
;
He our affections both, and wills, commands ;
And where twin-sympathies cannot alone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Once to amuse the
children
I built a house of cards, and had
accursed dreams all night.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Keats |
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The wind of that eternal ditty sings,
Humming of future things, that burn the mind
To leave some
fragment
of itself behind.
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John Clare |
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Wherefore
was that cry?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At
midnight
Zourine took
me back to the inn.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
_Merchant
of Venice_, act i.
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Byron |
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Though weak
Fernando
reign'd, in war unskill'd,
A godlike king now calls you to the field.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Crooning ditties
treasured
well
From his Afric's torrid plains.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Ther was the tyraunt with his fethres donne
And greye, I mene the goshauk, that doth pyne 335
To briddes for his
outrageous
ravyne.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Oh, with what
patience
I have tried to win
The favour of the hostess of the Inn!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Nowe, AElla, nowe Ime
plantynge
of a thorne,
Bie whyche thie peace, thie love, & glorie shalle be torne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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There's stir among the serving folk;
They bustle, bustle, boy and girl;
The
flickering
flames send up the smoke
In many a curl.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The red hot boiling billows foamed in the
stooping
clouds,
And in that fatal tempest the whole ship's crew were lost.
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John Clare |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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Again, if
it be too little, there ariseth no pleasure out of the object; it affords
the view no stay; it is beheld, and
vanisheth
at once.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Woods have tongues,
As walls have ears: but thou shalt go with me,
And we will speak at first
exceeding
low.
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Tennyson |
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_Supplied
by conjecture_; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Of whom are you
speaking?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What bad poet did your mothers listen to
That you were born so
crooked?
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Yeats |
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_To Napoleon_
The heroes of the present and the past
Were puny, vague, and
nothingness
to thee:
Thou didst a span grasp mighty to the last,
And strain for glory when thy die was cast.
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John Clare |
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NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the author's first copy and first revision of that `Hymn',
the `Ballad' was incorporated,
following
the invocation to the trees
which closes with:
"And there, oh there
As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air,
Pray me a myriad prayer.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The thorns, tearing her feet,
Gather up the red flower of her blood which is holy,
Each
footstep
she takes; and the valleys repeat
The sharp cry she utters and draw it out slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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by that name of Eve--
Thine Eve, thy life--which suits me little now,
Seeing that I now confess myself thy death
And thine undoer, as the snake was mine,--
I do adjure thee, put me straight away,
Together
with my name!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains
trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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For the mother watches o'er the infant,
He must rise up in her latter days,
She will need the man that was her baby
To stand by her when her
strength
decays.
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Hugo - Poems |
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e folk was went away,
And he al-one in
chaumbre
lay,
Alexius gan to preche; 207
Of Iesu he bigan his game,
werldes likyng he gan blame,
his ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
So ferde it by this fers and proude knight; 225
Though he a worthy kinges sone were,
And wende nothing hadde had swiche might
Ayens his wil that sholde his herte stere,
Yet with a look his herte wex a-fere,
That he, that now was most in pryde above, 230
Wex
sodeynly
most subget un-to love.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_Song of the
Soldiers
within_.
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Byron |
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"
So they rode on until they arrived at the second loop of the river where
the knight of the Noonday-Sun flared with his burning shield that blazed
so
violently
that Gareth saw scarlet blots before his eyes as he turned
away from it.
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Tennyson |
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_ Those reverencing
Adrastia
are wise.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Delicious
is the Lay that sings
The haunts of happy lovers,
The path that leads them to the grove,
The leafy grove that covers:
And pity sanctifies the verse
That paints, by strength of sorrow,
The unconquerable strength of love;
Bear witness, rueful Yarrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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Unasked, the stranger this
attention
got,
And well perfumed ere clothes they would allot.
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La Fontaine |
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`Now stant it thus, that sith I fro yow wente, 785
This Troilus, right platly for to seyn,
Is thurgh a goter, by a prive wente,
In-to my
chaumbre
come in al this reyn,
Unwist of every maner wight, certeyn,
Save of my-self, as wisly have I Ioye, 790
And by that feith I shal Pryam of Troye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Eupompus gave it
splendour
by numbers and other
elegancies.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He captured the wild
mountain
goats.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Stephen Crane |
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D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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With a shout I called
attention
to the fact, and it became immediately
obvious to all.
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Poe - 5 |
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O think how this dry palate would
rejoice!
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Keats |
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'We build ships not to let them lie in
harbours
but to seek new lands
with, and to trade with.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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When a
daffodil
I see,
Hanging down his head towards me,
Guess I may what I must be:
First, I shall decline my head;
Secondly, I shall be dead;
Lastly, safely buried.
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Robert Herrick |
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Nay, thou mayest see at times
Five or yet more in order dangling down
And swaying in the delicate winds, whilst one
Depends from other,
cleaving
to under-side,
And ilk one feels the stone's own power and bonds--
So over-masteringly its power flows down.
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Lucretius |
|
Apart from its brilliant epigrammatic
expression the 'Essay on Criticism' might have been written by almost
any man of letters in Queen Anne's day who took the trouble to think a
little about the laws of literature, and who thought about those laws
strictly in accordance with the
accepted
conventions of his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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_--comth
2689 _graunt[e]_--graunte]
[Headnote:
UNITY
NECESSARY
TO EXISTENCE.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The
Grolier Club editor prints:
Like a wedge in a block, wring to the bar,
Bearing like asses, and more
shameless
far
Than carted whores; lie to the grave judge; for .
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John Donne |
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The
orthography of his
glossary
differs considerably from the orthography of
his text.
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Beowulf |
|
All donations should be made to "Project Gutenberg/CMU": and are
tax
deductible
to the extent allowable by law.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Martial is a poet of a very
different
order.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If then to all men
happiness
was meant,
God in externals could not place content.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when
pleasant
thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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compressed, marked up,
nonproprietary
or proprietary form, including any
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the department of history
be appears to have been
particularly
well read;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
Xlviii NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXVI
I recall thy white gown, cinctured
With a linen belt, whereon
Violets were wrought, and scented
With strange
perfumes
out of Egypt.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
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Li Po |
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He willed the whole emprize his own should be,
And
Bradamant
should stand apart to see.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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through whose verdant meads
Unheard the
Garigliano
glides along;--
The Liris, nurse of rushes and of reeds,
The river taciturn of classic song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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that
decorate
our door 1815.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Motionless, passionless, companionless,
He sits there
muttering
in his beard.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But the
offering
should be dearer to your eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O
right
Phrygian
women, not even Phrygian men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Qualis in aerii perlucens vertice montis
Rivos muscoso prosilit e lapide,
Qui cum de prona praeceps est valle volutus,
Per medium sensim transit iter populi, 60
Dulci viatori lasso in sudore levamen,
Cum gravis exustos aestus hiulcat agros:
Hic, velut in nigro
iactatis
turbine nautis
Lenius aspirans aura secunda venit
Iam prece Pollucis, iam Castoris inplorata, 65
Tale fuit nobis Manius auxilium.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Let Lyde hear those maidens' guilt,
Their famous doom, the ceaseless drain
Of outpour'd water, ever spilt,
And all the pain
Reserved
for sinners, e'en when dead:
Those impious hands, (could crime do more?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Has it
feathers
like a bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
It is
certainly
possible
that a poet might devise a story of such a kind that
we could easily take it as something which might have been a real human
experience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A maiden shining bright of blee,
As Myrtle branchlet Asia bred,
Which
Hamadryad
deity
As toy for joyance aye befed
With humour of the dew.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
e
vnselynesse
is re[le]ued
by ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
The branches were gracefully drooping with their
weight, like a
barberry
bush, so that the whole tree acquired a new
character.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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In so
profound
abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
James Norman Hall and the _Spectator_:--"The
Cricketers
of
Flanders.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
mihtig mān-sceaða (_the second mighty, fell foe_,
referring
to
1350, 1339; se ōðer .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
A she-wolf
Was at his heels, who in her
leanness
seem'd
Full of all wants, and many a land hath made
Disconsolate ere now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
ORESTES
O father,
murdered
in unkingly wise,
Fulfil my prayer, grant me thine halls to sway.
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Aeschylus |
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LX
No sound of joy or sorrow
Was heard from either bank;
But friends and foes in dumb surprise,
With parted lips and straining eyes,
Stood gazing where he sank;
And when above the surges,
They saw his crest appear,
All Rome sent forth a
rapturous
cry,
And even the ranks of Tuscany
Could scarce forbear to cheer.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The soul unto itself
Is an
imperial
friend, --
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and
falsehood
not proclaim!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It's a
dreadful
affair
Is Saint Valentine's Day!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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No fault in women, though they be
But seldom from
suspicion
free.
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Robert Herrick |
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You who consoled me in
funereal
night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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