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.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Catullus - Carmina |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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e
vnselynesse
is re[le]ued
by ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The branches were gracefully drooping with their
weight, like a
barberry
bush, so that the whole tree acquired a new
character.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--
It's so elegant
So
intelligent
130
"What shall I do now?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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James Norman Hall and the _Spectator_:--"The
Cricketers
of
Flanders.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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mihtig mān-sceaða (_the second mighty, fell foe_,
referring
to
1350, 1339; se ōðer .
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Beowulf |
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Imagists |
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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.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven strongholds shall remain
Embodied memories of your line,
Incarnate
legends of your reign.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In other worlds can Mammon fail,
Omnipotent
as he is here!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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or can I here forget
The plain and seemly
countenance
with which
Ye dealt out your plain comforts?
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William Wordsworth |
|
Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was descended in the ninth
generation
from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The harshness died
Within me, and my heart
Was caught and fluttered like the
palpitant
heart
Of a brown quail, flying
To the call of her blind sister,
And death, in the spring night.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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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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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hymenaeus
LXI, LXII, LXVI 11.
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Latin - Catullus |
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She that in bed such love does win,
Is
cleansed
forever of her sin.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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O
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Wherof shulde I
abasshen
so?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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when mingling souls forget to blend,
Death hath but little left him to
destroy!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Our
analysis
of that edition has made it appear probable
that a manuscript resembling _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ was the source of
a large part of its text.
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John Donne |
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If yet not wasted quite--
So frail a thing before so fierce a flame--
'Tis not from my own
strength
that safety came,
But that some fear gives might,
Freezing the warm blood coursing through its veins,
To my poor heart better to bear the strife.
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Petrarch - Poems |
|
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
Ah God, that such an irresistible fiend,
Pain, in the
beautiful
housing of man's flesh
Should sleep, light as a leopard in its hunger,
Beside the heavenly soul; and at a wound
Leap up to mangle her, the senses' guest!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Getting a Letter from Home 299 In the mountains under a leaky thatch roof, is there anyone still leaning at the window?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Admetus, seeing what way my
fortunes
lie,
I fain would speak with thee before I die.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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My lov'd, my honour'd, much
respected
friend!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The thousand-toothed gale,--
Adventurers
too bold!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When
Samson broke the pillars of Gaza, he did a little thing, and one not to
be
compared
to the deliberate pulling down of a woman's homestead about
her own ears.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Farewell, green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight,
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen, they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each
sleeping
bosom.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
In 1586 he was granted the forfeited estate of the Earl
of Desmond in Cork County, and two years later took up his
residence
in
Kilcolman Castle, which was beautifully situated on a lake with a distant
view of mountains.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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<
pria che Beatrice discendesse al mondo,
fummo
ordinate
a lei per sue ancelle.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Although I may still be as much in want of these artifices as any other
person, I cannot bring myself to resolve to employ them; however I shall
accommodate myself if
possible
to the taste of the times, instructed as I
am by my own experience, that there is nothing which is more necessary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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FABIEN DEI FRANCHI
TO MY FRIEND HENRY IRVING
THE silent room, the heavy creeping shade,
The dead that travel fast, the opening door,
The murdered brother rising through the floor,
The ghost's white fingers on thy shoulders laid,
And then the lonely duel in the glade,
The broken swords, the stifled scream, the gore,
Thy grand
revengeful
eyes when all is o'er,--
These things are well enough,--but thou wert made
For more august creation!
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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That which in
fragrance
and in hue defied
The odoriferous and lucid East,
Fruits, flowers and herbs and leaves, and whence the West
Of all rare excellence obtain'd the prize,
My laurel sweet, which every beauty graced,
Where every glowing virtue loved to dwell,
Beheld beneath its fair and friendly shade
My Lord, and by his side my Goddess sit.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Tho was I war of
Plesaunce
anon-right,
And of Aray, and Lust, and Curtesye;
And of the Craft that can and hath the might 220
To doon by force a wight to do folye--
Disfigurat was she, I nil not lye;
And by him-self, under an oke, I gesse,
Sawe I Delyt, that stood with Gentilnesse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The intellect of Marvell was a remarkably
compact and sincere one, and his habitual charac-
ter was that of
prudence
and upnghtness.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In front is the gate, huge and pillared with solid adamant, that no
warring force of men nor the very habitants of heaven may avail to
overthrow; it stands up a tower of iron, and
Tisiphone
sitting girt in
bloodstained pall keeps sleepless watch at the entry by night and day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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By grief enfeebled was I turned adrift,
Helpless
as sailor cast on desart rock;
Nor morsel to my mouth that day did lift,
Nor dared my hand at any door to knock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Here, regarding the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England
possessed
for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Should Kings and Nations from thy mouth consult,
Thy Counsel would be as the Oracle
Urim and Thummin, those
oraculous
gems
On Aaron's breast: or tongue of Seers old
Infallible; or wert thou sought to deeds
That might require th' array of war, thy skill
Of conduct would be such, that all the world
Could not sustain thy Prowess, or subsist
In battel, though against thy few in arms.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the Fog it came;
And an it were a
Christian
Soul,
We hail'd it in God's name.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
54:
The meanest
floweret
of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Not
marketing
this time, but we'll go into the Parks if
you like.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that everything beneath the moon
Is
corruptible
and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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his boat and
twinkling
oar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Would you treat me so ill I too
Die of
longing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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On him a rustic
battalion
attends in loose
order, they who dwell in steep Praeneste and the fields of Juno of
Gabii, on the cool Anio and the Hernican rocks dewy with streams; they
whom rich Anagnia, and whom thou, lord Amasenus, pasturest.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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II
De sa fourrure blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee
une fois, rien qu'une.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now he repents him; now, "'Tis my delight,"
(Mutters) "that I the proof would not abide:
Succeeding
I should prove but what I thought;
And not succeeding, to what pass am brought!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And Iris came to
Priam where the old king sate: the
princesses
his seed, the princesses
his sons' fair wives, all mourning by.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And
after they had saluted one another, each
according
to the custom
of his tribe, they stood there conversing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Oh, word of pain, oh, sharper ache
Than any death of mine had
brought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He
is the
Philistine
who upholds and aids the heavy, cumbrous, blind,
mechanical forces of society, and who does not recognise dynamic force
when he meets it either in a man or a movement.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
--
I never heard of such as dare
Approach
the spot when she is there.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Si come quando il colombo si pone
presso al compagno, l'uno a l'altro pande,
girando e mormorando, l'affezione;
cosi vid' io l'un da l'altro grande
principe
glorioso
essere accolto,
laudando il cibo che la su li prande.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
--
why not
hitherto?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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So, too, they sought the grottos of the Nymphs--
The
woodland
haunts discovered as they ranged--
From forth of which they knew that gliding rills
With gush and splash abounding laved the rocks,
The dripping rocks, and trickled from above
Over the verdant moss; and here and there
Welled up and burst across the open flats.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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In this one passion man can
strength
enjoy,
As fits give vigour, just when they destroy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
VII
And them before, the fry of
children
young 55
Their wanton sports and childish mirth did play,
And to the Maydens?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
POEMS FROM
ADDITIONAL
MS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I had taken the last farewell
of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had
composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia--"The gloomy
night is
gathering
fast," when a letter from Dr.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
" SAS}
The tygers of wrath called the horses of
instruction
from their mangers
They unloos'd them & put on the harness of gold & silver & ivory
In human forms distinct they stood round Urizen prince of Light
Petrifying all the Human Imagination into rock & sand {Erdman notes here that the insertion from line 6-33 begins in a stanza break and continues in the right margin.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Condemned
to fall
Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
And all that art had wove in antique style.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
:: BEING THE FOURTH VOLUME OF
THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE &
PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
IMPRINTED
AT THE SHAKESPEARE
HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-ON-AVON
MCMVIII
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE HOUR-GLASS 1
CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN 31
THE GOLDEN HELMET 55
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT 79
APPENDIX I:
'THE HOUR-GLASS' 233
APPENDIX II:
'CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN' 240
APPENDIX III:
'THE GOLDEN HELMET' 243
APPENDIX IV:
DATES AND PLACES OF THE FIRST PERFORMANCE
OF NEW PLAYS PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL
THEATRE SOCIETY AND ITS PREDECESSORS 244
THE HOUR-GLASS:
A MORALITY
_PERSONS IN THE PLAY_
A WISE MAN
A FOOL
SOME PUPILS
AN ANGEL
THE WISE MAN'S WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN
THE HOUR-GLASS:
A MORALITY
_A large room with a door at the back and another at
the side, or else a curtained place where persons can
enter by parting the curtains.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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They placed in the barrow that
precious
booty,
the rounds and the rings they had reft erewhile,
hardy heroes, from hoard in cave, --
trusting the ground with treasure of earls,
gold in the earth, where ever it lies
useless to men as of yore it was.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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then I alone
Wander among the virgins of the summer Look they cry
The poor forsaken Los mockd by the worm the shelly snail
The Emmet & the beetle hark they laugh & mock at Los
Secure now from the smitings of thy Power Demon of Fury {The beginning of this inserted line is set well in from the heads of the accompanying lines, but there seems no reason not to bring it into line with them EJC}
Enitharmon answerd If the God enrapturd me infolds
In clouds of sweet obscurity my beauteous form
dissolving
Howl thou over the body of death tis thine But if among the virgins {The inserted material is clearly written over erased material EJC}
Of summer I have seen thee sleep & turn thy cheek delighted
Upon the rose or lilly pale.
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Higher and higher still
Their fierce necks writhed beneath the tempest's scourge
Like serpents
struggling
in a vulture's grasp.
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet harmonious voice
Like a
murmuring
stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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DOTH still before thee rise the
beauteous
image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Rat-catching[81]
offspring
of perdition!
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He had the
evidence
of
his own senses against the legend; but he seems to have
distrusted even the evidence of his own senses.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" Lysistratus,
as soon as he saw him, let fly this
comparison
at him.
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Aristophanes |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Being newly returned
comforts
me for a while?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Her bright and love-lit eyes on earth she bends--
Concentres
her rich breath in one full sigh--
A brief pause--a fond hush--her voice on high,
Clear, soft, angelical, divine, ascends.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Imagists |
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In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3)
educational
corporation organized under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Chanson de Roland |
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O say what is that thing call'd Light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy;
What are the
blessings
of the sight,
O tell your poor blind boy!
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Golden Treasury |
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These
syllables
that Nature spoke,
And the thoughts that in him woke,
Can adequately utter none
Save to his ear the wind-harp lone.
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Emerson - Poems |
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'
Than Daunger fil in his entent
For to foryeve his maltalent;
But al his wratthe yit at laste
He hath relesed, I preyde so faste: 3440
Shortly he seide, 'Thy request
Is not to mochel dishonest;
Ne I wol not werne it thee,
For yit no-thing
engreveth
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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