About
midnight
we were suddenly roused by the
roar of a lion close to our tents.
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Tennyson |
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A
calculation
of the time showed that the
prodigy's appearance and disappearance coincided with the beginning of
the battle[328] and Otho's death.
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Tacitus |
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Why, how intolerable an ass is he
Whom Silliness'
sweetheart
drives so, by the ear!
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Sidney Lanier |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
But Jerry Blazes had not the
faintest
intention of passing a dangerous
murderer.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The steel-clad
champion
death drops all around
As glaciers water.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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About this time Petrarch received news of the death of Azzo Correggio,
one of his dearest friends, whose widow and
children
wrote to him on
this occasion, the latter telling him that they regarded him as a
father.
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Petrarch |
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That narrative
poetry may find its minstrels again, and lyrical poetry adequate
singers, and dramatic poetry
adequate
players, he must spend much of
his time with these three lost arts, and the more technical is his
interest the better.
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Yeats |
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Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,
A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed,
And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,
I known it is _the Future_--God's
Justicer
is here!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a
radiance
so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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I'm liable to be ordered off
anywhere
at a minute's notice if a
war breaks out.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The one
affrights
you,
The other makes you proud.
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Shakespeare |
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Se devant li tout vuit j'apper,
Et par moy ne puis
eschapper
80
Que ma faute ne compere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_
[264] The fair Inez was crowned Queen of
Portugal
after her interment.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She knows how it
comforts
me,
To sing, and praise one so worthy,
I'm hers, the more painfully
She exalts or abases me,
I can't prevent it, truly,
Far from her I'd not wish to be,
Though living death is my fee.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
Queen Gulnaar's
daughter
two spring times old,
In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In the 1633 edition the last
five lines of this stanza have no
stronger
stop than a comma.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Straightway
I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
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T.S. Eliot |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing
atmosphere
display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the elemental worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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XIV
Can't you hear voices, beloved, out on the Via
Flamina?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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in vain,
To teach their limbs along the burning road
A few short steps to totter with their load,
Shakes her numb arm that
slumbers
with its weight,
And eyes through tears the mountain's shadeless height;
And bids her soldier come her woes to share,
Asleep on Bunker's [iv] charnel hill afar;
For hope's deserted well why wistful look?
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ho, if anywhere
The light of life smite on Orestes' eyes,
Let him,
returning
by some guardian fate,
Hew down with force her paramour and her!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But
helpless
Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Nor, if they me as fickle shall arraign,
Care I, so good from
fickleness
ensue;
Though I am lighter than a leaf be said,
So I be forced not with that Greek no wed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where are thy
comrades?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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My species are dwindling,
My forests grow barren,
My
popinjays
fail from their tappings,
My larks from their strain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_--In a vessel of water
he showed him some ships which from a great distance came to India, the
people of which would effect the utter
subversion
of the Moors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The well in the Forum at which
they had
alighted
was pointed out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I knelt there, and it seemed, — One moment, that my torture had been dreamed
I drank most
thankfully
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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On the right
Raged for hours the heady fight,
Thundered the battery's double bass,--
Difficult music for men to face;
While on the left--where now the graves
Undulate like the living waves
That all that day unceasing swept
Up to the pits the Rebels kept--
Round shot ploughed the upland glades,
Sown with bullets, reaped with blades;
Shattered fences here and there
Tossed their splinters in the air;
The very trees were stripped and bare;
The barns that once held yellow grain
Were heaped with harvests of the slain;
The cattle bellowed on the plain,
The turkeys screamed with might and main,
And
brooding
barn-fowl left their rest
With strange shells bursting in each nest.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[25]
_namastu_
a late form which has followed the analogy of _restu_
in assuming the feminine _t_ as part of the root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Natch, a
notching
implement; abuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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answer for fear]
[XXX for vindication of Urizens word] [Thy name is
familiar
XXX] {These 2 partially recovered erased pencil lines are discerned by Erdman beneath line 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any
country outside the United States.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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You are naught
But the
defilement
that is in me now,
Rejoicing to be lodged safely within me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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My hand in dedicative worship lifts
In shame on high to thee the scattered off'ring,
No more a token of
imagined
glory,
--Although with many a precious tear-drop shining--
No more a choice of rare and wondrous jewels,
That fain from destiny for thee I'd conquer,
Than e'er the tale of hellish love and hatred
Can spread by this subdued and falt'ring voice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
]
[Footnote 24: Under
Catherine
II.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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They
should be regarded in many cases as merely the first strong and
suggestive sketches of an artist, intended to be embodied at some
time in the
finished
picture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
How words do their work in poetry, and how we appreciate the way they do
it--this seems to involve the obscurest
processes
of the mind: analysis
can but fumble at it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For all so soone as life did me admit
Into this world, and shewed heavens light,
From mothers pap I taken was unfit: 25
And
streight
deliver'd to a Faery knight,?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Next valiant Mnestheus took his stand with bow bent, aiming
high with
levelled
eye and arrow; yet could not, unfortunate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Ghastly with scenes of death, and mangled limbs,
And, black with clotted blood, each
pavement
swims.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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ār wæs on ofoste, eftsīðes georn,
frætwum
gefyrðred, _he was hurried
forward by the treasure_ (i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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nowe I praie forbere,
Ynne quiet lett mee die;
Praie Godde, thatt ev'ry
Christian
soule
Maye looke onne dethe as I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed with Syrian essences
And wreathed with roses, while we may,
Lie
drinking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Command his arm,
strengthened
in battle
To repair the injury and fight his duel;
He will give satisfaction; come what may,
He expects to hear, this answers him I say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The long _u_ is
due to analogy with _namassu_ a
Sumerian
loan-word with nisbe ending.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In his
adversity
I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for
greatness he could not want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
SONG OF MARION'S MEN
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
[Sidenote: 1780-1781]
_While the British Army held South Carolina, Marion and Sumter
gathered bands of partisans and waged a
vigorous
guerilla warfare
most harassing and destructive to the invader.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I go toward
darkness
tho' I lie so still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
The Lion
Wild Animals
'Wild Animals'
Caspar Luyken,
Christoph
Weigel, 1695 - 1705, The Rijksmuseun
O lion, miserable image
Of kings lamentably chosen,
Now you're only born in a cage
In Hamburg, among the Germans.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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If thy
Hrethric
should come to court of Geats,
a sovran's son, he will surely there
find his friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
i, the ass is
declared
to be the
hieroglyphic of
Patience, frugality, and fortitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The true
perfection
of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man
is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
" And from its nature
it must be an age very heartily engaged in something; usually fighting
whoever is near enough to be fought with, though in _Beowulf_ it seems
to be doing something more
profitable
to the civilization which is to
follow it--taming the fierceness of surrounding circumstance and man's
primitive kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus
wandering
by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
]
[Sidenote F: Fair cuisses enclose his thighs,]
[Sidenote G: and
afterwards
they put on the steel habergeon,]
[Sidenote H: well-burnished braces, elbow pieces, and gloves of plate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
_Pleasures of Fancy_
A path, old tree, goes by thee
crooking
on,
And through this little gate that claps and bangs
Against thy rifted trunk, what steps hath gone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
But my sister Rachel, she
Before her glass abides the
livelong
day,
Her radiant eyes beholding, charm'd no less,
Than I with this delightful task.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Azzo's
daughter
Beatriz was the addressee of one of his poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Here great Aeneas sits
revolving the changing issues of war; and Pallas, clinging on his left
side, asks now [161-195]of the stars and their pathway through the dark
night, now of his
fortunes
by land and sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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tunc Messalla meus pia det spectacula turbae
et plaudat curru
praetereunte
pater.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
say,
Are all thy playthings
snatched
away?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
guns
on Morris Island
battered
it into a shapeless ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
[632] _Here
Christian
Europe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
May the contents thereof thy palate suit,
With its
mellifluous
and pleasing fruit:
For nought can more be sweetened to my mind
Than that this Pamphlet thy contentment find;
Which if it shall, my labour is sufficed,
In being by your liking highly prized.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
November
The world is tired, the year is old,
The little leaves are glad to die,
The wind goes
shivering
with cold
Among the rushes dry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
I was always pleased with the motto placed under the figure
of the
rosemary
in old herbals:
'Sus, apage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
PROKTOPHANTASMIST:
Ich sag's euch Geistern ins Gesicht:
Den
Geistesdespotismus
leid ich nicht;
Mein Geist kann ihn nicht exerzieren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Bees sip not at one flower,
Spring comes not with one shower,
Nor shines the sun alone
Upon one favoured hour,
But with
unstinted
power
Makes every day his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
For were a man for hir bistad,
She wolde ben right sore adrad
That she dide over greet outrage,
But she him holpe his harm to aswage; 1230
>>
Ou il ot faite por s'amie
Mainte jouste et mainte envaie,
Et percie maint escu boucle,
Maint hiaume i avoit dessercle,
Et maint
chevalier
abatu,
Et pris par force et par vertu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
And with the evening cloud,
Showering thy gleaned wealth into my open breast,
(Those peerless flowers which in the rudest wind
Never grow sere,
When rooted in the garden of the mind,
Because they are the
earliest
of the year).
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Tennyson |
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Mussulmans and Giaours
Throw
kerchiefs
at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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At this time the
progressive and
spiritually
minded young people used to meet for
discussion and help in Boston, among them George Ripley, Cyrus Bartol,
James Freeman Clarke, Alcott, Dr.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I wylle anente[85] hymm goe; mie squierr, mie shielde; 95
Orr onne orr odherr wyll doe myckle[86] scethe[87]
Before I doe departe the lissedd[88] fielde,
Mieselfe orr
Bourtonne
hereupponn wyll blethe[89].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Project Gutenberg is a
TradeMark
and may not be
used in any sales of Project Gutenberg eBooks or other materials be
they hardware or software or any other related product without
express permission.
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Aristophanes |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new
acquaintance
of thy mind.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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I yet myself console,
Though thou hast left me, mournful and alone,
For eagerly to heaven thy spirit has flown,
Free from the flesh which did so late enrol;
Thence, at one view,
commands
it either pole,
The planets and their wondrous courses known,
And human sight how brief and doubtful shown;
Thus with thy bliss my sorrow I control.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lo, I make proclaim
To the Four Nations and all Thessaly;
A wondrous happiness hath come to be:
Therefore pray, dance, give
offerings
and make full
Your altars with the life-blood of the Bull!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sone after this, for that fortune it wolde,
I-comen was the blisful tyme swete,
That Troilus was warned that he sholde,
Ther he was erst, Criseyde his lady mete; 1670
For which he felte his herte in Ioye flete;
And
feythfully
gan alle the goddes herie;
And lat see now if that he can be merie.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The eleven
thousand
maydens dere,
That beren in heven hir ciergis clere,
Of which men rede in chirche, and singe,
Were take in seculer clothing, 6250
Whan they resseyved martirdom,
And wonnen heven unto her hoom.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Were I to you as the boss
employing
and paying you, would that satisfy you?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've
gathered
this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
smallest
scale upon his tail
Could hide six dolphins and a whale.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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