Therefore it comes we see
How far from us each thing may be away,
And the more air there be that's driven before,
And too the longer be the
brushing
breeze
Against our eyes, the farther off removed
Each thing is seen to be: forsooth, this work
With mightily swift order all goes on,
So that upon one instant we may see
What kind the object and how far away.
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Lucretius |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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My heart unable to defend itself,
I gave away what I dared not take myself;
In my stead, let Chimene drink the wine,
And fire their passion to
extinguish
mine.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Moment when one must
break with the
living memory,
to inter it
- place it in the coffin,
hide it - with
the
brutality
of
placing it there,
raw contact
to see it no longer
except as idealised -
later, no longer him
living, there - but
the germ of his being
taken back into itself -
the germ allowing
thought for him
- sight of him
vision (ideality
of state) and
speech for him
for in us, pure
him, a refining
- become our
honour, the source
of our finer
feelings -
true re-entry
into the ideal
24.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree stiffens in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are
fragrant
at this height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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{2e} That is, in formal or
prescribed
phrase.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"This is a 'one-ghost' house, and you
When you arrived last summer,
May have
remarked
a Spectre who
Was doing all that Ghosts can do
To welcome the new-comer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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His fellow mark'd an
opposite
intent,
Bearing a sword, whose glitterance and keen edge,
E'en as I view'd it with the flood between,
Appall'd me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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C'est la que j'ai vecu dans les voluptes calmes,
Au milieu de l'azur, des vagues, des splendeurs
Et des esclaves nus, tout impregnes d'odeurs,
Qui me
rafraichissaient
le front avec des palmes,
Et dont l'unique soin etait d'approfondir
Le secret douloureux qui me faisait languir.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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His Mother then is mortal, but his Sire,
He who obtains the
Monarchy
of Heav'n,
And what will he not do to advance his Son?
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Milton |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Rodolphe
Darzens, on a dit tout le
mauvais sur Rimbaud, homme et poete.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And
you've denied me the consolation of
breaking
down.
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Kipling - Poems |
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20
LII
Lo, on the
distance
a dark blue ravine,
A fold in the mountainous forests of fir,
Cleft from the sky-line sheer down to the shore!
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Sappho |
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We
remained
for a while in Tongjia Swamp, about to go through Luzi Barrier.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Dost thou love me, my
Beloved?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Lewis Carroll |
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On a fiend-like wind it curled along
Over the brave French ranks,
Like a monster tree its vapours spread,
In hideous, burning banks
Of
poisonous
fumes that scorched the night
With their sulphurous demon danks.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto
supremest
name,
Called to my full, the crescent dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Than telleth hit that, fro a sterry place,
How African hath him Cartage shewed,
And warned him before of al his grace, 45
And seyde him, what man, lered other lewed,
That loveth comun profit, wel y-thewed,
He shal unto a blisful place wende,
Ther as Ioye is that last
withouten
ende.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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alternate
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full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_Rapido fiume che d'
alpestra
vena.
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Petrarch |
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"
His people
gathered
round the hero, and drew their shining swords.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Is Venus
abhorred
by new-made brides?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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non illi
quisquam
bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis uastabit tertius heres.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Threescore and ten I can
remember
well,
Within the volume of which time I have seen
Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
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Shakespeare |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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e
p{ro}pre
fortunes of poure feble
folke.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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haesit in amplexu consolatusque
iacentem
est,
cumque meis lacrimis miscuit usque suas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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OSWALD (as if to himself, yet
speaking
aloud)
The truth is hideous, but how stifle it?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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From Bruno's forest screams the frighted jay,
And slow th'
insulted
eagle wheels away.
| Guess: |
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William Wordsworth |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted
now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on caparisons of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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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-poems |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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**
Grentler
times for love are meant.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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"In what he
leaves unsaid," wrote Schiller, "I
discover
the master of style.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You had said, the radiant sheen
Of that palace might have been
A young god's fantasy, ere he came
His serious worlds and suns to frame;
Such an
immortal
passion
Quiver'd among the slim hewn stone.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But even these Cossacks, who
should have been a guarantee for the peace and quiet of the country, had
for some time shown a
dangerous
and unruly spirit towards the Imperial
Government.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I THINK the reader I've already told,
Our husband loved rich
presents
to behold;
Though none he made, yet all he would receive;
Whate'er was offered he would never leave.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
| Guess: |
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Milton |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
| Guess: |
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Emerson - Poems |
|
Usage guidelines
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digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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With silence-sandalled Sleep she comes to me,
(But softer-footed, sweeter-browed, than she,)
In motion
gracious
as a seagull's wing,
And all her bright limbs, moving, seem to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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At last they issued from the world of wood,
And climbed upon a fair and even ridge,
And showed
themselves
against the sky, and sank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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[Exeunt
MARMADUKE
and OSWALD.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Myn herte, allas, wol brest a-two,
For
Bialacoil
I wratthed so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Quando scendean nel fior, di banco in banco
porgevan
de la pace e de l'ardore
ch'elli acquistavan ventilando il fianco.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He, without a care
For all the
affliction
of Admetus' halls,
Sang on; and, listening, one could hear the thralls
In the long gallery weeping for the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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perhaps I shall rest in the
graveyard!
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Longfellow |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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Longfellow |
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It is no matter if I fail: I must
Send the God in me forth, and yield to him
The shaping of
whatever
chance befall.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Only Hannah the housemaid was busy in clearing the table,
Coming and going, and
hustling
about in closet and chamber.
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Longfellow |
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