I
have no news to tell you that will give me any
pleasure
to mention, or
you to hear.
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Robert Burns |
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Sir
Humphrey
Mildmay, in his Ms.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Each
humblest
plant, or weed, as we
call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet
how long it stands in vain!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the
tempests
bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sometimes these
cogitations
still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
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T.S. Eliot |
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tunc alnos primum fluuii sensere cauatas;
nauita tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit
Pleiadas, Hyadas, claramque
Lycaonis
Arcton;
tum laqueis captare feras et fallere uisco
inuentum et magnos canibus circumdare saltus;
atque alius latum funda iam uerberat amnem
alta petens, pelagoque alius trahit umida lina;
tum ferri rigor atque argutae lammina serrae
(nam primi cuneis scindebant fissile lignum),
tum uariae uenere artes.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A Presence large, a grave and
steadfast
Form
Amid the leaves' light play and fantasy,
A calmness conquered out of many a storm,
A Manhood mastered by a chestnut-tree!
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Sidney Lanier |
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If I should fail, what
poverty!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE father to discover next they tried;
How could he enter, pass, escape, or hide;
The walls were high; the grate was double too;
Quite small the turning-box
appeared
to view,
And she who managed it was very old:--
Perhaps some youthful spark has been so bold,
Cried she who was superior to the rest,
To get admitted, like a maiden dressed,
And 'mong our flock (if rightly I surmise)
A wicked wolf is lurking in disguise.
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La Fontaine |
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POEMS,
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT BRISTOL, BY THOMAS ROWLEY,
AND OTHERS, IN THE
FIFTEENTH
CENTURY.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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|| _attin_ GORVenC: _athin_ BLa1A
43 _trepidantem_ R || _eum_ La1a et sic nunc R,
quamquam
potest
ex _cum_ correctum uideri: _cum_ GOVenD et plerique: _quem_
Bentley || _pasitheo_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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'But ah, who ever shunned by precedent
The
destined
ill she must herself assay?
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Shakespeare |
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It should be a warm and still
evening; and then, with a fire
crackling
merrily at the prow, you may
launch forth like a cucullo into the night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To
luncheon
at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To him the simple spell who knows
The spirits of the ring to sway,
Fresh power with every sunrise flows,
And royal pursuivants are those
That fly his
mandates
to obey.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Do ye not hear my
mournful
sighs?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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let my looks be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my
speaking
breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this
eBook or online at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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However, I shall
somewhere
have a farm soon.
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Robert Burns |
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The thighs consumed, each took
His portion of the maw, then,
slashing
well 581
The remnant, they transpierced it with the spits
Neatly, and held it reeking at the fire.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The gesture, the movement begins in _Advent_ and _Celebration_ to
disturb the
stillness
prevailing in the first two volumes of poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Who knows on which hand now the steep
declines?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ Now I know the
principal
cause of thy distemper.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Vachel Lindsay's "I
Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry" is a revised version of the poem
of that name which was printed in _The
Enchanted
Years_.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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No harp's delight,
no glee-wood's
gladness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Am not I your
Rosalind?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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E quelli: <
se
Brunetto
Latino un poco teco
ritorna 'n dietro e lascia andar la traccia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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50 net
"Sleep on, 1 lie at heaven's high oriels Over the start that mumur as thye go
Lighting
your lattice window far below:
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof 1 know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"The voice of God whispers in the heart
"So softly
"That the soul pauses,
"Making no noise,
"And strives for these melodies,
"Distant, sighing, like
faintest
breath,
"And all the being is still to hear.
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Stephen Crane |
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_
TO BE NEAR HER
RECOMPENSES
HIM FOR ALL THE PERILS OF THE WAY.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Oh, though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but
remember
only
Such as these have lived and died!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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And there are times when travel goes
Along the sheep tracks' beaten ways,
Then
pleasure
many a praise bestows
Upon its blossoms' pointed rays,
When other things are parched beside
And hot day leaves it in its pride.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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When I stand
In presence of this picture, I concede
That
painting
has attained its uttermost;
But in the presence of my sculptured figures
I feel that my conception soars beyond
All limit I have reached.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Made for his use all
creatures
if he call,
Say what their use, had he the pow'rs of all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The Earl of
Traquair
has planted a clump of trees near
by, which he calls "The New Bush.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Angels'
breathless
ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The following is by an old
acquaintance
of
mine, and I think has merit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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I would
urge it on my son, did not the mixture of blood by his
Sabellian
mother
make this half his native land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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To introduce myself to your story
It's as the frightened hero
If he touched with naked toe
A blade of territory
Prejudicial to glaciers I
Know of no sin's naivety
Whose loud laugh of victory
You won't have then denied
Say if I'm not filled with joyousness
Thunder and rubies to the hubs no less
To see in the air this fire is piercing
With royal
kingdoms
far scattering,
The wheel, crimson, as if in dying,
Of my chariot's single evening.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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At last they turned, and bore to me
Green signs of peace thro'
nightfall
gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It is
still this Virgil, though
saddened
and resigned, who writes the
_Aeneid_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER
SUNNED in the South, and here to-day;
--If all organic things
Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say,
What are your
ponderings?
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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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it
clattered
in the cliff as if one upon a grindstone were grinding a
scythe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"The long wordy discussions by which he tries to reason us into
admiration of his poetry, speak very little in his favor: they are
full of such
assertions
as this (I have opened one of his volumes at
random)--'Of genius the only proof is the act of doing well what is
worthy to be done, and what was never done before;'-indeed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She stirr'd not--breath'd not--for a voice was there
How solemnly
pervading
the calm air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Oh Peggy's gown was chocolate and full of
cherries
white;
I keep a bit on't for her sake and love her day and night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For interview had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These
fleshless
lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Not
honourable
to thyself, O King!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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A cold leaden awe
These secrets struck into him; and unless
Dian had chaced away that heaviness, 140
He might have died: but now, with cheered feel,
He onward kept; wooing these thoughts to steal
About the
labyrinth
in his soul of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Your lights are but dank shoals,
slate and pebble and wet shells
and seaweed
fastened
to the rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion
enclosed
by the frame, is fixed
As soon by scintillations as the septet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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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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die Nepos, seu tu turba stipatus Amorum
laetus Adoneis lusibus insereris,
seu grege Pieridum gaudes seu
Palladis
arte,
omnis caelicolum te chorus excipiet;
si libeat thyrsum grauidis aptare corymbis
et uelare comam palmite, Liber eris:
pascere si crinem et lauro redimire manuque
arcum cum pharetra sumere, Phoebus eris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Bent's
surprise
she and the baby were brought over to
the house almost before she knew where she was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[10]
Of flocks upon the
neighbouring
hill [11]
He is the darling and the joy;
And often, when no cause appears, 40
The mountain-ponies prick their ears,
--They hear the Danish Boy,
While in the dell he sings [12] alone
Beside the tree and corner-stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The pow'r of Music all our hearts allow,
And what
Timotheus
was, is DRYDEN now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I
[Illustration]
I was an
Inkstand
new,
Papa he likes to use it;
He keeps it in his pocket now,
For fear that he should lose it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Piety, twin sister dear
Of
Justice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Oh, I will find some artist
wondrous
wise
Shall mould for me thy shape, thine hair, thine eyes,
And lay it in thy bed; and I will lie
Close, and reach out mine arms to thee, and cry
Thy name into the night, and wait and hear
My own heart breathe: "Thy love, thy love is near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
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POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
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MACMILLAN
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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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not for wild beasts to roam
But many stood silent & busied in their
families
And many said We see no Visions in the darksom air
Measure the course of that sulphur orb that lights the dismal darksom day
Set stations on this breeding Earth & let us buy & sell
Others arose & schools Erected forming Instruments
To measure out the course of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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And make him with fair Aegles break his faith,
With Ariadne and
Antiopa?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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to some other place
The
hardness
of thy coward eye,
The falsehood of thy sallow face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
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effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
All the past we leave behind;
We debouch upon a newer,
mightier
world, varied world;
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labour and the march,
Pioneers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Tell me where
Was
Menelaus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Our text is that of the editio princeps, Pisa,
1821,
modified
by Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
'Tis thus the world's keenness hath torn, _5
Some mild heart that expands to its blast,
'Tis thus that the
wretched
forlorn,
Sinks poor and neglected at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow
followed
free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The
Claudian
triumphs all were won within the city towers;
The Claudian yoke was never pressed on any necks but ours.
| 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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Planh for From this faint world, now full of
bitterness
EnJlisT* Love takes his wa^ and holds his J oy deceitful>
King
Sith no thing is but turneth unto anguish
And each to-day Vails less than yestere'en,
Let each man visage this young English King That was most valiant mid all worthiest men !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
LIII
As yet, upon the bloom of spring, the maid
Was a fresh flower that scarce began to blow:
Her sire with many
children
was o'erlaid,
And was to poverty a mortal foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
If you want to see
generations
in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Call unto his funeral dole
The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole
To rear him
hillocks
that shall keep him warm
And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm;
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
The poet
understood
Liszt and his reforms as he understood
Wagner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,
Personates
thee; and thy lopp'd branches point
Thy two sons forth, who, by Belarius stol'n,
For many years thought dead, are now reviv'd,
To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue
Promises Britain peace and plenty.
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In torment dire to sleep he lay;
Then, as a tempest echoing rolls,
Another genius whirled away,
Another
sovereign
of our souls.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE OPTIMIST
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,
Here I find air and quiet too;
Air
filtered
through the beech and oak,
Quiet by nothing harsher broke
Than wood-dove's meditative coo.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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" In
Milton's day the questioning all centred in the doctrine of the "Fall of
Man," and
questions
of God's Justice were associated with debate on fate,
fore-knowledge, and free will.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Meanwhile
what are our heroes doing?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Age calls me hence, and my gray hairs bid come,
And haste away to mine eternal home;
'Twill not be long, Perilla, after this,
That I must give thee the
supremest
kiss:--
Dead when I am, first cast in salt, and bring
Part of the cream from that religious spring,
With which, Perilla, wash my hands and feet;
That done, then wind me in that very sheet
Which wrapt thy smooth limbs, when thou didst implore
The Gods' protection, but the night before;
Follow me weeping to my turf, and there
Let fall a primrose, and with it a tear:
Then lastly, let some weekly strewings be
Devoted to the memory of me;
Then shall my ghost not walk about, but keep
Still in the cool and silent shades of sleep.
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Robert Herrick |
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208_; a
borrower
from Boccaccio, _iv.
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Byron |
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Pain turned to
pleasure
at his call,
Health lived and issued from his voice.
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John Clare |
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Rich was the son in brass, and rich in gold;
Not bless'd by nature with the charms of face,
But swift of foot, and
matchless
in the race.
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Iliad - Pope |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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Ronsard |
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The cows continue to browse them thus for twenty years or more,
keeping them down and
compelling
them to spread, until at last they
are so broad that they become their own fence, when some interior
shoot, which their foes cannot reach, darts upward with joy: for it
has not forgotten its high calling, and bears its own peculiar fruit
in triumph.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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