scoop the soil, op'ning a trench
Ell-broad on ev'ry side; then pour around
Libation consecrate to all the dead,
First, milk with honey mixt, then
luscious
wine, 630
Then water, sprinkling, last, meal over all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Many a time they kiss and cry, and pray
That both be summoned in the self-same day,
And wiseman linnet
tinkling
in his cage
End too with them the friendship of old age,
And all together leave their treasured room
Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Finally down from its shelf he dragged the
ponderous
Roman,
Seated himself at the window, and opened the book, and in silence
Turned o'er the well-worn leaves, where thumb-marks thick on the margin,
Like the trample of feet, proclaimed the battle was hottest.
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Longfellow |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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If the
cathedral
still shall have its isles.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Instead of going out of the small door
behind the screen, however, he
concealed
himself in a closet to await
the return of the old Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And when the evening comes, 5
We sit there
together
in the dusk,
And watch the stars
Appear in the quiet blue.
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Sappho |
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Though, with bare stones o'erspread, the pastures all
Be choked with rushy mire, your ewes with young
By no strange fodder will be tried, nor hurt
Through taint contagious of a
neighbouring
flock.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Ahi quanto a dir qual era e cosa dura
esta selva
selvaggia
e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One day--oh, bitter
thought!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
The Beaver went simply
galumphing
about,
At seeing the Butcher so shy:
And even the Baker, though stupid and stout,
Made an effort to wink with one eye.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Ay, on this earthly sun, this charming vision,
Turn thy back
resolutely
now!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Or
cormorants
plunging one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As flavors cheer retarded guests
With banquetings to be,
So spices
stimulate
the time
Till my small library.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But when Aurora,
daughter
of the Dawn,
Look'd rosy from the East, yoking their steeds,
They in the sumptuous chariot sat again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It was his delight, for instance, to
remind a certain shoemaker, noted alike for display of wealth and for
personal uncleanness, of his
inconsiderable
origin in a song of which
but the first stanza has come down to us:
At the dirty end of Dirty Lane,
Liv'd a dirty cobbler, Dick Maclane;
His wife was in the old king's reign
A stout brave orange-woman.
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Yeats |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Harde as the iron were the menne of mighte, 205
Ne neede of slughornes to enrowse theyr minde;
Eche
shootynge
spere yreaden for the fyghte,
More feerce than fallynge rocks, more swefte than wynd;
With solemne step, by ecchoe made more dyre,
One single boddie all theie marchd, theyr eyen on fyre.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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That he had in youth the
feelings of a poet I believe-for there are glimpses of extreme delicacy
in his writings-(and delicacy is the poet's own kingdom-his _El
Dorado)-but they _have the appearance of a better day recollected; and
glimpses, at best, are little evidence of present poetic fire; we know
that a few straggling flowers spring up daily in the
crevices
of the
glacier.
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Poe - 5 |
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The Lord of Sweden hath by envoys tendered
Alliance
to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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No
fragments
merely
shall burn with the warrior.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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He sate his horse, the which he called Marmore,
Never so swift was any bird in course;
He's loosed the reins, and spurring on that horse
He's gone to strike Gerin with all his force;
The scarlat shield from's neck he's broken off,
And all his sark thereafter has he torn,
The ensign blue clean through his body's gone,
Until he flings him dead, on a high rock;
His
companion
Gerer he's slain also,
And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;
Next a rich duke he's gone to strike, Austore,
That held Valence and the Honour of the Rhone;
He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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What horrid booklet damnable
Unto thine own
Catullus
thou (perdie!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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No
quickening
element thou drinkest,
Till up from thine own soul the fountain breaks.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The newly recovered section of the epic contains two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with
subjects
for
seals.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The night-wind now, with sooty wings,
In the cotter's chimney sings;
Now, as stretching oer the bed,
Soft I raise my drowsy head,
Listening to the ushering charms,
That shake the elm tree's mossy arms:
Till sweet slumbers
stronger
creep,
Deeper darkness stealing round,
Then, as rocked, I sink to sleep,
Mid the wild wind's lulling sound.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"Desire from joy gains strength in
weightier
measure.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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blake-poems |
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Up the road somebody's daughter comes
Carrying
a basket, to gather silkworms' food.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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AT length our
traveller
approached the wall,
And, somehow to the foot contrived to crawl;
A roofed projection fortune led him near,
That joined a house, and 'gan his heart to cheer.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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--Not a
thousand
prayers can gain
A man's bare bread, save an he work amain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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LADY CLARENCE |
LADY
MAGDALEN
DACRES | _Ladies in Waiting to the Queen_.
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Tennyson |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We never know we go, -- when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate
following
behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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MARMADUKE The Crew
deceived
you?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Worthiest
man!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Is he a
gallant?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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How has my reason
strayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Transience ne'er can rob me of aught that
has been,
Languishing just as
erewhile
on the languish-
ing field,
I lie: from languid lips there sighs " how weary
Am I of all the flowers--the lovely flowers.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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98]
[Sidenote A: This marvel serves to keep up a brisk
conversation
in Court.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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No, no, old man,
You thought the best, and the worst came of it;
We
listened
to the counsel of the wise,
And so turned fools.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And 'tis well done too, by
Poseidon!
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The wedding hour was come, the aisles
Were flushed with sun and flowers that day;
I pacing
balanced
in my thoughts,--
"It's quite too late to think of nay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I did not doubt that the cause of my arrest was my
departure
from
Orenburg without leave.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Golden Treasury |
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His language has no word, we growl, for Home;
But he can find a
fireside
in the sun,
Play with his child, make love, and shriek his mind,
By throngs of strangers undisprivacied.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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At dawn, when ev'ry grassy blade
Droops with a diamond at his head,
At ev'n, when beans their
fragrance
shed,
I' th' rustling gale,
Ye maukins, whiddin thro' the glade,
Come join my wail.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Since that time he has been
steadily
on active
service.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I thought of the great storms of love as I
knew it,
Torn, miserable, and ashamed of my open
sorrow,
I thought of the
thunders
that lived in my
head,
And I wish to be an ogre,
And hale and haul my beloved to a castle,
And make her mourn with my mourning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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One almost fancies that such happy things,
With coloured hoods and richly
burnished
wings,
Are fairy folk, in splendid masquerade
Disguised, as if of mortal folk afraid,
Keeping their merry pranks a mystery still,
Lest glaring day should do their secrets ill.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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While the political conduct and
the deportment of the Claudian nobles drew upon them the fiercest
public hatred, they were accused of wanting, if any credit is due
to the early history of Rome, a class of qualities which, in a
military commonwealth, is sufficient to cover a
multitude
of
offences.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--the
artillery
massing on the right,
Hark!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Our fathers
fashioned
for us after all
Some useful things," said Joss; then Zeno spoke:
"I know what Corbus hides beneath its cloak,
I and the osprey know the castle old,
And what in bygone times the justice bold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
320
Then, (many a Trojan slaughter'd,) he regain'd
The camp, and much
intelligence
he bore
To the Achaians.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So shall your souls lie under me these hours;
As they were waters shall they be beneath
My burning, set alight with me, and none
Escape from utterly
understanding
me
And why I am so kindled in my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They brought a bier, and hung it with many a cypress crown,
And gently they
uplifted
her, and gently laid her down.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Besides, since colours cannot be, sans light,
And the
primordials
come not forth to light,
'Tis thine to know they are not clothed with colour--
Truly, what kind of colour could there be
In the viewless dark?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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He was clothed
entirely
in green, and rode upon a green foal (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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said the abbess: pretty scandal here,
When in the house of God such things appear;
Ashamed to death you ought to be, no doubt,
Who brought you
thither?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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_Grace Fallow Norton_
THE TOY BAND
(A SONG OF THE GREAT RETREAT)
Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town,
Lights out and never a glint o' moon:
Weary lay the stragglers, half a
thousand
down,
Sad sighed the weary big Dragoon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Under the
overhanging
yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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rǣd
eahtedon,
_consulted
about help_, 172; pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Why a Nostril wide inhaling terror trembling & affright
Why a tender curb upon the
youthful
burning boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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cum domitis nemo Cererem iactaret in aruis
uenturisque
malas prohiberet fructibus herbas,
annua sed saturae complerent horrea messes,
ipse suo flueret Bacchus pede mellaque lentis
penderent foliis et pingui Pallas oliuae,
secretos amnis ageret cum gratia ruris?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
All glory
twinkled
through some sweat of fight,
From each tall chimney of the roaring time
That shot his fire far up the sooty night
Mixt fuels -- Labor's Right and Labor's Crime --
Sent upward throb on throb of scarlet light
Till huge hot blushes in the heavens blent
With golden hues of Trade's high firmament.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
990
I will delight thee all my winding course,
From the green sea up to my hidden source
About Arcadian forests; and will shew
The channels where my coolest waters flow
Through mossy rocks; where, 'mid
exuberant
green,
I roam in pleasant darkness, more unseen
Than Saturn in his exile; where I brim
Round flowery islands, and take thence a skim
Of mealy sweets, which myriads of bees
Buzz from their honied wings: and thou shouldst please
Thyself to choose the richest, where we might 1001
Be incense-pillow'd every summer night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
1372 [A] Thenne
comaunded
?
| 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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SOLO:
Seht, da kommt der
Dudelsack!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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For, if you fight, you must
Behold your brothers' dust
Unpityingly
ground down
And mixed with blood and powder,
To write the annals of renown
That make a nation prouder!
| 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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To (poore) me is allow'd
No ease; for, long, yet
vehement
griefe hath beene
Th'effect and cause, the punishment and sinne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"
On which Violet, who was
perfectly
acquainted with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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He holds that, consenting or dissident,
Nations must move with the time;
Assumes that crime with a precedent
Doubles the guilt of the crime;
--Denies that a slaver's bond,
Or a treaty signed by knaves
(_Quorum magna pars_, and beyond
Was one of an honest name),
Gives an
inexpugnable
claim
To abolish men into slaves.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[This
remarkable
letter has been of late the subject of some
controversy: Mr.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from
flowerlet
unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Beloved
Freedom!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Und immer zirkuliert ein neues,
frisches
Blut.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself
universal
enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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1930
May no defence availe thee here;
Therfore
I rede mak no daungere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
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Imagists |
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Arbuthnot
warns him against the danger of making foes
(ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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Came forth, and finding
Kirkrapine
there slaine,
For anguish great they gan to rend their heare,
And beat their brests, and naked flesh to teare.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O
passionate
and pure!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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573
ffor
pilgrymes
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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