' -- `For that thou
sholdest
never spede.
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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An hundred years they wander here
flitting
about
the shore; then at last they gain entrance, and revisit the pools so
sorely desired.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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No
sooner were the
Fourteenth
across the Alps than the most mutinous
spirits started off to march for Vienne, but they were stopped by the
unanimous interference of the better men, and the legion was shipped
across to Britain.
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Tacitus |
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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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XXXIX
"Thus every one, except his consort ill,
Argaeus many miles away suppose:
She, when 'tis time her errand to fulfil,
Hatching
new mischief, to my brother goes.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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The immediate cause of the
downfall of this
execrable
government was said to have been an
attempt made by Appius Claudius upon the chastity of a beautiful
young girl of humble birth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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/ London:/ Printed and
Published
by R.
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Byron |
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[Sidenote F:
Blessing
himself, he says, "Cross of Christ, speed me!
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Camoens knew how others had painted the
flowery bowers of love; these formed his taste, and
corrected
his
judgment.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Watch
patiently
till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from
time to time.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In the sun,
Upon the second step of that small pile,
Surrounded by those wild unpeopled hills,
He sat, and ate [1] his food in solitude: 15
And ever, scattered from his palsied hand,
That, still attempting to prevent the waste,
Was baffled still, the crumbs in little showers
Fell on the ground; and the small mountain birds,
Not
venturing
yet to peck their destined meal, 20
Approached within the length of half his staff.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a
Periodical
so courageous, gracious and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As Ruskin
wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty
of execution can
outweigh
one grain or fragment of thought.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
Page 60
the
besshope
And ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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One wing was feathered with facts of the
uttermost
Past,
And one with the dreams of a prophet; and both sailed fast
And met where the sorrowful Soul on the earth was cast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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455
These ladies eek that at this feste been,
Sin that he saw his lady was a-weye,
It was his sorwe upon hem for to seen,
Or for to here on
instrumentz
so pleye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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" Two years ago the
alphabet
determined the
arrangement; this time seniority has been the sole arbiter of
precedence.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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(54)
Perhaps, with added
sacrifice
and prayer,
The priest may pardon, and the god may spare.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Wilde - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the
innocent
lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all contagious taints.
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blake-poems |
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He used those poets as his master Virgil used his Greek predecessors,
and what the elder Seneca said of Ovid, who had appropriated a line from
Virgil, might exactly be applied to Tennyson: "Fecisse quod in multis
aliis versibus Virgilius fecerat, non
surripiendi
causa sed palam
imitandi, hoc animo ut vellet agnosci".
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Tennyson |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nay, though the heath-rover, harried by dogs,
the horn-proud hart, this holt should seek,
long
distance
driven, his dear life first
on the brink he yields ere he brave the plunge
to hide his head: 'tis no happy place!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the
cockerel
so tardily calls the day,
When night to the troubled soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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Wottest thou how much he
ventures
of sacrilege-sin?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The other, as his eyes drank in the
plundered
record of his
fierce grief, kindles to fury, and cries terrible in anger: 'Mayest
thou, thou clad in the spoils of my dearest, escape mine hands?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Shame to this age, and all that shall
succeed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Day the stately,
Sunken lately
Into the violet sea,
Backward
hovers
Over lovers,
Over thee, Marie, and me,
Over me and thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It was not
chastity
that made me wild but fear
that my weapon, tempered in different heat,
was over-matched by yours, and your hand
skilled to yield death-blows, might break.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Moult est fos haus homs qui est
chiches!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In vain
Thalestris
with reproach assails,
For who can move when fair Belinda fails?
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Alexander Pope |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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QUANTUM ILLIS LEPORIS, DULCEDINIS,
AMARITUDINIS
AMORIS!
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Robert Herrick |
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Now, to one like me, who never cares for
speaking
anything else but
nonsense, such a friend as you is an invaluable treasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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The minstrel who sang on that day might possibly
have lived to read the first
hexameters
of Ennius, and to see the
first comedies of Plautus.
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XV
A LITTLE BIRD IN THE AIR
A little bird in the air
Is singing of Thyri the fair,
The sister of Svend the Dane;
And the song of the
garrulous
bird
In the streets of the town is heard,
And repeated again and again.
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Longfellow |
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In fact, the question hardly
deserves
to be raised.
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Alexander Pope |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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_ Go thou, depart;
preserve
the present mind.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In the
beginning
the earth was perhaps made to fulfil the
desire of man, but now it has got old and fallen into decay.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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Every spirit,
Whose song bewails his
gluttony
indulg'd
Too grossly, here in hunger and in thirst
Is purified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a descended Pleiad, will not one
Of thine
harmonious
sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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bonnified
by beard full-fed,
And teeth with Spanish urine polished.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Perchance
she is hunting of the deer,
How could you follow o'er hill and mere?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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quis huic deo
Conpararier
ausit?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your
countenance
fill'd up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Such
keenness
from the living ray I met,
That, if mine eyes had turn'd away, methinks,
I had been lost; but, so embolden'd, on
I pass'd, as I remember, till my view
Hover'd the brink of dread infinitude.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue
disorder
of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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When she made pause I knew not for delight;
Because with sudden motion from the ground
She raised her
piercing
orbs, and fill'd with light
The interval of sound.
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Tennyson |
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Keats |
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For you must know we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,
And given his
deputation
all the organs
Of our own power.
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Shakespeare |
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The
interval
is really 425 years.
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Tacitus |
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Whom his ain son of life bereft,
The grey-hairs yet stack to the heft;
Wi' mair of
horrible
and awfu',
Which even to name wad be unlawfu'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
When coals to Newcastle are carried,
And owls sent to Athens, as wonders,
From his spouse when the Regent's unmarried,
Or
Liverpool
weeps o'er his blunders;
When Tories and Whigs cease to quarrel,
When Castlereagh's wife has an heir,
Then Rogers shall ask us for laurel,
And thou shalt have plenty to spare.
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this
agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I knew his perils from of old,
I know them now, when I behold
The bitter faring of my King,
Whose love is taken, and his life
Left
evermore
an empty thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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How condescending to descend,
And be of
buttercups
the friend
In a New England town!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ei hym 1968
honorable
{and} reuerent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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What pass'd at Aulis, Greece can witness bear,(89)
And all who live to breathe this
Phrygian
air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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But since fact teaches this is not the case,
'Tis thine to know things are not mixed with things
Thuswise; but seeds, common to many things,
Commixed
in many ways, must lurk in things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Now lady, from the fyr thou us defende 95
Which that in helle
eternally
shal dure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a
particularly
remarkable series of the year 1917.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
"Good
gracious!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your
forgiveness
I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you "--here I opened wide the door;----
Darkness there and nothing more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Askers embody
themselves
in me and I am embodied in them,
I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I brondeous[99] wulde hem slee[100];
Tare owte theyre sable harte bie
ryghtefulle
breme[101];
Theyre deathe a meanes untoe mie lyfe shulde bee, 70
Mie spryte shulde revelle yn theyr harte-blodde streme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"
The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
| 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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"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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Endymion
feels it, and no more controls
The burning prayer within him; so, bent low,
He had begun a plaining of his woe.
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Keats |
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To conclude the notes on this book, it may not be unnecessary to observe
that Camoens, in this episode, has happily adhered to a
principal
rule
of the Epopea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yon sun is naked, bare of satellite,
Unless our earth and moon that office hold;
Though his perpetual day feareth no night,
And his
perennial
summer dreads no cold.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
He said; the monarch issued his commands;
Straight
the loud heralds call the gathering bands
The chiefs inclose their king; the hosts divide,
In tribes and nations rank'd on either side.
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Iliad - Pope |
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By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir,
Though yet their tongues were still.
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb magnificence of love,--
The
loneliness
that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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Sappho |
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At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my
powerful
controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
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I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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Blake - Zoas |
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More
tolerable
are the lion-king's slaughters.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Must I battle with a
thousand
rivals,
To the earth's ends extend my labours,
Attack a camp alone, or rout an army,
Exceed the fame of heroes legendary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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we have turned against the mightiest of our young men
And in that denial we have taken on the Christ,
And the two thieves beside the Christ,
And the Magdalen at the feet of the Christ,
And the Judas with thirty silver pieces selling the Christ,--
And our twenty centuries in Europe have the shape of a Cross
On which we have hung in
disaster
and glory.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dost thou forget, sham Monarch of the Waves,
Thy
scalding
in the seas?
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Keats |
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"
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and
followed
faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never--nevermore.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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TO
MY DEAR AND MUCH
HONOURED
FRIEND, MRS.
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Robert Forst |
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