Oh, there are words and looks _30
To bend the
sternest
purpose!
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Shelley |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
a ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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quid datur a diuis felici
optatius
hora?
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Latin - Catullus |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Even as you list invite your many guests;
But if, as now it seems, your vision rests
With any
pleasure
on me, do not bid
Old Apollonius--from him keep me hid.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is
scarcely
necessary to say
that every day we met, Chvabrine and I.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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III
_Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness;
As if he doubted whether he could bless
Her wayward spirit, through each fickle hour,
With love's serenity of
flawless
power,
Or she remain a vision, as when first
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ever gay with smiles,
Meet prelude to the
harmonies
of night;
As birds beneath the wing enfold their head,
Nestled in prayer the infant seeks its bed.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It is the
greatest
part of
his liberality, his favour; and from whom doth he hear discipline more
willingly, or the arts discoursed more gladly, than from those whom his
own bounty and benefits have made able and faithful?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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: _maximum_ Guarino tribuitur
|| _horis_ Ven, non R: _in auris_ Weber
44 _Thiae_ Voss, Bentley:
_Phitie_
(_Phyt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the budding chestnuts
Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open
The
starlings
make their clitter-clatter;
And the blackbirds in the grass
Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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Imagists |
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LONDON,
December
22, 1864.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The Cloud
descended
and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn
sprinkles
it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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More I will not say; and dark,
I know, my words are, but thy
neighbours
soon
Shall help thee to a comment on the text.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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:_
Audientium me in gemitu esse nemo
consolatur
me.
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John Donne |
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THEY carried ladders for the escalade,
And each was furnished with a tempered blade;
No other thing
embarrassing
they'd got;
No drums; but all was silent as the grot.
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La Fontaine |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The "deflected" tones are
distinctly
more emphatic, and so have a faint
analogy to our stressed syllables.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yet he is more than huge and strong--
Twelve
brilliant
colors play along
His sides until, compared to him,
The naked, burning sun seems dim.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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As
Proserpine
still weeps for her Sicilian air.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Therefore we gladly confess to singling a special immortal
And our
devotions
each day pledging but solely to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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What must they feel whom no false vision
But truest,
tenderest
Passion warmed?
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Byron |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be
satisfactorily
rendered into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Where is this
mankinde
now?
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John Donne |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay delightful guise
And
friendly
brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then Eno [Ono] a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven
thousand
years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into Infinitude & ornamented it with wondrous art
{This is where Erdman puts these 2 lines, which appear diagonally on the page in the upper-left corner, near the exta-marginal block of text which is inserted after line 7.
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Blake - Zoas |
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sole
daughter
of my house and heart?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So spake the
sovereign
lord, and from his lips
Sweetly the accents flowed.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Joined with extreme
contempt!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_)
Regret that
dropping
sun's dusk;
Love this cold stream's clearness.
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Li Po |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
(pauses--turns over some leaves, and resumes)
"No
lingering
winters there, nor snow, nor shower--
"But Ocean ever to refresh mankind
"Breathes the shrill spirit of the western wind.
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Poe - 5 |
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I would be heartily out of humour with myself
if I thought I were capable of having so poor a notion of the sex,
which were designed to crown the
pleasures
of society.
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Robert Burns |
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_ Of a
Hounsditch
man, sir, one of the devil's
near kinsmen, a broker.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ther' 's times when I'm
unsoshle
ez a stone,
An' sort o' suffercate to be alone,--
I'm crowded jes' to think thet folks are nigh,
An' can't bear nothin' closer than the sky;
Now the wind's full ez shifty in the mind
Ez wut it is ou'-doors, ef I ain't blind,
An' sometimes, in the fairest sou'west weather, 120
My innard vane pints east for weeks together,
My natur' gits all goose-flesh, an' my sins
Come drizzlin' on my conscience sharp ez pins:
Wal, et sech times I jes' slip out o' sight
An' take it out in a fair stan'-up fight
With the one cuss I can't lay on the shelf,
The crook'dest stick in all the heap,--Myself.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He thus relates it, in a letter to his friend,
Neri Morandi:--"I have a great volume of the
epistles
of Cicero, which I
have taken the pains to transcribe myself, for the copyists understand
nothing.
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Petrarch |
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The
moonlight
bay was white all o'er,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
Like as of torches came.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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and
straightway
put an end
To what men undergo.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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His Le
Drageoir
aux Epices is a
continuation of Petits Poemes en Prose.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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_Farewell and
Defiance
to Love_
Love and thy vain employs, away
From this too oft deluded breast!
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
(Seven days to the week I allow),
But a Snark, on the which we might
lovingly
gaze,
We have never beheld till now!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"
His lips he writhes, his eyes far round he throws,
And, from his breast, deep hollow groans arose,
Sternly askance he stood: with wounded pride
And anguish torn, "In me, behold," he cried,
While dark-red
sparkles
from his eyeballs roll'd,
"In me the Spirit of the Cape behold,
That rock, by you the Cape of Tempests nam'd, }
By Neptune's rage, in horrid earthquakes fram'd, }
When Jove's red bolts o'er Titan's offspring flam'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe,
And a
scornful
laugh laughed he.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Never the treasures in her nest
The
cautious
grave exposes,
Building where schoolboy dare not look
And sportsman is not bold.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O the
bleeding
drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XX
"I am in love," her
whispers
tell
The aged woman in her woe:
"My heart's delight, thou art not well.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_November_
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon;
And, if the sun looks through, tis with a face
Beamless and pale and round, as if the moon,
When done the journey of her nightly race,
Had found him sleeping, and
supplied
his place.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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`Nay' (so, dear Heart, thou
whisperest
in my soul),
`'Tis a half time, yet Time will make it whole.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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With both beauty of detail and
problematic interest, the short stories show an incoherence of treatment
and a lack of dramatic co-ordination easily
conceivable
in a poet who is
essentially lyrical and who at that time had not mastered the means of
technique to give to his characters the clear chiselling of the epic
form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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At midnight, at cockcrow, at morning, one certain day
Lo, the
Bridegroom
shall come and shall not delay:
Watch thou and pray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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But whilst the thing we long for
Is lacking, that seems good above all else;
Thereafter, when we've touched it,
something
else
We long for; ever one equal thirst of life
Grips us agape.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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as silver cleene,
His tombling billowes roll with gentle rore: 35
There all my dayes he traind me up in
vertuous
lore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense
to the user, provide a copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means
of obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain
Vanilla ASCII" or other form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
What of earls with whom you have supt,
And of dukes that you dined with
yestreen?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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What few
perceive
he thence to me reveals;
So read I clearly in her eyes' dear light
Whate'er of love I speak, whate'er I write.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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They subsist
entirely
on vegetables,
excepting when they eat veal or mutton or pork or beef or fish or
saltpetre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it
Since what is kept must be
adulterated?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He now took a more
idealized
image of the same subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The
furrowed
field, the ploughman grim, The sons of God that work His will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons
earthbound
lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very countenance of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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All round the level rim thereof
Perseus, on winged feet, above
The long seas hied him;
The Gorgon's wild and
bleeding
hair
He lifted; and a herald fair,
He of the wilds, whom Maia bare,
God's Hermes, flew beside him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's
citizens
be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared destruction!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Douglas yesterday, fully
resolved
to take the
opportunity of Captain Smith: but I found the Doctor with a Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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:
_unguinis_
Bentley || _non uestris esse tuum
me_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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If haply thou, O
Desdemona
Morn,
Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain,
Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me not in scorn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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As well against the shield his levelled spear
Rogero guides, and that good buckler -- though
Well steeled within and out, with bone between,
And nigh a palm in thickness -- pierces clean;
CXVII
And -- but his lance resists not that fierce shock,
And at the first assault its splinters fly,
And bits and fragments of the shivered stock
Seem fledged with feathers they ascend so high;
Were his arms hewn from
adamantine
rock,
The spear would pierce the paynim's panoply;
And end that battle: but it breaks withal,
And on their croups both staggering coursers fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting anything in its bite
Unless your
princely
lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I call to the world to
distrust
the accounts of my friends, but
listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot
expound myself,
I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
| 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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Re-enter
GUARDSMAN
and CLOWN, with a basket
GUARDSMAN.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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OSWALD Last night
When I
returned
with water from the brook,
I overheard the Villains--every word
Like red-hot iron burnt into my heart.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
| Guess: |
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"I am a sinful man, although you see
I wear the consecrated cowl and cape;
You never owned an ass, but you owned me,
Changed and
transformed
from my own natural shape
All for the deadly sin of gluttony,
From which I could not otherwise escape,
Than by this penance, dieting on grass,
And being worked and beaten as an ass.
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An' wha on Ayr your
chanters
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Lord Aeneas and his chosen
warriors
draw
hither and refresh their weary horses and limbs.
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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But now farewell to each and all--adieu
To every charm, and last and chief to you, [36]
Ye lovely maidens that in
noontide
shade
Rest near your little plots of wheaten glade; [37] 130
To all that binds [38] the soul in powerless trance,
Lip-dewing song, and ringlet-tossing dance;
Where sparkling eyes and breaking smiles illume
The sylvan cabin's lute-enlivened gloom.
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_Roscius
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Tomorrow
your Dictator
Shall bring in triumph home
The spoils of thirty cities
To deck the shrines of Rome!
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"The first that died was little Jane;
"In bed she moaning lay,
"Till God
released
her of her pain,
"And then she went away.
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The ridiculous
misunderstanding
on both sides grows more confused every minute.
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Twice seven consenting years have shed
Their utmost bounty on thy head:
And these grey rocks, this
household
lawn,
These trees--a veil just half withdrawn,
This fall of water that doth make
A murmur near the silent lake,
This little bay, a quiet road
That holds in shelter thy abode;
In truth together ye do seem
Like something fashion'd in a dream;
Such forms as from their covert peep
When earthly cares are laid asleep!
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You must never think
I'm like the heartless men you wait on here,
Whose love is all a hunger that cares naught
How hatefully endured its feasting must be
By her who fills it, so it be well
glutted!
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As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till
barbarous
power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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We could get no further into the AEneid than
-- atque altae moenia Romae,
-- and the wall of high Rome,
before we were constrained to reflect by what myriad tests a work of
genius has to be tried; that Virgil, away in Rome, two
thousand
years
off, should have to unfold his meaning, the inspiration of Italian
vales, to the pilgrim on New England hills.
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