property
forfeited to the lord of a fief.
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There are those who
have taken the play for a criticism of
contemporary
politics or the
current law of inheritance.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Tottering above
In her highest noon
The enamoured moon
Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in Heaven
And they say (the starry choir
And all the
listening
things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings--
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had delighted their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the
immortal
productions of Greece.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Phlaccus, and
Professor
and Mrs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Said he--"Wake me by no gesture,--sound of breath, or stir of
vesture!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"How sweet is mortal
Sovranty!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Whitman |
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The crowd go now to see him, in a
headlong
rush,
I went out, at your command, to find Hippolytus,
When a thousand cries split the heavens.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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blake-poems |
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The cold sea north,
southwards
the burying sand
Dispute o'er Egypt--while the smiling land
Still mockingly their empire does refuse.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Woe doth the heavier sit
Where it
perceives
it is but faintly home.
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Shakespeare |
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_The Men of the House of Colonna_, _The Czars_, _Charles XII Riding
Through the Ukraine_ are
portrayed
each with his individual historical
gesture, with a luminosity as strong as the colour and movement which
they gave to their time.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Oh strange how the ground with never a sound
Swings open, tier on tier,
And
standing
there in the shining air
Are the friends he cherished here.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Oh, why didst hinder me to cast
This body to the dust and die
With her, the
faithful
and the brave?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And the power of a
seductive
lover
Stifle with craven silence all my honour!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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HERDAL: That your wife isn't
particularly
fond
of this Miss Fosli.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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One time we pour out
millions
to be free,
Then rashly sweep an empire from the sea!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
This passion lifted him upon his feet,
And made his hands to
struggle
in the air,
His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat,
His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.
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Keats |
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] Dunmaya dressed by
preference
in black and yellow, and
looked well.
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Kipling - Poems |
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e
gou{er}nau{n}ce
of comune ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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595
Phaedra
If you hated me, I would not
complain
of it,
My Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Yet since this bittersweet ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault, rejecting the allure,
It will bring peace to your
troubled
mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"The' old mastiff of
Verruchio
and the young,
That tore Montagna in their wrath, still make,
Where they are wont, an augre of their fangs.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Some of his pictures
show a mastery which has rarely been equalled over the difficulties of
painting an immense plain as seen from a height,
reaching
straight away
from the eye of the spectator until it is lost in a dim horizon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_sa-bar; sa-sud-da_,
liturgical
note, 182, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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how can one
deliberately
renounce
this coloured, unquiet, fiery human life of
the earth?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Forthwith
up rose the Consul,
Up rose the Fathers all;
In haste they girded up their gowns,
And hied them to the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thrusting
to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,
A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; 180
Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined,
Fruitful and friendly for all human kind,
Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars.
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James Russell Lowell |
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just
exchange
one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
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Golden Treasury |
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To think of time--of all that
retrospection!
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Whitman |
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For sons, for heirs, for brothers wreak
Who in Rencesvals were
slaughtered
yester-eve!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Like Jove's locks awry,
Long muscadines
Rich-wreathe the spacious foreheads of great pines,
And breathe
ambrosial
passion from their vines.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now even had his authorities been
well informed, which they were not by any means, and had Chatterton
never misread or misunderstood them, which he very frequently did, it
was
impossible
that his work should have been anything better than
a mosaic of curious old words of every period and any dialect.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Further, our eye-balls tend to flee the bright
And shun to gaze thereon; the sun even blinds,
If thou goest on to strain them unto him,
Because his strength is mighty, and the films
Heavily downward from on high are borne
Through the pure ether and the
viewless
winds,
And strike the eyes, disordering their joints.
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Lucretius |
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Him no false distant lights by Fortune set
Could ever into foolish
wanderings
get.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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10
Oh now againe I well could wishe thee there,
About hir Hart, about hir anywhere;
I would vowe (Dearest flea) thou
shouldst
not dye,
If thou couldst sucke from hir hir crueltye.
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John Donne |
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Come then, brethren, let us sing,
From the dawn till
evening!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
Faces
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that
was but a single
countenance
as if held in a mould.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In _The Book of Hours_, Rilke withdraws from the world not from
weariness but weighed down under the
manifold
conflicting visions.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Hic me gravido frigida et frequens tussis
Quassavit usque dum in tuum sinum fugi
Et me
recuravi
otioque et urtica.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To full satiety of grief she mourns,
Then silent to the joyous hall returns,
To the proud suitors bears in pensive state
The
unbended
bow, and arrows winged with fate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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St Gudula was a Brabant saint (late 7th-early 8th century),
patroness
of Brussels.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
Sepulchral slobber of mud and rubies
Some abominable statue of Anubis,
The muzzle lit like a
ferocious
snout
Or as when a dubious wick twists in the new gas,
Wiping out, as we know, the insults suffered
Haggardly lighting an immortal pubis,
Whose flight roosts according to the lamp
What votive leaves, dried in cities without evening
Could bless, as she can, vainly sitting
Against the marble of Baudelaire
Shudderingly absent from the veil that clothes her
She, his Shade, a protective poisonous air
Always to be breathed, although we die of her.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LXII
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your
victuals
fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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An herald also waited on the Chief,
Somewhat
his Senior; him I next describe.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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org
Title: The Queen Of Spades
1901
Author:
Alexander
Sergeievitch Poushkin
Translator: H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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One to another calling,
Each
answering
each,
One to another calling
In their proper speech: 10
High above my head they wheeled,
Far out of reach.
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Christina Rossetti |
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How, Malet, if they be not
honourable!
| Guess: |
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Tennyson |
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Lord grant that thou may aye inherit
Thy mither's person, grace, an' merit,
An' thy poor,
worthless
daddy's spirit,
Without his failins,
'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it,
Than stockit mailens.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lucifer,
I charge thee by the
solitude
he kept
Ere he created,--leave the earth to God!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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No view nor care, but shun whate'er
Might breed me pain or sorrow, O:
I live to-day as well's I may,
Regardless
of to-morrow, O.
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Robert Forst |
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"
But while verses, deserving as these do to become the national motto,
and sentiments loyal and generous, were overlooked and forgotten, all
his rash words about freedom, and his sarcastic sallies about thrones
and kings, were
treasured
up to his injury, by the mean and the
malicious.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy,
And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head,
Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye,
And with
somewhat
of malice, and more of dread,
At Christabel she look'd askance!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Elle se repand dans ma vie
Comme un air
impregne
de sel,
Et dans mon ame inassouvie,
Verse le gout de l'eternel.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And
captains
that we thought were dead,
And dreamers that we thought were dumb,
And voices that we thought were fled,
Arise, and call us, and we come;
And "Search in thine own soul," they cry;
"For there, too, lurks thine enemy.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Six columns, three on either side,
Pure silver,
underpropt
[18] a rich
Throne of the [19] massive ore, from which
Down-droop'd, in many a floating fold,
Engarlanded and diaper'd
With inwrought flowers, a cloth of gold.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The fifth
_Satyre_
is referred by Grosart and Chambers to 1602-3 on
the ground that the phrase 'the great Carricks pepper' is a reference
to the expedition sent out by the East India Company under Captain
James Lancaster to procure pepper, the price of which commodity was
excessively high.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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DAMAGE.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Now thou sleep'st in pain,
Like as some dream thy soul did grieve:
God wounds thee, heals thee whole again,
And calls thee
trembling
to thine Eve.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And Susan she begins to fear
Of sad
mischances
not a few,
That Johnny may perhaps be drown'd,
Or lost perhaps, and never found;
Which they must both for ever rue.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
"
XXV
It
suddenly
came into Leo's mind
The knight of whom she parlayed was that same,
Whom throughout all the land he sought to find,
And seeking whom, he now in person came.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is
underlined
for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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This
quaintness
is, in fact, a very powerful adjunct to
ideality, but in the case in question it arises independently of the
author's will, and is altogether apart from his intention.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But I wonder
If, from its being kept forever under,
These
thoughts
may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Downward they drift, one by one, like dark petals,
Slowly,
listlessly
falling
Into the mouth of horror:
The nets.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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How
beautiful
thou art!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
AEGISTHUS
But that these should loose and lavish reckless
blossoms
of the tongue,
And in hazard of their fortune cast upon me words of wrong,
And forget the law of subjects, and revile their ruler's word--
CHORUS
Ruler?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But no relief from either fountain came
My bosom's
conflagration
to abate,
Nay, passion grew by very pity great.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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See how the temple's solid square of shade
Points north to Lesbos, and the
splendid
sea
That you have never seen, oh evening-eyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Will you kill the
courageous
giant?
| 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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Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wrack'd, I am a
worthless
boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this,--my love was my decay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ay, truly;
For look how from their
wondrous
bodies comes
Increase: who knoweth where such power ends?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Oh may he glean my lips
delights
unbidden,
--I gleaned them all since as a dream he rose--
The oleanders "mid the fragrance hidden
And others smiling as the jasmin blows.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Or who like thee persuade,
Making the splendor of the air,
The morn and
sparkling
dew, a snare?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
)
(So people far from the asphalt footing of Pennsylvania
Avenue look, wonder, mumble--the riding white-jaw
phantoms ride hi-eeee, hi-eeee, hi-yi, hi-yi, hi-eeee--
the proclamations of the honorable orators mix with the
top-sergeants
whistling
the roll call.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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That in thy joy art
shrouded!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or
ruining?
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And hounds of huntsmen oft in soft repose
Yet toss asudden all their legs about,
And growl and bark, and with their
nostrils
sniff
The winds again, again, as though indeed
They'd caught the scented foot-prints of wild beasts,
And, even when wakened, often they pursue
The phantom images of stags, as though
They did perceive them fleeing on before,
Until the illusion's shaken off and dogs
Come to themselves again.
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Eufeniens was his name;
Of
godenesse
was his fame
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The steel decks rock with the
lightning
shock, and shake with
the great recoil,
And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches
for his spoil--
But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs,
Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind
the guns!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The five acres of land that lay about the
house furnished Pope with inexhaustible
entertainment
for the rest of
his life.
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' to the throes, by which my mother,
Who now is sainted, lighten'd her of me
Whom she was heavy with, this fire had come,
Five hundred fifty times and thrice, its beams
To
reilumine
underneath the foot
Of its own lion.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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1695
Gan for to aproche, as they by signes knewe,
For whiche hem
thoughte
felen dethes wounde;
So wo was hem, that changen gan hir hewe,
And day they goonnen to dispyse al newe,
Calling it traytour, envyous, and worse, 1700
And bitterly the dayes light they curse.
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And yawned the pit
Expectant which should be
engulfed
in it.
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spirits, sylphs, there be,
And fays the wind blows often here;
The gnomes that squat the ceiling near,
In corners made by old books dim;
The long-backed dwarfs, those goblins grim
That seem at home 'mong vases rare,
And chat to them with friendly air--
Oh, how the joyous demon throng
Must all have laughed with laughter long
To see you on my rough drafts fall,
My bald hexameters, and all
The mournful, miserable band,
And drag them with relentless hand
From out their box, with true delight
To set them each and all a-light,
And then with
clapping
hands to lean
Above the stove and watch the scene,
How to the mass deformed there came
A soul that showed itself in flame!
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Why can I never tear away
The veils from the old
friendliness
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