- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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To fisshen sinful men we go,
For other
fisshing
ne fisshe we.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Do you guess I have some
intricate
purpose?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So gazed I, till the soothing things, I dreamt,
Lulled me to sleep, and sleep
prolonged
my dreams!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Oh, the sweet life-tree that drops
Shade like light across the river
Glorified
in its for-ever
Flowing from the Throne!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hamilton
Reynolds, and issued as 'Peter Bell, a Lyrical
Ballad', with the sentence on its title page, "I do affirm that I am the
_real_ Simon Pure.
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William Wordsworth |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The pewit,
swopping
up and down
And screaming round the passer bye,
Or running oer the herbage brown
With copple crown uplifted high,
Loves in its clumps to make a home
Where danger seldom cares to come.
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John Clare |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
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Li Po |
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Reeds and some discarded garments all hastily cobbled together--
I helped to make it myself:
diligent
in my own grief.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
The princes laughed submissive to the king,
Laughed all the courtiers in their
glittering
ring,
And thence the laughter spread through all the town.
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Hugo - Poems |
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they sing with citherns and with cymbals,
And all the people fall upon their faces,
Praying and
worshipping!
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Longfellow |
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If I should fail, what
poverty!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Of mines I little know, myself,
But just the names of gems, --
The colors of the commonest;
And scarce of diadems
So much that, did I meet the queen,
Her glory I should know:
But this must be a
different
wealth,
To miss it beggars so.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My heart, for fear, gaed sough for sough,
To hear the thuds, and see the cluds,
O' clans frae woods, in tartan duds,
Wha glaum'd at
kingdoms
three, man.
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Robert Forst |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But through them all she passes on,
Strangely
martial, fair and wan;
Nor waits to listen to their cheers
That sound so faintly in her ears.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and
Departure
heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I will not be a thing excruciated
To please her passion, an anguish of
delight!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Then believe me, my sweetheart, do,
While time still flowers for you,
In its
freshest
novelty,
Cull, ah cull your youthful bloom:
As it blights this flower, the doom
Of age will blight your beauty.
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Ronsard |
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I think back to when the panic first began, what happened was
different
from all precedent.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The approach of evening or nightfall,
the coming of dawn, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of light
into darkness and of darkness into light, in short, the most silent yet
greatest
metamorphoses
in the external aspects of nature form the
contents of many of these first poems.
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Rilke - Poems |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To give away yourself, keeps
yourself
still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For on those lovely lips the while
Dawns the soft
relenting
smile,
And tempts with feigned dissuasion coy
The gentle violence of Joy.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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490
But yet at last, whenas the direfull feend
She saw not stirre, off-shaking vaine affright,
She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end:
Then God she praysd, and thankt her faithfull knight,
That had atchieved so great a
conquest
by his might.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The
feeblest
or the waywardest, --
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Rome, of cities first and best,
Deigns by her sons'
according
voice to hail me
Fellow-bard of poets blest,
And faint and fainter envy's growls assail me.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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a
shuddring
ran from East to West *
A Groan was heard on high.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Come, let us go while we are in our prime;
And take the
harmless
folly of the time.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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My friend, thou art good and
cautious
and wise; nay, thou art
perfect--and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--learn
prudence
of a friend!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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no, let us rather choose 60
Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once
O're Heav'ns high Towrs to force resistless way,
Turning our Tortures into horrid Arms
Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise
Of his
Almighty
Engin he shall hear
Infernal Thunder, and for Lightning see
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage
Among his Angels; and his Throne it self
Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire,
His own invented Torments.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among
I woo, to hear thy even-song;
And, missing thee, I walk unseen
On the dry smooth-shaven green,
To behold the
wandering
moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had been led astray
Through the heaven's wide pathless way,
And oft, as if her head she bow'd,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It has no future but itself,
Its
infinite
realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
While thus he spoke, with rage and grief he frown'd,
And dash'd the
imperial
sceptre to the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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]
I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took
From life's green tree his Uranian lute;
And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook
All human things built in contempt of man,--
And
sanguine
thrones and impious altars quaked, _5
Prisons and citadels.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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Rilke - Poems |
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fruitful
in caresses and treacheries.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Who looked could see a harrow's threatening teeth,
But lost in night was
everything
beneath.
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Hugo - Poems |
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de la) Life in Mexico, 664
Bates'
Naturalist
on the Amazons, 446
Beaumont and Fletcher's Select Plays, 506
Beaumont's (Mary) Joan Seaton, 597
Bede's Ecclesiastical History, etc.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sick is Anthea, sickly is the spring,
The primrose sick, and sickly everything;
The while my dear Anthea does but droop,
The tulips, lilies, daffodils do stoop:
But when again she's got her
healthful
hour,
Each bending then will rise a proper flower.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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e endeles
space of
eternite
what ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Wordsworth
tells us
that "the rest was added many years after," but when we know not; and
the poem was not published till 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Thus
strangers
may be hal'd and abus'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of War is Kind, by Stephen Crane
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR IS KIND ***
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Since imperial tax
revenues
from the lower Yangzi could no longer be sent up the Grand Canal to the Yellow River, the route up the Han River through Hanzhong was essential.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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the outpost of
advancing
day!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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They stand
hesitating
in the lonely road and their tears fall
like rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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launch we forth
A sable bark, our best, which let us man
With mariners expert, who, rowing forth 410
Swiftly, shall summon our
companions
home.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Could you guess what word she
uttered?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Weep from their eyes barons and chevaliers,
A
thousand
score, they swoon upon the earth;
Duke Neimes for them was moved with pity rare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Above the altar, to Saint Sevrin endowed,
Stands the olifant, with golden pieces bound;
All the
pilgrims
may see it, who thither crowd.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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She stays veiled and
unnoticing
in the background.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When lo, swift hands, on strings nigh over-head,
Began to melodize a waltz by Strauss:
It stirred me as I stood, in Caesar's house,
Raised the old routs
Imperial
lyres had led,
And blended pulsing life with lives long done,
Till Time seemed fiction, Past and Present one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
Then, heart a-flutter, speech precise,
Describes
the shoes and asks the price.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Mix not
yourself
with any plot I pray you;
Nay, if by chance you hear of any such,
Speak not thereof--no, not to your best friend,
Lest you should be confounded with it.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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All Voices
Lord of the Universe, Lord of our being,
Father eternal,
ineffable
Om!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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a mortal, like thyself, am I;
No glorious native of yon azure sky:
In form, ah how unlike their
heavenly
kind!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Grateful
we bow thy gloomy tow'rs before;
For the old King of France[1] hath found in thee
That melancholy hospitality
Which in their royal fortune's evil day,
Stuarts and Bourbons to each other pay.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Many a languid head, upraised as
Evangeline
entered,
Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence
Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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THE MIRRHE, the Arabian myrtle, which exudes a bitter but
fragrant
gum.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
,
_possessions
in gold, treasure_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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fired thy brain,
Nor lordly luxury, nor City gain:
No, 'twas thy
righteous
end, ashamed to see
Senates degen'rate, patriots disagree,
And, nobly wishing party-rage to cease,
To buy both sides, and give thy country peace.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
'
And I saw long ships, with their
smokestacks
leaning
In the white scud and the white foam and the smoky swift spray!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
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digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
_See note_]
[20 time] times _JC_, _O'F_]
[21 have that age] that age were _A18_, _N_, _TC_]
[25-26
Difference
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And, to the law of All each member consecrating,
Bids one
majestic
harmony resound?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Dobson devoted themselves to
the most
condensed
of lyric poems, and when Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
CLYTEMNESTRA
Ye hold me as a woman, weak of will,
And strive to sway me: but my heart is stout,
Nor fears to speak its
uttermost
to you,
Albeit ye know its message.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
First, the fair reverence of your
Highness
curbs me
From giving reins and spurs to my free speech;
Which else would post until it had return'd
These terms of treason doubled down his throat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
In Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, Arthur is taken from his mother, Ygerne,
at birth, and
committed
to the care of Sir Ector as his foster-father, i,
3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him, docile as a boy,
Along
appointed
sands.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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No
falchion
from his baldric swung,
He wore a white rose in its place.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Why should the strong--
"The
beautiful
strong--
"Why should they not have the flowers?
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Stephen Crane |
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MARRALL: This only, in a word: I know Sir Giles
Will come upon you for security
For his
thousand
pounds; which you must not consent to.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For the eldest of these, by unmeet chance,
by kinsman's deed, was the death-bed strewn,
when
Haethcyn
killed him with horny bow,
his own dear liege laid low with an arrow,
missed the mark and his mate shot down,
one brother the other, with bloody shaft.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But on some lucky day (as when they found
A lost bank-bill, or heard their son was drowned)
At such a feast, old vinegar to spare,
Is what two souls so generous cannot bear:
Oil, though it stink, they drop by drop impart,
But souse the cabbage with a
bounteous
heart.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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blake-poems |
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Is this how the presumptuous subject
Shows his consideration, and
respect?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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If I am exiled, must I be
bereaved?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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then in his grave lie down,
Be his in death, desert him
nevermore!
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Aeschylus |
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