And, when the
winter comes on, we turn the bottles upside down, and
consequently
rarely
feel the cold at all; and you know very well that this could not be the
case with bottles of any other color than blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where
spontaneous
grace relights your brow,
Suffices, given so much wonder and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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When he came into the house I
perceived
he had some scraps of paper in
his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Joyful are the
thoughts
of home,
Now I'm ready for my chair,
So, till morrow-morning's come,
Bill and mittens, lie ye there!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So they kept us close till nigh on noon,
And then they rang the bell,
And the Warders with their
jingling
keys
Opened each listening cell,
And down the iron stair we tramped,
Each from his separate Hell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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ECLOGUE IV
POLLIO
Muses of Sicily, essay we now
A
somewhat
loftier task!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Yes; and in yon field below,
A thousand years of
silenced
factions sleep--
The Forum, where the immortal accents glow,
And still the eloquent air breathes--burns with Cicero!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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(she cried) what
plaintive
noise
Invades my ear?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Soon with an eagle
nativeness
their gaze
Ripe from hue-golden swoons took all the blaze,
And then, behold!
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Keats |
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To Erinna
Was Time not harsh to you, or was he kind,
O pale Erinna of the perfect lyre,
That he has left no word of singing fire
Whereby you waked the
dreaming
Lesbian wind,
And kindled night along the lyric shore?
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Peace is patched up; a
stately funeral is held; and the surviving visitors become in a way
vassals or
liegemen
of Finn, going back with him to Frisia.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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cetera mitte loqui: deus haec
fortasse
benigna
reducet in sedem uice.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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That external goods are not the proper
rewards, but often inconsistent with, or
destructive
of Virtue, v.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Diomed, after the fall of Troy, was expelled his own country, and scarce
escaped with his life from his
adulterous
wife ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I:
_induxti_
GORVen
XCII
Lesbia mi dicit semper male nec tacet umquam
de me: Lesbia me dispeream nisi amat.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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But when events
Brought less encouragement, and unto these 195
The
immediate
proof of principles no more
Could be entrusted, while the events themselves,
Worn out in greatness, stripped of novelty,
Less occupied the mind, and sentiments
Could through my understanding's natural growth 200
No longer keep their ground, by faith maintained
Of inward consciousness, and hope that laid
Her hand upon her object--evidence
Safer, of universal application, such
As could not be impeached, was sought elsewhere.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But soon as our
delightful
prime we both
Attain'd, to Samos her they sent, a bride,
And were requited with rich dow'r; but me
Cloath'd handsomely with tunic and with vest,
And with fair sandals furnish'd, to the field
She order'd forth, yet loved me still the more.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[395] a band
Of the Mussulman bravest and best is at hand; 820
Their leader's nervous arm is bare,
Swifter to smite, and never to spare--
Unclothed
to the shoulder it waves them on;
Thus in the fight is he ever known:
Others a gaudier garb may show,
To tempt the spoil of the greedy foe;
Many a hand's on a richer hilt,
But none on a steel more ruddily gilt;
Many a loftier turban may wear,--
Alp is but known by the white arm bare; 830
Look through the thick of the fight,'tis there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'Neath my moon what doest thou,
With a
somewhat
paler brow
Than she giveth to the ocean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We were
enchanted
with the fields,
the tufts of coarse grass
in the shorter grass--
we loved all this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
_
Then when nature around me is smiling,
The last smile which answers to mine,
I do not believe it beguiling,
Because it reminds me of shine;
And when winds are at war with the ocean,
As the breasts I
believed
in with me,
If their billows excite an emotion,
It is that they bear me from _thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_
Glory and honor and fame and
everlasting
laudation
For our captains who loved not war, but fought for
the life of the nation;
Who knew that, in all the land, one slave meant strife, not
peace;
Who fought for freedom, not glory; made war that war might
cease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Farewell
those forms that in thy noon-tide shade,
Rest, near their little plots of wheaten glade; 1820.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
How
honourable
and how kindly we
Determine for her; for Caesar cannot learn
To be ungentle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
There is a period in the life of every artist when his whole being seems
lost in a
contemplation
of the surrounding world, when the application
to work is difficult, like the violent forcing of something that is
awaiting its time.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
They
gathered
the flowers
Each to himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope
Still
believes
in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
: ne
seah ic
elþēodige
þus manige men mōdiglīcran, 336.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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They 're here, though; not a
creature
failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me,
The Queen of Calvary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
For shame it is to seye,
For thee have I bigonne a gamen pleye 250
Which that I never doon shal eft for other,
Al-though he were a
thousand
fold my brother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Out in the evening roam,
Out from thy room thou know'st in every part,
And far in the dim
distance
leave thy home,
Whosoever thou art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what happened to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve
companions
to visit the seven regions of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The chasm beneath me--ten
thousand
feet;
The ground I stood on, only a foot wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Just then the waterman
descried
them from the Stygian wave advancing
through the silent woodland and turning their feet towards the bank, and
opens on them in these words of challenge: 'Whoso thou art who marchest
in arms towards our river, forth and say, there as thou art, why thou
comest, and stay thine advance.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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perche non sali il
dilettoso
monte
ch'e principio e cagion di tutta gioia?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
O
sweetest
essence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Da steigt ein Dampf, dort ziehen Schwaden,
Hier leuchtet Glut aus Dunst und Flor
Dann
schleicht
sie wie ein zarter Faden
Dann bricht sie wie ein Quell hervor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
In the winter dusk,
The
pavements
were gleaming with rain;
There in the lighted window
I left my boyhood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
_
Full of
ecstatic
wonder at the sight,
I view'd Bellona's minions, famed in fight;
A brotherhood, to whom the circling sun
No rivals yet beheld, since time begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Sufficient troth that we shall rise --
Deposed, at length, the grave --
To that new marriage, justified
Through
Calvaries
of Love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
A LITTLE BOY LOST
'Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,
Nor is it
possible
to thought
A greater than itself to know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying: "Wrath by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our
immortal
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
"And the tsar has
commanded
to arrest him--"
OFFICER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Like the constitutions and dress of the Asiatics, the
landscapes of the eastern muse are warm and feeble,
brilliant
and
slight, and, like the manners of the people, wear an eternal sameness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And the castle
standeth
black with the red sun at its back--
_Toll slowly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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i-ip-pu-us ul-sa-am
is-si-ma i-ni-i-su
i-ta-mar a-we-lam
iz [32]-za-kar-am a-na harimti
sa-am-ka-at uk-ki-si [33] a-we-lam
a-na mi-nim il-li-kam
zi-ki-ir-su lu-us-su [34]
ha-ri-im-tum is-ta-si a-we-lam
i-ba-us-su-um-ma i-ta-mar-su
e-di-il [35] e-es-ta-hi-[ta-am]
mi-nu a-la-ku-zu na-ah- [36] [ -]ma
e pi-su i-pu-sa-am-[ma]
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluEn-[ki-du]
bi-ti-is e-mu-tim [ ]
si-ma-a-at ni-si-i- ma
tu-sa [37]-ar pa-a-ta-tim [38]
a-na ali dup-sak-ki-i e si-en
UG-AD-AD-LIL e-mi sa-a-a-ha-tim
a-na sarri Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [39] a-na ha-a-a-ri
a-na
iluGilgamis
sarri sa Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [40]
a-na ha-a-a-ri
as-sa-at si-ma-tim i-ra-ah-hi
su-u pa-na-nu-um-ma
mu-uk wa-ar-ka-nu
i-na mi-il-ki sa ili ga-bi-ma
i-na bi-ti-ik a-pu-un-na-ti-su [41]
si- ma- az- zum
a-na zi-ik-ri id-li-im
i-ri-ku pa-nu-su
REVERSE II
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
credulous
indeed are blest,
And he who, jealousy disarmed,
In sensual sweets his soul doth steep
As drunken tramps at nightfall sleep,
Or, parable more flattering,
As butterflies to blossoms cling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
'
It seems my lady wept and the troll swore
By Heaven he hated tears: he'd cure her spleen;
Where she had begged one flower, he'd shower four-score,
A
haystack
bunch to amaze a China Queen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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But here the emphasis is on
beginning
_well_, there on
_beginning_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
]
VENUS, WOUNDED IN THE HAND,
CONDUCTED
BY IRIS TO MARS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Shall self-wrapt
husbands
aye forget
Kiss-pardons for the daily fret
Wherewith sweet wifely eyes are wet --
Blind to lips kiss-wise set --
Fair Lady?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That
millions
of strange shadows on you tend?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
They listen to the beat
Of the
hammered
bell,
And think of the feet
Which beat upon their tops;
But what they think they do not tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Pardon me, ye my adored
household
gods,
independence of spirit, and integrity of soul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
The long fourth
_Satyre_
is in the Hawthornden MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
He persisted in his
petition, and kept sending more and more
distinguished
envoys, more
ships, more gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
It was this that made him one of the leaders of the
modern republican
movement
in France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
She told her
husband of the debt, but he refused
outright
to pay it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are
bemoaning
the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
There was silence
supreme!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Or when little airs arise,
How the merry
bluebell
rings [1]
To the mosses underneath?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Edward Lear, the artist, Author of "Journals of a Landscape Painter" in
various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful "Books of
Nonsense," which have amused successive
generations
of children, died on
Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty
years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"Term it not 'radiance,'" said he:
"'Tis solid
nutriment
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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In these lines, the best of all Fanshaw's, the happy repetition "so
chaste, so white," is a beauty which, though not contained in the
original, the present
translator
was unwilling to lose.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Morning has not
occurred!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Surely if one goes far enough into the woods, one will find
there all that one is
seeking?
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Yeats |
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Therefore they are schooled in
punishment, and pay all the forfeit of a lifelong ill; some are hung
stretched to the
viewless
winds; some have the taint of guilt washed out
beneath the dreary deep, or burned away in fire.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Laugh at the unshed leaf, say what you will,
Call me in all things what I was before,
A
flutterer
in the wind, a woman still;
I tell you I am what I was and more.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What joy it will be to seek that day,
For love of God, that inn afar,
And, if she wishes, rest, I say,
Near her, though I come from afar,
For words fall in a
pleasant
shower
When distant lover has the power,
With gentle heart, joy to realise.
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Troubador Verse |
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New palaces, and scaffoldings, and blocks,
And suburbs old, are symbols all to me
Whose
memories
are as heavy as a stone.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Fountain
All through the deep blue night
The
fountain
sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
Of the satyr carved in stone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of
soothing
verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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blake-poems |
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Last eve, as I was leading the king's
children
From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it thrilled across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The senate, which should headstrong princes
sUy,
Let loose tlie reins, and gave the realm away ;
With lavish bands they
constant
tributes give.
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Marvell - Poems |
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My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but
asserted
by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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T.S. Eliot |
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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Euripides - Electra |
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[250] He was the
Lucullus
of Athens.
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Aristophanes |
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The
specious
panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,--
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.
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Emerson - Poems |
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) Then when the grey wolves
everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer And lap o' the snows food's gueredon,
Then maketh my heart his yule-tide cheer (Skoal !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Evil God walked away cursing the
stupidity
of man.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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