XVIII
All bustle when he makes a sign:
He drinks, all drink and loudly call;
He smiles, in
laughter
all combine;
He knits his brows--'tis silent all.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And as regards the dear young people, they
Pert and
precocious
are beyond all measure.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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My holy
Zouaves!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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All waits for the right voices;
Where is the
practised
and perfect organ?
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Whitman |
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Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far
flights?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So, when you had risen
from all the lethargy of love and its heat,
you would have
summoned
me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A little time will try, for in a month I shall go to town to
wind up the
business
if possible.
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Robert Burns |
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Sooner shall grass in Hyde Park Circus grow, 35
And wits take
lodgings
in the sound of Bow;
Sooner let earth, air, sea, to chaos fall,
Men, monkeys, lapdogs, parrots, perish all!
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Alexander Pope |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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They weep:--from off their delicate stems
Perennial
tears descend in gems.
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Poe - 5 |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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Thus it comes
That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains,
Could bear no produce such as makes us glad,
And whatsoever lives, if shut from food,
Prolongs
its kind and guards its life no more.
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Lucretius |
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G
[348] 18
mistress!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The poets who appear here have come together by
mutual accord and, although they may invite others to join them in
subsequent volumes as
circumstance
dictates, each one stands (as all
newcomers also must stand) as the exponent of fresh and strikingly
diverse qualities in our native poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Folk are more and more
delighted
with it.
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Aristophanes |
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[Why is it that Poetry has never yet been
subjected
to that process of
Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art Music?
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Lewis Carroll |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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How your
impudence
excites my passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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those less imperious voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those
earthlier
forms!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But there was a class of compositions in which the great families
were by no means so
courteously
treated.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[75]
No step between
submission
and a grave?
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Byron |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of
Magazine
Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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etenim maiora libelli
et
diuturna
magis sunt monimenta mihi,
quos ego confido, quamuis nocuere, daturos
nomen et auctori tempora longa suo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Fair, kind, and true,' is all my argument,
'Fair, kind, and true,' varying to other words;
And in this change is my
invention
spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
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Sappho |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What is your worship's
pleasure?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
Unexpected
Visit
IX.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pope apparently had given
him leave to do so, and then
retracted
his permission.
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Alexander Pope |
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That were a pretty pastime now
I'd build about a
thousand
bridges quicker.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Some wield the
sounding
axe; the dodder'd oaks
Divide, obedient to the forceful strokes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For Keats wrote it soon
after the death of his brother Tom, whom he had loved
devotedly
and
himself nursed to the end.
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Keats |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Briseis, long ago,
A captive, could
Achilles
move
With breast of snow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Its prickly knobs the dews of morn
Doth bead with
dressing
rich to see,
When threads doth hang from thorn to thorn
Like the small spinner's tapestry;
And from the flowers a sultry smell
Comes that agrees with summer well.
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John Clare |
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There
happened
to be an old farm labourer
Who came by chance that way.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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at the table there be all the great,
Whose lives are bubbles that best joys
inflate!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At half-past seven, element
Nor
implement
was seen,
And place was where the presence was,
Circumference between.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thee it becomes not,
standing
though thou art
On this high action, to think scorn of men
Whom God thinks worthy of having thee for saviour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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They
should be
regarded
in many cases as merely the first strong and
suggestive sketches of an artist, intended to be embodied at some
time in the finished picture.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It is a strange life,
patterned
in fire and letters
on the prison pavement.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A much easier and more
lively movement would be
dábunt málum
Mételli
Naéuio póetae,
that is, the movement given by the old protosyllabic accentuation.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Lady Tailbush is not so easily fooled, and Merecraft has
some difficulty in
persuading
her of the power of his friends at Court
(Act 4.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Or, if that seems
too much of an antinomy to some philosophies (and it is perhaps possible
to make it look more apparent than real), the dualism can be unavoidably
declared by putting it entirely in terms of consciousness: destiny
creating within itself an
existence
which stands against and apart from
destiny by being _conscious_ of it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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From some old fortress on the sun
Baronial bees march, one by one,
In murmuring
platoon!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Caparyson
a score of stedes; flie, flie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I am
confident
that it much
resembles the place where Cicero went to declaim.
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Petrarch |
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o toi qui fis ces hommes
saintement!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Cursed ambition,
detestable
obsession
Whose tyranny sways the noblest of men!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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I will attempt to do so; but not
till I have
discussed
_rhyme_, the other main element in Chinese
prosody.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' costs,
Of more delight than hawks and horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
Wretched
in this alone, that thou mayst take
All this away, and me most wretchcd make.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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John's Gate, we took a caleche in Market
Square for the Falls of the Chaudiere, about nine miles
southwest
of
the city, for which we were to pay so much, besides forty sous for
tolls.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_iii_
_His Aunt_
Et amita Veneria properiter obiit,
cui breuia melea modifica recino:
cinis ita placidulus
adoperiat
eam
locaque tacita celeripes Erebi adeat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Tis said you are a misanthrope,
In country solitude you mope,
And we--an
unattractive
set--
Can hearty welcome give alone.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To steel our souls against the lust of ease;
To bear in silence though our hearts may bleed;
To spend ourselves, and never count the cost,
For others' greater need;--
To go our quiet ways, subdued and sane;
To hush all vulgar clamour of the street;
With level calm to face alike the strain
Of triumph or defeat;
This be our part, for so we serve you best,
So best confirm their prowess and their pride,
Your warrior sons, to whom in this high test
Our
fortunes
we confide.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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"His Takhallus or poetical name (Khayyam) signifies a Tent-maker, and
he is said to have at one time exercised that trade, perhaps before
Nizam-ul-Mulk's
generosity
raised him to independence.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But I have,
And I'm off now to
practise
with my notions.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Imagists |
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Pace volli con Dio in su lo stremo
de la mia vita; e ancor non sarebbe
lo mio dover per
penitenza
scemo,
se cio non fosse, ch'a memoria m'ebbe
Pier Pettinaio in sue sante orazioni,
a cui di me per caritate increbbe.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
As when, upon a tranced summer-night,
Those green-rob'd
senators
of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Which comes upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave;
So came these words and went; the while in tears
She touch'd her fair large forehead to the ground, 80
Just where her falling hair might be outspread
A soft and silken mat for Saturn's feet.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Th' applause of
listening
senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes
Their lot forbad; nor circumscribed alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;
The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the
families
connected with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Would she had not plunged thus into warfare
and
provoked
the Trojans by attack!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
repeated
he, while his eyes still
Relented not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nor has the darkness power to usher in
Fear to those sheets that know no sin;
But still thy wife, by chaste
intentions
led,
Gives thee each night a maidenhead.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33363]
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Light-foot May with Meggan
Sought the
choicest
spot,
Clothed with thyme-alternate grass:
Then, while day waxed hot,
Sat at ease to play and rest,
A gracious rest and play;
The loveliest maidens near or far,
When Margaret was away,
Who sat at home to sing and sew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Then you
received
the Imperial Mandate:
You were ordered to go far away to the City.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Say, can thy noble spirit stoop
To join the
gormandising
troop
Who find a solace in the soup?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I know how to punish other
offenders
bigger than you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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THE VILLAGE STREET
IN these rapid,
restless
shadows,
Once I walked at eventide,
When a gentle, silent maiden,
Wal ked in beauty at my side
She alone there walked beside me
All in beauty, like a bride.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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NATHAN, _in
travelling
dress_.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"O fatuous man, this truth infer,
Brides are not what they seem;
Thou lovest what thou
dreamest
her;
I am thy very dream!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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At whiche day was taken Antenor, 50
Maugre
Polydamas
or Monesteo,
Santippe, Sarpedon, Polynestor,
Polyte, or eek the Troian daun Ripheo,
And othere lasse folk, as Phebuseo.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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400
What shallow hope makes you think he'll pity me,
And respect a sex he treats
disdainfully?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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, which
signifies
to make or
feign.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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while he
Still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
Should fall on me, this hireling
shepherd
here
Wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
Filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Opera
naturale
e ch'uom favella;
ma cosi o cosi, natura lascia
poi fare a voi secondo che v'abbella.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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(5)
Chill and harsh the year draws to its close:
In my cotton dress I seek
sunlight
on the porch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He had never looked upon his
acquaintance
with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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' how low,
How soft the words; and all the while
Her blush was
rippling
with a smile
Like summer after snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Forman
suggested
the above emendation, which has since been discovered
to be the true MS.
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Keats |
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Thus was Ulysses left
Alone, and planning sat in solitude,
By Pallas' aid, the
slaughter
of his foes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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La
miserella
intra tutti costoro
pareva dir: <
di mio figliuol ch'e morto, ond' io m'accoro>>;
ed elli a lei rispondere: <
tanto ch'i' torni>>; e quella: <>,
come persona in cui dolor s'affretta,
<
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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