Of power
superior
why should I complain?
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Iliad - Pope |
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So plausible this prophet's tale appeared,
Each word he dropt was
thoroughly
revered.
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La Fontaine |
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My sister, floating side by side,
Fly we
unceasing
whither gleams
The distant heaven of my dreams.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead
fish and
tenderly
putting them back into the water.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
My
sympathies
were warming fast
Towards the little fellow:
He was so utterly aghast
At having found a Man at last,
And looked so scared and yellow.
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Lewis Carroll |
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statements
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
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Wilde - Poems |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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An
everywhere
of silver,
With ropes of sand
To keep it from effacing
The track called land.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and
maintain
an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled immortality?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE STAND
Go now, and tell out days summed up with fears,
And make them years;
Produce thy mass of
miseries
on the stage,
To swell thine age;
Repeat of things a throng,
To show thou hast been long,
Not lived: for life doth her great actions spell.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Let me proceed where
pleasure
may invite.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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where can its
happiness
abound?
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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at a
comloker
kny3t neuer Kryst made,
hem ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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these gloomy boughs
Had charms for him; and here he loved to sit,
His only visitants a straggling sheep,
The stone-chat, or the glancing sand-piper;
And on these barren rocks, with juniper,
And heath, and thistle, thinly sprinkled o'er,
Fixing his
downward
eye, he many an hour
A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life:
And lifting up his head, he then would gaze
On the more distant scene; how lovely 'tis
Thou seest, and he would gaze till it became
Far lovelier, and his heart could not sustain
The beauty still more beauteous.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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10 _somnos_ GOC:
_sonnos_
BLa1
12 _uersaretur_ R _ueisaretur_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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XXIII
However comely be strength, or free and
undaunted
comportment,
Secrecy is for a man most important of all.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Car a quoi bon chercher tes beautes langoureuses
Ailleurs
qu'en ton cher corps et qu'en ton coeur si doux?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They weep:--from off their
delicate
stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And now Childe Harold was sore sick at heart,
And from his fellow bacchanals would flee;
'Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start,
But pride
congealed
the drop within his e'e:
Apart he stalked in joyless reverie,
And from his native land resolved to go,
And visit scorching climes beyond the sea;
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe,
And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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whose musings lone we trace
Throughout
thy works we look on reverently.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Need we hear
further?
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Longfellow |
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Why sinkes that
Caldron?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I'll wander on, wi' tentless heed
How never-halting moments speed,
Till fate shall snap the brittle thread;
Then, all unknown,
I'll lay me with th'
inglorious
dead
Forgot and gone!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The former line indicates the
_Prisoner
of the
Caucasus_, the latter, _The Fountain of Baktchiserai_.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no
recognition
in those orbs.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The Homeric hero makes a great
deal of honour; but it is honour paid to himself, living; what he wants
above
everything
is to be admired--"always to be the best"; that is what
true heroism is.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Without
parchment
brief, I bestow
On Filhol the verses I sing now,
In the plain Romance tongue, that he
May take them to Uc le Brun, anew.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Had some man of might
Possessed her, he had called
perchance
to light
Her father's blood, and unknown vengeances
Risen on Aegisthus yet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"Desire from joy gains strength in
weightier
measure.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They
discourse
concerning the death of Agamemnon, the
revenge of Orestes, and the injuries of the suitors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Regarded apart from
its reflection, the mirror presents a continuous, flat, colourless,
unrelieved surface,--a thing always and
obviously
unpleasant.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Close to the hearthstone, 10
With long
thoughts
of thee,
Thy lonely lover
Sits now, remembering
All the spent hours
And thy fair beauty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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--Plus d'un
Ne viendra plus
chercher
la soupe parfumee,
Au coin du feu, le soir, aupres d'une ame aimee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What need hath Nature of
silver dishes, multitudes of waiters, delicate pages, perfumed
napkins?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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For what have I done or what
have I said that thou
shouldst
torment me so vilely with these poets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Vos ventres sont fondus de hontes, o
Vainqueurs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Quando fui presso a la beata riva,
'Asperges me' si
dolcemente
udissi,
che nol so rimembrar, non ch'io lo scriva.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and falsehood not
proclaim!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I liked my old home best,
But this was
pleasant
too:
So here we made our nest
And here I grew.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Ghost
I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were
laughing
and unafraid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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A chorus of colors came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was
elsewhere
a silence,
When the chorus of colors came over the
water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Tomorrow
we depart from Cracow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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ou hem
chastise
& lere; 41
Wite ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in
patterns
on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
The Larinas were since sunrise
O'erwhelmed with guests; by families
The
neighbours
come, in sledge approach,
Britzka, kibitka, or in coach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
231
In
pilerynage
now wil I go,
And half ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But sure the eye of Time beholds no name
So bless'd as thine in all the rolls of fame;
Alive we hail'd thee with our
guardian
gods,
And dead thou rulest a king in these abodes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Copyright
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Presently they passed
a confectioner's shop much considered in the days when their joint
pocket-money amounted to a
shilling
a week.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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AT length they both arose when morning came,
And through the day the
converse
was the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence
ravelled
out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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To the sailor, wrecked,
The sea was dead grey walls
Superlative in vacancy,
Upon which
nevertheless
at fateful time
Was written
The grim hatred of nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Add to your show, before you close it, France,
With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods,
machines and ores,
Our
sentiment
wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,
(We grand-sons and great-grandsons do not forget your grandsires,)
From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
| 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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Love-poetry addressed by a man to a woman ceases after the Han dynasty;
but a conventional type of love-poem, in which the poet (of either sex)
speaks in the person of a deserted wife or concubine,
continues
to be
popular.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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what farther fates attend
This life of toils, and what my
destined
end?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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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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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It seems to him idle to compare Donne's
poetry with that of other poets or to
endeavour
to fix its relative
worth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thy band may perish, or thy friends may flee,
Farewell
to Life--but not Adieu to thee!
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Byron |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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With
darkling
hook the Farmer of the Skies
Goes reaping stars: they flicker, one by one,
Nodding a little; tumble,--and are gone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When, bright with purple and with gold
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle
Shepherd
of the Fold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Erewhile
I labour'd with complaint so true,
And in such fervid rhymes to make me heard,
Seem'd as at last some spark of pity stirr'd
In the hard heart which frost in summer knew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Free from the world I would a
prisoner
be
And my own shadow all my company;
And lonely see the shooting stars appear,
Worlds rushing into judgment all the year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You
yourself
can bring the past the mind, too,
It was not enough to avoid you: I exiled you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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{and} were chosen i{n} affinite of
p{r}inces
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I too survey that endless line
Of men whose
thoughts
are not as mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The general rose decays;
But this, in lady's drawer,
Makes summer when the lady lies
In
ceaseless
rosemary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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in thy green array,
Presiding
Spirit here to-day
Dost lead the revels of the May,
And this is thy dominion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
"They knew whose hand struck home the death,
They knew who broke but would not bend,
Could
venerate
an equal foe
And scorn a laggard friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And I
wondered
as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the strength of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For eight slow-circling years, by
tempests
toss'd,
From Cypress to the far Phoenician coast
(Sidon the capital), I stretch'd my toil
Through regions fatten'd with the flows of Nile.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I see your maiden
passions
bud and bloom,
Sombre or luminous, and your lost days
Unroll before me while my heart enjoys
All your old vices, and my soul expands
To all the virtues that have once been yours.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Twould soften hearts if they were hard as stone
To see glad
butterflies
and smiling flowers.
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John Clare |
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Long she thus
traveiled
through deserts wyde,
By which she thought her wandring knight shold pas,
Yet never shew of living wight espyde;
Till that at length she found the troden gras, 85
In which the tract of peoples footing was,
Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore;
The same she followes, till at last she has
A damzell spyde?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He's no defence who loves indeed,
He obeys Love's decree
For he serves and woos her, she,
So I'll await | like fate
My
gracious
fee
Should it come to me.
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Troubador Verse |
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It
is more likely that it was the
undoubted
success of 'The Rape of the
Lock' in its first form which gave him the idea of working up the sketch
into a complete mock-heroic poem.
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Alexander Pope |
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