My little maid, 't is night; alas,
That night should be to thee
Instead of
morning!
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Between two ebon rocks
Behold yon sombre den,
Where
brambles
bristle like the locks
Of wool between the horns of scapegoat banned by men!
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Hugo - Poems |
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LXVIII
He all that day and the ensuing night
Remains alone, and so the following day;
Forever sifting in his
doubtful
sprite,
If it be better to depart or stay:
Lastly for Agramant decides the knight;
To him in Africk will he wend his way:
Moved by his love for his liege-lady sore,
But moved by honour and by duty more.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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No
mightier
birth may He beget;
No like, no second has He known;
Yet nearest to her sire's is set
Minerva's throne.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Wrong'd by his king,[518] and burning for revenge,
Behold his arms that proud
Castilian
change;
The Moorish buckler on his breast he bears,
And leads the fiercest of the pagan spears.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To be too
headstrong
and too open, that is the beginning of trouble.
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Yeats |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Maint
vaillant
homme a mis a glaive
Cis mireors, car li plus saive,
Li plus preus, li miex afetie
I sunt tost pris et aguetie.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The fact
is, that the fancy of this poet so far predominates over all his other
faculties, and over the fancy of all other men, as to have induced, very
naturally, the idea that he is
fanciful
_only.
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Poe - 5 |
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As printed
in the old
editions
this line, if it be correctly given, is one of the
worst Donne ever wrote:
That what we turne to feast, she turn'd to pray,
i.
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John Donne |
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LIX
The count Rollanz hath heard himself decreed;
Speaks then to Guenes by rule of courtesy:
"Good-father, Sir, I ought to hold you dear,
Since the
rereward
you have for me decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Trillets of humor, -- shrewdest whistle-wit, --
Contralto cadences of grave desire
Such as from off the passionate Indian pyre
Drift down through sandal-odored flames that split
About the slim young widow who doth sit
And sing above, -- midnights of tone entire, --
Tissues of moonlight shot with songs of fire; --
Bright drops of tune, from oceans infinite
Of melody, sipped off the thin-edged wave
And
trickling
down the beak, -- discourses brave
Of serious matter that no man may guess, --
Good-fellow greetings, cries of light distress --
All these but now within the house we heard:
O Death, wast thou too deaf to hear the bird?
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Sidney Lanier |
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" said my soul:
"I heard me bidden to this deed,
And
straight
obeyed the call.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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110
Haste, then, ye
spirits!
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Alexander Pope |
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I mourn upon this battle-field,
But not for those who
perished
here.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Our loving arms towards the mossy bark extended,
We bid
farewell
unto the final tree,
Then down through flowers towards our lovely goal
descended:
And earth and ether swam in a golden sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL
We two are last in hell; what may we fear
To be
tormented
or kept pris'ners here I
Alas!
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Robert Herrick |
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Worthiest
man!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And while in grief dissolved all weep and sigh,
She, in meek silence, joyous sits secure,
Gathering
already virtue's guerdon high.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It seemed in the
darkness
a sound they heard,--
Was it feeble moaning or uttered word?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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So
encloistered
had Mdlle.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Sit down here:
Tell me thine
happiest
hour.
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Tennyson |
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And leaue a blancke to put in your
_Feoffees_
60
One, two, or more, as you ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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IDONEA I was a woman;
And, balancing the hopes that are the dearest
To
womankind
with duty to my Father,
I yielded up those precious hopes, which nought
On earth could else have wrested from me;--if erring,
Oh let me be forgiven!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The monkey is frequently
mentioned
as a
lady's pet by the dramatists.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake and see
thyself!
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Shakespeare |
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Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought
To fire the stagnant earth with thought:
On
spawning
slime my song prevails,
Wolves shed their fangs, and dragons scales;
Flushed in the sky the sweet May-morn,
Earth smiled with flowers, and man was born.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In the
opportunity
presented to
them of giving a home to a poor orphan they saw a favour of God.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'The princess laboured at her loom,
Mistress
and handmaiden alike;
Beneath their needles grew the field
With warriors armed to strike.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Ich fuhl's, du schwebst um mich,
erflehter
Geist
Enthulle dich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Barrels, an
inference
from seeing.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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At
thirteen
I wrote a
long poem a la 'Lady of the Lake'--1300 lines in six days.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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to thee my
torments
pleasure bring:
She, too, severer would have wished the blow,
A spear-head thrust, and not an arrow-sting.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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We let them pass; all appearing tranquil;
No
soldiers
at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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With its soft neighbourhood of filmy clouds,
The stains and
shadings
of forgotten tears,
Dimness o'erswum with lustre!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The blaze stood high
all
landsfolk
frighting.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Rude spirits of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all
delight!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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6
Dear is the memory of our wedded lives,
And dear the last embraces of our wives
And their warm tears: but all hath suffer'd change;
For surely now our
household
hearths are cold:
Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange:
And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Pero
scendemmo
a la destra mammella,
e diece passi femmo in su lo stremo,
per ben cessar la rena e la fiammella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This he has
executed
in the manner, which seemed to him best
suited to such a publication; and here he means that his task should
end.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The
_Chanson
d'Antioche_ contains
perhaps the most illuminating admission of this difficulty.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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License as specified in
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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AUTUMN
The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and
lingering
descent.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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'
Meantime
I seek no sympathies, nor need;
The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree
I planted,--they have torn me, and I bleed:
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with
linguists and contenders,
I have no
mockings
or arguments, I witness and wait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien lands— A pilgrim through the
darkness
to your eyes!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Who can have
patience
with a man
That's got no more discretion than
An idiotic goose?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Boucherville
(Que.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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As oft we see the sky in May
Threaten to rain, and yet not rain,
The Poet's face, before so gay,
Was clouded with a look of pain,
But suddenly
brightened
up again;
And without further let or stay
He told his tale of yesterday.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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As she was a Mennonite
Her rose-trees and her clothes lacked buttons
Two were missing from my coat-front
Both of us
followed
almost the same rite.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
XXXIX
'Tis time, I think by Wenlock town
The golden broom should blow;
The hawthorn
sprinkled
up and down
Should charge the land with snow.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Gay are the Martian Kalends,
December's Nones are gay,
But the proud Ides, when the
squadron
rides,
Shall be Rome's whitest day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Wild and
fleeting
as the notes
Blown upon a woodland pipe, 30
They must haunt the earth with gladness
And a tinge of old regret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking
monsters
girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling mariners?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
absurdity
of the
gift struck me at once, and I was about to replace the money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Of
the
efficacy
of this act no means of judging has come down to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Had we kept close, or played within,
Suspicion
now had been the sin,
And shame had followed long ere this,
T' have plagued what now unpunished is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"An Enigma,"
addressed
to Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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That Youth's sweet-scented
Manuscript
should close!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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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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_ pictures in lead, in wax, in
plates of gold, of naked men and women with crosses, crucifixes, and
other implements,
wrapping
them all up together in a scarfe, crossed
every letter in the sacred word Trinity, crossed these things very
holily delivered into the hands of one Weston to bee hid in the earth
that no man might find them, and so in Thames-street having finished
his evill times he died, leaving behind him a man and a maid, one
hanged for a witch, and the other for a thief very shortly after.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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In the
startled
ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Her women
removed her wraps and
proceeded
to get her in readiness for the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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their
miseries
seem so much to please 'em,
I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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She does not know
She is a
Christian
born.
| 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 |
|
O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone,
Till I found the
pleasure
past and a winter come at last,
Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast
And boyhood's pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done,
Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun
And winter fought her battle strife and won.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Tor this, our wealth, our products, you enjoy,
And glean the relics of
exhausted
Troy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
10
Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the revolving moon 15
And patient shine of
everlasting
stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Seeger's
squad was caught by the fire of six machine-guns and he himself was
wounded in several places, but he continued to cheer his
comrades
as
they rushed on in what proved a successful charge.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He,
reddening
in extremity of delight,
'My lord, you overpay me fifty-fold.
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Tennyson |
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Let cowarde
Londonne
see herre towne onn fyre,
And strev wythe goulde to staie the royners honde,
AElla & Brystowe havethe thoughtes thattes hygher, 625
Wee fyghte notte forr ourselves, botte all the londe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Such drugs Jove's daughter own'd, with skill prepar'd,
And of prime virtue, by the wife of Thone,
AEgyptian
Polydamna, giv'n her.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And now he is
jingling
his
bells along the road.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Whence she who saw me, clearly as myself,
To calm my troubled mind, before I ask'd,
Open'd her lips, and gracious thus began:
"With false
imagination
thou thyself
Mak'st dull, so that thou seest not the thing,
Which thou hadst seen, had that been shaken off.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
tremulous
battery Earth
Responds to the touch of man;
It thrills to the antipodes,
From Boston to Japan.
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Emerson - Poems |
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god ēaðe mæg þone dol-scaðan dǣda
ge-twǣfan (_God may easily
restrain
the fierce foe from his deeds_), 479;
pret.
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Beowulf |
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I am of the
terrible
people, I am of the strange Hebrews.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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