MRS ELIZ: WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF THE LOST SHEPHERDESS
Among the myrtles as I walk'd
Love and my sighs thus intertalk'd:
Tell me, said I, in deep distress,
Where I may find my
Shepherdess?
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Robert Herrick |
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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and would on earth there stood,
Some more of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And
weariness
a name.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
splendor
of a Burmah,
The meteor of birds,
Departing like a pageant
Of ballads and of bards.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Our trav'ller glad, an appetite displayed;
The lady carefully her guest surveyed,
And anxious seemed to gratify his wish,
By helping what appeared his
favourite
dish.
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La Fontaine |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The
sunshine
threw his hat away,
The orchards spangles hung.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lines 646-651 were previously
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train;
While, with a pulseless hand, and
stedfast
gaze,
Unbreathing Justice her still beam surveys.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with
solitary
genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in thousands blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His
vassalage
had often been proved.
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Chanson de Roland |
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'Tis the
securest
policy we have,
To make our sense our slave.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His larger and more highly finished
landscapes were unequal in technical perfection,--sometimes harsh or cold
in color, or stiff in composition; sometimes full of imagination, at others
literal and prosaic,--but always
impressive
reproductions of interesting or
peculiar scenery.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You're
strangely
proud.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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additional
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request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lo duca stette un poco a testa china;
poi disse: <
colui che i
peccator
di qua uncina>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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This
is
indicated
here and elsewhere by the letter A.
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Alexander Pope |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my childish plumes
Lift, in
bereaved
acknowledgment
Of their unthinking drums.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Gia si solea con le spade far guerra;
ma or si fa
togliendo
or qui or quivi
lo pan che 'l pio Padre a nessun serra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day,
Whenever the Butcher was by,
The Beaver kept looking the opposite way,
And
appeared
unaccountably shy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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555
What a strange
prisoner
for such lovely bonds!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And now a tale of love and woe,
A woeful tale of love I sing;
Hark, gentle
maidens!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
The handwriting was at first somewhat like the delicate, running
Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she
advanced
in
breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her
latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its
fellows.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_I once pierced the flesh
of the wild-deer,
now am I afraid to touch
the blue and the gold-veined
hyacinths?
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Imagists |
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Musicians wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air,
I hear the silver strife;
And -- waking long before the dawn --
Such
transport
breaks upon the town
I think it that "new life!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'Will', will fulfil the
treasure
of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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255
Alexius of hem took leue,
And
worschiplich
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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From
chrysanthemums
hung this autumn?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is
descriptive
of the first manifestation of
doubt and cynicism in his youthful mind, allegorically as the
visits of a "demon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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"
"In the
anchored
bark.
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Byron |
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And thus, when first
The image of the glass projects itself,
As to our gaze it comes, it shoves ahead
And drives along the air that's in the space
Betwixt it and our eyes, and brings to pass
That we
perceive
the air ere yet the glass.
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Lucretius |
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We joined our tales of
wretchedness
together,
And begged our daily bread from door to door.
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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"
"I saw her in a tomb of tomes,
Where dreams are wont to be;
That she as spectre
haunteth
there
Is only known to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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c)
indicating
extent, with acc.
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Beowulf |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yes, it is good to battle, and good to be strong and free,
To carry the hearts of a people to the uttermost ends of sea,
To see the day steal up the bay, where the enemy lies in wait,
To run your ship to the harbor's lip and sink her across the strait:--
But better the golden evening when the ships round heads for home,
And the long gray miles slip swiftly past in a swirl of
seething
foam,
And the people wait at the haven's gate to greet the men who win!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There let the nymphs the gallant heroes meet,
And strew the pink and rose beneath their feet:
In crystal halls the feast divine prolong,
With wine
nectareous
and immortal song:
Let every nymph the snow-white bed prepare,
And, fairer far, resign her bosom there;
There, to the greedy riotous embrace
Resign each hidden charm with dearest grace.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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She was the daughter of Sir James Harington, younger brother of John,
first Baron
Harington
of Exton.
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John Donne |
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'--
One answered: 'Rend the veil, declare the end,
Strengthen
her ere she goes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For those high songs, lo, men that moan,
And raiment black where once was white;
Who guide me
homeward
in the night,
On that waste bed to lie alone.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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This appears from the laws of the Germans, and from a
subsequent
passage of Tacitus himself.
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Tacitus |
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And stocks in the almswomen's garden were blown,
With rich Easter roses each side of the door;
The lazy white owls in the glade cool and lone
Paid calls on their cousins in the elm's
chambered
core.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Tchekalinsky
frowned for a second only,
then his smile returned.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXVI
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
But that I hope some good conceit of thine
In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:
Till
whatsoever
star that guides my moving,
Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ireland is passing through a crisis in the life
of the mind greater than any she has known since the rise of the Young
Ireland party, and based upon a
principle
which sets many in opposition
to the habits of thought and feeling come down from that party, for the
seasons change, and need and occupation with them.
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Yeats |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His children as
pleasant
and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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86-88;
4 of ELISHA, his
purifying
a well with salt, 214-225 (2 Kings ii.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The young
Simeonova
too there
With Ozeroff was wont to share
Applause, the people's donative.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And it was
on this
occasion
that Donne had the vision of his absent wife which
Walton has related so graphically.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
|
) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew
Prophets
to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
How deadly like this sky, these fields, these treen,
To
trappings
of the tomb!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The
apology for Gama's refusal to come on shore is
exceeding
artful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_
[260] It has been observed by some critics, that Milton on every
occasion is fond of expressing his admiration of music, particularly of
the song of the nightingale, and the full
woodland
choir.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Till
suddenly
I paused, for lo!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Discordaunt ever fro armonye,
And distoned from melodye,
Controve he wolde, and foule fayle,
With
hornpypes
of Cornewayle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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On such a day we may suppose that the patriotic enthusiasm of a
Latin poet would vent itself in reiterated shouts of "Io
triumphe," such as were uttered by Horace on a far less exciting
occasion, and in boasts
resembling
those which Virgil put into
the mouth of Anchises.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
41,
contains
a bitter attack on the painted ladies whom
it calls the "Picts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
[Sidenote: They cannot efface the deep
impressions
that misery has
made in the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
' Gray's Alcaic stanza on West's death:--
O
lacrymarum
fons tenero sacros
'Ducentium ortus ex animo'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
A vendre les corps sans prix, hors de toute race, de tout monde, de tout
sexe, de toute
descendance!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"Say, can thy noble spirit stoop
To join the
gormandising
troup
Who find a solace in the soup?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
"
Observant of his voice, Eumaeus sate
And fed
recumbent
on a chair of state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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To gain
Pescennius
one employs his schemes,
One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Who makest Life become,--
As though by
labouring
all-unknowingly,
Like one whom reveries numb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Leaves, black leaves and smoke, are blown on the wind;
Mount upward past my window; swoop again;
In a sharp silence, loudly, loudly falls
The first cold drop, striking a
shriveled
leaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Also, Agamemnon would have bidden the Greeks depart altogether, but
Diomedes
withstood
him.
| 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 |
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Thy father brought with him along
The olive branch and victor's song;
He slew the Ammonites, we know,
But to thy woe;
And in the
purchase
of our peace,
The cure was worse than the disease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
They then joined
forces and
occupied
Tarracina,[156] which owed its strength more to
its walls and situation than to the character of its new garrison.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
[_There enter from the left_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES,
_followed
by some
thralls_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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And I ten, twelve, a
thousand
hours, a long, long while,
an infinitely long while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
THE GIANT PUFFBALL
From what sad star I know not, but I found
Myself new-born below the coppice rail,
No bigger than the
dewdrops
and as round,
In a soft sward, no cattle might assail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
'
This lettre forth was sent un-to Criseyde,
Of which hir answere in effect was this;
Ful
pitously
she wroot ayein, and seyde,
That also sone as that she might, y-wis, 1425
She wolde come, and mende al that was mis.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
"
Said I, low voic'd: "Ah,
whither!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Luvah breaking in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously
misrecognised
in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger
entwined
in his hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Porter watches at the gate,
The
servants
watch within;
The watch is long betimes and late,
The prize is slow to win.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
' 840
Quod Pandarus, `Than
blamestow
Fortune
For thou art wrooth, ye, now at erst I see;
Wostow nat wel that Fortune is commune
To every maner wight in som degree?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Still, sir, thou wert wanting in good faith; but as it
proceeded
from
no immorality, thou being only desirous of saving thy life, the less I
blame thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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my friend, and clear your looks,
Why all this toil and
trouble?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He
desired that a
posthumous
title should not be awarded.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Peace, peace;
The siege hath given you
shameless
tongues, and minds
No more your own: yea, the foul Ninevite
Hath mastered you already, for your thoughts
Dwell in his wickedness and marvel at it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The captive linnet which
enthral?
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Golden Treasury |
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Yes, Nature's road must ever be preferred;
Reason is here no guide, but still a guard:
'Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow,
And treat this passion more as friend than foe:
A mightier power the strong direction sends,
And several men impels to several ends:
Like varying winds, by other
passions
tossed,
This drives them constant to a certain coast.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Replaced
anon,
Its cameo of the abjured one drew
Her musings thereupon.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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With such the
enamored
damsel braids her tresses.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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