Hence,
wayfarer, thou shalt be in awe of this God, and it will be
profitable
to
thee to keep thy hands off.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But the
queen became ill as the time for the tour jousts drew near and he asked
her whether she was too feeble to go to see
Lancelot
in the lists.
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Tennyson |
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The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it fracture for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier,
transparent
with flights not made?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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To fair request
Silent
performance
maketh best return.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Poe - 5 |
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With this poem should be compared the description of Harun al Rashid's
Garden of
Gladness
in the story of Nur-al-din Ali and the damsel Anis al
Talis in the Thirty-Sixth Night.
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Tennyson |
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See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Judea,
everything not known there,
not
identical
with A.
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James Russell Lowell |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She must have change, she must;
therefore
put money in
thy purse.
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Shakespeare |
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Could
_anything_
estrange me from a friend such as you?
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Robert Burns |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The
majority
threw away their arms
and begged for quarter.
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Tacitus |
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let who may
Against thy faults be railing,
(Though far, I pray, from us be they
That never had a
failing!
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James Russell Lowell |
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having several words in a line
beginning
with
the same letter, is another device frequently employed by Spenser for
musical effect; e.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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Stephen Crane |
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Du stehest still, er wartet auf;
Du
sprichst
ihn an, er strebt an dir hinauf;
Verliere was, er wird es bringen,
Nach deinem Stock ins Wasser springen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Like flowers
sequestered
from the sun
And wind of summer, day by day
I dwindled paler, whilst my hair
Showed the first tinge of grey.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The moderns must not dare to make use of them, or at the
very best moderns must only venture upon such
exceptions
to the rules as
classic precedents would justify.
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Alexander Pope |
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'T was such a gallant, gallant sea
That
beckoned
it away!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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His kindly lord
he first had greeted in
gracious
form,
with manly words.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands
And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet,
From whom the sea is
bitterer
than death.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
They 'ngage them then, true love and faith swearing;
A thousand score of Franks
surround
them still.
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Chanson de Roland |
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My cold lips frame
Tremulously the
familiar
name,
Unheard of her upon my breath:
'Elizabeth.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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1010 Did our blood ties not provide enough
restraint!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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1540
What nedeth yow to tellen al the chere
That
Deiphebus
un-to his brother made,
Or his accesse, or his siklych manere,
How men gan him with clothes for to lade,
Whan he was leyd, and how men wolde him glade?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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also the speed of the journey home with ymb
ān-tīd ōþres
dōgores
of l.
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Beowulf |
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The
circumstances
here mentioned are literally true.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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For 1300 years they had been
under the
Patriarch
of Babylon, who appointed their _Mutran_, or
archbishop.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And then the
festival
begins!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He is weak, very old--he can
scarcely
uptear
A young pine-tree for staff since his legs cease to bear;
But here's to replace him!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Elan,
daughter
of Healfdene, king of the Danes, (?
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Beowulf |
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156
_scilla_
O: _silla_ GRVenLa1
158 _conub_ BAC: _connub.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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[709]
Presumably
a man in extreme poverty.
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Aristophanes |
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A
CEREMONY
IN GLOUCESTER.
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Robert Herrick |
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In this wise was the dead
Patroclus
brought back to Achilles.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It is
observable
too, that ?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Twas well enough when summer came,
The long, warm,
lightsome
summer-day,
Then at her door the _canty_ dame
Would sit, as any linnet gay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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--
or fancy I'm
lonesome?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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the objects fair,
To whom ye for
unnumbered
crimes
Had to compose in secret rhymes,
To whom your hearts were consecrate,--
Did they not all the Russian tongue
With little knowledge and that wrong
In charming fashion mutilate?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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the word _loth_, _loath_, _looth_, occurred
to myself and an assistant
independently
before we saw that it is
mentioned in the foot-note.
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John Donne |
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To
introduce
myself to your story
It's as the frightened hero
If he touched with naked toe
A blade of territory
Prejudicial to glaciers I
Know of no sin's naivety
Whose loud laugh of victory
You won't have then denied
Say if I'm not filled with joyousness
Thunder and rubies to the hubs no less
To see in the air this fire is piercing
With royal kingdoms far scattering,
The wheel, crimson, as if in dying,
Of my chariot's single evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Franceline rose in the dawning gray,
And her heart would dance though she knelt to pray,
For her man Michel had holiday,
Fighting
for France.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then had you seen such sorrowing of clans,
So many a slain, shattered and
bleeding
man!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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(letting fall his sword and recoiling to the
extremity
of the
stage)
Of Lalage!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sone after this, for that fortune it wolde,
I-comen was the blisful tyme swete,
That Troilus was warned that he sholde,
Ther he was erst, Criseyde his lady mete; 1670
For which he felte his herte in Ioye flete;
And
feythfully
gan alle the goddes herie;
And lat see now if that he can be merie.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,--
To a land all covered with trees:
And they bought an owl, and a useful cart,
And a pound of rice, and a cranberry-tart,
And a hive of silvery bees;
And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws,
And a lovely monkey with
lollipop
paws,
And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree,
And no end of Stilton cheese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
[ey] ----_their
doubtful
shimmer from the deep_.
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Byron |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying
to every word a twinborn sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
What bearing may we assume the
foregoing
couplet to have
upon Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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e slidyng water
gouerni?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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On that fatal day,
The
histories
say,
Seventy vessels
Sailed out of the bay.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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O toi, qui de la Mort, ta vieille et forte amante,
Engendras
l'Esperance,--une folle charmante!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity
requires
no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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ON
Paradise
Lost.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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_Quel ch' infinita
providenza
ed arte.
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Petrarch |
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"
[Sidenote A: Then cried he aloud,]
[Sidenote B: "Who dwells here
discourse
with me to hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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wher is become your
gentilesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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O
metamorphose
mystique
De tous mes sens fondus en un!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The stillness spreads of Death abroad--down come the temple posts,
Their molten bronze is
coursing
fast and joins with silver waves
To leap with hiss of thousand snakes where Tiber writhes and raves.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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n
They chide me that the skein I used to spin Holds not my
interest
now,
They mock me at the route.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"]
[17] ["A copy of this hitherto
unpublished
poem has been kindly
furnished by Miss A.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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CHORUS OF HOURS:
Whence come ye, so wild and so fleet,
For sandals of
lightning
are on your feet, _90
And your wings are soft and swift as thought,
And your eyes are as love which is veiled not?
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Shelley |
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No more the adulterous guest can charm
The Spartan queen: the house forsworn
No more repels by Hector's arm
My warriors, baffled and outworn:
Hush'd is the war our strife made long:
I welcome now, my hatred o'er,
A
grandson
in the child of wrong,
Him whom the Trojan priestess bore.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He
thenkith
parte it with no man; 5395
Certayn, no love is in him than.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He talked of Kant and Hegel
As though he'd nursed them both through
whooping
cough
And, as he left, he let his finger shake
Too playfully, as though to say, "Now off
With that long face--you've years and years to live.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
* * *
When the purple flame shoots up,
And Love ascends his throne,
I cannot hear your songs, O birds,
For the
witchery
of my own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Secure, unnoted, Conrad's prow passed by,
And
anchored
where his ambush meant to lie; 600
Screened from espial by the jutting cape,
That rears on high its rude fantastic shape.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of
unlovely
eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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' The catual and his
attendants
prostrated
themselves an the ground, while the Lusians on their bended knees adored
the blessed virgin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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For through the world to-night a murmur thrills
As at some new-born prodigy of time--
Peace dies like twilight bleeding on the hills,
And
Darkness
creeps to hide the hateful crime.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| 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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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
| 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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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the darkness to betray
The black
embarasst
flood sheared by the stems?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes
outshine
the dying day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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How
admirable
the day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given
away--you may do practically ANYTHING in the United States with eBooks
not protected by U.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,
The
primitive
chants of the Nile boatmen,
The sacred imperial hymns of China,
To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
A band of bayaderes.
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Doth any deem me fool, to hold a fair
Maid in my room and seek no joy, but spare
Her
maidenhood?
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' And in this fashion
All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
Severals and
generals
of grace exact,
Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
Excitements to the field or speech for truce,
Success or loss, what is or is not, serves
As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.
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Shakespeare |
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Lear's works to
have been the prevalent characteristics of the
inhabitants
of
Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He was answered, that he
followed
his father's.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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