As I look up
the main street, they appear like painted screens
standing
before the
houses; yet many are green.
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curant_ extant apud
Hieremiam
Iudicem de
Montagnone p.
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" The poem just cited is
especially beautiful; but the poetic elevation which it induces we must
refer chiefly to our
sympathy
in the poet's enthusiasm.
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22_
Hervey, Lord ("Lord Fanny"), _Lines to the
Imitator
of Horace_, i.
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Byron |
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not so when, thus, in realms on high
The eternal voice of God is passing by,
And the red winds are
withering
in the sky!
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Poe - 5 |
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And why on
horseback
have you set
Him whom you love, your idiot boy?
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Latin - Catullus |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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les colliers tinteront
cherront
les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And Betty's still at Susan's side:
By this time she's not quite so flurried;
Demure with
porringer
and plate
She sits, as if in Susan's fate
Her life and soul were buried.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Then the smith with his tools in Sir John made a breach,
And the toper he
hiccuped
and ended his speech;
And pulled at the quart, till the snob he declared
When he went to drink next that the bottom was bared.
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John Clare |
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By will impell'd, Love o'er my path presides;
By
Pleasure
led, o'ercome by Habit's reign,
Sweet Hope deludes, and comforts me again;
At her bright touch, my heart's despair subsides.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But precisely here Jonson
blunders
badly.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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How could I rest
If I refused the
messengers
and pilots
With all those sights and all that crying out?
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Yeats |
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So from a
powerless
husband shall be wrought
A powerless peril.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
Gawayne rises, dresses himself in noble array, and
conceals
the "love
lace" where he might find it again.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of the memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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T.S. Eliot |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the
darkened
chapel
Where Michelangelo made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The Hermit stepp'd forth from the boat,
And
scarcely
he could stand.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Whanne
Bourtonn
fyghtes, hee metes a doughtie foe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And if my
trembling
spirit groweth cold
Whene'er I see change to her aspect spring,
This fear is only born of trials old;
(Woman by nature is a fickle thing,)
And hence I know her heart hath power to hold
But a brief space Love's sweet imagining!
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Petrarch |
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_'
With hand on latch, a vision white
Lingered reluctant, and again
Half
doubting
if she did aright,
Soft as the dews that fell that night,
She said,--'_Auf wiedersehen!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Greeks, (whose arms for nine long year employ'd
Their force on Ilion, in the tenth destroy'd,)
At length,
embarking
in a luckless hour,
With conquest proud, incensed Minerva's power:
Hence on the guilty race her vengeance hurl'd,
With storms pursued them through the liquid world.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine
Must drown the memory of that
insolence!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I boast me sprung from ancestry renown'd
In spacious Crete; son of a wealthy sire,
Who other sons train'd num'rous in his house,
Born of his wedded wife; but he begat
Me on his purchased concubine, whom yet
Dear as his other sons in wedlock born
Castor
Hylacides
esteem'd and lov'd,
For him I boast my father.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Strange aches sailed by with odors on the wind
As when we kneel in flowers that grow on graves
Of friends who died
unworthy
of our love.
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Sidney Lanier |
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You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful
ministers!
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Whitman |
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1250
Ele ere
entoutes
cors bien digne
D'estre emperieris, ou roine.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What mystery
pervades
a well!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Planh for From this faint world, now full of
bitterness
EnJlisT* Love takes his wa^ and holds his J oy deceitful>
King
Sith no thing is but turneth unto anguish
And each to-day Vails less than yestere'en,
Let each man visage this young English King That was most valiant mid all worthiest men !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What
opulence
the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose farthest of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thou too, old man, hast happier days beheld;
In riches once, in children once excell'd;
Extended
Phrygia own'd thy ample reign,
And all fair Lesbos' blissful seats contain,
And all wide Hellespont's unmeasured main.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Expectation and doubt 5
Flutter my
timorous
heart.
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Sappho |
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h2
139 _simus hec
tibique_
O
143 _io hymen hymenee io_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Unarm'd and
unprepared
to meet the foe,
My naked bosom seem'd to court the blow.
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Petrarch |
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It seems to have puzzled
copyists
and editors,
who amend it in various ways.
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John Donne |
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I wandered o'er, till thou, O King of sadness, _770
Turned by thy smile the worst I saw to
recollected
gladness.
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Shelley |
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where she sits beneath yon shaggy rock,
A
cowering
shape half-seen through curling smoke.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of
thoughtless
youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Vous qui futes la grace ou qui futes la gloire,
Nul ne vous
reconnait!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"--
All this, my friends,
translate
aright:
"I with my friend intend to fight!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Stephen Crane |
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For-why to every lovere I me excuse,
That of no
sentement
I this endyte,
But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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Yeats |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is
necessary
to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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And must none close my dying feet,
And must none close my hands,
And will none do the last kind deeds
That death for all
demands?
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John Clare |
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Hugo - Poems |
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There is a young man sitting
On the right side, clothed in a long white
garment!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Passions cry round me with the yelling cry
Of dogs chained and
starving
and smelling blood.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1922
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
Fire and Wine Grant Richards (London) 1913
The Dominant City Max Goschen (London) 1913
Fool's Gold Max Goschen (London) 1913
The Book of Nature
Constable
& Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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uincire corona;
insere te nostris
contempto
iure choreis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Well,
Sourine?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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mankind are unco weak,
An' little to be trusted;
If self the wavering balance shake,
It's rarely right
adjusted!
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Robert Burns |
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_--Under this interpretation the
Redcross Knight is a
personification
of Protestant England, or the church
militant, while Una represents the true religion of the Reformed Church.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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5 Reed pipes were
associated
with the music of non-Han peoples.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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nec seruat natura uices: hic Sirius alget,
bruma tepet, uersumque domus sibi
temperat
annum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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these, and more, are
flashing
to us from the procession;
As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing before us.
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Whitman |
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Virtue is
generally
merely a form of deficiency, just as vice is an
assertion of intellect.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For out of Shushan to the ends of the earth
Great news runs, with a hidden soundless speed
Through secret
channels
in the folks' dim mind,
As water races through smooth sloping gutters.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The former suggests that the next two lines are an expansion
or
explanation
of this statement.
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John Donne |
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What is't but ill-placed
munificence?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
retorted
the lady, flushing up to her eyes.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For fair Enipeus, as from
fruitful
urns
He pours his watery store, the virgin burns;
Smooth flows the gentle stream with wanton pride,
And in soft mazes rolls a silver tide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"`And even while you're thus harassed,
I do believe, if out you went,
You'd go, in spite of all that's passed,
To the
children
of that President!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Nun komm herab,
kristallne
reine Schale!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In 1820 he was transferred to the bureau of Lieutenant-General
Inzoff, at
Kishineff
in Bessarabia.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Pour l'enfance d'Helene
frissonnerent
les fourres et les ombres, et le
sein des pauvres, et les legendes du ciel.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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him beo, 465
he fel in
swounyng
on ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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" The other
withheld
his weapon, and then reproved the prince with
many proud words.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The poet here follows a belief as old as Pliny
that the young of
serpents
fed on their mother's blood.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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She was the
mother of Charles Baudelaire, and
inquired
rather anxiously of Du Camp:
"My son has talent, has he not?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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One may notice in passing that
when Chatterton, more than a year later, committed suicide there were
not wanting a great many persons absurd enough to accuse Walpole of
having driven him to his death--a
contemptible
suggestion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I
have here the
hostages
of Acharnae;[198] I shall disembowel them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the day-beam is gone, _5
Unchanged,
unextinguished
its life-spring will shine;
When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan,
She will smile through the tears of revival on thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Was't not enough that thou didst dart thy fires 35
Into our blouds,
inflaming
our desires,
And made'st us sigh and glow, and pant, and burn,
And then thy self into our flame did'st turn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The little Pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she, 395
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
in soft
Delight they die & they revive in spring with music & songs
Enion said
Farewell
I die I hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
The old Chief, feeling now
wellnigh
his end,
Called his two eldest children to his side,
And gave them, in few words, his parting charge!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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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.
| Guess: |
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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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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Look on yonder earth:
The golden harvests spring; the
unfailing
sun
Sheds light and life; the fruits, the flowers, the trees,
Arise in due succession; all things speak _195
Peace, harmony, and love.
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the
mysterious
heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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Worthy Macduffe, and wee
Shall take vpon's what else
remaines
to do,
According to our order
Sey.
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