Sixth Self: And I, the working self, the pitiful labourer, who,
with patient hands, and longing eyes, fashion the days into images
and give the formless
elements
new and eternal forms--it is I, the
solitary one, who would rebel against this restless madman.
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Some of these have already been acted, but
some may not be acted for a long time, but all seem to me, though they
were but a part of a summer's work, to have more of that countenance of
country life than
anything
I have done since I was a boy.
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth Triumphant The
Macmillan
Company 1914
Turns and Movies Houghton Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,
Leastways
if you reckon two thumbs;
Long ago he was one of the singers,
But now he is one of the dumbs.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I saw a
something
in the Sky
No bigger than my fist;
At first it seem'd a little speck
And then it seem'd a mist:
It mov'd and mov'd, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_ I have looked to all things needful, and will now
Receive reports of
progress
made in such
Orders as I had given, and then return
To hear your further pleasure.
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Byron |
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"
But none of my
neighbours
came to look upon my Joy, and great was
my astonishment.
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The
alliteration
in this sentence is Tacitus'.
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Tacitus |
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nam quis te maiora gerit
castrisue
foroue?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And
strength
to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet free from
flattery
or empire.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Meanwhile
I am not dressed--
ROUZYA.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Roses--pavement--
I will take all this city away with me--
People--uproar--the pavement jostling and flickering--
Women with
incredible
eyelids:
Dandies in spats:
Hard-faced throng discussing me--I know them all.
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Imagists |
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Another misconception, a
critical
one, is the case of Poe and
Baudelaire.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Before one he trails a hat and feather, or a bare
feather without a hat; before another, a
Presidential
chair or a
tide-waiter's stool, or a pulpit in the city, no matter what.
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James Russell Lowell |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The balmy gale, that, with its tender sigh,
Moves the green laurel and the golden hair,
Makes with its
graceful
visitings and rare
The gazer's spirit from his body fly.
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Petrarch |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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THE
PATCHWORK
BONNET
Across the room my silent love I throw,
Where you sit sewing in bed by candlelight,
Your young stern profile and industrious fingers
Displayed against the blind in a shadow-show,
To Dinda's grave delight.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Then all
together
sorely wailing drew
To the curs'd strand, that every man must pass
Who fears not God.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
And the daughter of Cyprus said to me,
"Child of the earth, 10
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,---
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
The loving heart,
Deeds and
knowledge
and beauty and joy,-- 15
But before all else was desire.
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Sappho |
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These are the patient laureates
Whose voices, trained below,
Ascend in ceaseless carol,
Inaudible, indeed,
To us, the duller scholars
Of the
mysterious
bard!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ed ecco due da la sinistra costa,
nudi e graffiati, fuggendo si forte,
che de la selva
rompieno
ogne rosta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sometimes our fate grows too homely and
familiarly
serious ever to be
cruel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Over the hill she crept,
And
staggered
down the valley.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Line 108 has special reference to the tortures
inflicted upon the natives of Mexico and Peru by the
avaricious
Spanish
conquerors.
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Alexander Pope |
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Very few have been translated;
and it is obvious that they are
unsuitable
for translation, since their
whole merit lies in metrical dexterity.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Out of the dark I return
And the House of the Dead;
The endless regions of gloom
Deep
sepulchred
in the womb
Of Earth, the mother of all things.
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Tennyson |
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Infanta
Chimene, it's true he's
performed
miracles.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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{
{_Spreading
the News_, by Lady Gregory.
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Yeats |
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The deadly
diamonds
shining in their crowns
Do wound the foreheads of their Majesties
And glitter through a setting of blood-gouts
As if they smiled to think how men are slain
By the sharp facets of the gem of power,
And how the kings of men are slaves of stones.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace
That I would die and go to her I love;
The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the
herdsman
goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.
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Yeats |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS DAMOETAS PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock,
Damoetas?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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,
and by the internal
evidence
which the several pieces afford.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Forty years of my life have I labored among you, and taught you,
Not in word alone, but in deed, to love one
another!
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Longfellow |
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"
The cloud-compelling god her suit approved,
And smiled superior on his best beloved;
Then call'd his coursers, and his chariot took;
The stedfast firmament beneath them shook:
Rapt by the
ethereal
steeds the chariot roll'd;
Brass were their hoofs, their curling manes of gold:
Of heaven's undrossy gold the gods array,
Refulgent, flash'd intolerable day.
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Iliad - Pope |
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III
Lucid, pure, and calm and blameless
Dawned on
Gettysburg
the day
That should make the spot, once fameless,
Known to nations far away.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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That I might greet, that I might cry,
While Tories fall, while Tories fly,
And furious Whigs
pursuing!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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THE
CHILDREN
OF THE POOR.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Of mines I little know, myself,
But just the names of gems, --
The colors of the commonest;
And scarce of diadems
So much that, did I meet the queen,
Her glory I should know:
But this must be a
different
wealth,
To miss it beggars so.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who are these coming to the
sacrifice?
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Keats |
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The phocae[15] also, rising from the waves,
Offspring of
beauteous
Halosydna, sleep
Around him, num'rous, and the fishy scent
Exhaling rank of the unfathom'd flood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast,
Of Saturn's reign, and of Prometheus' theft,
And the
Caucasian
birds, and told withal
Nigh to what fountain by his comrades left
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore
"Then Re-echoed "Hylas, Hylas!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur
fenetre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Tarchon flies like fire over the
plain,
carrying
the armed man, and breaks off the steel head from his
own spear and searches the uncovered places, trying where he may deal
the mortal blow; the other struggling against him keeps his hand off his
throat, and strongly parries his attack.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And now in fix'd gaze stand,
Now wander through the Eden of thy hand;
Praise the green arches, on the fountain clear
See fragment shadows of the
crossing
deer;
And with that serviceable nymph I stoop
The crystal from its restless pool to scoop.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which thunders down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As
careless
as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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RECUEILLEMENT
Sois sage, o ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille,
Tu
reclamais
le Soir; il descend; le voici:
Une atmosphere obscure enveloppe la ville,
Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And with a
fixed stare, as if peering through some
invisible
window opening upon
eternity, he died, August 31, 1867, aged forty-six.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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After-effect
immortality
thanks to
our love
- he
prolongs
us
beyond
in exchange
we give back
life to him
in deepening
our thought
47.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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Should war's mad blast again be blown,
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy
broadsides
roar with ours.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Sidenote D:
Therefore
come to her and make merry in my house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Huius aequalis
Boccatius
(?
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the brilliant parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If
remembrance
ended
When life and love are gathered,
If the world were not living
Long after one is gone,
Song would not ring, nor sorrow
Stand at the door in evening;
Life would vanish and slacken,
Men would be changed to stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Act II Scene VIII (King Ferdinand, Don Diegue, Chimene, Don Sanche, Don Arias, Don Alonso)
Chimene
Sire, Sire,
justice!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They'll suffer for it, the godless
wretches!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of
Sicilian
July, with Etna smoking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whilst thus I dream, the bells clash out
Upon the Sabbath air,
Each seems a hostile faith to shout,
A selfish form of prayer:
My dream is shattered, yet who knows
But in that heaven so near
These discords find
harmonious
close
In God's atoning ear?
| Guess: |
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James Russell Lowell |
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sez he, "I guess,
Though physic's good," sez he,
"It doesn't foller that he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed 'J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms
Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees,
With some
uncertain
notice, as might seem,
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire
The hermit sits alone.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It
remained
now only to encourage Charlie to talk, and here there was no
difficulty.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Your husband this contrived I plainly see,
Who fancies that replies were not to be,
Since in our bargain they were never named;
For shuffling conduct he was ever famed;
But I'll come round him, spite of all his art;
I can reply for you, and from the heart,
Since I can read your wishes in your eyes;
'Tis thus to say--Good, sir, I would advise
That you regard me, not as marble cold;
Your various
tournaments
and actions bold,
Your serenades, and gen'ral conduct prove,
What tender sentiments your bosom move.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The faint light cast from every distant star
Showed thirty ships now
crossing
the bar;
The waves swelled beneath, and their effort
Brought the tide-borne Moors within the port.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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_
TO A FRIEND,
COUNSELLING
HIM TO ABANDON EARTHLY PLEASURES.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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And what's thy
purchase?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I would send them where their
industry
should
be daily increased by praise, and that kindled by emulation.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The error of imputing to Virtue what are only the
calamities
of
Nature or of Fortune, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After the king's death as Merlin and Bleys walked out from the
castle walls into the dismal misty night, they saw a wonderful
fairy-ship shaped like a winged dragon sailing the heavens, with shining
people
collected
on its decks; but in the twinkling of an eye the ship
was gone.
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Tennyson |
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Come from deep glen, and
From
mountain
so rocky;
The war-pipe and pennon
Are at Inverlochy.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nor took from that
dwelling
the duke of the Geats
save only the head and that hilt withal
blazoned with jewels: the blade had melted,
burned was the bright sword, her blood was so hot,
so poisoned the hell-sprite who perished within there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I think I once mentioned something to you of a
collection
of Scots
songs I have for some years been making: I send you a perusal of what
I have got together.
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Robert Forst |
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Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of
floating
cloud like lace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Short life and bitter
nuptials
should be theirs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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XXIV
Up then, up dreary Dame, of
darknesse
Queene,
Go gather up the reliques of thy race,
Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, 210
That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place,
And can the children of faire light deface.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But not in silence pass Calypso's isles,
The sister tenants of the middle deep;
There for the weary still a haven smiles,
Though the fair goddess long has ceased to weep,
And o'er her cliffs a
fruitless
watch to keep
For him who dared prefer a mortal bride:
Here, too, his boy essayed the dreadful leap
Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide;
While thus of both bereft, the nymph-queen doubly sighed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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e wowes,
Vnder
couertour
ful clere, cortyned aboute;
& as in slomeryng he slode, sle3ly he herde
[C] A littel dyn at his dor, & derfly vpon;
1184 & he heue3 vp his hed out of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
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Chanson de Roland |
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