She sate upon her Dobie,
She heard the Nimmak hum,
When all at once a cry arose,
"The
Cummerbund
is come!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_Laurence Binyon_
THE RED CROSS NURSES
Out where the line of battle cleaves
The horizon of woe
And
sightless
warriors clutch the leaves
The Red Cross nurses go.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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hīe Wyrd
forswēop
on
Grendles gryre, 477.
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Beowulf |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer throughout next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that
mysterious
maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I wonder if the sap is stirring yet,
If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,
If frozen
snowdrops
feel as yet the sun
And crocus fires are kindling one by one:
Sing, robin, sing!
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Christina Rossetti |
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To ask for
twice your
stipulated
fee in a voice that Lazarus might have used
when he rose from the dead, is absurd.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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blake-poems |
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Of what
enjoyments
thou hast reft us!
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Robert Burns |
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Fresh carved cedar, mimicking a glade
Of palm and plantain, met from either side,
High in the midst, in honour of the bride:
Two palms and then two plantains, and so on,
From either side their stems branch'd one to one
All down the aisled place; and beneath all
There ran a stream of lamps
straight
on from wall to wall.
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Keats - Lamia |
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PRINCE KURBSKY,
disgraced
Russian noble.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I dimly do recall
"Some tiny sphere I built long back
(Mid
millions
of such shapes of mine)
So named .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Mais le soleil eveille, a travers les feuillages,
Les vieilles couleurs des vitraux ensoleilles,
La pierre sent toujours la terre maternelle,
Vous verrez des monceaux de ces cailloux terreux
Dans la campagne en rut qui fremit, solennelle,
Portant, pres des bles lourds, dans les sentiers sereux,
Ces
arbrisseaux
brules ou bleuit la prunelle,
Des noeuds de muriers noirs ou de rosiers furieux.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest
wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O ever failing trust
In mortal
strength!
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Milton |
|
Examples of his use of classical constructions are: the ablative absolute,
as, _which doen_ (IV, xliii); the relative construction with _when_, as,
_which when_ (I, xvii), _that when_ (VII, xi); the comparative of the
adjective in the sense of "too," as, _weaker_ (I, xlv), harder (II, xxxvi);
the
participial
construction after _till_, as, _till further tryall made_
(I, xii); the superlative of location, as, _middest_ (IV, xv); and the old
gerundive, as, _wandering wood_ (I, xiii).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[51] Note _BUL(tu-ku)_
eratatu_
(falsely entered in Meissner,
SAI.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Still as death are the places of life;
The city seems crumbled and gone,
Sunk 'mid
invisible
deeps--
The city so lately rife
With the stir of brain and brawn.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Finally 'The Rape of the Lock', in its
limitations
and defects, no less
than in its excellencies, represents a whole period of English poetry,
the period which reaches with but few exceptions from Dryden to
Wordsworth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Do you
remember
Pater's phrase about
Leonardo da Vinci, 'curiosity and the desire of beauty'?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'And
homeless
orphans find a home near her,
And those poor victims of the proud, no less,
Fair wrecks, on whom the smiling world with stir, _1605
Thrusts the redemption of its wickedness:--
In squalid huts, and in its palaces
Sits Lust alone, while o'er the land is borne
Her voice, whose awful sweetness doth repress
All evil, and her foes relenting turn, _1610
And cast the vote of love in hope's abandoned urn.
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Shelley |
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II
MY child came home,
The sea-breeze in his hair still blows,
His gait still bears
The traveller's proven fear and
youthful
glee.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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HYPSEUS' DAUGHTER CYRENE
PYTHIA IX, 31-44
He reared the white-armed child Cyrene,
Who loved neither the alternating motion of the loom,
Nor the superintendence of feasts,
With the pleasures of companions;
But, with javelins of steel
And the sword contending,
To slay wild beasts;
Affording surely much
And tranquil peace to her father's herds;
Spending
little sleep
Upon her eyelids,
As her sweet bedfellow, creeping on at dawn.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Poe - 5 |
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following
it expresses futurity, = _shall, will_: pres.
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Beowulf |
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He saide; the Monke
departyd
out of hande, 175
And to Kyng Harolde dyd this message bear;
Who said; tell thou the duke, at his likand
If he can gette the crown hee may itte wear.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yoking my chariot I urge my
stubborn
horses.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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No man is able
to say in sooth, no son of the halls,
no hero 'neath heaven, -- who
harbored
that freight!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for
destruction
ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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_
HE
REJOICES
AT BEING ON EARTH WITH HER, AS HE IS THEREBY ENABLED BETTER
TO IMITATE HER VIRTUES.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Here am I now who fain would be elsewhere;
More would I wish and yet no more I would;
I could no more and yet did all I could:
And new tears born of old desires declare
That still I am as I was wont to be,
And that a
thousand
changes change not me.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Strong in thy guidance, Hector's sire
Escaped the Atridae, pass'd between
Thessalian
tents and warders' fire,
Of all unseen.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Insects_
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard,
And happy units of a numerous herd
Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings,
Mocking the
sunshine
in their glittering wings,
How merrily they creep, and run, and fly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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1450
Act V Scene IV (Theseus)
Theseus
What is she
thinking?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Both poets maintain a similar ideal in life; but they
maintain it within conditions
altogether
unlike.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The band sat down,
and watched on the water worm-like things,
sea-dragons strange that sounded the deep,
and nicors that lay on the ledge of the ness --
such as oft essay at hour of morn
on the road-of-sails their
ruthless
quest, --
and sea-snakes and monsters.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Not only this, (but use me as you may)
I, and my shield and courser, yours shall be;
So you no more conceal your
beauteous
cheer.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Robert was his
Christian
name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Ocean-tides with your arms ye covered,
with
strenuous
hands the sea-streets measured,
swam o'er the waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
pavement
sinks under my feet!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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A travers les lueurs que tourmente le vent
La
Prostitution
s'allume dans les rues;
Comme une fourmiliere elle ouvre ses issues;
Partout elle se fraye un occulte chemin,
Ainsi que l'ennemi qui tente un coup de main;
Elle remue au sein de la cite de fange
Comme un ver qui derobe a l'Homme ce qu'il mange.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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ou
misseist
hym ou?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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`That Grekes wolde hir
wraththe
on Troye wreke, 960
If that they mighte, I knowe it wel, y-wis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For then he was inspired, and from him came,
As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore,
Those oracles which set the world in flame,
Nor ceased to burn till
kingdoms
were no more:
Did he not this for France, which lay before
Bowed to the inborn tyranny of years?
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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You daughter or son of
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Coeus, and Gyges, and Briareus,
Typhon, and Dolor, and Porphyrion, 20
With many more, the brawniest in assault,
Were pent in regions of laborious breath;
Dungeon'd in opaque element, to keep
Their
clenched
teeth still clench'd, and all their limbs
Lock'd up like veins of metal, crampt and screw'd;
Without a motion, save of their big hearts
Heaving in pain, and horribly convuls'd
With sanguine feverous boiling gurge of pulse.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Must these the victor's lordly flag display
With hateful blaze beneath the rising day,
My name dishonour'd, and my
victories
stain'd,
O'erturn'd my altars, and my shrines profan'd?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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As on the fleecy flocks when hunger calls,
Amidst the field a brindled lion falls;
If chance some shepherd with a distant dart
The savage wound, he rouses at the smart,
He foams, he roars; the shepherd dares not stay,
But
trembling
leaves the scattering flocks a prey;
Heaps fall on heaps; he bathes with blood the ground,
Then leaps victorious o'er the lofty mound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Always, when Art on
perverse
wing
Flies where I cannot hear him sing,
I gaze in my two springs and see
A charm that brings him back to me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the
northern
bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
"Will Neptune (Vulcan then) the
faithless
trust?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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In _The
Undertaking_
(p.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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'
iure, ut opinor, agat, iure
increpet
inciletque.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the
burnished
rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so
poisoned
the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly penetrate her--
she opening to you,
engulfing
you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
THE STAR TO ITS LIGHT
"THE SUNSHINE OF THINE EYES"
JESSAMINE
THE BOBOLINK
SAILOR'S SONG, RETURNING
FIRST GLANCE
BRIDE BROOK
MAY-ROSE
THE SINGING WIRE
THE HEART OF A SONG
SOUTH-WIND
THE LOVER'S YEAR
NEW WORLDS
NIGHT IN NEW YORK
THE SONG-SPARROW
I LOVED YOU, ONCE----
II
THE BRIDE OF WAR
A RUNE OF THE RAIN
BREAKERS
BLACKMOUTH, OF COLORADO
THE CHILD-YEAR
CHRISTENING
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
BEFORE THE SNOW
III
YOUTH TO THE POET
THE SWORD DHAM
"AT THE GOLDEN GATE"
CHARITY
HELEN AT THE LOOM
THE CASKET OF OPALS
LOVE THAT LIVES
IV
BLUEBIRD'S GREETING
THE VOICE OF THE VOID
"O
WHOLESOME
DEATH"
INCANTATION
FAMINE AND HARVEST
THE CHILD'S WISH GRANTED
THE FLOWN SOUL
SUNSET AND SHORE
THE PHOEBE-BIRD
A STRONG CITY
THREE DOVES
V
ARISE, AMERICAN!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All else beneath the sun,
Thou know'st if best
bestowed
or not;
And let Thy will be done.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuos sea--
Some ocean
throbbing
far and free
With storms--but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o're that one bright island smile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The bound rage of the uncreated Spirit
Whose striving doth
impassion
us and the world?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Why roll those eyes
unfriended
of repose?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new
Marriage
I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The sun is setting, for the light is red,
And you are
outlined
in a golden fire,
Like Ursula upon an altar-screen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Queen, is it well to be so
sorrowful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Scared at the sudden brisk attack, I found
Nor time, nor vigour to repel the foe
With weapons suited to the direful need;
No kind
protection
of rough rising ground,
Where from defeat I might securely speed,
Which fain I would e'en now, but ah, no method know!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
There he was
appointed
a Reminder, an official who stayed close to the ruler and ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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whom our fathers well
Have styled as of a triple form, and who
Thy sovereign beauty dost in heaven, and hell,
And earth, in many forms reveal; and through
The greenwood holt, of beast and monster fell,
-- A
huntress
bold -- the flying steps pursue,
Show where my king, amid so many lies,
Who did, alive, thy holy studies prize.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Here by the labouring highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till
doomsday
morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"
I
interrupted
his speech.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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How you've revered the
formative
will of those ancient artists!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If Paine's
invention
were a sell?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your
pistols?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
They do not know who puffs and
declines
with pendant and bending arch,
They do not think whom they souse with spray.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a
listening
air.
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Robert Forst |
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Sae
craftilie
she took me ben,
And bade me mak nae clatter;
"For our ramgunshoch, glum gudeman
Is o'er ayont the water.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
Wild to get loose, his
patience
I provoke,
Mistake, confound, object at all he spoke.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Down rush'd the toils, inwrapping as they lay
The careless lovers in their wanton play:
In vain they strive; the
entangling
snares deny
(Inextricably firm) the power to fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Gradually the anger of his
parishioners
would increase.
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Yeats |
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Diegue
And yet to be denied seems
scarcely
best.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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For this
purpose he coined so strange a word, that the
prosecutor
implored the
protection of the judges.
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Tacitus |
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My
plenteous
Ioyes,
Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues
In drops of sorrow.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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e
wedenysday
bifore ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[412]
From Heaven and Vesta sprung the birth divine,
Her snowy limbs bright through the
vestments
shine.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Li Po |
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I know a place where summer strives
With such a
practised
frost,
She each year leads her daisies back,
Recording briefly, "Lost.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the orchards --
And they the
daffodils!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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