And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But what sort of repute or
position
would your
son Germanicus[176] enjoy?
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Tacitus |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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Remember, man, "the Universal Cause
Acts not by partial, but by general laws;"
And makes what
happiness
we justly call
Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"]
[Footnote 6:
Professor
Cowell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Would God thou hadst never won those
victories!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
| Guess: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Murmuring
all and singing,
Hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wrinkles where his eyes are,
Wrinkles where his nose is,
Wrinkles where his mouth is,
And a little old devil looking out of every
wrinkle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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These grains of gold are not grains of wheat;
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of Death one hour
From
climbing
the stairways of thy tower!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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II
Dryads
haunting
the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and Assyrian wine
to shatter her fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Tenants of the house,
Thoughts
of a dry brain in a dry season.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When the light of your eyes shall make pallid the mean lesser lights I pursue,
And the charm of your
presence
shall lure me from love of the gay "thirteen-
two";
When the peg and the pig-skin shall please not; when I buy me Calcutta-build
clothes;
When I quit the Delight of Wild Asses; forswearing the swearing of oaths;
As a deer to the hand of the hunter when I turn 'mid the gibes of my friends;
When the days of my freedom are numbered, and the life of the bachelor ends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda:
forse di retro a me con miglior voci
si
preghera
perche Cirra risponda.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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No, the real words are more
delicious
than they.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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But
somewhere
in my soul, I know
I 've met the thing before;
It just reminded me -- 't was all --
And came my way no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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at
neuermore
schal blinne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the midst of
pleasure
my soul suffers:
I drown in joy, and tremble with my fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How far this
direction is due to accident and how far to some not very defined
control it would be
impossible
to say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
A PILGRIM from the northern seas--
What joy for me to seek alone
The
wondrous
temple and the throne
Of him who holds the awful keys!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Doff all sad fears, thou white deliciousness,
And let us be thus comforted; unless
Thou couldst rejoice to see my
hopeless
stream
Hurry distracted from Sol's temperate beam,
And pour to death along some hungry sands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Royalties are
payable to "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation"
the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were
legally
required
to prepare) your annual (or equivalent
periodic) tax return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Crowns, jewels, palaces,
appeared
as naught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
[517] A
licentious
dance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Why rising by the
roadside
here, do you the colors greet?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Saturni rediere dies Astraeaque uirgo
tutaque in
antiquos
redierunt saecula mores.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
In marble-paved pavilion, where a spring
Of living water from the centre rose,
Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling,
And soft
voluptuous
couches breathed repose,
Ali reclined, a man of war and woes:
Yet in his lineaments ye cannot trace,
While Gentleness her milder radiance throws
Along that aged venerable face,
The deeds that lurk beneath, and stain him with disgrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The "slack" Beowulf, like the sluggish Brutus, ultimately reveals
his true character, and is presented with a
historic
sword of honor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
interest
will come round--all
will come round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Beneath the moon that shines so bright,
Till she is tired, let Betty Foy
With girt and stirrup fiddle-faddle;
But
wherefore
set upon a saddle
Him whom she loves, her idiot boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The darts are
thoughts
of thee, thy face the sun,
The fire my passion; such the weapons be
With which at will Love dazzles yet destroys.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Pisa,
Whose
daughters
did nothing to please her;
She dressed them in gray, and banged them all day,
Round the walls of the city of Pisa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
art 'bove alarm,
Quaffing
thus the cup of gall--
Canst thou face the grave with calm?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are
themselves
as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the dyre
clatterynge
of the shielde and launce
Made them to be by Hugh Fitzhugh espyd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of
mountain
and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Swift came the silence--our enemy hiding
Sudden retreat in the cloud-muffled night:
Swift as a hawk-pounce our hill-and-dale riding;
Hundreds on
hundreds
we caught in their flight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Coleridge, when he was by himself,
was never sure of this; there was his _magnum opus_, the revelation of
all philosophy; and he
sometimes
has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Creating the works from print
editions
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch:
How should I use it for your closer
contact?
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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Without effort, and without exposing in the least how it is done, the
greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and
passions
and
scenes and persons, some more and some less, to bear on your individual
character, as you hear or read.
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Whitman |
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A
princely
lodging.
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Longfellow |
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An
immortal
instinct deep within the spirit of man is thus plainly a
sense of the Beautiful.
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Poe - 5 |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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They are dreams of horror clothed in brass,
Which from profoundest depths of evil pass
With futile aim to dare the
Infinite!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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