They arrived at Athens in evil hour, and
imported
with
them that enormous frothy loquacity, which at once, like a pestilence,
blasted all the powers of genius, and established the rules of corrupt
eloquence.
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O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
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]: borrowing the
tearme from our common Lawyers, with whome all such casuals as fall
to the Lord at the holding of his _Leetes_, as _Waifes_, _Strayes_, &
such like, are sayd to be
_Escheated
to the Lords vse_ and are called
_Cheates_.
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J'ai souvent evoque cette lune enchantee,
Ce silence et cette langueur,
Et cette confidence horrible chuchotee
Au
confessionnal
du coeur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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As a natural result, various lively-minded
readers proceeded to overemphasize these particular features, and were
carried into
eccentricity
or paradox.
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And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing
lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Who else
Bribed
Chepchugov
in vain?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[573] Women slaves were forbidden by law to be present at the
Thesmophoria; they
remained
at the door of the temple and there waited
for the orders of their mistresses.
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Aristophanes |
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Then softly to her mouth the hoop conveys,
And, quicker than the flash which cleaves the skies,
From bold Rogero's sight her beauty shrowds,
As
disappears
the sun, concealed in clouds.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And
trolleys
jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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outen any
grucchyng
word,
Mete ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In frost and cold though lame he's forced to go--
The call's more urgent when he
journeys
slow.
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John Clare |
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)
Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Underneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Vous etes tous les deux tenebreux et discrets,
Homme, nul n'a sonde le fond de tes abimes;
O mer, nul ne connait tes richesses intimes,
Tant vous etes jaloux de garder vos
secrets!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Some greedy minion, or
imperious
wife.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Anerley,
Whose conduct was strange and unmannerly;
He rushed down the Strand with a Pig in each hand,
But
returned
in the evening to Anerley.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"You are aware of the great barrier in the path of an
American
writer.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_ Troth, bad are both; worse fruit and ill the tree:
The feast of
shepherds
fail.
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Robert Herrick |
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--What mother could confide
Her
offspring
to the wild and watery waste?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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to leaue his wife, to leaue his Babes,
His Mansion, and his Titles, in a place
From whence
himselfe
do's flye?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I reared her and she
heartily
loved me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Where, like a man beloved of God,
Through glooms, which never woodman trod,
How oft, pursuing fancies holy,
My
moonlight
way o'er flowering weeds I wound,
Inspired, beyond the guess of folly,
By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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For never shall ye be
From
henceforth
under the same roof with me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Carman has undertaken in attempting to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which
fragments
have
survived.
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Sappho |
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p, 180, that the law of honour among the Greeks
did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to
conceive
that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I too, Paumanok,
I too have bubbled up, floated the
measureless
float, and been washed on
your shores;
I too am but a trail of drift and debris,
I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped Island.
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Whitman |
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" remarked one of the
men,
addressing
a young officer of the Engineering Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
--"Many mourn; many think
It is not
unattractive
to prink
Them in sables for heroes.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And canst thou
ride the tempest as a steed, and grasp the
lightning
as a sword?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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He was a joglar at the court of the
Countess
of Burlatz, Azalais of Toulouse, daughter of Count Raimon V.
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Troubador Verse |
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[Note 46: Yazykoff, a poet
contemporary
with Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Straightway [265-299]he breaks in: 'Layest thou now the
foundations of tall Carthage, and
buildest
up a fair city in dalliance?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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From
Scotland
am I stol'n, even of pure love,
To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
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Shakespeare |
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He was biforn anoyed sore, 3565
But than ye doubled him wel more;
For he of blis hath ben ful bare,
Sith
Bialacoil
was fro him fare.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Benson published a volume of Jonson's, containing
_The Masque of the
Gypsies_
and other poems, in 1640 (_Brit.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[_Pause, finding that
SEANCHAN
does not answer.
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Yeats |
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Why, if the nights seem tedious--take a wife:
Or rather truly, if your point be rest,
Lettuce and cowslip wine:
Probatum
est.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And do you
remember
that about the copper coinage?
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Aristophanes |
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How long in vain
Penelope
we sought!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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X
Some feard, and fled; some feard and well it faynd;
One that would wiser seeme then all the rest,
Warnd him not touch, for yet perhaps remaynd
Some lingring life within his hollow brest, 85
Or in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest
Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed;
Another said, that in his eyes did rest
Yet
sparckling
fire, and bad thereof take heed;
Another said, he saw him move his eyes indeed.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Or hears the hawk when
Philomela
sings?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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_,
separate
poems, essays, etc.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Who shall doubt, _Donne_, where I a _Poet_ bee,
When I dare send my
_Epigrammes_
to thee?
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John Donne |
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We will come down at night to these
resounding
beaches
And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
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Sara Teasdale |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy
undulation
57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er renounced 61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I turn my body and gaze
longingly
towards the West.
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Li Po |
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Under the arm a trusty dagger rests,
Each spiked knee-piece its
murderous
power attests.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But many,
Not
strongly
fledge to ride the world's great rapture,
Must break, down fallen into steep confusion,
Where we climb easily and tower with joy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You would deny the joy and sense
Of keeping an honourable
silence?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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She, with her week-day worldliness sufficed,
Stands in her pew and hums her decent psalm
With decent
dippings
at the name of Christ!
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Tennyson |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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John Donne |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Keats |
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But the seventh self remained
watching
and gazing at nothingness,
which is behind all things.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Perchance
euen there
Where I did finde my doubts.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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As much that end a
constant
course requires
Of showers and sunshine, as of man's desires;
As much eternal springs and cloudless skies,
As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LXII
And after that is come duke Neimes furth,
(Better vassal there was not upon earth)
Says to the King: "Right well now have you heard
The count Rollanz to bitter wrath is stirred,
For that on him the
rereward
is conferred;
No baron else have you, would do that work.
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Chanson de Roland |
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what wonder-working, occult science
Can from the ashes in our hearts once more
The rose of youth
restore?
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Longfellow |
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The sprite resumed: "Thou hast transferred
To her dull form awhile
My beauty, fame, and deed, and word,
My
gestures
and my smile.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Know'st thou aught, this tale
belying?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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omnia sint operata deo: non audeat ulla
lanificam pensis
imposuisse
manum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_ 'Lo, there a noble
conisaunce!
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Why
specially
Jean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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' On my expressing a
natural surprise, he added, smiling, 'Why, at such times the only view
which
honorable
members give me of what goes on in the world is through
their intercalumniations.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If merely a salute her wish had been,
She might have had it, easily was seen;
But bliss
unbounded
clearly was her view,
And this with anxious ardour she'd pursue.
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La Fontaine |
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Powerful
defenders
will support our cause: 1365
Argos extends her arms to us: Sparta calls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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—
He and had known such days
together
And loved him better than myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Bronckhorst's ayah, is a
question which
concerns
Strickland exclusively.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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(BISMARCK AND
NAPOLEON
III.
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| Question: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He is believed
to have
described
Mary Shelley at a time when she had come to seem
cold in his eyes, in that passage of _Epipsychidion_ which tells how
a woman like the Moon led him to her cave and made 'frost' creep over
the sea of his mind, and so bewitched Life and Death with 'her silver
voice' that they ran from him crying, 'Away, he is not of our crew.
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Yeats |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you,
beauteous
and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If you received it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second
opportunity
to
receive it electronically.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Does it look with the
same love on the last-born and on those hardening toward stature, and on
the errant, and on those who disdain all
strength
of assault outside of
their own?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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There you'll lie
In noon's delight, with bees to flash above you,
Drown amid buttercups that blaze in the wind,
Forgetting
all save beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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"Are you Grecian or born in this
country?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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As when a flock
Of ravenous Fowl, though many a League remote,
Against the day of Battel, to a Field,
Where Armies lie encampt, come flying, lur'd
With sent of living Carcasses design'd
For death, the
following
day, in bloodie fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
A minute swerve in their motion is
essential
to account for
clashings and production; and in the ethical sphere it is this swerve
which saves the mind from "Necessity" and makes free will possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Why, your eyes are
shining
already!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Most women in London
nowadays
seem to furnish their rooms with nothing
but orchids, foreigners and French novels.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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carpatinas_ RB
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_hiscas_
Voss: _discas_ ?
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I knew that my first version was hurried and oratorical, with events
cast into the plot because they seemed lively or amusing in themselves,
and not because they grew out of the characters and the plot; and I
came to dislike a central
character
so arid and so dominating.
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Yeats |
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Your
perfection
is inside of
you.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Hedge has come nearer than any one to
reconciling
meaning and melody
thus:--
"Christ has arisen!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Magna Mater_
IN curru biiugos agitare leones
hanc ueteres Graium docti cecinere poetae,
aeris in spatio magnam pendere docentes
tellurem neque posse in terra sistere terram:
adiunxere feras, quia quamuis effera proles
officiis debet molliri uicta parentum:
muralique
caput summum cinxere corona,
eximiis munita locis quia sustinet urbis;
quo nunc insigni per magnas praedita terras
horrifice fertur diuinae matris imago.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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