To save them from the wrath of Gaul's
unsparing
lord.
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Ben Jonson was of a north-country family from the Annan
district
that
produced Thomas Carlyle.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Did
traitors
lurk in the Christians' hold?
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Byron |
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principal
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A union then of honest men,
Or union
nevermore
again.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The city won for Allah from the Giaour,
The Giaour from Othman's race again may wrest;
And the Serai's
impenetrable
tower
Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest;
Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest
The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil,
May wind their path of blood along the West;
But ne'er will Freedom seek this fated soil,
But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lewis Carroll |
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"She was seated," he says,
"among those ladies who are generally her companions, and appeared like
a beautiful rose
surrounded
with flowers smaller and less blooming.
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Petrarch |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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new collection verse
WHITE FOUNTAINS
A BOOK OF VERSE
Published on February 2 1 st by Small,
MaynarrJ
& Company, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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permission
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Rilke - Poems |
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XIV
There pass the
careless
people
That call their souls their own:
Here by the road I loiter,
How idle and alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It says: "I have worked, I am tired,
The pencil dulls in my hand: I see through the window
Walls upon walls of windows with faces behind them,
Smoke floating up to the sky, an
ascension
of seagulls.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Self-scourged, like a monk, with a throne for wages,
Stripped like the iron-souled Hindu sages,
Draped like a statue, in strings like a scarecrow,
His helmet-hat an old tin pan,
But worn in the love of the heart of man,
More sane than the helm of Tamerlane,
Hairy Ainu, wild man of Borneo,
Robinson
Crusoe--Johnny Appleseed;
And the robin might have said,
"Sowing, he goes to the far, new West,
With the apple, the sun of his burning breast--
The apple allied to the thorn,
Child of the rose.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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She who is old, but nowise feeble,
Pours her power into the people,
Merry and
manifold
without bar,
Makes and moulds them what they are,
And what they call their city way
Is not their way, but hers,
And what they say they made to-day,
They learned of the oaks and firs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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This passion never, we perceive, remains
In want from paucity of
scheming
brains.
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La Fontaine |
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I faithful shall relate
(Replied
Amphimedon)
our hapless fate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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His
interests
are purely human.
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Tacitus |
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-1891" and beside this: "Perhaps it is all an insertion
designed
to preceed 'Enion blind & age bent wept upon the desolate wind,-(373 in the 1st printed numbering-suggestion of Mr F G Fleay 1904".
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Blake - Zoas |
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in the Classic of Documents, praises the
achievements
of Yu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But if thy
whimpering
looks do ask me why,
Then know that nature bids thee go, not I.
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Robert Herrick |
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We are made to turn the wheel for water
To carry the heavy basket on our scorched shoulders, to sift
The sand & ashes, & to mix the clay with tears &
repentance
I see not Luvah as of old
I only see his feet Like pillars
of fire travelling thro darkness
& non entity {These four lines are placed to the right of the main body of text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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They sit in the reverend Hall: `Shall we
declare?
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Sidney Lanier |
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His great valour how can it be
counted?
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Chanson de Roland |
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"I would sustain the cause of my kindred
No mortal man is there from whom I've fled;
Rather I'ld die than hear
reproaches
said.
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Chanson de Roland |
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How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of
celestial
journeys,
Ye sang of the glorious dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A
fisherman
stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.
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Longfellow |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you
continue
she
will take you for one now.
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John Donne |
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A pleasant
stratagem
he now contrived,
From which, he hoped, success might be derived.
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La Fontaine |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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Appoloinaire |
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"Taking Three as the subject to reason about--
A
convenient
number to state--
We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
By One Thousand diminished by Eight.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Then, what word
Of answer from your wreck when I demand
Account of
Cromwell!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And in a valour
lessening
Arthur^s deeds,
For holiness the Confessor exceeds.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e,
And my
blessynge
y-wis.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Reprinted January_ 1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First edition_ 1901 (dated 1902)
_Second
Edition_
1903.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
following
plays were
revived:--_Deirdre_, by A.
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Yeats |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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J'etais bien jeune, et Christ a souille mes haleines,
Il me bonda jusqu'a la gorge de degouts;
Tu baisais mes cheveux profonds comme des laines,
Et je me
laissais
faire!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
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Keats - Lamia |
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This song was extant when Livy wrote; and,
though
exceedingly
rugged and uncouth, seemed to him not wholly
destitute of merit.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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THE friends disputed which the lead should take,
And strong pretentions both appeared to make;
The husband, honours home would not allow:
Such
compliments
were out of fashion now.
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La Fontaine |
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womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a diagonal line which may indicate 1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza
beginning
"I die not Enitharmon.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But from these crazing
thoughts
my brain, escape!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'O Lord, O everlasting
Governor
of men and things--for what else may we
yet supplicate?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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II
A thing all consequence here takes the lead,
Reigning knight-errant oer this dirty breed--
A bailiff he, and who so great to brag
Of law and all its terrors as Bumtagg;
Fawning a puppy at his master's side
And frowning like a wolf on all beside;
Who fattens best where sorrow worst appears
And feeds on sad misfortune's
bitterest
tears?
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John Clare |
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Like one by wonder reft of speech, I stood
Pond'ring the
mournful
scene in pensive mood,
As one that waits advice.
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Petrarch |
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The "four summer
weeks"
referred
to in the first stanza, were those spent at Piel during
the year 1794.
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William Wordsworth |
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t[e]_--myhte
1153 _make_--maken
_self[e]_--selue]
[Headnote:
RICHES HAVE NO
INTRINSIC
VALUE.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Gliding past him a host of fairies swept
In long
procession
to the Palace of the Jade City.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Who would not praise Patritio's high desert,
His hand unstained, his uncorrupted heart,
His
comprehensive
head!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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 - One - Complete |
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'_And art thou gone_,
_beloved
Ghost_?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Matallus, too, of Chrysa, lord and king
Of myriad hordes, who led unto the fight
Three times ten
thousand
swarthy cavaliers,
Fell, with his swarthy and abundant beard
Incarnadined to red, a crimson stain
Outrivalling the purple of the sea!
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Aeschylus |
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SEA VIOLET
The white violet
is scented on its stalk,
the sea-violet
fragile as agate,
lies
fronting
all the wind
among the torn shells
on the sand-bank.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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in the sad sky,
The
selfsame
Eye on the horizon's verge,
And the wretch shook as in an ague fit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Email contact links and up to date contact
information can be found at the Foundation's web site and
official
page
at http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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But this we know, though that exceeds our
skill,
That
whosoever
separates them does ill.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[65] Old men, who carried olive
branches
in the processions of the
Panathenaea.
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Aristophanes |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first
surmised
the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
wandering
earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling the endless reverie.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Now, seeing she goes forth never to return,
Bid her your last farewell, as
mourners
may.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
lightning
suddenly
Unsheathed its flaming sword,
And I cried: "Stand still, and see
The salvation of the Lord!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"I have seen the ruins of the grotto of the famous Cumaean sybil; it is a
hideous rock,
suspended
in the Avernian lake.
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Petrarch |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--
Love, hardly conquer'd, long repined in vain,
When Justice link'd the adamantine chain;
And cruel Friendship o'er the conquer'd ground
Raised with strong hand th'
insuperable
mound.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Out spake the Consul roundly:
"The bridge must
straight
go down;
For, since Janiculum is lost,
Nought else can save the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Could I
contradict
him?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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, _to avenge, wreak
vengeance
upon, punish_: pret.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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As the
overhanging
trees
Fill the lake with images,--
As garment draws the garment's hem,
Men their fortunes bring with them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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_
So though a father or a mother wail
New-smitten by a son, it shall no more avail,
Since,
overthrown
by wrong, the fane of Justice fell!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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æfter dēorum men dyrne langað beorn (_the hero longeth
secretly
after
the dear man_), 1880.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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_ This is the old
objection
against Providence, so
ably handled by Cicero in his _Book of Divination_; and you
yourself have anxiously discussed it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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'--and
slaughter
now
Would have gone forth, when from beneath a cowl _4070
A voice came forth, which pierced like ice through every soul.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Carjat
qui se trouvait en face ou tout comme, la lame
degainee
qui ne fit pas
heureusement de tres grands ravages, puisque le sympathique ex-directeur
du _Boulevard_ ne recut, si j'en crois ma memoire qui est excellente
dans ce cas, qu'une eraflure tres legere a une main.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My old
parents' minds were relieved, and they
impatiently
awaited better news.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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TO
MISTRESS
MARY WILLAND.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I look'd upon the rotting Sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I look'd upon the
eldritch
deck,
And there the dead men lay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What but thy malice mov'd thee to misdeem
Of
righteous
Job, then cruelly to afflict him
With all inflictions, but his patience won?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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They are
represented
in divers
fantastic forms, the human or divine being mixed with that of some animal,
especially the horse or wild goat.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
—Chicago
Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A simple emendation of _maie_ to
_meynte_
would give very good sense.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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62 Master of the
Dependances!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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[23]
_Hierarchie
of the Blessed Angels_ 9.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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