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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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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Yeats |
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Now, seeing she goes forth never to return,
Bid her your last farewell, as
mourners
may.
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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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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.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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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?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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, _to avenge, wreak
vengeance
upon, punish_: pret.
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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.
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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!
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Aeschylus |
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æfter dēorum men dyrne langað beorn (_the hero longeth
secretly
after
the dear man_), 1880.
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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.
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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.
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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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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My old
parents' minds were relieved, and they
impatiently
awaited better news.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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TO
MISTRESS
MARY WILLAND.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of
Mississippi
and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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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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| Question: |
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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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| Source: |
Li Po |
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[23]
_Hierarchie
of the Blessed Angels_ 9.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Wherefore, moon,
Since she
presents
bright look and clear-cut form,
May there on high by us on earth be seen
Just as she is with extreme bounds defined,
And just of the size.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Here shall you quaff beneath the shade
Sweet Lesbian
draughts
that injure none,
Nor fear lest Mars the realm invade
Of Semele's Thyonian son,
Lest Cyrus on a foe too weak
Lay the rude hand of wild excess,
His passion on your chaplet wreak,
Or spoil your undeserving dress.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Lyche a rodde gronfer, shalle mie anlace sheene,
Lyche a strynge
lyoncelle
I'lle bee ynne fyghte,
Lyche fallynge leaves the Dacyannes shalle bee sleene, 645
Lyche [a] loud dynnynge streeme scalle be mie myghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e
emperoures
bour,
A mayde good, of greth honur,
To wedde wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Triumph thither went where salt waves wet
The Baian shore eastward; her foot she set
There on firm land, and did Avernus leave
On the one hand, on th' other Sybil's cave;
So to
Linternus
march'd, the village where
The noble Africane lies buried; there
The great news of her triumph did appear
As glorious to the eye as to the ear
The fame had been; and the most chaste did show
Most beautiful; it grieved Love much to go
Another's prisoner, exposed to scorn,
Who to command whole empires seemed born.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Yes; you are
laughing
to yourself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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NICAISE
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;
Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;
A lad quite
ignorant
beyond his trade,
And what arithmetick might lend him aid;
A perfect novice in the wily art,
That in amours is used to win the heart.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It gradually
possessed
his mind;
Though, God be praised!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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The sage who takes his gold essays in vain
To purge away the old corrupted strain,
His baths of blood, that in the days of old
The Romans used when their hot blood grew cold,
Will never warm this dead man's
bloodless
pains,
For green Lethean water fills his veins.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He now
resolved
to take in fresh water by force.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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This new system which he tried to
introduce
naturally caused some
disturbance in the order of the festivals, and for this or some other
reason his system was not adopted.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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It may not be right on the very top:
It wouldn't have to be a long way down
To have some head of water from above,
And a good
distance
down might not be noticed
By anyone who'd come a long way up.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"Multiply and replenish the earth" is an injunction of the
best political
philosophy
ever given to man.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon,
Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls
Might
purchase
rest for one.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ich hor euch deklamieren;
Ihr last gewiss ein
griechisch
Trauerspiel?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885, Wikimedia Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a
starched
ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-colored Ass;
But the length of its ears so
promoted
his fears,
That it killed that Old Man of Madras.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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En toi je tomberai, vegetale ambroisie,
Grain
precieux
jete par l'eternel Semeur,
Pour que de notre amour naisse la poesie
Qui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
'8'
Because each foolish poem provokes a host of foolish
commentators
and
critics.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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From her foe
Her misused wand she snatches; at a touch,
The Age of Wonder is renewed again,
And to our disenchanted day restores
The Shoes of Swiftness that give odds to Thought,
The Cloak that makes invisible; and with these
I glide, an airy fire, from shore to shore,
Or from my
Cambridge
whisper to Cathay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Night,
guardian
of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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or undoe myself in sport 35
By having but that
dangerous
name in Court?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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--Pray excuse the date of place; so soon as the profits of the
publication come in, I mean to hire
lodgings
in a more respectable
street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Have not all soules thought
For many ages, that our body'is wrought
Of Ayre, and Fire, and other
Elements?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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what will unrestoring Death, that jealous tyrant lord,
Do with the brave
departed
souls that cannot swing a sword?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a
discordant
melody,
While, lie a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh--but smile no more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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That is the
manufacturing
spot,
And will at home and well.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It is a very
miscellaneous collection of prose (Hall's
_Characterismes
of Vice_)
and verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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--a figure veiled,
Uplooming
there--afar, like sunrise, coming!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Straight
he turn'd to us,
And, o'er the thigh lifting his face, observ'd,
Then in these accents spake: "Up then, proceed
Thou valiant one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"The
flying Pilchard and the frisking Dace"
probably
belong to the fish
monsters alluded to in the _Tempest_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Allow your
trembling
Hippolyte to vanish 925
Forever from the place your wife inhabits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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But I am wretched now, such storms of woe 160
The Gods have sent me; for as many Chiefs
As hold dominion in the neighbour isles
Samos, Dulichium, and the forest-crown'd
Zacynthus; others, also, rulers here
In
pleasant
Ithaca, me, loth to wed,
Woo ceaseless, and my household stores consume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"My little boy, which like you more,"
I said and took him by the arm--
"Our home by Kilve's
delightful
shore,
"Or here at Liswyn farm?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He was
executed
by order of Catherine II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Dawn court done, the scented smoke you carry filling your sleeves, the poem finished, pearls and jade are right on your
flourished
brush.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
_ Take this line word by word, and see how
many
different
ideas go to create the incomparably ghostly effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Diegue
To instruct by example,
courting
envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what
murmuring
hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their ambrosial fire?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We are all abasht by thee, and only know
To worship thee with shouts and
astounded
passion.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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2 That is,
Xuanzong
had to flee and could not live in his palace in peace.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yonder's the
criminal!
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Hugo - Poems |
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See, see the patient moon;
How she her course keeps
Through cloudy
shallows
and across black deeps,
Now gone, now shines soon.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" said she, "we ne'er can be
Made happy by
compulsion!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The Latin
philosophy was borrowed, without alteration, from the Portico and
the Academy; and the great Latin orators constantly
proposed
to
themselves as patterns the speeches of Demosthenes and Lysias.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He began his career at the court of Raymond VI of Toulouse and subsequently
travelled
widely, visiting the court of James I of Aragon.
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Troubador Verse |
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