That Emperour, if he combat with me,
Must lose his head, cut from his
shoulders
clean;
He may be sure naught else for him's decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her treacheries have forced my
guiltless
flight.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The hippo's feeble steps may err
In
compassing
material ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hardly could they tear
themselves
away; indeed,
Prince Vassily Ivanovitch, I began to think that we
should not succeed in getting any private talk.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Wherefore
be mindful not to stain with colour
The seeds of things, lest things return for thee
All utterly to naught.
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Lucretius |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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Diseases
were
named from those who were supposed to be able to heal them.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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" pursues his way:
He soon is
downward
bound:
He lives, he suffers; in his grasp one day
Mere dust and ashes found.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Instead of the devil's prey he had become in the eyes of
the
spectators
the devil's tormentor.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Instead, the text is shown here in the order in which it appears on the page; in agreement with Erdman, the
marginal
material seems to flow most logically as the bottom of the page, moving to the stanza in the right margin and then concluding with the material in the left margin EJC}
And Los said.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_ I have lost my lovely steer,
That to me was far more dear
Than these kine which I milk here:
Broad of forehead, large of eye,
Party-colour'd like a pie;
Smooth in each limb as a die;
Clear of hoof, and clear of horn:
Sharply pointed as a thorn,
With a neck by yoke unworn;
From the which hung down by strings,
Balls of cowslips, daisy rings,
Interplac'd with ribbonings:
Faultless every way for shape;
Not a straw could him escape;
Ever
gamesome
as an ape,
But yet harmless as a sheep.
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Robert Herrick |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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too soon of it we were bereft
When on that riven night and stormy sea
Panthea claimed her singer as her own,
And slew the mouth that praised her; since which time we walk alone,
Save for that fiery heart, that morning star {129}
Of re-arisen England, whose clear eye
Saw from our tottering throne and waste of war
The grand Greek limbs of young Democracy
Rise
mightily
like Hesperus and bring
The great Republic!
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Wilde - Poems |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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Let
suppliant
youths obtain thine ear!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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-i was accused of
breaking the law, Li Po had come to his
assistance
and had him released.
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Li Po |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Ah, deadly thought, as I speak, at this moment, here,
They brave the fury of a
maddened
lover!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He glances now at Ladislaus dead,
And with a smile
triumphant
and yet dread,
And air of lion caged to whom is shown
Some loophole of escape, he bends him down.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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' The
interjected
'O knottie riddle' does not mean, 'Who is
to say which is the worst?
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John Donne |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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if ye but knew
The half as much as
bluebirds
do,
Now in this little tender calm
Each hand would out, and every palm
With patriot palm strike brotherhood's stroke
Or ere these lines of battle broke.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
LXI
There is no more to say now thou art still,
There is no more to do now thou art dead,
There is no more to know now thy clear mind
Is back
returned
unto the gods who gave it.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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'And if men wolde ther-geyn appose 6555
The naked text, and lete the glose,
It mighte sone
assoiled
be;
For men may wel the sothe see,
That, parde, they mighte axe a thing
Pleynly forth, without begging.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But the unit of the visit,
The
encounter
of the wise,--
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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325
For hoolly al the storie of Troye
Was in the glasing y-wroght thus,
Of Ector and king Priamus,
Of
Achilles
and Lamedon,
Of Medea and of Iason, 330
Of Paris, Eleyne, and Lavyne.
| 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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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Little by little, Pluffles fell away from his
old
allegiance
and came over to the enemy, by whom he was made much of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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,[49] has assembled a
gang of robbers, excited risings in villages on the Yaik, and taken and
oven destroyed several forts, while committing
everywhere
robberies and
murders.
| 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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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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'Twas there within the chimney-seat
He watched me to the clock's slow beat--
Loved me, and learnt to call me sweet,
And
whispered
words to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
| 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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Hear me, sweet
dreamer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Dans cette grande plaine ou l'autan froid se joue,
Ou par les longues nuits la
girouette
s'enroue,
Mon ame mieux qu'au temps du tiede renouveau
Ouvrira largement ses ailes de corbeau.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Between thirty and forty, one is
distracted
by the Five Lusts;
Between seventy and eighty, one is a prey to a hundred diseases.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Why in that
rawnesse
left you Wife, and Childe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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CLEMENT SCOTT
NERO'S
INCENDIARY
SONG.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The
bodiless
begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The rhyme in this verse, as in one about sixty
lines before, has an
appearance
of affectation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Now let us meet the
Pilgrims
ere the day
Close on the remnant of their weary way; 1827.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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ATHENA
Nay, bow ye to my words, chafe not nor moan:
Ye are not worsted nor disgraced; behold,
With balanced vote the cause had issue fair,
Nor in the end did aught
dishonour
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Fallen so deep,
Against the sides of this prodigious pit
I cry--cry--dashing out the hands of wail
On each side, to meet anguish everywhere,
And to attest it in the ecstasy
And exaltation of a woe sustained
Because
provoked
and chosen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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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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In that hour
Thou slewest the child, oh why
Not rather slay Calamity,
Breeder of Pain and Doubt,
infernal
Power?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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King, behold the man
The swiftest and the boldest
In thy kingdom by the sea,
From
mountain
or .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Perhaps a native of some distant shore,
The future consort of her bridal hour:
Or rather some descendant of the skies;
Won by her prayer, the aerial bridegroom flies,
Heaven on that hour its choicest
influence
shed,
That gave a foreign spouse to crown her bed!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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There doth my father lie; and there this night
We'll pass the
business
privately and well.
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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.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Das
Publikum
wird es Euch doch zerpflucken.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In some
obscure manner, however, savage
existence
has been constantly
interrupted; and it seems as if the long-repressed forces of
individuality then burst out into exaggerated vehemence; for the result
(if it is not slavery) is, that a people passes from its savage to its
heroic age, on its way to some permanence of civilization.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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See, Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is
notwithstanding
up.
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Shakespeare |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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Et des iles
Dont les cieux
delirants
sont ouverts au vogueur:
--Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles,
Million d'oiseaux d'or, o future Vigueur?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O City city, I can
sometimes
hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So thou, sweet Rose-bud, young and gay,
Shalt
beauteous
blaze upon the day,
And bless the parent's evening ray
That watch'd thy early morning.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It founds the homes and decks the days,
And every clamor bright
Is but the gleam concomitant
Of that
waylaying
light.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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