"
Answers Rollanz: "Nay, love you I can not,
For on your side is
arrogance
and wrong.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Valour hath saved alive fierce lion-breeds
And many another terrorizing race,
Cunning the foxes, flight the
antlered
stags.
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Lucretius |
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" said Grish Chunder, quietly,
swinging
his legs as
he sat on my table.
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Kipling - Poems |
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My brain it thrills, and oftentime sets free
The
thoughts
within me yearning.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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Here they learned that a troop of horse and foot had
been waiting for them in ambush near Scandiano, but had been forced by
the bad weather to
withdraw
before their arrival; thus "_the pelting of
the pitiless storm_" had been to them a merciful occurrence.
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Petrarch |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette
ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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or lovelinesse 30
Such as his lips did cloth
religion
in?
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John Donne |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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THIS ETEXT IS
OTHERWISE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS-IS".
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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En tout climat, sous ton soleil, la Mort t'admire
En tes contorsions, risible Humanite,
Et souvent, comme toi, se
parfumant
de myrrhe,
Mele son ironie a ton insanite!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Created by the Lamb of God around
On all sides within & without the Universal Man
The Daughters of Beulah follow sleepers in all their Dreamst
Creating Spaces lest they fall into Eternal Death
The Circle of Destiny
complete
they gave to it a Space
And namd the Space Ulro & brooded over it in care & love*
{this entire passage is written vertically down the right margin and appears to have been first entered lightly (pencil?
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Blake - Zoas |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new politeness took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their
curtains
by.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I heard the
Shepherd
call him `Spring':
Oh, large-eyed, fresh and snowy fair
"He skipped the flowering Highway fast,
Hurried the hedgerows green and white,
Set maids and men a-yearning, passed
The Bend, and gamboll'd out of sight.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And then how vain
To think we can hold back from being
enricht!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
---Thomas Wentworth Higginson
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these
early
editions
by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the
times.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In heav'n,
That largeliest of his light partakes, was I,
Witness of things, which to relate again
Surpasseth power of him who comes from thence;
For that, so near approaching its desire
Our
intellect
is to such depth absorb'd,
That memory cannot follow.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Stephen Crane |
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`Now stant it thus, that sith I fro yow wente, 785
This Troilus, right platly for to seyn,
Is thurgh a goter, by a prive wente,
In-to my
chaumbre
come in al this reyn,
Unwist of every maner wight, certeyn,
Save of my-self, as wisly have I Ioye, 790
And by that feith I shal Pryam of Troye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
O the
trembling
and the terror!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Some natives say that it came from the other side of Kulu, where
the eleven-inch Temple
Sapphire
is.
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Kipling - Poems |
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[441] The Sixteenth had its
permanent
camp at Novaesium, the
First at Bonn.
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Tacitus |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have
vanished
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" she said to me,
continuing
her
employment.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O shield our Caesar as he goes
To
furthest
Britain, and his band,
Rome's harvest!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Once thou wast to Me the loveliest son of heaven--But now
Why art thou
Terrible
and yet I love thee in thy terror till
I am almost Extinct & soon shall be a Shadow in Oblivion
Unless some way can be found that I may look upon thee & live
Hide me some Shadowy semblance.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Heir of
Tyrrhenian
kings, for you
A mellow cask, unbroach'd as yet,
Maecenas mine, and roses new,
And fresh-drawn oil your locks to wet,
Are waiting here.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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God save the Marquis,
His lovely sister, save,
Her loyal love and brave,
It
conquers
me anew,
Better still holds me too.
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Troubador Verse |
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The birds are silent in their dim retreat,
Nor any note is heard in wood or grass,
Save the bough perched Cicala's
wearying
cry,
Which deafens hill and dale, and sea and sky.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
"It is enough,"
answered
Otis, very solemnly.
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Kipling - Poems |
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sēo þe bān-cofan beorgan cūðe (_the
corselet
that could protect the body_),
1446, etc.
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Beowulf |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Why not, just thrown at careless ease
'Neath plane or pine, our locks of grey
Perfumed
with Syrian essences
And wreathed with roses, while we may,
Lie drinking?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems of American Patriotism
by Brander Matthews (Editor)
Copyright laws are
changing
all over the world.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With
darkness
and the death-hour rounding it.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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VERCELLÆ, now
_Vercelli_
in Piedmont.
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Tacitus |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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' she cried, and
stretched
her sword _2515
As 'twere a scourge over the courser's head,
And lightly shook the reins.
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Shelley |
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The wind of that eternal ditty sings,
Humming of future things, that burn the mind
To leave some
fragment
of itself behind.
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John Clare |
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They
listened
at his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Robert Forst |
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wher is become your
gentilesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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ergo ego nunc rudis
Hadriaci
uehar aequoris hospes,
cogar et undisonos nunc prece adire deos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Theophile
Gautier
'Theophile Gautier'
Felix Henri Bracquemond, 1833 - 1914, The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Sonnet
To vein her brow's pallor, delicate,
Japan has granted its clearest blue;
The white porcelain is of white less true
Than her lucent neck, her temples of agate;
In her moist eye gleams a gentle light;
The nightingale's voice is harsher yet,
And, when she rises in our dark night,
We praise the moon in a cloudy dress;
Her silver eyes, burnished, move fluidly;
Caprice has pointed her pert little nose;
Her mouth has the red of raspberry, peach;
Her movements flow with a Chinese flow,
And beside her one breathes from her beauty
Something sweet, like the fragrance of tea.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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it may hap
Imperious
Fate will make yourself repent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e moment some 1564
porciou{n}
of hit al ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I too
transported
by the Mode offend,
And while I meant to Praise thee must Commend.
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Milton |
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Their result is
absolutely
nil.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Themselves had seen me from
slaughter
come
blood-flecked from foes, where five I bound,
and that wild brood worsted.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The man, who,
stretched
in Isis' calm retreat,
To books and study gives seven years complete,
See!
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Loud,
exulting
cries
From boat to boat, and to the echoes round,
Greet the glad miracle.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Nusch
The sentiments apparent
The
lightness
of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And look, where the narrow white streets of the town
Leap up from the blue water's edge to the wood, 15
Scant room for man's range between
mountain
and sea,
And the market where woodsmen from over the hill
May traffic, and sailors from far foreign ports
With treasure brought in from the ends of the earth.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The
plants here
mentioned
are henbane and aconite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Vedi le triste che
lasciaron
l'ago,
la spuola e 'l fuso, e fecersi 'ndivine;
fecer malie con erbe e con imago.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When I was young I played with a soft brush
And was
passionately
devoted to reading all sorts of books.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hengest still
through the death-dyed winter dwelt with Finn,
holding pact, yet of home he minded,
though
powerless
his ring-decked prow to drive
over the waters, now waves rolled fierce
lashed by the winds, or winter locked them
in icy fetters.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Full Spring it was--and by rich
flowering
vines,
Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines,
I rode at will; the moist glad air was sweet,
The white road rang beneath my horse's feet,
And musing on Ravenna's ancient name,
I watched the day till, marked with wounds of flame,
The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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So few there bee
That chose the narrow path, or seeke the right: 85
All keepe the broad high way, and take delight
With many rather for to go astray,
And be
partakers
of their evill plight,
Then with a few to walke the rightest way;
O foolish men, why haste ye to your owne decay?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Still though his destiny on earth may be
Grief and injustice; who would not endure
With joyful calm, each
proffered
agony;
Could he the prize of Genius thus ensure?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial
thawings
loose the lorn land
Throughout the field.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It was on the way between
Hawkshead
and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Larinas were since sunrise
O'erwhelmed with guests; by families
The
neighbours
come, in sledge approach,
Britzka, kibitka, or in coach.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and
friendless
39
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
]
The three preceding poems 'To the Daisy'
evidently
belong to the same
time, and are, as Wordsworth expressly says, "overflowings of the mind
in composing the one which stands first.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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bards of the
peaceful
inventions!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our
destination
to eternal woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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And I was
astonished
and said to myself,
"Shall they of this so holy city have but one eye and one hand?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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burns:'
the seraphim according to old
commentators
are on fire with the love of
God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
It is
therefore
evident that it belongs to the year 1802; although it
may have been altered and readjusted in 1804.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Shall his fevered eye
Through
towering
nothingness descry
The grisly phantom hurry by?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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It came in his mind
to bid his henchmen a hall uprear,
a master mead-house,
mightier
far
than ever was seen by the sons of earth,
and within it, then, to old and young
he would all allot that the Lord had sent him,
save only the land and the lives of his men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
As a
descriptive title, "Poems of
Sentiment
and Reflection" is quite as good
as "Poems akin to the Antique," and "Poems of the Fancy" quite as
appropriate as "Poems of Ballad Form.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed;
Health to himself, and to his infants bread
The
labourer
bears; what his hard heart denies
His charitable vanity supplies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The wind begun to rock the grass
With
threatening
tunes and low, --
He flung a menace at the earth,
A menace at the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And she made him a feast, at his earnest wish,
Of eggs and
buttercups
fried with fish;
And she said, "It's a fact the whole world knows,
That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Coward of France, how much he wrongs his fame,
Despairing
of his own arm's fortitude,
To join with witches and the help of hell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
It often
happened
that the demagogues extracted considerable
sums from the tributaries by threats or promises.
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Aristophanes |
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But there is One who holds this falling
Infinitely
softly in His hands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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(For with delight thy vig'rous growth I view,
And just
proportion)
be thou also bold, 380
And merit praise from ages yet to come.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--Not a
thousand
prayers can gain
A man's bare bread, save an he work amain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to
imprudent
guests,
Where the vanquished dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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That they have
followers
proves nothing-
"'No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Vous me
demandez
mon portrait,
Mais peint d'apres nature:
Mon cher, il sera bientot fait,
Quoique en miniature.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[313] A Ubian
cohort was cut to pieces at the village of Marcodurum,[314] where they
were off their guard,
trusting
to their distance from the Rhine.
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Tacitus |
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Not that in this cold fear I all did shrink,
For still my heart was to such
boldness
strung
That to her feet I clung,
As if more rapture from her eyes to drink:
And she--for now the veil was ta'en away
Which barr'd my sight--thus spoke me, "Friend, you see
How fair I am, and may
Ask, for your years, whatever fittest be.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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