That the
exquisite
scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and
the cohering is for it;
And all preparation is for it!
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Whitman |
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Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake,
lightnings!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Defunctive
music under sea
Passed seaward with the passing bell
Slowly: the God Hercules
Had left him, that had loved him well.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Then, straught or crooked, yird or nane,
They roar an' cry a' throu'ther;
The vera wee-things, toddlin, rin,
Wi' stocks out owre their shouther:
An' gif the custock's sweet or sour,
Wi'
joctelegs
they taste them;
Syne coziely, aboon the door,
Wi' cannie care, they've plac'd them
To lie that night.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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To cope with this
Chimaera
fell
Would task another Pegasus.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
"What, lad,
drooping
with your lot?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the
fragrant
rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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| Page 46: larve _sic_ |
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original
edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The sky smiled down upon the horror there
As on a flower that opens to the day;
So awful an
infection
smote the air,
Almost you swooned away.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He feels too keenly his dependence upon
them, as a child views flowers and stars as
personal
possessions.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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(_Calling her to the
window_)
Look over there; that's
my new house.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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During my lonely weeks
One person
actually
climbed the stairs
To seek a cripple.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I would not be trying to form an Irish National Theatre if I did not
believe that there existed in Ireland, whether in the minds of a
few people or of a great number I do not know, an energy of thought
about life itself, a vivid sensitiveness as to the reality of things,
powerful enough to
overcome
all those phantoms of the night.
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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NEW WORLDS
With my beloved I
lingered
late one night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Je ne parlerai pas, je ne
penserai
rien;
Mais l'amour infini me montera dans l'ame,
Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohemien
Par la Nature,--heureux comme avec une femme.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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reads
wæteres
weorpan, which R.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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So great was Summer's glow:
Thy shadows lay upon the dials' faces
And o'er wide spaces let thy
tempests
blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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What evasions,
subterfuges
and delays!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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OFT in the night his bed-fellow turned round;
At length a finger on his nose he found,
Which Dorilas exceedingly distressed;
But more inquietude was in his breast,
For fear the husband amorous should grow,
From which
incalculable
ills might flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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River-bank, ice
formations
in a, 128, 129.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's
satellites
are less than Jove?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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* * * * *
And he will meet thee on the way
With all his
numerous
array.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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We sang our songs
together
by the way,
Calls and recalls and echoes of delight;
So communed we together all the day,
And so in dreams by night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"
Till, far in the
distance
their forms disappearing,
They faded away; and they never came back!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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o yueles
couenably
{and} drawe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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So clean forth of thy breast, rackt with
solicitous
care,
Mind fled, sense being reft!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Who knows but I am
enjoying
this?
| 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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Modern luxury has
substituted
preserved
ice, in place of the more ancient mixture.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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"With this you make a kind of slide
(It answers best with suet),
On which you must contrive to glide,
And swing
yourself
from side to side--
One soon learns how to do it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The rite decrees our hands must quench the torch
Against the iron mass of your tomb's porch:
None at this simple ceremony should forget,
Those chosen to sing the absence of the poet,
That this
monument
encloses him entire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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[The gentleman to whom these manly lines are addressed, was of good
birth, and of an open and generous nature: he was one of the first of
the gentry of the west to
encourage
the muse of Coila to stretch her
wings at full length.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Upon her aching forehead be there hung
The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;
And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him
The thyrsus, that his
watching
eyes may swim
Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage,
Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage
War on his temples.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Hark to that mingled scream
Rising from workshop and mill--
Hailing some
marvelous
sight;
Mighty breath of the hours,
Poured through the trumpets of steam;
Awful tornado of time,
Blowing us whither it will!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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From the outer day,
Betwixt the closest ivies came a broad
And solid beam of
isolated
light,
Crowded with driving atomies, and fell
Slanting upon that picture, from prime youth
Well-known, well-loved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving
famishes
the craving.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
SYLVA
_Rerum et
sententiarum
quasi ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He wrote histories of the Revolution,
of
Napoleon
and of France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Comfort, content, delight--
The ages' slow-bought gain--
They shrivelled in a night,
Only
ourselves
remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Wonder not
blatantly
why no woman shall ever be willing
(Rufus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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They worshipped nature and
the abundance of nature, and had always, as it seems, for a supreme
ritual that tumultuous dance among the hills or in the depths of the
woods, where unearthly ecstasy fell upon the dancers, until they seemed
the gods or the godlike beasts, and felt their souls overtopping the
moon; and, as some think,
imagined
for the first time in the world the
blessed country of the gods and of the happy dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And when
Was that song put in hiding 'mid my
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
And all the Sailors and Admirals cried,
When they saw him nearing the further side,--
"He has gone to fish, for his Aunt Jobiska's
Runcible
Cat with crimson whiskers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
590
Now mercy, lord, thou wost wel I desire
Thy grace most, of alle lustes leve,
And live and deye I wol in thy bileve,
For which I naxe in guerdon but a bone,
That thou
Criseyde
ayein me sende sone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Another shaft the raging archer drew,
That other shaft with erring fury flew,
(From Hector, Phoebus turn'd the flying wound,)
Yet fell not dry or
guiltless
to the ground:
Thy breast, brave Archeptolemus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Not Thames, not Teme is the river,
Nor London nor Knighton the town:
'Tis a long way further than Knighton,
A quieter place than Clun,
Where
doomsday
may thunder and lighten
And little 'twill matter to one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Roused by his Ilia's
plaintive
woes,
He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Next when that Influence of bane had chocked,
Down through the throat, the breast, and
streamed
had
E'en into sullen heart of those sick folk,
Then, verily, all the fences of man's life
Began to topple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Leave thy
vigilant
father alone, to number over his green apricots evening and
morning, o' the north-west wall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I prefer myself to
Vitellius
and you to myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Watch
patiently
till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from
time to time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Meanwhile Sir Christopher wandered away
Through pathless woods for a month and a day,
Shooting pigeons, and
sleeping
at night
With the noble savage, who took delight
In his feathered hat and his velvet vest,
His gun and his rapier and the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
800
Yet, yet,
Jehovah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Yuan Chieh, a
contemporary
of Li Po, has not hitherto been mentioned
in any European book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
And so was still: what time we saw
A foot hang down the
fireplace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
e (fourth), 99-100; mesure, here, 89-90;
consaile
(obl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When they were come, and Terra Major knew,
Saw Gascony their land and their seigneur's,
Remembering
their fiefs and their honours,
Their little maids, their gentle wives and true;
There was not one that shed not tears for rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
LX
And thou faire ymp, sprong out from English race,
How ever now
accompted
Elfins sonne,
Well worthy doest thy service for her grace,
To aide a virgin desolate fordonne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
King
Yet, all who in my service so engage
Do not acquit themselves with such courage;
And valour that is not born of excess
Seldom achieves
comparable
success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
with heav'n who can
contest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Who after his
transgression
doth repent,
Is half, or altogether innocent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The last
speaker's remark that the present China is different from what China is
in Chinese poetry may be true, but I may well retort that the England
as
represented
in Shakespeare is very different from the England of
to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
XXV
Behold Sabouroff, whom the age
For
baseness
of the spirit scorns,
Saint Priest, who every album's page
With blunted pencil-point adorns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
If you discover a Defect in this etext within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an
explanatory
note within that
time to the person you received it from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Her first book of poems was "Sonnets to Duse" (1907), but
"Helen of Troy" (1911) was the true launch of her career,
followed
by
"Rivers to the Sea" (1915), "Love Songs" (1917), "Flame and Shadow"
(1920) and more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
And a woman I used to know
Who loved one man from her youth,
Against the strength of the fates
Fighting
in lonely pride,
Never spoke of this thing,
But hearing his name by chance,
A light would pass over her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
in mazes of delusive beauty
I have lookd into the secret soul of him I lovd
And in the Dark recesses found Sin & cannot return
Trembling & pale sat Tharmas weeping in his clouds
Why wilt thou Examine every little fibre of my soul *{This and the
following
4 lines are written down the top right hand edge of the page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Live, and enjoy the
providence
of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Therefore
like her, I sometime hold my tongue:
Because I would not dull you with my song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Coleridge
was not strong enough to be a
Christian, and he was not strong enough to rely on the impulses of his own
nature, and to turn his failings into a very actual kind of success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
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Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
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liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
--
The little
children
of men go hungry all,
And stiffen and cry with numbing cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Those of you who want to
download
any eBook before announcement
can get to them as follows, and just download by date.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
"'At the Palace Gate, the smell of wine and meat;
Out in the road, one who has frozen to death'
form only a small
proportion
of his whole work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Ellis appears at the top of the
manuscript
page: "(a separate sheet: It cannot be placed as its sequel is missing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Quintia
formosast
multis, mihi candida, longa,
Rectast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the
corniced
shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
"It
contains
no criticism, no letters, nothing but verse, and that usually of a high order of excellence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
But Fame with rapid haste the city roam'd
In ev'ry part,
promulging
in all ears
The suitors' horrid fate.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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THE CASKET OF OPALS
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Deep,
smoldering
colors of the land and sea
Burn in these stones, that, by some mystery,
Wrap fire in sleep and never are consumed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"Sir," I said,
-- But with a mien of dignity
The seedy
stranger
raised his head:
"My friends, I'm Santa Claus," said he.
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Sidney Lanier |
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As a wind that has run all day
Among the
fragrant
clover,
At evening to a valley comes;
So comes to me my lover.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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These to defend,
Four savage dogs, a
watchful
guard, attend.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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(Macht's
ehrerbietig
zu und empfiehlt sich.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Ambition's haughty nod
With fancies may deceive,
Nay, tell thee thou'rt a god,
And wilt thou such
believe?
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John Clare |
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And when such a
wondrous
wife was gone!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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