XL
Ah, what detains thee, Phaon,
So long from Mitylene,
Where now thy
restless
lover
Wearies for thy coming?
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_Reprinted January_ 1909, 1913
"_Poems_, _Past and Present_": _First
edition_
1901 (dated 1902)
_Second Edition_ 1903.
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And
sometimes
he would hear coming and going in the wood
music that when it stopped went from his memory like a dream; and once
in the stillness of midday he heard a sound like the clashing of many
swords, that went on for a long time without any break.
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Yeats |
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man abolished yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you, memories of
horizons?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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through mist and cloud
That merry peal comes ringing loud;
And Geraldine shakes off her dread,
And rises lightly from the bed;
Puts on her silken vestments white,
And tricks her hair in lovely plight,
And nothing
doubting
of her spell
Awakens the lady Christabel
"Sleep you, sweet lady Christabel?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The 'potamus can never reach
The mango on the mango-tree;
But fruits of
pomegranate
and peach
Refresh the Church from over sea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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60
Then will I Jehovah's praise
According
to his justice raise
And sing the Name and Deitie
Of Jehovah the most high.
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Milton |
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Two years of
speechless
bliss are gone,
I thank thee, dearest, for the dream.
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Shelley |
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Meantime the bard,
alternate
to the strings,
The loves of Mars and Cytherea sings:
How the stern god, enamour'd with her charms
Clasp'd the gay panting goddess in his arms,
By bribes seduced; and how the sun, whose eye
Views the broad heavens, disclosed the lawless joy.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Come and behold this
gladsome
thing that
laugheth in the sun.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XIV Gemina arrives from Britain and
receives
submission of
Nervii and Tungri.
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Tacitus |
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I find the meaning of their gentle look
More
difficult
than any learned book.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She was sprung of English nobles, I was born of English peasants;
What was _I_ that I should love her, save for
competence
to pain?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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With mien to match the morning
And gay
delightful
guise
And friendly brows and laughter
He looked me in the eyes.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Do you wish her named by some slanderer
As
receiving
the murderer of her father?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
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Troubador Verse |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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is Athens yet
inviolate?
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Aeschylus |
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Then
Evangeline
lighted the brazen lamp on the table,
Filled, till it overflowed, the pewter tankard with brown ale,
While from his pocket the notary drew his papers and ink-horn,
Wrote with a steady hand the date and the age of the parties,
And the great seal of the law was set like a sun on the margin.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But first
behooves
thee of this water drink,
Or ere that longing be allay'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O joy, for what
recoveries
rare!
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Emerson - Poems |
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_ is to be assigned to Wittipol, the first
speech must be an aside, as it is inconceivable that Merecraft should
introduce
Fitzdottrel
first under his own name, and then as the
'Duke of Drown'd-land.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Till
Darkness
and silence of the hill
Received her in their restful care
And stars came dropping through the air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The lady similar emotions showed;
For opportunity their bosoms glowed;
And who will feel in
argument
so bold,
When this I say, the contrary to hold?
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La Fontaine |
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Robert Forst |
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He laughed--the gauntlet
trembled
at his stroke.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"GD}
I see,
invisible
descend into the Gardens of Vala
Luvah walking on the winds, I see the invisible knife
I see the shower of blood: I see the swords & spears of futurity
Tho in the Brain of Man we live, & in his circling Nerves.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It pleased the public no less, and its sale, together with that of the
"Odes" and a West Indian romance, "Buck Jargal," together with a royal
pension,
emboldened
the poet to renew his love-suit.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
Well, then, I hate thee,
Unrighteous
Picture;
Wicked Image, I hate thee;
So, strike with thy vengeance
The heads of those little men
Who come blindly.
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Stephen Crane |
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So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for
alternate
strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Galaxies
and Nebulae.
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Christina Rossetti |
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" Lucius
Apronius
had moved, that "with
the rest might preside the company of heralds.
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Tacitus |
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'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Robert Burns |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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To evry erle and knyghte the worde is gyven,
And cries _a guerre_ and
slughornes
shake the vaulted heaven.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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II
For by all bitters else which interpose
Before
enjoyment
of this choicest sweet,
Love is augmented, to perfection grows,
And takes a finer edge; to drink and eat,
Hunger and thirst the palate so dispose,
And flavour more our beverage and our meat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'Tis known, too much thought dazes oft a mind,
Till it can learn nought of the signèd evil
God hath put in the faces of evil notions,
That
spiritual
sight may ken them coming
Sly and demure, and safely shut the brain
Ere they be in and swell themselves to lordship.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Each of
these
qualities
I grant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel,
Had grown quite weak and gray before his time;
Nor any could the restless griefs unravel
Which burned within him,
withering
up his prime
And goading him, like fiends, from land to land.
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Shelley |
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A troop of boys visited the
different orchards, and, encircling the apple trees,
repeated
the
following words:--
"Stand fast, root!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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LVII
Alone stood brave Horatius,
But
constant
still in mind;
Thrice thirty thousand foes before,
And the broad flood behind.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_Inghinidhe
na h-Eireann_ is always thorough, and one
cannot doubt that the performance of Dr.
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Yeats |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling,
So that it wean me from the weary dream
Of selfish grief or gladness--so it fling
Forgetfulness around me--it shall seem
To me, though to none else, a not
ungrateful
theme.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in night,
So
stumblest
on my counsel?
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Shakespeare |
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Some village-Hampden, that with
dauntless
breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ask ye,
Boeotian
shades, the reason why?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Waldron's_ A
Collection
of Miscellaneous Poetry, 1802, _from a MS.
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John Donne |
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Oft times one like an angel walked with me,
With spirit-discerning eyes like flames of fire,
But deep as the
unfathomed
endless sea,
Fulfilling my desire:
And sometimes like a snowdrift he was fair,
And sometimes like a sunset glorious red, 50
And sometimes he had wings to scale the air
With aureole round his head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But I've a rendezvous with Death
At
midnight
in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pedicabo
ego vos et inrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
Qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
Quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And having given ourselves all to amazement,
We are made like a
prophesying
song
Of life all joy, a bride in the arms of God.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Think: when you were born my arms
received
you.
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
An
esperance
so obstinately strong,
That doth invert th' attest of eyes and ears;
As if those organs had deceptious functions
Created only to calumniate.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Hyde saith he hourly waits for a
despatch
;
Harry came post just as he showed his watch.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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[292] _And his own
brothers
shake the hostile lance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--With downcast looks the joyless victor sate,
Revolving
in his alter'd soul
The various turns of Chance below;
And now and then a sigh he stole;
And tears began to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We had now, therefore,
the complete Mummy at our disposal; and to those who are aware how very
rarely the unransacked antique reaches our shores, it will be evident,
at once that we had great reason to
congratulate
ourselves upon our good
fortune.
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Poe - 5 |
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Lewis Carroll |
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For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What
acceptable
audit canst thou leave?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He lean'd him to an ancient aik,
Whose trunk was mould'ring down with years;
His locks were bleached white with time,
His hoary cheek was wet wi' tears;
And as he touch'd his trembling harp,
And as he tun'd his doleful sang,
The winds,
lamenting
thro' their caves,
To echo bore the notes alang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many
thousand
bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun:
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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' 'Nay, we thought of that,'
She answered, 'but it pleased us not: in truth
We shudder but to dream our maids should ape
Those monstrous males that carve the living hound,
And cram him with the fragments of the grave,
Or in the dark dissolving human heart,
And holy secrets of this microcosm,
Dabbling a shameless hand with shameful jest,
Encarnalize their spirits: yet we know
Knowledge
is knowledge, and this matter hangs:
Howbeit ourself, foreseeing casualty,
Nor willing men should come among us, learnt,
For many weary moons before we came,
This craft of healing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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It came without a
flourish—simply
print ed some very good contributions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Wait, that the rebels may deliver me
In bonds to the
Otrepiev?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ORESTES (_turning
suddenly
to_ ELECTRA).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I can't conceive a woman in
her senses
refusing
Dick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou Diminutive husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And
unpolluted
& will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Pau-Puk-Keewis heard the shouting,
Knew the voice of Hiawatha,
Knew the outcry of Iagoo,
And, forgetful of the warning,
Drew his neck in, and looked downward,
And the wind that blew behind him
Caught his mighty fan of feathers,
Sent him wheeling,
whirling
downward!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
eoferas cnysedan, _when the
heroes rushed upon each other_, 1329, where eoferas and fēðan stand in the
same
relation
to each other as cnysedan and hniton.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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But Enkidu
understood
not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something
different
from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their
household
fires.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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We
returned
to the citadel along the heights, plucking such flowers as
grew there.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus may Cyprus'
heavenly
queen,
Thus Helen's brethren, stars of brightest sheen,
Guide thee!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
speaking unto Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Golden-winged, silver-winged,
Winged with
flashing
flame,
Such a flight of birds I saw,
Birds without a name:
Singing songs in their own tongue
(Song of songs) they came.
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Christina Rossetti |
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advanced
the forms of heroes slain
By stern AEgysthus, a majestic train:
And, high above the rest Atrides press'd the plain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The "four summer
weeks"
referred
to in the first stanza, were those spent at Piel during
the year 1794.
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William Wordsworth |
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His relation to her, indeed, was probably simpler than to
Lady Bedford, their
friendship
more equal.
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John Donne |
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The "friend," as Dykes Campbell
points out, was Southey, whose "Book of the Church" had been
attacked
by
Charles Butler.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I shall never be
married!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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