Let but the brave old saw and my aunt, the serpent, guide thee,
And, with thy
likeness
to God, shall woe one day betide thee!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In 998 Yo Shih added the prose works,
consisting
of five letters and
various prefaces, petitions, monumental inscriptions, etc.
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Li Po |
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It would be worth the while to set out these trees, if
only for their
autumnal
value.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hitherto
we have traced the western side of Germany.
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Tacitus |
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His tender theme the
charming
lyrist chose.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A
worshipper
raised his arm.
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Stephen Crane |
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They knew it
was not of the
slightest
use to appeal to the Bellman about it--he would
only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty
Instructions which none of them had ever been able to understand--so it
generally ended in its being fastened on, anyhow, across the rudder.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And even the
Abstract
Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his
destined
Hour, and went his way.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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>>
J'ai souvent evoque cette lune enchantee,
Ce silence et cette langueur,
Et cette confidence horrible chuchotee
Au
confessionnal
du coeur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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y knokke
cowardyse
me ta3t
2380 To a-corde me with couetyse, my kynde to for-sake,
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Bewitching poetry
is like bewitching woman; she has in all ages been accused of
misleading mankind from the councils of wisdom and the paths of
prudence, involving them in difficulties, baiting them with poverty,
branding them with infamy, and
plunging
them in the whirling vortex of
ruin; yet, where is the man but must own that all our happiness on
earth is not worthy the name--that even the holy hermit's solitary
prospect of paradisiacal bliss is but the glitter of a northern sun
rising over a frozen region, compared with the many pleasures, the
nameless raptures that we owe to the lovely queen of the heart of man!
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Robert Burns |
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[Sidenote: Is he mighty that dares not inflict what he would upon
another for fear of a
requital?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The props of my
affections
were removed,
And yet the building stood, as if sustained 280
By its own spirit!
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William Wordsworth |
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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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"
"Because," said he, "They come weeping and go weeping--you only
come
laughing
and go laughing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Having now
ventured
to hoist their sails, they steered for Melinda, a
port, they had been told, where many merchants from India resorted.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
After mine eyes had with meek reverence
Sought the
celestial
guide, and were by her
Assur'd, they turn'd again unto the light
Who had so largely promis'd, and with voice
That bare the lively pressure of my zeal,
"Tell who ye are," I cried.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Now toils the hero: trees on trees o'erthrown
Fall
crackling
round him, and the forests groan:
Sudden, full twenty on the plain are strow'd,
And lopp'd and lighten'd of their branchy load.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,
Have forced my
swimming
brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" said
Eviradnus
in his wrath,
"I rather should have hewn your limbs away,
And left you crawling on your stumps, I say,--
But now die fast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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V
The troubled river knew them,
And
smoothed
his yellow foam,
And gently rocked the cradle
That bore the fate of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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]
O leave novels, ye
Mauchline
belles,
Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel;
Such witching books are baited hooks
For rakish rooks, like Rob Mossgiel;
Your fine Tom Jones and Grandisons,
They make your youthful fancies reel;
They heat your brains, and fire your veins,
And then you're prey for Rob Mossgiel.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Their thoughts were now
distracted
by the pitiful
plight of the legions who had been summoned from the country of the
Mediomatrici.
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Tacitus |
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So he; then thus
Antinous
stern rebuked 450
The swine-herd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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--What splendour from the
smother?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LI
Yet one man for one moment
Strode out before the crowd;
Well known was he to all the Three,
And they gave him
greeting
loud.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Till, not incensed though put to proof,
The Ass,
uplifting
a hind hoof,
Salutes the Mastiff on the head; 550
And so were better manners bred,
And all was calmed and quieted.
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William Wordsworth |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin;
A green-grown pond she just has pass'd,
And from the brink she hurries fast,
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_Now_ your dull eyes
glisten!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A fifth,
_magnifique_!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Some are
little and dwarfs; so of speech, it is humble and low, the words poor and
flat, the members and periods thin and weak, without
knitting
or number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Kiss me, my father,
Touch me with your lips, as I touch those I love,
Breathe to me, while I hold you close, the secret of the
wondrous
murmuring
I envy.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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After that, I
hope to be able to recreate my
creative
faculty.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sa femme va criant sur les places publiques:
<< Puisqu'il me trouve assez belle pour m'adorer,
Je ferai le metier des idoles antiques,
Et comme elles je veux me faire redorer;
<< Et je me
soulerai
de nard, d'encens, de myrrhe,
De genuflexions, de viandes et de vins,
Pour savoir si je puis dans un coeur qui m'admire
Usurper en riant les hommages divins!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How
condescending
to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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he quite did pierce,
And had his staggering steede not shrunke for feare, 310
Through shield and bodie eke he should him beare:
Yet so great was the
puissance
of his push,
That from his saddle quite he did him beare:
He tombling rudely downe to ground did rush,
And from his gored wound a well of bloud did gush.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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THIS
beardless
corn when ripe, with joy was reaped,
And then the stubble by the roots was heaped,
To satisfy the lordly devil's claim,
Who thought the seed and root were just the same,
And that the ear and stalk were useless parts,
Which nothing made if carried to the marts:
The labourer his produce housed with care;
The other to the market brought his ware,
Where ridicule and laughter he received;
'Twas nothing worth, which much his bosom grieved.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Such thou must be to me, who must
Like the other foot
obliquely
run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And me to end where I begun.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"'In flowery meads the sportive Sirens play,
Touch the soft lyre, and tune the vocal lay;
Me, me alone, with fetters firmly bound,
The gods allow to hear the
dangerous
sound.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Here in this fairy palace,
Full of such melodies,
Methinks
I hear deep murmurs
That in the deserts rise;
Soft mingling with the music
The Genii's voices pour,
Amid the air, unceasing,
Around us evermore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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CHORUS
And far away I ban thee and remove,
Untimely
death of youths too soon brought low!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Is it word from Ninus or Arbela,
Babylon the great, or
Northern
Imbros?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The flapping of the sail against the mast,
The ripple of the water on the side,
The ripple of girls'
laughter
at the stern,
The only sounds:--when 'gan the West to burn,
And a red sun upon the seas to ride,
I stood upon the soil of Greece at last!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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How
excellent
the heaven,
When earth cannot be had;
How hospitable, then, the face
Of our old neighbor, God!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
To create these etexts, the Project expends considerable
efforts to identify, transcribe and
proofread
public domain
works.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Come at our wailing cry, and stand
As throned
sentries
of our land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The mare seemed to be
sinking by the stem, and her
nostrils
cracked while she was trying to
realize what was happening.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
Loud
shrieked
the crowding Boys in Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But word
distinct
can utter none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
LACY Where he despised alike
Mohammedan
and Christian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
IV
Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
Being wrought not of a dearness and a death
But of a love turned ashes and the breath
Gone out of beauty; never again will grow
The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
Its friendly
weathers
down, far underneath
Shall be such bitterness of an old woe.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He seems to me, (your grace the word will pardon,)
Like a long-legg'd
grasshopper
in the garden,
Forever on the wing, and hops and sings
The same old song, as in the grass he springs;
Would he but stay there!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this accursed world,
And turns our
measured
days to measureless gleam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For truly, just as the genuine Epicure lingers
lovingly
over a morsel of
supreme Venison--whose every fibre seems to murmur "Excelsior!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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My crime once known, if you keep the flame,
What will envy and
falsehood
not proclaim!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And--surely--
This should leave a man
content?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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When in Bologna the low artisan,
And in Faenza yon
Bernardin
sprouts,
A gentle cyon from ignoble stem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_("O
douleur!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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80
Or doen thy feeble feet
unweeting
hither stray?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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THE
PHILOSOPHY
OF SHELLEY'S POETRY
I.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Coleridge, who was so often his own best
critic, especially when the criticism was to remain inactive, wrote on an
autograph copy of this poem now
belonging
to Professor Dowden: "N.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ma tosto ruppe le dolci ragioni
un alber che
trovammo
in mezza strada,
con pomi a odorar soavi e buoni;
e come abete in alto si digrada
di ramo in ramo, cosi quello in giuso,
cred' io, perche persona su non vada.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty
Hebrides!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The shepherd, in the flow'ry glen,
In shepherd's phrase will woo:
The
courtier
tells a finer tale--
But is his heart as true?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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e now
i{n}pacient
a?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Nicholas {74b}) loseth no less the
opportunity
of his cruelty than of his
benefits: for then to use his cruelty is too late; and to use his favours
will be interpreted fear and necessity, and so he loseth the thanks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Bright shadows
fleeting
o'er a mirror,
A spark of truth and clouds of error,
By means like these a drink is brewed
To cheer and edify the multitude.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Vansuythen came out of those far-away
places where there is society and amusement, Kurrell had
discovered
that
Mrs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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v
The
Universal
Man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"It shall be as thou wishest," said the Dame:
"All cates and dainties shall be stored there
Quickly on this feast-night: by the tambour frame
Her own lute thou wilt see: no time to spare,
For I am slow and feeble, and scarce dare
On such a
catering
trust my dizzy head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Even as a fire leaps into flame and burns
Leaping and
laughing
in its lovely flight,
And then under the flame a glowing dome
Deepens slowly into blood-like light:--
So did you flame and in flame take delight,
So are you hollow'd now with aching fire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Particularly in the cycle _Songs of the Maidens_ in the book
_Celebration_, the
atmosphere
is condensed and becomes the psychic
background of the landscape against which the gesture of longing or
expectation is seen and felt.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The poet moulds that which appears
evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into
everlasting
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Rilke - Poems |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Westward the waves of cloud,
Vermilion, crimson, violet, stream on the air,
Shatter to golden flakes in the icy green
Translucency
of twilight.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But you, true sons of God, in growing measure,
Enjoy rich beauty's living stores of
pleasure!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He
remaineth
ever
Self-confident and boastful as before.
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Longfellow |
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Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sea Garden, by Hilda Doolittle
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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_The Ants_
What wonder strikes the curious, while he views
The black ant's city, by a rotten tree,
Or
woodland
bank!
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John Clare |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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