Women have no
appreciation
of good looks in men--at least good women
have none.
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O mirk, mirk is this
midnight
hour,
And loud the tempest's roar;
A waefu' wanderer seeks thy tow'r,
Lord Gregory, ope thy door!
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In such base
sentence
if thou couch thy fear,
Speak it in whispers, lest a Greek should hear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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But midmost, where the boss rose higher,
A sun stood blazing,
And winged steeds, and stars in choir,
Hyad and Pleiad, fire on fire,
For Hector's dazing:
Across the golden helm, each way,
Two taloned
Sphinxes
held their prey,
Song-drawn to slaughter:
And round the breastplate ramping came
A mingled breed of lion and flame,
Hot-eyed to tear that steed of fame
That found Pirene's water.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Such indeed these; and under ground
Concealed
the helps to men;
Brass, iron, silver, gold, who
Would affirm that he discovered before me?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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, 1581),
eighteen
letters, fulminating as
freely against papal luxury and corruption as if they had been penned by
Luther or John Knox.
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Petrarch |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American Intellectuals who are
bemoaning
the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sine his
Ecclesia
non vocatur; de
quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I
must write about it all to Tryapitchkin at Petersburg; he will write
sketches
of it in the papers.
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Nothing more commends the
Sovereign
to the subject than
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But let the kirk-folk ring their bells,
Let's sing about our noble sel's;
We'll cry nae jads frae heathen hills
To help, or roose us,
But
browster
wives an' whiskey stills,
They are the muses.
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Robert Forst |
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who is not
calumnious?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Faith is a fine invention
For
gentlemen
who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I'm liable to be ordered off
anywhere
at a minute's notice if a
war breaks out.
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Kipling - Poems |
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She would lean at the window,
thinking
of him and hoping he would come back.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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non sic incerto mutantur flamine Syrtes,
nec folia hiberno tam
tremefacta
Noto,
quam cito feminea non constat foedus in ira,
siue ea causa grauis siue ea causa leuis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Wont was Gellius hear his uncle rich in reproaches,
When any
ventured
aught wanton in word or in deed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Eternus, incorruptus, aequaevus polo,
Unusque et universus
exemplar
Dei.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Who wrought thee any ill,
That thou
shouldst
make me fatherless?
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Euripides - Electra |
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In all her letters,
written in exquisite English prose, but with an ardent imagery
and a vehement sincerity of emotion which make them, like the
poems, indeed almost more directly, un-English, Oriental, there
was always this intellectual, critical sense of humour, which
could laugh at one's own
enthusiasm
as frankly as that enthusiasm
had been set down.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Favours, by Jove that
thunders!
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Shakespeare |
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There is a stanza of this
excellent
song for local humour, omitted in
this set.
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Robert Forst |
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In the
beginning
was the Word.
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T.S. Eliot |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ideas of a very practical nature have now taken
possession
of the
people.
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Li Po |
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They said that Love would die when Hope was gone,
And Love mourned long, and
sorrowed
after Hope;
At last she sought out memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.
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Tennyson |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that
accursed
Jew--
O Portia!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the
smokeless
air.
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Golden Treasury |
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Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a
doubtful
spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, "Speak once more--thou lovest!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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For never, I fancy, did a golden cord
From off the firmament above let down
The mortal generations to the fields;
Nor sea, nor breakers
pounding
on the rocks
Created them; but earth it was who bore--
The same to-day who feeds them from herself.
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Lucretius |
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The sons,
After the death of Pelops, shared the rule
O'er Mycenae, till Atreus from the realm
Thyestes
drove.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Nevertheless, the book is
far more
readable
than that of St.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Bid the lyre and cittern play;
Enkindle
incense, shed the victim's gore;
Heaven has watch'd o'er Numida,
And brings him safe from far Hispania's shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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mutanda est ratio modusque uobis,
siquid
proficere
amplius potestis,
'pudica et proba, redde codicillos.
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Latin - Catullus |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Have I not seen sweet natures kept alive
Amid the humdrum of your
business
hive,
Undowered spinsters shielded from all harms,
By airy incomes from a coat of arms?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Dwelling
secluded, I was glad that someone had come;
How much the more, when I saw it was Ch'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Why not endure,
expecting
more?
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Lewis Carroll |
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So far as I can judge, there is one
alteration
for the worse, and one
only.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[31] Practically a
quotation
from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
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Li Po |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Gow has published a variation of this fine tune as his own
composition, which he calls "The
Princess
Augusta.
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Robert Burns |
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the news is stirred,
Roof and
creepers
clinging,
Smoke and nest of bird;
Winds to oak-trees bear it,
Streams and fountains hear it,
Every breath and spirit
As a voice is heard.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Begin, and end the bitter
balefull
stound;?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names from these:
His
intimate
friends called him "Candle-ends,"
And his enemies "Toasted-cheese.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[THE KING
_empties
the flagon of drugged liquor, and
with a mocking laugh the girl jumps down and sits
on his knee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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They wave:--from out their
fragrant
tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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' Then he bangs the butt of his gun for a
gavel and says, 'By virtue of the authority vested in me by my own right
hand and the help of Peachey, I declare myself Grand Master of all
Freemasonry in
Kafiristan
in this the Mother Lodge o' the country, and
King of Kafiristan equally with Peachey!
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But if the only
competition
were my brother, 490
Madame, over him I have essential claims,
That I could salvage from the law's domains.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Orpheus
Orpheus
'Orpheus'
Pierre -Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French, 1824 - 1898, Yale
University
Art Gallery
His heart was the bait: the heavens were the pond!
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Appoloinaire |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_
HE IS
BEWILDERED
AT THE UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL OF LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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3 That is, Suzong will come directly and openly to the capital, perhaps in contrast to his father
Xuanzong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The great poet who
told the story of Domitian's turbot was the legitimate successor
of those forgotten minstrels whose songs animated the
factions
of
the infant Republic.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[Illustration]
They were, however, able to catch numbers of the chickens and turkeys and
other birds who incessantly alighted on the head of the Rhinoceros for the
purpose of
gathering
the seeds of the rhododendron-plants which grew
there; and these creatures they cooked in the most translucent and
satisfactory manner by means of a fire lighted on the end of the
Rhinoceros's back.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Such were the
artificialities
of later Chinese poetry.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
MENALCAS
"Forbear, my sheep, to tread too near the brink;
Yon bank is ill to trust to; even now
The ram himself, see, dries his
dripping
fleece!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lucretius |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that confiding prodigal,
The
blissful
oriole.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Any citizen trying to evade his duty to be present
was liable to have his white robe
streaked
red, and so be exposed to
general ridicule on finally putting in an appearance on the Pnyx.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
The industrious labour of some editors in
disinterring
the trivial works
of great men is not a commendable industry.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Nature
is more
powerful
in them than study.
| 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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192 _Neglegit_ O:
_Negligit_
cett.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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How you've revered the formative will of those ancient
artists!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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III
One
chuckles
by the brook for me:
One rages under the stone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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I know thy soul
Tempered by trust in God against this ruin;
But not in God, but in mortality
Thy soul stands founded; and death even now
Is digging at thy station in the world;
And as a man with ropes and windlasses
Pulls for new building columns of wreckt halls
Down with a breaking fall, so death has rigged
His skill about us, so he will break us down,
Ruin our height and courage; and as stone,
Carved with the beautiful pride of kings, hath made,
Hammer'd to rubble and ground for mortar, walls
Of farms and byres, our kill'd and broken natures,
With all their beauty of passion, yea, and delight
In God, death will shape and grind up to new
Housing for souls not royal as we are,
New flesh and mind for mean souls and dull hearts:
For death is only life destroying life
To roof the coming swarms in mortal shelter
Of flesh and mind
experienced
in joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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this
conscience
for candle-wicks,
Not beacon-fires!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Let us make now Man in our image, Man
In our similitude, and let them rule 520
Over the Fish and Fowle of Sea and Aire,
Beast of the Field, and over all the Earth,
And every
creeping
thing that creeps the ground.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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uncontrolled,
Unbidden, hast thou, prophet-god, imbrued
The pure
prophetic
shrine with wrongful blood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
[63]
The Darrel controversy was carried on through a number of years between
John Darrel, a
clergyman
(see note 5.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_Dewdrops_
The dewdrops on every blade of grass are so much like silver drops
that I am obliged to stoop down as I walk to see if they are pearls,
and those sprinkled on the ivy-woven beds of primroses underneath the
hazels,
whitethorns
and maples are so like gold beads that I stooped
down to feel if they were hard, but they melted from my finger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Eufeniens
his son gan calle,
And tidynges amonge hem alle
He tolde hym ?
| 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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Come where the autumn winds never can sweep,
And the streams of the woodland steep thee in sleep,
Like a fond sister
charming
the eyes of a brother,
Or a little lass lulled on the breast of her mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The impact of a dollar upon the heart
Smiles warm red light,
Sweeping
from the hearth rosily upon the
white table,
With the hanging cool velvet shadows
Moving softly upon the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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IN this Astolphus
certainly
believ'd;
The friends return'd, and kindly were receiv'd;
A little scolding first assail'd the ear;
But blissful kisses banish'd ev'ry fear.
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La Fontaine |
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In what had he
offended
God or man?
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La Fontaine |
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Tully was not so
eloquent
as thou,
Thou nameless column[487] with the buried base!
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Byron |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works
even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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[To
ISABELLA]
Y'are welcome; what's
your will?
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Shakespeare |
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Then, in his wrath for the death of Patroclus, Achilles
bound the dead Hector by his feet to his chariot,
And scourged on his horse that freely flew;
A
whirlwind
made of startled dust drave with them as they drew,
With which were all his black-brown curls knotted in heaps and fill'd.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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FROM IBN JEMIN
Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a mind serene;--
A woman to thy wife, though she were a crowned queen;
And the second, borrowed money,--though the smiling lender say
That he will not demand the debt until the
Judgment
Day.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Sous les lunes particulieres
Aux pialats ronds
Entrechoquez
vos genouillieres,
Mes laiderons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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,
_furious
in battle, savage_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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