Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Now Finale to the Shore
Now finale to the shore,
Now land and life finale and farewell,
Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
Cautiously
cruising, studying the charts,
Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish,
Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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1
Qingzhou
and Xuzhou were two prefectures in the east, deep in An Lushan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Vicinus prope dives est,
negligensque
Priapus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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haesit in amplexu consolatusque
iacentem
est,
cumque meis lacrimis miscuit usque suas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I could have
touched!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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And no man dared to speak of Charmides
Deeming that he some evil thing had wrought,
And when they reached the strait Symplegades
They beached their galley on the shore, and sought
The toll-gate of the city hastily,
And in the market showed their brown and
pictured
pottery.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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260
Thence what the lofty grave Tragoedians taught
In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best
Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd
In brief sententious precepts, while they treat
Of fate, and chance, and change in human life;
High actions, and high passions best describing;
Thence to the famous Orators repair,
Those antient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce Democratie,
Shook the Arsenal and fulmin'd over Greece, 270
To Macedon, and
Artaxerxes
Throne;
To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear,
From Heaven descended to the low-rooft house
Of Socrates, see there his Tenement,
Whom well inspir'd the Oracle pronounc'd
Wisest of men; from whose mouth issu'd forth
Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools
Of Academics old and new, with those
Sirnam'd Peripatetics, and the Sect
Epicurean, and the Stoic severe; 280
These here revolve, or, as thou lik'st, at home,
Till time mature thee to a Kingdom's waight;
These rules will render thee a King compleat
Within thy self, much more with Empire joyn'd.
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Milton |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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John Donne |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Lucretius |
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From the loud roar of foaming calumny
To the small whisper of the as paltry few--
And subtler venom of the reptile crew,
The Janus glance[510] of whose significant eye,
Learning to lie with silence, would _seem_ true--
And without utterance, save the shrug or sigh,
Deal round to happy fools its
speechless
obloquy.
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Byron |
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS
My new
Province
is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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she is fairest in her
features
wild,
Where nothing polished dares pollute her path:
To me by day or night she ever smiled,
Though I have marked her when none other hath,
And sought her more and more, and loved her best in wrath.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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IMPROMPTU
My mind is a puddle in the street
reflecting
green Sirius;
In thick dark groves trees huddle lifting their branches like
beckoning hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
admitted
poems are much below the standard of Rowley.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fond of rambling, I hunted the shark 'long the beach,
And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach;
And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb,
Like the lynx and the wolf, perished
harmless
and dumb.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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She, in after time,
Gave o'er the throne, as
birthgift
to a god,
Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
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Aeschylus |
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but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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VII
None looked upon her but he
straightway
thought
Of all the greenest depths of country cheer, 50
And into each one's heart was freshly brought
What was to him the sweetest time of year,
So was her every look and motion fraught
With out-of-door delights and forest lere;
Not the first violet on a woodland lea
Seemed a more visible gift of Spring than she.
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James Russell Lowell |
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the raskall routes appall,
Men into stones
therewith
he could transmew,
And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all;
And when him list the prouder lookes subdew,
He would them gazing blind, or turne to other hew.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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They
were
comparatively
near neighbours, as Wilkinson lived near Yanwath on
the Emont; and he had given his MS.
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William Wordsworth |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And
Somerset
another goodly mast?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thee, Furius, and Fabricius, thee,
Rough Curius too, with untrimm'd beard,
Your sires' transmitted poverty
To
conquest
rear'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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We wylle ynn a bordelle[40] lyve,
Hailie, thoughe of no estate;
Everyche clocke moe love shall gyve;
Wee ynne
godenesse
wylle bee greate.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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I haue put it in
scripture
{and} remembraunce.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"
Digitized by VjOOQIC
14 THE POEMS
Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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It is entitled
A Collection of
Original
Poetry
written about the time of
Ben: Jonson
qui ob.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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I am yong, but something
You may
discerne
of him through me, and wisedome
To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe
T' appease an angry God
Macd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Is not yon
lingering
orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's lordliest pageants!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la
cargaison
d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le repassant aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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One day remembering her kernel-stone
She set it by a wall that faced the south;
Dewed it with tears, hoped for a root,
Watched for a waxing shoot,
But there came none;
It never saw the sun,
It never felt the
trickling
moisture run:
While with sunk eyes and faded mouth
She dreamed of melons, as a traveller sees
False waves in desert drouth
With shade of leaf-crowned trees,
And burns the thirstier in the sandful breeze.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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No sooner have
you
obtained
them, than you cease to be secure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I wot the
stranger
worketh woe within--
For lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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)
Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning along on
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
strength.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thus far sped the sacred
contests
to their holy lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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e
Emperors
bour,
a maiden god with gret honour,
to wedden wi?
| 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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She
returned
Baudelaire's love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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the work from.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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You
remember
what you said when you were
so angry that day in the Park?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
| 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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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Who, who away would be
From Cynthia's wedding and
festivity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The troubled plumes of
midnight
were
The plumes upon a hearse:
And bitter wine upon a sponge
Was the savour of Remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'
She looks into me
The unknowing heart
To see if I love
She has
confidence
she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Hart was the
originator
of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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245
And
trewelich
it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;
And they that han ben aldermost in wo,
With love han ben conforted most and esed;
And ofte it hath the cruel herte apesed, 250
And worthy folk maad worthier of name,
And causeth most to dreden vyce and shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death's
indomitable
power;
Not though three hundred bullocks flame
Each year, to soothe the tearless king
Who holds huge Geryon's triple frame
And Tityos in his watery ring,
That circling flood, which all must stem,
Who eat the fruits that Nature yields,
Wearers of haughtiest diadem,
Or humblest tillers of the fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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Tacitus |
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Those of Alverne the
greatest
court'sy have,
From Pinabel most quietly draw back.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
security
of society will not depend, as it
does now, on the state of the weather.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Before the city boys and men in their early
[163-196]bloom exercise on horseback, and break in their teams on the
dusty ground, or draw ringing bows, or hurl tough javelins from the
shoulder, and contend in running and boxing: when a
messenger
riding
forward brings news to the ears of the aged King that mighty men are
come thither in unknown raiment.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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les grands pres,
La grande
campagne
amoureuse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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All the people
pour from house and field, and mothers crowd to wonder and gaze at her
as she goes, in
rapturous
astonishment at the royal lustre of purple
that drapes her smooth shoulders, at the clasp of gold that intertwines
her tresses, at the Lycian quiver she carries, and the pastoral myrtle
shaft topped with steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And when afar amid the din of angry men
she espied Camilla done woefully to death, she sighed and uttered forth
a deep cry: 'Ah too, too cruel, O maiden, the forfeit thou hast paid for
daring armed attack on the
Teucrians!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Sisyphus
in uita quoque nobis ante oculos est
qui petere a populo fascis saeuasque securis
imbibit et semper uictus tristisque recedit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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