However, with those who were under him or near
him, and with his
colleagues
he gained great influence by various
devices, and seems to have been the sort of man who would more readily
make an emperor than be one.
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"Hear me forswear his roof by night,
His bread and salt by day,
His talkings at the wood-fire hearth,
His greetings by the way,
His
answering
looks, his systemed books,
All man, for aye and aye.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A
cluttered
incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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Stephen Crane |
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But as the brain,
Being lord of the body, is served by blood
So well that a hidden canker in the flesh
May send, continuous as a usury,
Its breeding venom upward, till in the brain
It vapour into enormity of dreaming:
So man is lord of life upon the earth;
And like a hastening blood his nature wells
Up out of the beasts below him, they the flesh
And he the brain, they serving him with blood;
And blood so loaden with brute lust of being
It steams the conscious leisure of man's thought
With an immense
phantasma
of desire,
An unsubduable dream of unknown pleasure;
Which he sends hungering forth into the world,
But never satisfied returns to him.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Therefore
for each and all the city's breast
Is heavy with a wrath supprest,
As deep and deadly as a curse more loud
Flung by the common crowd;
And, brooding deeply, doth my soul await
Tidings of coming fate,
Buried as yet in darkness' womb.
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Aeschylus |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A LOUD CRY FROM THE PIGS:
She is
innocent!
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Shelley |
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), and will be induced
to inquire by what species of
courtesy
these attempts have been
permitted to assume that title.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But it's to Bacchus, the sensuous dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in
sweetest
desire--even in marble they're damp.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Some means to please they've got, you will confess;
But none with
certainty
the charm possess.
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La Fontaine |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Who is he that would become my
follower?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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In command of the cavalry
and
infantry
he placed Suetonius Paulinus, Marius Celsus, and Annius
Gallus, but the man in whom he put most faith was the Prefect of the
Guards, Licinius Proculus.
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Tacitus |
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--Et la lampe s'etant resignee a mourir,
Comme le foyer seul illuminait la chambre,
Chaque fois qu'il
poussait
un flamboyant soupir,
Il inondait de sang cette peau couleur d'ambre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He served Aimery IV,
Viscount
of Narbonne, as well as Alfonso el Sabio, King of Castile.
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Troubador Verse |
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Cum suis vivat valeatque moechis,
Quos simul conplexa tenet trecentos,
Nullum amans vere, sed
identidem
omnium
Ilia rumpens: 20
Nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem,
Qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati
Vltimi flos, praeter eunte postquam
Tactus aratrost.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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which
signifies
no man, but as ?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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What would she with a cheek
So bright in strange men's eyes, unless she seek
Some
treason?
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Euripides - Electra |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Tacitus |
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A compleynt hadde I, writen, in myn hond,
For to have put to Pite as a bille,
But whan I al this companye ther fond, 45
That rather wolden al my cause spille
Than do me help, I held my pleynte stille;
For to that folk,
withouten
any faile,
Withoute Pite may no bille availe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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, _terror_, under the figure of a mishap at an
ale-drinking,
probably
the sudden taking away of the ale: nom.
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Beowulf |
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) as the only Ground he had got to stand
upon, however momentarily
slipping
from under his Feet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The rest may die--but is there not
Some shining strange escape for me
Who sought in Beauty the bright wine
Of
immortality?
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Sara Teasdale |
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is
p{r}ince
of alle ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(bohrt):
Euch soll sogleich Tokayer fliessen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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35
Pleases the bevy unwed with feigned
complaints
to accuse thee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find
unwithered
on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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(The dash --
indicates
a new speaker.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
_Electra_
has none of the imaginative
splendour, the vastness, the intense poetry, of that wonderful work.
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Euripides - Electra |
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19
From a gully of the jaded city
Drunken
laughter
filtered through the night
Where I knelt, and toward the open window Reached my hands before me as in prayer.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But thee, O mother,
overworn
old age,
exhausted and untrue, frets with vain distress, and amid embattled kings
mocks thy presage with false dismay.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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To stop thy foolish views, thy long desires,
And ease thy heart of all that it
admires?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Behold, the heedless, torpid, yearn to try
And block the
insidious
entry, there they lie,
Whom the herald summons urging them to rise.
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Troubador Verse |
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Erdman does not note this
placement
in his edition.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_piazzian_, forming covered walks
supported
by pillars, a word coined by
Keats.
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Keats |
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A chorus of colors came over the water;
The
wondrous
leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was elsewhere a silence,
When the chorus of colors came over the
water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
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Stephen Crane |
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APPENDIX
EXTRACTS
FROM THE CRITICS
GIFFORD: There is much good writing in this comedy.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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If you, have
looked on him who has
achieved
it, you have looked on one of the masters of
the artists of all nations and times.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And further learn,
That with
prolific
foison of all seeds,
This holy plain is fill'd, and in itself
Bears fruit that ne'er was pluck'd on other soil.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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My unseen power weighs upon the heads
Of nations, like the blown
abasement
given
By sedges when they are wretched to the wind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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It may be said that these problems were not
conclusively and finally solved till Professor Skeat brought out his
edition of
Chatterton
in 1871.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CHARACTER
OF A HAPPY LIFE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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That never man, as in his
freendes
nede,
Ne bar him bet than he, with-outen drede.
| 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 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making
fantastic
arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
They may be modified and printed and
given away - you may do practically
_anything_
with public domain
eBooks.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Answer: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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CATERPILLARS
Of caterpillars Fabre tells how day after day
Around the rim of a vast earth pot they crawled,
Tricked thither as they filed
shuffling
out one morn
Head to tail when the common hunger called.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The
strollers
in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
'
And I saw long ships, with their
smokestacks
leaning
In the white scud and the white foam and the smoky swift spray!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
She said: the pitying
audience
melt in tears; 90
But fate and Jove had stopped the baron's ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The warders at the gates, the kitchen-maids,
The very beggars would stand off from me,
And I, their queen, would climb the stairs alone,
Pass through the banquet-hall, a loathed thing,
And seek my
chambers
for a hiding-place,
And I should find them but a sepulchre,
The very rushes rotted on the floors,
The fire in ashes on the freezing hearth.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Hungry should feed,
Or
stranger
lodge thee here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Dies Lied
verkundete
der Jugend muntre Spiele,
Der Fruhlingsfeier freies Gluck;
Erinnrung halt mich nun, mit kindlichem Gefuhle,
Vom letzten, ernsten Schritt zuruck.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And yet while
it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a
beautiful
thing
helps us, by being what it is.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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At least, it solaces to know
That there exists a gold,
Although I prove it just in time
Its
distance
to behold!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Suddenly
he follows in the way of things that change.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Dysplaie the Englyshe
bannorre
onn the tente;
Rounde hymm, yee mynstrelles, songs of achments[129] synge;
Yee Herawdes, getherr upp the speeres besprente[130];
To Kynge of Tourney-tylte bee all knees bente.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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wrāðum
on andan, 709,
2315.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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For all that's left of winter
Is
moisture
in the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Though I lack the qualities for offering criticism, 12 I feared lest my ruler
overlook
some matter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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* * * * *
A sojourn in Russia and especially the acquaintance with the novels of
Dostoievsky became potent factors in Rilke's development and served to
deepen
creations
which without this influence might have terminated in a
grandiose aesthesia.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But
Christabel
in dizzy trance
Stumbling on the unsteady ground
Shuddered aloud, with a hissing sound;
And Geraldine again turned round,
And like a thing, that sought relief,
Full of wonder and full of grief,
She rolled her large bright eyes divine
Wildly on Sir Leoline.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The eves
illumined
by the burning coal,
The balcony where veiled rose-vapour clings--
How soft your breast was then, how sweet your soul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
He
attendeth
here hard by
To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Shall I wait till morning
White-winged over the land,
Ere the
fishermen
tramp the beach
And drag their boats to the sand;
And find at last .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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too frail
Always to keep
inviolate
the house
Of her first Lord, and wait for his return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The old man sits among his broken
experiments
and looks at the burning
Cathedral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
[_To MAIRE_] Come away,
I hear my
brethren
bidding us away!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Oh, some
scholar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I had cast
my
imagination
so strongly upon the servant that she had seen it, and
with what had appeared to be more than the mind's eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Troy yet found grace before the
Olympian
sire,
He arm'd their hands, and fill'd their breasts with fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face,
Till, checking his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and opposite sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's
wrinkled
countenance,
And pledge him.
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His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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at a man
coueite?
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) Tomorrow evening at eleven, beside
The
fountain
in the avenue of lime-trees.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hearts that are
happiest
hold not by it;
Better we let, then, the old view reign;
Since there is peace in it, why decry it?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All scatter'd round their
glittering
weapons lie;
Some fall to earth, and some confusedly fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then all sounds merged
Into the rising surges of the pines,
Which, leagues below me,
clothing
the gaunt loins
Of ancient Caucasus with hairy strength,
Sent up a murmur in the morning wind,
Sad as the wail that from the populous earth
All day and night to high Olympus soars.
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III
Yet to preserve our honour not alone
Deserves
excuse, it also merits praise:
This to preserve, I say, when to have done
In other wise, might shame and scandal raise;
And had fair Bradamant reluctance shown,
And obstinately interposed delays,
This, as a certain sign, had served to prove
That lady's little wit or little love.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He hath conquered, he cometh to free us
With
garlands
new-won,
More high than the crowns of Alpheus,
Thine own father's son:
Cry, cry, for the day that is won!
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Euripides - Electra |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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With hairy springes we the birds betray, 25
Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey,
Fair tresses man's
imperial
race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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