We gazed with terror on the gloomy sleep
Of them that perished in the whirlwind's sweep,
Untaught
that soon such anguish must ensue,
Our hopes such harvest of affliction reap,
That we the mercy of the waves should rue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My father disapproves: and laws most severe 105
Prevent him granting nephews to her brothers:
He fears the offspring born of a guilty strain:
He'd like to bury their sister and their name,
Submit her to his
guardianship
till the grave,
Ensure that for her no wedding torches blaze.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How right I was to fear, with what true reason, 1595
Forgiving him in my heart, came cruel
suspicion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Hence too it comes that Nature all dissolves
Into their primal bodies again, and naught
Perishes
ever to annihilation.
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Lucretius |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A
movement
will often in its first fire of enthusiasm
create more works of genius than whole easy-going centuries that come
after it.
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Yeats |
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Email
contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
Foundation's web site and
official
page at www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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At the sight of me she
trembled
and gave a piercing
cry.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And he'll stand by a wreck in a
murdering
gale and count it part of his
work!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Awhile she paused in timid thought,
Then
promptly
hurried in and bought
'Two kippers, please.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" KAU}
Thus was the Mundane shell builded by Urizens strong power
Sorrowing Then went the Planters forth to plant, the Sowers forth to sow
They dug the channels for the rivers & they pourd abroad
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The seas & lakes, they reard the mountains & the rocks & hills
On broad pavilions, on pillard roofs & porches & high towers
In beauteous order, thence arose soft clouds & exhalations
Wandering even to the sunny orbs Cubes of light & heat
{Lowercase
"cubes" mended to "Cubes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Poe - 5 |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Alexander Pope |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol.
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Robert Herrick |
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All joys are humbled, all must dance
To her law, and all lords obey
My lady, with her lovely way
Of greeting, her sweet
pleasant
glance,
A hundred years of life I'd grant
To him who has her love in play.
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Troubador Verse |
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Page [80]
636
Page 81
King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In front
The
cedarshadowy
valleys open wide.
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Tennyson |
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XCVI
For which he made what stately preparation
Was possible to make by
sceptered
king.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He had never looked upon his
acquaintance
with Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'
Full heavy hung the
draggled
gown he wore;
His hair flew all awry.
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Sidney Lanier |
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after death you shall be superb,
Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with
irresistible
power;
How dare you place any thing before a man?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Man's sins
Move us to
laughter
only, we have seen
So many lands and seen so many men.
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Yeats |
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*
This world is [Mine] Thine in which thou dwellest that within thy soul*
That dark & dismal infinite where Thought roams up & down
Is [thine] Mine & there thou goest when with one Sting of my tongue
Envenomd thou rollst inwards to the place [of death & hell where] whence I emergd
She trembling answerd Wherefore was I born & what am I
[A sorrow & a fear a living torment & naked Victim]
I thought to weave a Covering [from his] for my Sins from wrath of
Tharmas*
{This entire paragraph, internally revised, is marked for deleting, evidently, by two diagonal strike out lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--not a Place,
Yet name it so;--where Time and weary Space
Fettered from flight, with night-mare sense of fleeing,
Strive for their last
crepuscular
half-being;--
Lank Space, and scytheless Time with branny hands
Barren and soundless as the measuring sands,
Not mark'd by flit of Shades,--unmeaning they
As moonlight on the dial of the day!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" Gawayne answers
with great wroth, "Thrash on, thou fierce man, thou
threatenest
too
long; I believe thy own heart fails thee.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes
along the level of the roofs.
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T.S. Eliot |
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--Nor is the moving of
laughter
always the
end of comedy; that is rather a fowling for the people's delight, or
their fooling.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And Rhoecus after heard no other sound,
Except the
rattling
of the oak's crisp leaves, 150
Like the long surf upon a distant shore,
Raking the sea-worn pebbles up and down.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ovid thus enumerates the causes which brought about his banishment:
"Perdiderint quum me _duo_ crimina, carmen et error,
Alterius
facti culpa silenda mihi est.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Keats - Lamia |
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BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS
I have been ill so long that I do not count the days;
At the
southern
window, evening--and again evening.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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25
Houghton, Mifflin & Company 4 Park Street Boston
NOTICE
So scarce are back num bers of CONTEMPORARY
Here is what literary critics say about
Contemporary
Verse:
"Slender in bulk — but it contains good poems.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'109 Grubstreet':
a wretched street in London,
inhabited
in Pope's day by hack writers,
most of whom were his enemies.
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Alexander Pope |
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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ee, good wedlocke,
How I
directed
him.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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IT
happened
that our fair one evening said,
To her who of each infant step had led,
But of the present secret nothing knew:--
I feel unwell; pray tell me what to do.
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La Fontaine |
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Yes, when the
preacher
is a player, granted:
As often happens in our modern ways.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nor stayed to welcome here thy
wanderer
home,
Who mourns o'er hours which we no more shall see--
Would they had never been, or were to come!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He had your picture in his room,
A scurvy traitor picture,
And he smiled
--Merely a fat
complacence
of men who
know fine women--
And thus I divided with him
A part of my love.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Donne
considers
the rashness of those whom he refers to as a degree
of, an approach to, suicide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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In
a corner of the
apartment
stood the bed of the metaphysician.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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X Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
XI And therefore if to love can be desert
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast
XIII And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XV Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
XVI And yet, because thou
overcomest
so
XVII My poet thou canst touch on all the notes
XVIII I never gave a lock of hair away
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize
XX Beloved, my beloved, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXIII Is it indeed so?
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
So gayly he paced with the wife and the child to his chosen stand;
But he hurried tall Hamish the
henchman
ahead: "Go turn," --
Cried Maclean -- "if the deer seek to cross to the burn,
Do thou turn them to me: nor fail, lest thy back be red as thy hand.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"Doth ever any
Into this rueful concave's extreme depth
Descend, out of the first degree, whose pain
Is
deprivation
merely of sweet hope?
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We play at paste,
Till
qualified
for pearl,
Then drop the paste,
And deem ourself a fool.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" —Sioux City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre
tentious
journal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Grandson
of Atlas, wise of tongue,
O Mercury, whose wit could tame
Man's savage youth by power of song
And plastic game!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Spring from within me these
conflicting
thoughts,
To weary, wound myself,
Each a sure sword against its master turn'd:
Nor do I pray her to be therefore freed,
For less direct to heaven all other paths,
And to that glorious kingdom none can soar
Certes in sounder bark.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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'I sate beside the
Steersman
then, and gazing
Upon the west, cried, "Spread the sails!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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In every quarter fierce Tydides raged;
Amid the Greek, amid the Trojan train,
Rapt through the ranks he thunders o'er the plain;
Now here, now there, he darts from place to place,
Pours on the rear, or
lightens
in their face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Thou
bloomest
here a lonely thing in the clear autumn day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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And, so
conscious
was he
of his real integrity and innocence, that in one of his sonnets he
wishes no other revenge on Barreto than that the cruelty of his exile
should ever be remembered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
[246]
Sardinia
and Corsica were an imperial province A.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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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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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Non ego sum votes, sed prisci
conscius
isvi.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its
volunteers and employees are scattered throughout numerous
locations.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Do you hope to see it
In one of your
withered
days?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Torre Hulme_
The Girl of Otaheite--_Clement Scott_
Nero's
Incendiary
Song--_H.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate,
and the most
accurate
instrument by which to measure Life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Not anything you do can make you mine,
For
enterprise
with equal charity
In duty as in love elect will shine,
The constant slave of mutability.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[30] _it_ is
uncertain
and _ta_ more likely than _us_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If live the fair desire, Apollo, yet
Which fired thy spirit once on Peneus' shore,
And if the bright hair loved so well of yore
In lapse of years thou dost not now forget,
From the long frost, from seasons rude and keen,
Which last while hides itself thy kindling brow,
Defend this
consecrate
and honour'd bough,
Which snared thee erst, whose slave I since have been.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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When will the vulgar learn
humility?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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for
herdsman
and for herd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Listen and hear the happy wind
Whisper and lightly pass:
'Your love is sweet as
hawthorn
is,
Your hope green as the grass.
| 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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THE plot
succeeded
as the pair desired;
The cobbler laughed, and ALL his scheme admired:
A purse-proud cit thereon observed and swore;
'Twere better to have coughed when all was o'er;
Then you, all three, would have enjoyed your wish,
And been in future all as mute as fish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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It were
dishonour
double-dyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
3960
He was for drede in such affray,
That not a word durste he say,
But quaking stood ful stille aloon,
Til
Ielousye
his wey was goon,
Save Shame, that him not forsook; 3965
Bothe Drede and she ful sore quook;
[Til] that at laste Drede abreyde,
And to his cosin Shame seyde:
Shame,' he seide, 'in sothfastnesse,
To me it is gret hevinesse, 3970
That the noyse so fer is go,
And the sclaundre of us two.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Why, Damon, with the forward day
Dost thou thy little spot survey,
From tree to tree, with
doubtful
cheer,
Pursue the progress of the year,
What winds arise, what rains descend,
When thou before that year shalt end?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Little shaver--afore he knew his name
Or the place from
whereabouts
he came--
On a wagon-train the Apaches caught him.
| 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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I am one, my Liege,
Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World
Hath so incens'd, that I am
recklesse
what I doe,
To spight the World
1.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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***END OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND SONGS OF
EXPERIENCE***
******* This file should be named 1934-0.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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How the long night flags
lovelessly
and slowly,
And my head droops over thee like the willow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Death I would have them till thou comest; yea,
The earthly stone whereof man's fortune here
Is made,
strongly
into deliberate death
I have built about my soul, to fend its life
From gazes of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Asphodel scents did Gilgal's breezes bring--
Through nuptial shadows, questionless, full fast
The angels sped, for
momently
there passed
A something blue which seemed to be a wing.
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Theban mage, druid by the dark menhir,
Flamen by Tiber, Brahmin by the Ganges,
Fitting angelic arrow to godlike bow,
Viewing the haunts of Roland, Achilles,
Powerful mysterious smith, you'd know
How to twine sun-rays to a single flame;
In your soul the sunset met the day;
Yesterday
tomorrow
in your fertile brain;
You crowned the old art father of the new;
You understood that when an unknown soul
Speaks to a nation, lightning in the clouds,
We must open our hearts, accept, love aloud;
Calm you scorned the vile attempts of those
Who dribbled Shakespeare, drooled Aeschylus;
You knew this age had its own air to breathe,
That art progresses by self-transformation,
Beauty's adorned by melding with greatness.
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Sad, alas, the man who dreamt of
Fairies!
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Yea, and sullenly down
Into its hiding town,
Even though the
lightning
were still in its heart,
The broken dragon, drawing in its fury,
Had croucht to mend its shatter'd malice,
Had lifted its head again and spat against God.
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The first race of men, free as yet from every depraved passion, lived
without guile and crimes, and therefore without
chastisements
or
restraints; nor was there occasion for rewards, when of their own accord
they pursued righteousness: and as they courted nothing contrary to
justice, they were debarred from nothing by terrors.
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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Neither to you, nor any one, hauing no witnesse
to
confirme
my speech.
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And what are Right, and Wrong,
And Feeling, that belong
To
creatures
all who owe thee fief?
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Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill
exchanged
for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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HERDAL: That your wife isn't
particularly
fond
of this Miss Fosli.
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On entering, soft, a touch of hand,
And at the dole of parting-time,
A kiss, with an adornment bland,
As
farewell
gift: a gentle rhyme.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Talking of the execution of the diabolical artillery among the good
angels, they, says Satan--
"Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell
As they would dance, yet for a dance they seem'd
Somewhat
extravagant
and wild, perhaps
For joy of offer'd peace.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
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You've seen
balloons
set, haven't you?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"I rubbed it out with turps and the knife,"
faltered
Bessie.
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