He touched me, so I live to know
That such a day,
permitted
so,
I groped upon his breast.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or te ne va; e perche se' vivo anco,
sappi che 'l mio vicin Vitaliano
sedera qui dal mio
sinistro
fianco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Though the
strained
mast should quiver as a reed,
And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale,
Still must I on; for I am as a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail
Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
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Keats - Lamia |
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" Now the rich sound of leaves,
Turning in air to sway their heavy boughs,
Burns in his heart, sings in his veins, as spring
Flowers in veins of trees;
bringing
such peace
As comes to seamen when they dream of seas.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Peaks and ridges
tottered
and broke.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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" Finding that he could not
influence
the
conduct of his prince, he drowned himself in the river Mi-lo.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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This caused bad feeling; an
agitation
was organized,
and they were persuaded to refuse service.
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Tacitus |
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High birth in humble life, reserved yet kind,
On youth's gay flower ripe fruits of age and rare,
A virtuous heart,
therewith
a lofty mind,
A happy spirit in a pensive air;
Her planet, nay, heaven's king, has fitly shrined
All gifts and graces in this lady fair,
True honour, purest praises, worth refined,
Above what rapt dreams of best poets are.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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bonnified
by beard full-fed,
And teeth with Spanish urine polished.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as He,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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Not the cormorant, cradled there on the sea,
Not stones from the walls, or the rhythmic beat
Of a trader's oars
thrashing
the waves below.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Entering, his eyes around Rinaldo threw,
And saw a place, whose like is seldom spied,
Of
beauteous
fabric, and well ordered plan;
Nor such huge cost befitted private man.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The brand he laid in Beowulf's lap;
and of hides
assigned
him seven thousand, {29b}
with house and high-seat.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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what means this
mystery?
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Byron |
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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)
The curse of
England!
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Tennyson |
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Having
expounded
the whole principle of spiritual alchemy, and bid
them found the Order of the Alchemical Rose, she passed from among
them, and when they would have followed was nowhere to be seen.
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Yeats |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was stillness as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the
Volscians
were coming o'er the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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e sterres of arctour
yto{ur}ned
neye to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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CHORUS
Go, tell the news to him, perform thine hest,--
What the gods will,
themselves
can well provide.
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Aeschylus |
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And you are mine,
My
sweetheart!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking
of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'
"The 'Four Yew Trees,' and the mysterious company which you have
assembled
there, 'Death the Skeleton and Time the Shadow.
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William Wordsworth |
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Et ce monde rendait une etrange musique
Comme l'eau courante et le vent,
Ou le grain qu'un vanneur d'un
mouvement
rythmique
Agite et tourne dans son van.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I saw all shapes of death
And ministered to many, o'er the plain _2485
While carnage in the sunbeam's warmth did seethe,
Till
twilight
o'er the east wove her serenest wreath.
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Shelley |
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As the
Knight of the Green Chapel I am known to many,
wherefore
if thou
seekest thou canst not fail to find me.
| Guess: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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Often in early summer, as I walkt
A girl singing her happiness, beside
The high green corn, holding all earth my own,
I saw, as my feet and my voice past by,
How in its hiding some croucht little beast
Startled, and filled a space of the gentle corn
With
plunging
quivering fear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I foresee that
poverty and
obscurity
probably await me, and I am in some measure
prepared, and daily preparing to meet them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The
original
of this song may be found in Oneota, p.
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| Question: |
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Longfellow |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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Tacitus |
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A learned writer says that
_Lullaby_
is derived from "Lilla, abi!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
We may leave out
experiments
in religious
sentiment like Klopstock's _Messiah_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Can you not hear it
crooning
clear,
As though it understood?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Or hang on tiptoe at the lifted latch;
The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match,
The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill,
And ear still busy on its nightly watch,
Were not for me, brought up in nothing ill;
Besides, on griefs so fresh my
thoughts
were brooding still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'
'Damsel,' Sir Gareth
answered
gently, 'say
Whate'er ye will, but whatsoe'er ye say,
I leave not till I finish this fair quest,
Or die therefore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Roaming hill or wood
He looked a wolf was
striving
to do good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well contented with the
spacious
starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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"--yet
swallows, ere
returning
to the toothsome dainty, great mouthfuls of
oatmeal-porridge and winkles: and just as the perfect Connoisseur in
Claret permits himself but one delicate sip, and then tosses off a pint or
more of boarding-school beer: so also----
I never loved a dear Gazelle--
_Nor anything that cost me much:
High prices profit those who sell,
But why should I be fond of such?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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[III] You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
You tides with
ceaseless
swell!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For of all those who have been known
To lodge with our kind host, the sun,
I envy one for just one thing:
In Cordova of the Moors
There dwelt a passion-minded King,
Who set great bands of marble-hewers
To fashion his heart's thanksgiving
In a tall palace, shapen so
All the
wondering
world might know
The joy he had of his Moorish lass.
| 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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And know,
The fault which lies direct from any sin
In level opposition, here With that
Wastes its green
rankness
on one common heap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Of the interminable sisters,
Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
Of the centripetal and
centrifugal
sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its
freshest
flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Some felt the silent stroke of
mouldering
age,
Some hostile fury, some religious rage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Bellowing
there groan'd
A noise as of a sea in tempest torn
By warring winds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
'
'Why, nothing of consequence, save this attack
On my friend there, behind, by some pitiful hack,
Who thinks every national author a poor one,
That isn't a copy of something that's foreign, 429
And assaults the American Dick--'
Nay, 'tis clear
That your Damon there's fond of a flea in his ear,
And, if no one else furnished them gratis, on tick
He would buy some himself, just to hear the old click;
Why, I honestly think, if some fool in Japan
Should turn up his nose at the "Poems on Man,"
(Which contain many verses as fine, by the bye,
As any that lately came under my eye,)
Your friend there by some inward instinct would know it,
Would get it translated, reprinted, and show it;
As a man might take off a high stock to exhibit 440
The autograph round his own neck of the gibbet;
Nor would let it rest so, but fire column after column,
Signed Cato, or Brutus, or something as solemn,
By way of displaying his critical crosses,
And
tweaking
that poor transatlantic proboscis,
His broadsides resulting (this last there's no doubt of)
In successively sinking the craft they're fired out of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Then from far off a winged vessel came,
Swift as a swallow, subtle as a flame:
I know not what it bore of freight or host, 40
But white it was as an
avenging
ghost.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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To give away yourself, keeps
yourself
still,
And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then to my lord, where by the meadow side
He prays the
woodland
nymphs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Press down through the leaves of the
jasmine,
Dig through the
interlaced
roots--nevermore will you find me;
I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying
combinations
touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
"When, then," they
said, "shall we cease to sleep a sleep broken by the surge,
troubled
by
a wind that snores louder than we?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
--
Be welcome,
strangers
both, and pass below
My lintel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The little Pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she, 395
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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You will have wrought a high
chivalrous
deed,
Nor all your life know war again, but peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Lalage
continues
to read.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
In other cases, as in the
few poems of shipwreck or of mental conflict, we can only wonder at
the gift of vivid
imagination
by which this recluse woman can
delineate, by a few touches, the very crises of physical or mental
struggle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
* * * * *
Reverend Marsh, low-couched along the sea,
Old chemist, rapt in alchemy,
Distilling silence, -- lo,
That which our father-age had died to know --
The menstruum that dissolves all matter -- thou
Hast found it: for this silence, filling now
The globed clarity of receiving space,
This solves us all: man, matter, doubt, disgrace,
Death, love, sin, sanity,
Must in yon silence' clear
solution
lie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
His knights he
straightway
gathers
And in the midst sate he,
In the banquet hall of the fathers
In the castle over the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Then as the fire points up, and mounting seeks
His birth-place and his lasting seat, e'en thus
Enters the captive soul into desire,
Which is a
spiritual
motion, that ne'er rests
Before enjoyment of the thing it loves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
If so he might not wholly cease to be,
He would far rather not be that he is;
But would be
something
that he knows not of,
In winds or waters, or among the rocks!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
"In answer to your excellency on the score of Ensign Grineff, who is
said to have been mixed up in the troubles, and to have entered into
communication with the robber,
communication
contrary to the rules and
regulations of the service, and opposed to all the duties imposed by his
oath, I have the honour to inform you that the aforesaid Ensign Grineff
served at Orenburg from the month of Oct.
| 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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XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a
couplement
of proud compare'
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The house of supposition,
The
glimmering
frontier
That skirts the acres of perhaps,
To me shows insecure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
But, as I told him, his despiteful mood
Is
ornament
well suits the breast that wears it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
From this pale world, so full of bitterness
Love flies, his deceits must be taken lightly,
Nothing is his indeed but pains us swiftly;
And less than
yesterday
is each day's light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
We miss him on the summer path
The lonely summer day,
Where mowers cut the
pleasant
swath
And maidens make the hay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Was this^i^ belli et pctcisf Could this be
Cause why their
burgomaster
of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
So I call in the boy and make him kneel here and tie this up,
and send it to you, a remembrance, from a
thousand
miles away.
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Li Po |
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So few
originals
produced--not more than 124 verses.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded
and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But God's eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" cried he, upon seeing me, "I thought the
villains
had
again laid hold on you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--Now, by those dear
immunities
of heart
Engendered between [4] malice and true love,
I was not loth to be so catechised,
And this was my reply:--"As it befel, 35
One summer morning we had walked abroad
At break of day, Joanna and myself.
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William Wordsworth |
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Him
Even the laurels and the
tamarisks
wept;
For him, outstretched beneath a lonely rock,
Wept pine-clad Maenalus, and the flinty crags
Of cold Lycaeus.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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That day he wore a riding-coat,
But not a whit the warmer he:
Another was on
Thursday
brought,
And ere the Sabbath he had three.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Destitute, even in idea, of that elevation of soul which is
expressed by the best sense of the word piety, in the time of calamity
whole provinces are desolated by self-murder; an end, as Hume says, of
some of the admired names of antiquity, not unworthy of so
detestable
a
character.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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When he was young he little knew
Of
husbandry
or tillage;
And now he's forced to work, though weak,
--The weakest in the village.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Self-exiled Harold wanders forth again,
With naught of hope left, but with less of gloom;
The very knowledge that he lived in vain,
That all was over on this side the tomb,
Had made Despair a smilingness assume,
Which, though 'twere wild--as on the plundered wreck
When mariners would madly meet their doom
With draughts
intemperate
on the sinking deck--
Did yet inspire a cheer, which he forbore to check.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But an inferior not
dependent?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my
shuttered
glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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LES
PLAINTES
D'UN ICARE
Les amants des prostituees
Sont heureux, dispos et repus;
Quant a moi, mes bras sont rompus
Pour avoir etreint des nuees.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thou unknown hero sleeping by the sea
In thy
forgotten
grave!
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Longfellow |
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