Note: Bellerie was
situated
on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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The
magistrate
now considered it his duty to send a couple of constables
to search the chamber of the accused in the house of his uncle.
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Poe - 5 |
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
He straight rejoin'd: "Say, were it worse for man,
If he liv'd not in
fellowship
on earth?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Men of my folk for that feud had vengeance,
for woful war ('tis widely known),
though one of them bought it with blood of his heart,
a bargain hard: for
Haethcyn
proved
fatal that fray, for the first-of-Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Even to
fruitful
Ephyre, perchance,
He will proceed, seeking some baneful herb
Which cast into our cup, shall drug us all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The volume, in this respect,
so far as the
limitations
of its range allow, accurately reflects the
natural growth and evolution of our Poetry.
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Golden Treasury |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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blake-poems |
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Here, brides
attended
duly!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His
sightless
soul may stray.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Men that watch for it;
and, had they not had this hint, are so unjust valuers of letters as they
think no
learning
good but what brings in gain.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Not
according
to the prayer of the people, for they love
not Marcius.
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Shakespeare |
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If indeed such things there be,
Their ways are beyond the
striving
of mortal men.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'
Suddenly
wakened with a sound of talk
And laughter at the limit of the wood,
And glancing through the hoary boles, he saw,
Strange as to some old prophet might have seemed
A vision hovering on a sea of fire,
Damsels in divers colours like the cloud
Of sunset and sunrise, and all of them
On horses, and the horses richly trapt
Breast-high in that bright line of bracken stood:
And all the damsels talked confusedly,
And one was pointing this way, and one that,
Because the way was lost.
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Tennyson |
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Till he
escape the
infernal
bounds, he shall not cast a backward look.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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nec tibi nascenti plures animaeque manusque,
sed plus consilii
iudiciique
fuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--I have abandoned all
amid [674-707]a dreadful death; and now I see the
stragglers
and catch
the groans of those who fall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And when all the world came back
And the light crept up between the shutters,
And you heard the
sparrows
in the gutters,
You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;
Sitting along the bed's edge, where
You curled the papers from your hair,
Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
In the palms of both soiled hands.
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T.S. Eliot |
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* * *
Pale genius roves alone,
No scout can track his way,
None credits him till he have shown
His
diamonds
to the day.
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Emerson - Poems |
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How dread the hour, when injur'd heaven, in rage,
Thunders its
vengeance
on a guilty age!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now when the sister found her brother gone,
And that, for many days, he came not back,
She wept for Sheemah more than for herself;
For Love bides longest in a woman's heart, 40
And flutters many times before he flies,
And then doth perch so nearly, that a word
May lure him back to his accustomed nest;
And Duty lingers even when Love is gone,
Oft looking out in hope of his return;
And, after Duty hath been driven forth,
Then Selfishness creeps in the last of all,
Warming her lean hands at the lonely hearth,
And crouching o'er the embers, to shut out
Whatever paltry warmth and light are left, 50
With
avaricious
greed, from all beside.
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James Russell Lowell |
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591
In A schort tyme hit was diht,
ful
richeliche
and Al ari?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The tide's at full: the marsh with flooded streams
Glimmers, a limpid
labyrinth
of dreams.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The employment of the
classic
machinery
was almost as impossible.
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Alexander Pope |
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hunc procul emissae tenebrosa Ditis ab aula
circueunt
animae, saeua face quas cruciarat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address
specified
in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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He
first prepared an ointment for Neoclides; he threw three heads of
Tenian[785] garlic into the mortar, pounded them with an
admixture
of
fig-tree sap and lentisk, moistened the whole with Sphettian[786]
vinegar, and, turning back the patient's eyelids, applied his salve to
the interior of the eyes, so that the pain might be more excruciating.
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Aristophanes |
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There's a wandering shadow that stares at the foam,
Though they sing all the night to old England, their queen,
Late, late in the evening
_Kilmeny_
came home,
And nobody knew where _Kilmeny_ had been.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A
greeting
and a kiss!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But her brother had passed in between them and her,
And calmly knelt down on the high-altar stair--
Of an
infantine
aspect so stern to the view
That the priest could not smile on the child's eyes of blue
As he would for another.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your
sleeping
boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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None the less I cannot really believe that, if we make
patient use of our available knowledge, the _Alcestis_
presents
any
startling enigma.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And now a weighty question
We shall determine; ye know how everywhere
The
insolent
pretender hath spread abroad
His artful rumours; letters everywhere,
By him distributed, have sowed alarm
And doubt; seditious whispers to and fro
Pass in the market-places; minds are seething.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'179
stratagems
.
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Alexander Pope |
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I gave a whistle and three hundred cries
to you; and I found nothing there but a
bleating
lamb.
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Yeats |
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His _1635-69_]
[224
rusheth]
rushes _1639-69_]
[226 still _1635-69_, _Q_, _and other MSS.
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John Donne |
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And now if there a man be found
That looks for such prepared ground,
Let him, but with
indifferent
skill,
So good a soil bestock and till;
He may ere long have such a wife
Nourish in's breast a tree of life.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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But, O pigtails of Rome, still I'm
entrammled
in you.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to
Solitude
retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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For this reason, I am at present
attending
these instructions, to have
them completed before Whit-sunday.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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She, like a three year colt unbroke,
Is
frisking
o'er the spacious plain,
Too shy to bear a lover's yoke,
A husband's rein.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The treasures of the world flow there, as in the house
of a
laborious
man who has well merited the entire world.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[83] Whether the subject which
gave offense was the one which we have been considering or that of
witchcraft, it is, however,
impossible
to determine.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This, with his having
been put in the
Commission
of the Peace by our excellent Governor (_O,
si sic omnes!
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Or the melon--
let it bleach yellow
in the winter light,
even tart to the taste--
it is better to taste of frost--
the
exquisite
frost--
than of wadding and of dead grass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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No son have I nor
daughter
to succeed;
That one I had, they slew him yester-eve.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Why, 'tis but three weeks fled
I saw my Judas needle shake his head
And flout the Pole that, east, he Lord
confessed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Sounds Aeolian
Breath'd from the hinges, as the ample span
Of the wide doors disclos'd a place unknown
Some time to any, but those two alone,
And a few Persian mutes, who that same year
Were seen about the markets: none knew where
They could inhabit; the most curious
Were foil'd, who watch'd to trace them to their house:
And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth's sake, what woe
afterwards
befel,
'Twould humour many a heart to leave them thus,
Shut from the busy world of more incredulous.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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er man; mychel
enpaired
I-wis.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The stars seem purer the shade is more delightful;
A hazy half-light colours the dome on high;
And dawn, pale and tender,
awaiting
her moment,
Seems to wander about all night in the deeps of the sky.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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In
truth, one
literature
was setting, and another dawning.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Saveliitch's
uneasiness
amused
me very much.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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with wings of healing,
And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,
Silent as though they watched the
sleeping
Earth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Pages in purple run madly about,
Rolling their eyes and grinning with huge,
frightened
mouths.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dryden said that "the
excellence
and
dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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No scorching blast could daunt the
sleepless
ken
Of roseate Sphinx, and god of marble green,
Which stood as guardians o'er the sacred ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Down the blind speed of a fatal world we fly,
As rain blown along earth's fields;
Yet are we god-desiring liturgy,
Sung joys of adoration;
Yea, made of chance and all a labouring strife,
We go charged with a strong flame;
For as a
language
Love hath seized on life
His burning heart to story.
| 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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When heaven's jewel
had fled o'er far fields, that fierce sprite came,
night-foe savage, to seek us out
where safe and sound we
sentried
the hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Lancaster
(Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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THE scheme our prince's approbation met;
The very girl, said he, I wish'd to get;
This night be our attack; and if her heart
Surrenders
when our wishes we impart,
But one perplexity will then remain;
'Tis who her virgin favours shall obtain?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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thou who all things overcom'st,
Except the hardy demons, that rush'd forth
To stop our
entrance
at the gate, say who
Is yon huge spirit, that, as seems, heeds not
The burning, but lies writhen in proud scorn,
As by the sultry tempest immatur'd?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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1 A Tang
commandery
under the charge of Guo Ziyi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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This day a solemn feast the people hold
To Dagon, their sea-idol, and forbid
Laborious
works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Manfully thus the mighty prince,
hoard-guard for heroes, that hard fight repaid
with steeds and
treasures
contemned by none
who is willing to say the sooth aright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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haec eadem nobis frater
meditatur
Amyntas
quem uicina meis natalibus admouet aetas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most
distinguished
poems published in the United States in 1916.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further off, to make thee room:
Thou art a
monument
without a tomb,
And art alive still, while thy book doth live
And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Lycius then press'd her hand, with devout touch,
As pale it lay upon the rosy couch:
'Twas icy, and the cold ran through his veins;
Then sudden it grew hot, and all the pains
Of an
unnatural
heat shot to his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
MARTHE:
O sagt mir doch
geschwind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
Do scribes aver the Comic to be
Reverend
still?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Three years by artifice I thus their suit
Eluded safe; but when the fourth arrived,
And the same season after many moons 190
And fleeting days return'd, passing my train
Who had neglected to release the dogs,
They came, surprized and
reprimanded
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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I, who twice
Their will had noted, spake: "O spirits secure,
Whene'er the time may be, of
peaceful
end!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Whoe'er she be,
That not
impossible
She
That shall command my heart and me;
Where'er she lie,
Lock'd up from mortal eye
In shady leaves of destiny:
Till that ripe birth
Of studied Fate stand forth,
And teach her fair steps to our earth;
Till that divine
Idea take a shrine
Of crystal flesh, through which to shine:
--Meet you her, my Wishes,
Bespeak her to my blisses,
And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
has strude, = _ravage_, and
compares
l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Beowulf |
|
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Our Johnny, when he understood
Which shop it was that purchased hair,
Ran off as briskly as he could,
And in a trice stood cropped and bare,
Too short of hair to fill a locket,
But
jingling
money in his pocket.
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The world is round, so
travellers
tell,
And straight though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
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Within that forest world of twilight green
Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day
I travel down the beetle-trail between
Huge glossy boles through green
infinity
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I may not evermore
acknowledge
thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But now, at last, a clear and steady ray,
From reason's mirror sent, my folly shows,
And on my sight the hideous image throws
Of what I am--a mind
eclipsed
and lost,
By vice degraded from its noble post
But yet, e'en yet, the mind's elastic spring
Buoys up my powers on resolution's wing,
While on the flight of time, with rueful gaze
Intent, I try to thread the backward maze,
And husband what remains, a scanty space.
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Petrarch |
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) the thongs
unbound!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability of any provision of this
agreement
shall not void the
remaining provisions.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Except to heaven, she is nought;
Except for angels, lone;
Except to some wide-wandering bee,
A flower
superfluous
blown;
Except for winds, provincial;
Except by butterflies,
Unnoticed as a single dew
That on the acre lies.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon,
To see the woodbine twine;
And ilka birds sang o' its Luve,
And sae did I o' mine:
Wi'
lightsome
heart I pu'd a rose,
Upon its thorny tree;
But my fause Luver staw my rose
And left the thorn wi' me:
Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose,
Upon a morn in June;
And sae I flourished on the morn,
And sae was pu'd or noon!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I am licenced boldely
In
divinitee
to rede,
And to confessen, out of drede.
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--Written for the Society of the Army
of the Potomac, and read at its re-union with Confederate survivors on
the field of Gettysburg, July 3, 1888, the Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary
of
the Battle.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ceaster-būendum, of those
established
in Hrōðgār's
castle, 769.
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Beowulf |
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Our sex with guile, and
faithless
love,
Is charg'd, perhaps too true;
But may, dear maid, each lover prove
An Edwin still to you.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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