How shall I greet thy conquering face,
How nor a fulsome praise obtrude,
Nor stint the meed of
gratitude?
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Aeschylus |
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uses repullulate, -tion, 336, 794], et
multa satorum genera, ut densiora surgant, reciduntur; ita regia
crudelitas auget
inimicorum
numerum tollendo.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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' One can only
account for this praise of a noisy and demagogic art by supposing
that a temperament, strong enough to explore with unfailing alertness
the
countless
schools and influences of the Renaissance in Italy, is
of necessity a little lacking in delicacy of judgment and in the
finer substances of emotion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Yeats |
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'Assure thyself all that is due to thy mighty enterprise;
[297-330]for she shall be a mother to me, and only in name fail to be
Creusa; nor slight is the honour
reserved
for the mother of such a son.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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fruitful in
caresses
and treacheries.
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So they both to London went,
Alighting
on the Monument;
Whence they flew down swiftly--pop!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Humorous
invitation to teach music to the
M'Murdo family
CCXXXII.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"What are you
standing
there for like a stock?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I'll wander on, with
tentless
heed
How never-halting moments speed,
Till fate shall snap the brittle thread;
Then, all unknown,
I'll lay me with th' inglorious dead,
Forgot and gone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation of the divine
principle
of the
creative impulse in man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey
The
proclamation
made for May:
And sin no more, as we have done, by staying;
But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Beauty, real beauty, ends where an
intellectual
expression begins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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No ruddy fires on the hearth,
No
brimming
tankards flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What matter--she
is there; and I
recognise
her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thou, who didst subdue
Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel
The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due
Of hoarded
vengeance
till thine eagles flew
O'er prostrate Asia;--thou, who with thy frown
Annihilated senates--Roman, too,
With all thy vices, for thou didst lay down
With an atoning smile a more than earthly crown--
LXXXIV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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57 CE) allowed three officers
separate
seats in court, one of which was Vice Censor in chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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1921
CONRAD AIKEN
Earth
Triumphant
The Macmillan Company 1914
Turns and Movies Houghton Mifflin Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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From transient smiles to long
protracted
woe
The various turns and dark degrees I know;
And hot and cold, and that unequall'd smart
When souls survive, though sever'd from the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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why melt your voice
In
dolorous
strains, because the perjured fair
Has made a younger choice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yet tender thoughts dwell there, no solitude
Hath power youth's natural
feelings
to exclude;
There doth the maiden watch her lover's sail
Approaching, and upbraid the tardy gale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sometimes upon the hills beside the sea
All day I watched the floating isles of shade,
And
sometimes
on the shore, upon the sands
Insensibly I drew her name, until
The meaning of the letters shot into
My brain: anon the wanton billow wash'd
Them over, till they faded like my love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The
engagement
opens there and then, in my busy brain unreal;
The skirmishers begin--they crawl cautiously ahead--I hear the irregular
snap!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Poems in various moods are also
included
in the book and add variety to its feast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Yes--all such
reasonings
are amiss!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
I think not a lion,
Though his
strength
is such;
But an innocent loving lamb
May have done as much.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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His opinion, for example, of Sir Henry Wotton's "Verses on
the Queen of Bohemia"-that "there are few finer things in our language,"
is
untenable
and absurd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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At last it is
permitted
me to refresh
myself in a bath of shadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
He was a strong man from the north,
Light-locked, with eyes of
dangerous
gray:
"Put yea by for another time
In which I will not say thee nay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in sportive mood
To
Syracusan
strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Crossing the river at Putney, he hurried
homewards
among the
market-gardens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Infanta
I know it well; though virtue seems to fade,
How love
flatters
the heart it does invade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
[302]
Corresponding
to our month of April.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
540
But she a potent remedy devised
Herself to save us, who the nostrils sooth'd
Of each with pure
ambrosia
thither brought
Odorous, which the fishy scent subdued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Yea, whole
mountains
fall,
And instantly from spot of that big jar
There quiver the tremors far and wide abroad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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There's not a sparrow or a wren,
There's not a blade of autumn grain,
Which the four seasons do not tend
And tides of life and
increase
lend;
And every chick of every bird,
And weed and rock-moss is preferred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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LE DORMEUR DU VAL
C'est un trou de verdure ou chante une riviere
Accrochant
follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent; ou le soleil, de la montagne fiere,
Luit: c'est un petit aval qui mousse de rayons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
If their
friend consent not to their vices, though he do not contradict them, he
is
nevertheless
an enemy.
| 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 |
|
IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with resonant hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows
shuddered
then!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The lessons of life we forget,
While a trifle, a trick of color,
In the
wonderful
web is set,--
Set by some mordant of fancy,
And, spite of the wear and tear
Of time or distance or trouble,
Insists on its right to be there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
[26]
* * * *
Then in the towers I placed great bells that swung,
Moved of themselves, with silver sound;
And with choice
paintings
of wise men I hung
The royal dais round.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Attirez le gai venin
Des liserons;
Mangez les
cailloux
qu'un pauvre brise,
Les vieilles pierres d'eglises,
Les galets, fils des deluges,
Pains couches aux vallees grises!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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sed tu horum magnos uicisti sola furores,
ut semel es flauo
conciliata
uiro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
The fierce
Achilles
wrapt our walls in fire,
Laid Thebe waste, and slew my warlike sire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
And fauns and fairies do the meadows till
More by their
presence
than their skill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
"
With this he drew from his pocket a letter, which he offered to me, and
I read as follows:--
"Shame on you, you old dog, for never writing and telling me anything
about my son, Petr' Andrejitch, in spite of my strict orders, and that
it should be from
strangers
that I learn his follies!
| 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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There, in a moment, we may plunge our years
In fatal penitence, and in the blight
Of our own soul, turn all our blood to tears,
And colour things to come with hues of Night;
The race of life becomes a
hopeless
flight
To those that walk in darkness: on the sea,
The boldest steer but where their ports invite,
But there are wanderers o'er Eternity
Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
In woe
She
consolation
thence obtained--
Inseparable they remained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
ise
mutac{i}ou{n}s
of fortune fleten wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
And the still Valkyrie hover panting for
hallowed
souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
LUCRETIA:
'Tis true he spoke
Of death and judgement with strange confidence
For one so wicked; as a man
believing
_10
In God, yet recking not of good or ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
As one who stands in dewless asphodel,
Looks backward on the tedious time he had
In the upper life,--so I, with bosom-swell,
Make witness, here, between the good and bad,
That Love, as strong as Death,
retrieves
as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
he do
erye his feldes
plentiuo{us}
wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
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Title: Sea Garden
Author: Hilda Doolittle
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
"
"An
engineer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
This the poets understood by their
Helicon, Pegasus, or Parnassus; and this made Ovid to boast,
"Est deus in nobis, agitante
calescimus
illo
Sedibus aethereis spiritus ille venit.
| 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 |
|
You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with
protrusive
lip, grovelling,
seeking your food!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The rose will redden in the bog,
The aster on the hill
Her everlasting fashion set,
And covenant
gentians
frill,
Till summer folds her miracle
As women do their gown,
Or priests adjust the symbols
When sacrament is done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The hues of old
Revisit not the wool we steep;
And genuine worth, expell'd by fear,
Returns not to the
worthless
slave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
XXIV
" `My honour has been ruined by thy mate,
Who to this body violence has done,
And fearing lest I all to thee relate,
Without farewell the
graceless
churl is gone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Yet discerning critics have
thought that they could still perceive in the early history of
Rome numerous fragments of this lost poetry, as the traveller on
classic ground sometimes finds, built into the heavy wall of a
fort or convent, a pillar rich with
acanthus
leaves, or a frieze
where the Amazons and Bacchanals seem to live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
The dogs were handsomely
provided
for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
You
neighbour
of the Danube!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Hee dy'de,
As one that had beene studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
As 'twere a
carelesse
Trifle
King.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Qu'un granit entoure d'une vague epouvante,
Assoupi dans le fond d'un Saharah
brumeux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
It was
not only for his solace in life that Coleridge
required
sympathy; he needed
the galvanizing of continual intercourse with a poet, and with one to whom
poetry was the only thing of importance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
But 'tis time now with pen phonographic to follow
Through some more of his sketches our laughing Apollo:--
'There comes Harry Franco, and, as he draws near,
You find that's a smile which you took for a sneer; 1280
One half of him contradicts t'other; his wont
Is to say very sharp things and do very blunt;
His manner's as hard as his feelings are tender,
And a _sortie_ he'll make when he means to surrender;
He's in joke half the time when he seems to be sternest,
When he seems to be joking, be sure he's in earnest;
He has common sense in a way that's uncommon,
Hates humbug and cant, loves his friends like a woman,
Builds his
dislikes
of cards and his friendships of oak,
Loves a prejudice better than aught but a joke, 1290
Is half upright Quaker, half downright Come-outer,
Loves Freedom too well to go stark mad about her,
Quite artless himself, is a lover of Art,
Shuts you out of his secrets, and into his heart,
And though not a poet, yet all must admire
In his letters of Pinto his skill on the liar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
And not for all our questioning 10
Shall we
discover
more than joy,
Nor find a better thing than love!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
It is
quite the most
engrossing
one in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
culte puer
puerique
parens Amathusia culti,
aurea de campo uellite signa meo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
He encamps with the rest of his force near
Hostilia
on the
Tartaro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
But two
extracts
from Stow's _Chronicle_
(_continued .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Oenone, nurse and
confidante
to Phaedra.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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In the next
edition, the fifth, 1848, 'The Deserted House' was
included
from the
poems of 1830.
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Tennyson |
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what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift
extremity
can seem but slow?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The people of Stratford-on-Avon have
remembered
little about him, and
invented no legend to his glory.
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Yeats |
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[Sidenote C: There the fox was
threatened
and called a thief.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He
expressed
a desire to be buried there, but when he
died they buried him at Tung-lin.
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Li Po |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Could
pensioned
Boileau lash in honest strain
Flatterers and bigots even in Louis' reign?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face,
Lighting
a little hour or two--is gone.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'T is beggars
banquets
best define;
'T is thirsting vitalizes wine, --
Faith faints to understand.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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blake-poems |
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When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the
dreadful
light shall break.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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and mellow horn;
At peace
inverted
your lithe necks ye lave,
With the green bottom strewing o'er the wave;
No ruder sound your desart haunts invades,
Than waters dashing wild, or rocking shades.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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