O all so dear to me--what you are (whatever it is), I become a
part of that,
whatever
it is.
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Whitman |
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I gained it so,
By
climbing
slow,
By catching at the twigs that grow
Between the bliss and me.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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more or nought bestow;
With lordly state low thrift but ill agrees;
Thou hast thy darts and bow,
Take with thy hands my not unwilling breath,
Life were well closed with
honourable
death.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
— Current Opinion, New
York
"Each
contribution
is a gem.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This dream, this
horrible
dream!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Round about him, fair Bacchantes,
Bearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrses,
Wild from Naxian groves, or Zante's
Vineyards, sing
delirious
verses.
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Longfellow |
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Meredith - Poems |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
"I will hope and trust in Heaven,
Nancy, Nancy;
Strength
to bear it will be given,
My spouse Nancy.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Every artist necessarily
imitates
those who have worked in
the same form before him, and when the preoccupation has been with the
same life he almost always, consciously or unconsciously, borrows
more than the form, and it is this very borrowing--affecting thought,
language, all the vehicles of expression--which brings about the most of
what we call decadence.
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Yeats |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the
twofold influence which the French
sculptor
wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But
yonder fellow got red instead, so
horribly
afraid was he!
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Aristophanes |
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This, you will easily guess, is an
undertaking
exactly to my
taste.
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Robert Forst |
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MEPHISTOPHELES
(zu Faust):
Komm nur geschwind und lass dich fuhren;
Du musst notwendig transpirieren,
Damit die Kraft durch Inn- und Aussres dringt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Loathsome
is Venus to all new-paired?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
"But," cried romantic I, "is there no sphere
Where virtue is
rewarded
when we die?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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of the two, vouchsafe her wish to her
And mine to me,
deigning
a truth to each--
To her, reveal her future wanderings--
To me, thy future saviour, as I crave!
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Aeschylus |
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Mountains mourn & Rivers faint & fail
There is no City nor Corn-field nor
Orchard!
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Blake - Zoas |
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but when death intervening
Rends us asunder, with what
ceaseless
pain
We wait for the Again!
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Longfellow |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
bird whose eye takes in the Green
Mountains
on the one side, and the
ocean on the other, need not be at a loss to find its way.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend--ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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XLV
Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
Are the loving hands of my dear lover,
When she sleeps beside me in the starlight
And her beauty
drenches
me with rest.
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Sappho |
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WHAT is the
inference?
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La Fontaine |
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]
Land of the desolate, Mother of tears,
Weeping your beauty marred and torn,
Your
children
tossed upon the spears,
Your altars rent, your hearths forlorn,
Where Spring has no renewing spell,
And Love no language save a long Farewell!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_
IN SUPPORT OF THE
PROPOSED
CRUSADE AGAINST THE INFIDELS.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
That
ungracious
young lady in blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You may copy it, give it away or
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now, in
this contest, by Jove's decree, all the Olympian gods were
suffered
to
take part.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I lent a helping hand; and, in a trice we had
the box upon the table, in the midst of all the bottles and glasses, not
a few of which were
demolished
in the scuffle.
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Poe - 5 |
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Like children running races who shall be
First in to touch the orchard wall or tree,
The last half way behind, by
distance
vext,
Turns short, determined to be first the next;
So now the muse has run me hard and long--
I'll leave at once her races and her song;
And, turning round, laugh at the letter's close
And beat her out by ending it in prose.
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John Clare |
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A
restless
impulse urged him to embark
And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste; _305
For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves
The slimy caverns of the populous deep.
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Shelley |
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+Inscribed
to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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My boy beside me tripped, so slim 25
And
graceful
in his rustic dress!
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William Wordsworth |
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Wherefore
I love them not whose hands profane
Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street
For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reign
Arts, Culture, Reverence, Honour, all things fade,
Save Treason and the dagger of her trade,
Or Murder with his silent bloody feet.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Wow, but your letter made me
vauntie!
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Robert Forst |
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My
plenteous
Ioyes,
Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues
In drops of sorrow.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
How mighte it ever y-red ben or y-songe,
The pleynte that she made in hir
distresse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As I look up
the main street, they appear like painted screens
standing
before the
houses; yet many are green.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I must say that I, for one, never wholly
believed
in the Mysticism of
Hafiz.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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LXIX
Marphisa
had, at her companions' prayer,
Cloathed her in female ornaments and vest,
Of those, which by Maganza's traitour were
Late to Lanfusa, in full trust, addrest;
And, though the appearance of that maid was rare
Without her corslet, casque and all the rest,
-- At their entreaty, these for once laid down --
She deigned to seem a maid and donned the gown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Only a few years
previous
we read in
Advent:
"That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
To have no home in the present.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Nō þæt ȳðe byð
tō
beflēonne
(fremme sē þe wille!
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Beowulf |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
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Troubador Verse |
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But when the story of the poem is safely concerned with some
reality, he can, of course, graft on this as much
appropriate
invention
as he pleases; it will be one of his ways of elaborating his main,
unifying purpose--and to call it "unifying" is to assume that, however
brilliant his surrounding invention may be, the purpose will always be
firmly implicit in the central subject.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then
The sun was his turned-up broken barrel,
Out of which his juicy apples rolled,
Down the
repeated
terraces,
Thumping across the gold,
An angel in each apple that touched the forest mold,
A ballot-box in each apple,
A state capital in each apple,
Great high schools, great colleges,
All America in each apple,
Each red, rich, round, and bouncing moon
That touched the forest mold.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I, only I, of all the watery race
By force
subjected
to a man's embrace,
Who, sinking now with age and sorrow, pays
The mighty fine imposed on length of days.
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Iliad - Pope |
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You thoughtful Armenian,
pondering
by some stream of the Euphrates!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Were every wish indulged by
favouring
skies,
This hour should give Ulysses to my eyes.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
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Imagists |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
`Thenk here-ayeins, whan that the sturdy ook, 1380
On which men hakketh ofte, for the nones,
Receyved
hath the happy falling strook,
The grete sweigh doth it come al at ones,
As doon these rokkes or these milne-stones.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There the soul bathes itself in
indolence
made odorous with regret and
desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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THE THREE GOSSIPS' WAGER
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,
Discoursing various pranks in
pleasant
chat,
Each had a loving friend, and two of these
Most clearly managed matters at their ease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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She fain will wait
Until the
gathered
country-folk be gone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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For stuff must be,
That thus the after-generations grow,--
Though these, their life completed, follow thee;
And thus like thee are
generations
all--
Already fallen, or some time to fall.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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5 I, on the register,
unworthy
of even minor rank;6 you, in glory, seated alone among the Zhou officers.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
_ No reply,
O
unforsaking
Father?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
As a furious torrent you have
overthrown
our city; your
outcries have deafened Athens and, posted upon a high rock, you have lain
in wait for the tribute moneys as the fisherman does for the tunny-fish.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming
in witlessness
That for a bloom so delicately gay
Winter would stay its stress?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
[Sidenote: I
defended
Albinus against Cyprian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
]er loupe lemed of golde;
592 So
harnayst
as he wat3 he herkne3 his masse,
Offred & honoured at ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Can blaze be done in cochineal,
Or noon in
mazarin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
"
"By MARIE, and alle
Seinctes
ynne Heav'n,
Thys sunne shall be hys laste.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Souldiers
Sir
Macb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Then let the louns beware, Sir;
There's wooden walls upon our seas,
And
volunteers
on shore, Sir:
The Nith shall run to Corsincon,
And Criffel sink in Solway,
Ere we permit a Foreign Foe
On British ground to rally!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
More I know not: my roots lie hidden deep
My
branches
only are swayed by the wind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
I come to your wan, bleak hills
For a
greeting
that rises dearer,
To homely hearts draws me nearer
Than the warmth of the rice-fields or wealth of the ranches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But the main quality of these
poems is that of extraordinary grasp and insight, uttered with an
uneven vigor sometimes exasperating,
seemingly
wayward, but really
unsought and inevitable.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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At a
thousand
gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys
turn;
Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and magpies are
flying.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The noble warrior, who has claimed her,
Said when he
disarmed
me: 'Have no fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fain would he flee, his
fastness
seek,
the den of devils: no doings now
such as oft he had done in days of old!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Twenty
thousand
beside him Charles leads,
Who with one voice have sworn him fealty;
In straits of death they never will him leave.
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Chanson de Roland |
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What are her
feelings
toward the
Knight?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So that if a man love nobly he knows
love through infinite pity, unspeakable trust,
unending
sympathy; and
if ignobly through vehement jealousy, sudden hatred, and unappeasable
desire; but unveiled love he never knows.
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Yeats |
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(_Controlling
herself_)
Nay; when a woman once is caught about
With evil fame, there riseth in her tongue
A bitter spirit--wrong, I know!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Forthwith
up rose the Consul,
Up rose the Fathers all;
In haste they girded up their gowns,
And hied them to the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
'And so that you may carry news of me, know that I am
Bertrand
de Born,
he who gave evil counsel to the Young King.
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Troubador Verse |
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(I'the the
glooming
light.
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Tennyson |
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Here's (_enter_
HASTINGS)
your sweetheart's jewels.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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