If, like a tower upon a headland rock,
Thou hadst been made to stand or fall alone,
Such scorn of man had helped to brave the shock;
But men's
thoughts
were the steps which paved thy throne,
THEIR admiration thy best weapon shone;
The part of Philip's son was thine, not then
(Unless aside thy purple had been thrown)
Like stern Diogenes to mock at men;
For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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No guess could tell what instrument appear'd,
But all the soul of Music's self was heard,
Harmonious
concert rung in every part,
While simple melody pour'd moving on the heart.
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Robert Burns |
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In jenem sel'gen Augenblicke
Ich fuhlte mich so klein, so gross;
Du
stiessest
grausam mich zurucke,
Ins ungewisse Menschenlos.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then I looked up and saw a head peering down into
the amphitheatre--the head of Dunnoo, my dog-boy, who
attended
to my
collies.
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Kipling - Poems |
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As for me, it is
difficult
to express the joy which took
possession of me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"And when I also claim a nook,
And your feet tread me in,
Bestow me, under my old name,
Among my kith and kin,
That
strangers
gazing may not dream
I did a husband win.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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630
As painctyd Bruton, when a wolfyn wylde,
When yt is cale and blustrynge wyndes do blowe,
Enters hys bordelle, taketh hys yonge chylde,
And wyth his bloude bestreynts the lillie snowe,
He thoroughe mountayne hie and dale doth goe, 635
Throwe the quyck torrent of the bollen ave,
Throwe Severne
rollynge
oer the sandes belowe
He skyms alofe, and blents the beatynge wave,
Ne stynts, ne lagges the chace, tylle for hys eyne
In peecies hee the morthering theef doth chyne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And there is no
quenching
15
In the night for Sappho,
Since her lover Phaon
Leaves her unrequited.
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Sappho |
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A number of
personal
references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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It
degrades
those who
exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Many upon thy death have ditties made;
And many, even now, their
foreheads
shade
With cypress, on a day of sacrifice.
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Keats |
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THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THESE TALES
I had resolved not to consent to the printing of these Tales, until after
I had joined to them those of Boccaccio, which are those most to my
taste; but several persons have advised me to produce at once what I
have
remaining
of these trifles, in order to prevent from cooling the
curiosity to see them, which is still in its first ardour.
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La Fontaine |
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[4] Rome's rôle in the world
is the absorption of
outlying
genius.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Here the Locrians of Narycos have set their city,
and here Lyctian Idomeneus beset the Sallentine plains with soldiery;
here is the town of the
Meliboean
captain, Philoctetes' little Petelia
fenced by her wall.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And when they both had wept and wayld their fill, 195
Then forth they ran like two amazed deare,
Halfe mad through malice, and
revenging
will,
To follow her, that was the causer of their ill.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Camps of Green
Nor alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars,
When as order'd forward, after a long march,
Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping
asleep in our tracks,
Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,
And a word
provided
for countersign, careful for safety,
Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,
We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our
journey,
Or proceed to battle.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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je n'ai trouve debout
Qu'un gibet
symbolique
ou pendait mon image.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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and where are they
That brought the gifts of
frankincense
and myrrh?
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Longfellow |
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Celui dont les pensers, comme des alouettes,
Vers les cieux le matin prennent un libre essor,
--Qui plane sur la vie et comprend sans effort
Le langage des fleurs et des choses
muettes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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See
Glossary
to "Alliterative Poems.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whence hast thou this
becoming
of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Quando giungon davanti a la ruina,
quivi le strida, il compianto, il lamento;
bestemmian
quivi la virtu divina.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Last of
all, and at the bottom of the helmet, sank Acestes, he too
venturing
to
set hand to the task of youth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be
Hipparchia
(see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Obscurely sacrificed, his nameless tomb,
Bare of the sculptor's art, the poet's lines,
Summer shall flush with poppy-fields in bloom,
And Autumn yellow with
maturing
vines.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then, kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King,
The saint, the father, and the husband prays:
Hope "springs exulting on
triumphant
wing,"^1
That thus they all shall meet in future days,
There, ever bask in uncreated rays,
No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise,
In such society, yet still more dear;
While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere
Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride,
In all the pomp of method, and of art;
When men display to congregations wide
[Footnote 1: Pope's "Windsor Forest.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Murderer
of my father!
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| Question: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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the Alps
ascending
white in air, [11] 50
Toy with the sun and glitter from afar.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Their
simplicity appears beggarly when
compared
with the quaint forms
and gaudy coloring of such artists as Cowley and Gongora.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What soft, cherubic creatures
These
gentlewomen
are!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Are we swung like two planets, compelled in our
separate
orbits,
Yet held in a flaming circle far greater than our own?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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few verses touch their nicer ear;
They scarce can bear their
laureate
twice a year;
And justly Caesar scorns the poet's lays:
It is to history he trusts for praise.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Round
paradise
is such a wall,
And all the day, in such a way,
In paradise the wild birds call.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_ Most unseemly woe
Thou sufferest, and dost stagger from the sense
Bewildered!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And only
inwardly
inclines,
As we are wont if there draws nigh
A stranger on his final round.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Helen Whitman) was not published until November,
1848,
although
written several months earlier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry by
Plutarch
and
Basil the Great, translated from the Greek, with an
Introduction.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_Tecum habita_, _ut noris quam sit tibi curta
supellex_
{11}
PERS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Comme deux anges que torture
Une
implacable
calenture,
Dans le bleu cristal du matin
Suivons le mirage lointain!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Yet to the beauteous form he was not blind,
Though now it moved him as it moves the wise;
Not that
Philosophy
on such a mind
E'er deigned to bend her chastely-awful eyes:
But Passion raves itself to rest, or flies;
And Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb,
Had buried long his hopes, no more to rise:
Pleasure's palled victim!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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: |
Alexander Pope |
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The Triumph thither went where salt waves wet
The Baian shore eastward; her foot she set
There on firm land, and did Avernus leave
On the one hand, on th' other Sybil's cave;
So to Linternus march'd, the village where
The noble Africane lies buried; there
The great news of her triumph did appear
As
glorious
to the eye as to the ear
The fame had been; and the most chaste did show
Most beautiful; it grieved Love much to go
Another's prisoner, exposed to scorn,
Who to command whole empires seemed born.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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In that same letter Donne says, 'Sir, I took
up this paper to write a letter; but my
imagination
was full of a
sermon before, for I write but a few hours before I am to preach.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
She, conscious, smiles: our feelings tally not:
Heartless am I, mere stone; heaven is thy grove--
O dear
delightful
shade, O consecrated spot!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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I lived on dread; to those who know
The
stimulus
there is
In danger, other impetus
Is numb and vital-less.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Here
let no waste in delay be of such account to thee (though thy company
chide, and the passage call thy sails
strongly
to the deep, and thou
mayest fill out their folds to thy desire) that thou do not approach the
prophetess, and plead with prayers that she herself utter her oracles
and deign to loose the accents from her lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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_
HE CONJURES LAURA, BY THE PURE LOVE HE EVER BORE HER, TO OBTAIN FOR HIM
A SPEEDY
ADMISSION
TO HER IN HEAVEN.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
Then to the
leftward
turning sped we forth,
And at a sling's throw found another shade
Far fiercer and more huge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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After today, I'll
remember
you even more kindly, tavernas,
You osterias, as you are called, aptly by those here in Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Happily, Khlopusha began to
contradict
his companion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,
A mute and grisly rider is
trampling
grass and weed,
And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,
I known it is _the Future_--God's Justicer is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
Along the
solitary
shore,
While flitting sea-fowl round me cry,
Across the rolling, dashing roar,
I'll westward turn my wistful eye:
"Happy thou Indian grove," I'll say,
"Where now my Nancy's path may be!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
XX
While there is many an
unpleasant
sound, I hate to hear barking
Worse than anything else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pope
CANTO I
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty
contests
rise from trivial things,
I sing--This verse to CARYL, Muse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth
creeping
imagery of slighter trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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What last curse to sate
My pain, or river of wild words to flow
Bank-high
between?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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LFS}
Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
Like Sons & DaughtersFairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen,
Daughter
of Beulah Sing
His fall into Division & his Resurrection to Unity
His fall into the Generation of Decay & Death & his Regeneration by the Resurrection from the dead*
Begin with Tharmas Parent power.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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He's praised, acclaimed: witness my
consent!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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LXVIII
"That gentle lady who so loves thee, who
Were well
deserving
love upon thy part;
To whom (unless forgot, thou know'st how true
The tale) thou debtor for thy freedom art,
This ring, which can each magic spell undo,
Sends for thy succour, and would send her heart,
If with such virtue fraught, her heart could bring
Thee safely in thy perils, like the ring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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One
incomparable
novelist we have now in England,
Mr George Meredith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The wave--there is a
movement
there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Yet this
inconstancy
is such
As you too shalt adore;
I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Infanta
Yesterday, duty brought you great esteem;
Noble that
struggle
which you waged did seem,
So worthy of great hearts: our courtiers
Admired your courage, pitying the lovers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will, extends his
boundless
grace;
Nor lost in time nor circumscribed by place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Now speed the gay celerities of art,
What in the desert was impossible
Within four walls is possible again,--
Culture and libraries,
mysteries
of skill,
Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife
Of keen competing youths, joined or alone
To outdo each other and extort applause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Coleridge
said, of his friend Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The Pentagram
disturbs
thee?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets--but
the pluck of the captain and
engineers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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O
headlong
Anio!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--Nothing can suppose,
(And sure the power of wisdom only knows,)
What need requireth thee:
So free and liberal as thy bounty flows,
Some necessary cause must surely be;
But disappointments, pains, and every woe
Devoted wretches feel,
The universal plagues of life below,
Are mysteries still neath Fate's
unbroken
seal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I do my part, for I meet him halfway and proclaim his adventures
Praising
his name in advance, even before he's begun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He not a word was told of things designed,
And just as our gallant to sleep inclined,
As oft's the case at length with lovers true,
Quite open bright Aurora's portals flew,
And with a smile the aged dame arrived;
The apparatus
properly
contrived,
Was in her hand, she hastened to the bed,
And took the side that to the stripling led.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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[Footnote 4: Dean Milles has a delightful account of the reception
accorded to Rowley in the
Chatterton
household.
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Thus Boileau, in the guise of invective,
eulogizes
Louis XIV.
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' To this the courteous Prince
Accorded
with his wonted courtesy,
Courtesy with a touch of traitor in it,
And stayed; and cast his eyes on fair Elaine:
Where could be found face daintier?
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And may at last my weary age
Find out the peacefull hermitage,
The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell,
Where I may sit and rightly spell 170
Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew,
And every Herb that sips the dew;
Till old experience do attain
To somthing like
prophetic
strain.
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MORIENS PROFECTUS By John Orth Cook
The silver bugle blows across the meer,
Rising and falling in the evening air;
And we, who all our lives have walked in fear,
Go through the thickening darkness,
following
where The music leads us, —be it far or near !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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5 A dappled gray was
conventionally
associated with an office in the censorate.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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At this the little old
gentleman
seemed pleased--God only knows why.
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Poe - 5 |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons, together with all those
Containing rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with centuries of snows;
Infinite
rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O let us kneel, the saints for aid
invoking!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Soul and body, body and soul--how
mysterious
they are!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'137'
Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury; John, Lord Somers; and John
Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham; all leading
statesmen
and patrons of
literature in Queen Anne's day.
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Alexander Pope |
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Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And I will give to thee, my own,
Kisses as icy as the moon,
And the
caresses
of a snake
Cold gliding in the thorny brake.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Men of letters have
sometimes
said that
the characters of a romance or of a play must be typical.
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Yeats |
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Cart ruts and horses'
footings
scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just crizzled and that's all.
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John Clare |
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The Evil God walked away cursing the
stupidity
of man.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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