Lo, how dismay
Is fallen on the camp in a strange wind:
The ground, that seemed as spread with yellow embers,
Leaps into blazing, and like cinders whirled
And
scattered
up among the flames, are black
Bands of frantic men flickering about!
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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those vacant names alone,
This most
familiar
scene, my pain--
These tombs--alone remain.
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Shelley |
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alternate
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ille potens sui
laetusque
deget cui licet in diem
dixisse 'uixi'.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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infelix gemino cecidit prope
Pergamon
igni,
et paene est alio Troia cremata rogo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If you
discover
a Defect in this etext within 90 days of
receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any)
you paid for it by sending an explanatory note within that
time to the person you received it from.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to
Enitharmon
[Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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e mon, my
mournyng
to lassen.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Three Bridges,
Whose mind was
distracted
by midges,
He sate on a wheel, eating underdone veal,
Which relieved that old man of Three Bridges.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, we usually do not
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then
suddenly
I was aware
That his feet had been wounded, too;
And, dimming the white of his side,
A dull stain grew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_
This play is founded upon the following story, recorded by Lady Wilde
in
_Ancient
Legends of Ireland_, 1887, vol.
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Yeats |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
This was the old man's favorite tale, and he loved to repeat it
When his neighbors complained that any
injustice
was done them.
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Longfellow |
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Now, 'tis my intent
The
imagination
to enliven
With love which happiness extends;
Against my inclination, friends,
By sympathy I have been driven.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
And there she sits, until the moon
Through half the clear blue sky will go,
And when the little breezes make
The waters of the pond to shake,
As all the country know,
She
shudders
and you hear her cry,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'
This said, and
scornful
turning from the shore
My haughty step, I stalk'd the valley o'er.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And time will come when you shall wear
Such frost and snow upon your hair;
And when, though long, it comes to pass,
You
question
with your looking-glass,
And in that sincere crystal seek
But find no rose-bud in your cheek,
Nor any bed to give the shew
Where such a rare carnation grew:-
Ah!
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Robert Herrick |
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Here too all forms of social union find,
And hence let reason, late,
instruct
mankind:
Here subterranean works and cities see;
There towns aerial on the waving tree.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Erinna
They sent you in to say
farewell
to me,
No, do not shake your head; I see your eyes
That shine with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Gode ic þanc secge,
"þæs þe ic þē
gesundne
gesēon mōste.
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Beowulf |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"You'll sometimes find that one or two
Are all you really need
To let the wind come
whistling
through--
But _here_ there'll be a lot to do!
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Lewis Carroll |
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ALCESTIS _is
supported
by her Handmaids and followed by her
two children.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Now I could not answer him, most
strangely
Touched me those old words I knew so well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Sometimes
I hear the veery's[5] clarion,
Or brazen trump of the impatient jay,
And in secluded woods the chickadee
Doles out her scanty notes, which sing the praise
Of heroes, and set forth the loveliness
Of virtue evermore.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Men call me Mad, and well they may,
When, full of rage and trouble,
I burst my banks of sand and clay,
And sweep their wooden bridge away,
Like
withered
reeds or stubble.
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Longfellow |
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"O, happy be the
woodbine
bower,
Nae nightly bogle make it eerie;
Nor ever sorrow stain the hour,
The place and time I met my Dearie!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
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John Clare |
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Subsequently one of Hannibal's
brothers made his way to
Constantinople
and thence to St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What guilty spirit, in what shrubbery dim,
Heard not the
stirring
summons of that hymn?
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Poe - 5 |
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And when the light-foot mower went afield
Across the meadows laced with threaded dew,
And the sheep bleated on the misty weald,
And from its nest the waking corncrake flew,
Some woodmen saw him lying by the stream
And
marvelled
much that any lad so beautiful could seem,
Nor deemed him born of mortals, and one said,
'It is young Hylas, that false runaway
Who with a Naiad now would make his bed
Forgetting Herakles,' but others, 'Nay,
It is Narcissus, his own paramour,
Those are the fond and crimson lips no woman can allure.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I wake, and fall asleep again,
The same
delights
in visions rise;
There's nothing can appear more plain
Than those rose cheeks and those bright eyes.
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John Clare |
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the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do,
deceiving
elf.
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Keats |
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First my daughter bathes me, anoints my feet, stoops to kiss me and,
while she is calling me "her dearest father," fishes out my triobolus
with her tongue;[74] then my little wife comes to wheedle me and brings a
nice light cake; she sits beside me and
entreats
me in a thousand ways,
"Do take this now; do have some more.
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Aristophanes |
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e day
To
fulfille
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This field is yours and mine now; God be
praised!
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Chanson de Roland |
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David's, by
Professor
Malde,
and by the lamented Arnold.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The person
lamented
is Milton's college friend Edward King,
drowned in 1637 whilst crossing from Chester to Ireland.
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Golden Treasury |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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; as if it needed only a little foreign
accent, a few more liquids and vowels
perchance
in the language, to
make us locate our ideals at once.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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20
Qui natam possis
conplexu
avellere matris,
Conplexu matris retinentem avellere natam
Et iuveni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This is a crucial set of revisions, reflecting some
ambiguity
about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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Blake - Zoas |
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XX
He had not travaild long, when on the way
He wofull Ladie, wofull Una met,
Fast flying from that Paynims greedy pray,
Whilest Satyrane him from pursuit did let: 170
Who when her eyes she on the Dwarfe had set,
And saw the signes, that deadly tydings spake,
She fell to ground for
sorrowfull
regret,
And lively breath her sad brest did forsake,
Yet might her pitteous hart be seene to pant and quake.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Tattiana loved as when a lad,
Both day and night he now must pass
In love-lorn
meditation
sad.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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When the
Northern
Lights, as the same writer
informs us, vary their position in the air, they make a rustling and a
crackling noise.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Places of life and of death,
Numbered and named as streets,
What, through your channels of stone,
Is the tide that
unweariedly
beats?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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LI
"She, who remained on foot, in fell despite,
Greedy of vengeance, and athirst for ill,
Leagued with the faithless Pinnabel, a wight
All evil prompt to further and fulfil,
Says she shall never rest by day nor night,
Nor ever know a happy hour, until
A
thousand
knights and dames are dispossest
Of courser, and of armour, and of vest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When
twilight
did my graunie summon,
To say her pray'rs, douse, honest woman!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
THE KING'S EXPERIMENT
IT was a wet wan hour in spring,
And Nature met King Doom beside a lane,
Wherein Hodge trudged, all
blithely
ballading
The Mother's smiling reign.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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No man was ever yet a complete orator, and, I affirm, never can be,
unless, like the soldier
marching
to the field of battle, he enters
the forum armed at all points with the sciences and the liberal arts.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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A
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Imagist Poets, by
Richard
Aldington
and H.
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Imagists |
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'
The morrow dawned with
needless
glow;
Each snowbird chirped, each fowl must crow;
Each tramper started; but the feet
Of the most beautiful and sweet
Of human youth had left the hill
And garden,--they were bound and still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Speak nothing more; through you I am dismayed:
What I owed you, I've
generously
paid.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Scarcely had he crossed himself thrice, when he perceived a
dwelling
in the wood set upon a hill.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thereafter
will arises;
For no one starts to do a thing, before
The intellect previsions what it wills;
And what it there pre-visioneth depends
On what that image is.
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Lucretius |
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On the car with all his might
He struck, whence, staggering like a ship, it reel'd,
At random driv'n, to
starboard
now, o'ercome,
And now to larboard, by the vaulting waves.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Hence their name will not be found in the
following
account of Germany.
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Tacitus |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yes, when the
preacher
is a player, granted:
As often happens in our modern ways.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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775
Ful fetis
damiselles
two,
Right yonge, and fulle of semlihede,
In kirtles, and non other wede,
And faire tressed every tresse,
Hadde Mirthe doon, for his noblesse, 780
Amidde the carole for to daunce;
But her-of lyth no remembraunce,
How that they daunced queyntely.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of
that custom or precedent or
authority
that suits him not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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And
Baudelaire's polemic
appeared
at a more critical period in Wagner's
career.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Lov'st not good
company?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure,
whatever
is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of everything certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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| Source: |
Villon |
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what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
And kept unused the user so
destroys
it.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'
Dante -
Purgatorio
XXVI:142-144
I see scarlet; green, blue, white, yellow
Garden, close, hill, valley and field,
And songs of birds echo and ring
In sweet accord, at evening and dawn:
They urge my heart to depict in song
Such a flower that its fruit will be amour,
And joy the seed, and the scent a foil to sadness.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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A ghostly horn
Blowing continually, and faint battle-hymns,
And cries, and clashes, and the groans of men;
And
dreadful
shadows strove upon the hill,
And dreadful lights crept up from out the marsh--
Corpse-candles gliding over nameless graves--
HAROLD.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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We pledge in peace by farm and town
The Queen they served in war,
And fire the beacons up and down
The land they
perished
for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Then,
loveliest
of her sex, turning away,
She sought her chamber, whom her maidens fair
Attended, charged with those illustrious gifts.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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_
DEAR SIR,
I never spent an
afternoon
among great folks with half that pleasure
as when, in company with you, I had the honour of paying my devoirs to
the plain, honest, worthy man, the professor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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-- 3 Vos quoque, o terrena
animalia
69
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"Stars" are the jeweled
decorations
worn by members
of other noble orders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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La ci traemmo; e ivi eran persone
che si stavano a l'ombra dietro al sasso
come l'uom per
negghienza
a star si pone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She trimmed the lamp, and made it bright,
And left it swinging to and fro,
While Geraldine, in
wretched
plight,
Sank down upon the floor below.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"
And I felt such a precious tear
Pall on my
withered
cheek,
And darn it!
| Guess: |
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As he grew older he seemed to hunt for more acrid
odours; he often
presents
an elaborately chased vase the carving of
which transports us, but from which the head is quickly averted.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Visor'd
A mask, a
perpetual
natural disguiser of herself,
Concealing her face, concealing her form,
Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Not a
firelock
flashed against them!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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_Enter_ PHERES _with
followers
bearing robes and gifts_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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His steed and he right well agree,
For of this pony there's a rumour,
That should he lose his eyes and ears,
And should he live a
thousand
years,
He never will be out of humour.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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Yeats |
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They
should be regarded in many cases as merely the first strong and
suggestive sketches of an artist,
intended
to be embodied at some
time in the finished picture.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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rustice,
semilauta
crura,
subtile et leue peditum Libonis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"--
One answered: "Faith quakes in the tempest shock:
Strengthen
her soul again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
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Once more the rain on the mountain,
Once more the wind in the valley,
With the soft odours of springtime
And the long breath of remembrance,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ye shall hear our mystic wings
Murmurous
with loving.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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