Must thou heap thy bed
With gold of
murdered
men, to buy to thee
Thy strange man's arms?
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Euripides - Electra |
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'Twas then, the studious head or generous mind,
Follower of God, or friend of human-kind,
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore
The faith and moral Nature gave before;
Re-lumed her ancient light, not kindled new;
If not God's image, yet His shadow drew:
Taught power's due use to people and to kings,
Taught nor to slack, nor strain its tender strings,
The less, or greater, set so justly true,
That touching one must strike the other too;
Till jarring interests, of themselves create
The
according
music of a well-mixed state.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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What may your
business
be?
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Longfellow |
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At _any_
season, such remains may be
discovered
by looking down into the
transparent lake, and at such distances as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Frail as dew upon the grass
Or the
spindrift
of the sea,
Out of nothing they were fashioned
And to nothing must return.
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Sappho |
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Ay, Greek; and that shall be
divulged
well
In characters as red as Mars his heart
Inflam'd with Venus.
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Shakespeare |
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Beguiling thus the wonder,
The wondrous nearer drew;
Hands bustled at the
moorings
--
The crowd respectful grew.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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25
Proclaymed
joy and peace through all his state;
For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And this I know, full many a time,
When she was on the
mountain
high,
By day, and in the silent night,
When all the stars shone clear and bright,
That I have heard her cry,
"Oh misery!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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There came a wind like a bugle;
It quivered through the grass,
And a green chill upon the heat
So ominous did pass
We barred the windows and the doors
As from an emerald ghost;
The doom's
electric
moccason
That very instant passed.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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thy
matchless
valour," cried,
"Hath in indissoluble bands to thee,
In willing and eternal service, tried;
And wills thy good to mine preferred should be,
And I for thine my safety set aside,
And weigh thy friendship more than sire, and all
Whom I throughout the world my kindred call.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And the plane to the pine-tree is
whispering
some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter and tosses its mantle of green,
And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
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Wilde - Poems |
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20
XCII
Like a red lily in the meadow grasses,
Swayed by the wind and burning in the sunlight,
I saw you, where the city chokes with traffic,
Bearing among the passers-by your beauty,
Unsullied, wild, and
delicate
as a flower.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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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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and
wherefore
wert thou chosen?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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When he entered Paris as
king, in May, 1814, he was in his fifty-ninth year,
inordinately
bulky
and unwieldy--a king _pour rire_.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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It's tremendously
thrilling
when you fall and fall----
MRS.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"A stream of nect'rous humour issuing flow'd,
Sanguine, such as
celestial
spirits may bleed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more
ungainly
Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Your
Garibaldi
missed the mark!
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Celle-la droite encor, fiere et sentant la regle,
Humait
avidement
ce chant vif et guerrier;
Son oeil parfois s'ouvrait comme l'oeil d'un vieil aigle;
Son front de marbre avait l'air fait pour le laurier!
| Guess: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Now, the seven
families
who lived on the borders of the great Lake
Pipple-Popple were as follows in the next chapter.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Les
mysteres
partout coulent comme des seves
Dans les canaux etroits du colosse puissant.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And ye--I say 'twere well to bear a tongue
Full of fair silence and of fitting speech
As each beseems the time; and last, do thou,
Hermes the warder-god, keep watch and ward,
And guide to victory my
striving
sword.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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220
Some smack of Robin Hood is in the man,
Some secret league with wild wood-wandering things;
He is our ragged Duke, our barefoot Earl,
By right of birth
exonerate
from toil,
Who levies rent from us his tenants all,
And serves the state by merely being.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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In romance it was customary for the victor to unlace the helmet of the
knight whom he had
unhorsed
before slaying him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant
stripling
shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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With
strength
did memory return; [55] and, thence
Dismissed, again on open day I gazed, 400
At houses, men, and common light, amazed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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IV
The gaud with his image once had been
A gift from him:
And so it was that its carving keen
Refurbished
memories
wearing dim,
Which set in her soul a throe of teen,
And a tear on her lashes' brim.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Marsilio could
obtain no succour from the French, who were now busy in preparing for
war with the English; so he carried to the Pope at Avignon his
complaints against the alleged
injustice
of the lords of Verona and the
Correggios in breaking an express treaty which they had made with the
house of Rossi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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yet, faithless to your kind,
Rather like noxious insects you are used
To puncture life's fair fruit, beneath the rind
Laying your creed-eggs, whence in time there spring
Consumers
new to eat and buzz and sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things,"
commonly
referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I ask not the
pleasure
that riches supply,
My sabre shall win what the feeble must buy:
Shall win the young bride with her long flowing hair,
And many a maid from her mother shall tear.
| 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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Music once more and
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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I don't know; but I'm
horribly
afraid of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life
I pour the
helpless
balm of my poor eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Und unser
Parchen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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which from God began,
Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,
No glass can reach; from
Infinite
to thee, 240
From thee to Nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my
thought!
| 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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As the shades
begin to gather around us, our primeval
instincts
are aroused, and we
steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in
search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural
prey of the intellect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Easy to match what others do,
Perform the feat as well as they;
Hard to out-do the brave, the true,
And find a loftier way:
The school decays, the
learning
spoils
Because of the sons of wine;
How snatch the stripling from their toils?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The other keeps his
dreadful
day-book open
Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
The record of the action fades away,
And leaves a line of white across the page.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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His war
writings
include _Battle_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But close around the body, where stood the little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain,
No cries were there, but teeth set fast, low
whispers
and black
frowns,
And breaking up of benches, and girding up of gowns.
| 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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I went into the
billiard
room.
| 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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I and thee
Permitted
face to face to be;
After a life, a death we'll say, --
For death was that, and this is thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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During my time I never knew any one to entertain so singular a fancy
as that the
universe
(or this world if you will have it so) ever had
a beginning at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Say, then, shall man, deprived all power of choice,
Ne'er raise to Heaven the
supplicating
voice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thus, too, in our own
national
songs, Douglas
is almost always the doughty Douglas; England is merry England;
all the gold is red; and all the ladies are gay.
| 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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Sir John
Mandeville
repeats the story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_As darkly as I spurn this damned food,
So perish all the race of
Pleisthenes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Where shall I hide my
forehead
and my eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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To the trumpet's blare,
And paweth the earth's
Aceldama?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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CLXXVI
The count Rollanz, beneath a pine he sits;
Turning his eyes towards Spain, he begins
Remembering so many divers things:
So many lands where he went conquering,
And France the Douce, the heroes of his kin,
And Charlemagne, his lord who
nourished
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Lo, here the
wretched
Agamemnon stands,
The unhappy general of the Grecian bands,
Whom Jove decrees with daily cares to bend,
And woes, that only with his life shall end!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Yet there is
something
round thy lips
That prophesies the coming doom,
The soft, gray herald-shadow ere the eclipse
Notches the perfect disk with gloom;
A something that would banish thee,
And thine untamed pursuer be,
From men and their unworthy fates,
Though Florence had not shut her gates,
And Grief had loosed her clutch and let thee free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The stones are crooned to sleep
By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies;
And cradled in the branches, hidden deep
In each bright bud, a
slumbering
silence lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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He at whose command the dead
Of the renewed creation shall arise,
The tempest of the resurrection shaking
The earth around, that she with bearing throes
Will yield the dust at His
almighty
call.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"But
wherefore
to the mountain-top
"Can this unhappy woman go,
"Whatever star is in the skies,
"Whatever wind may blow?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her
flickering
tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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quis furor est atram bellis
accersere
Mortem?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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e toumbe
richeliche
I-grey|?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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quamlibet immenso diues uigil incubet auro,
aestuat
augendae
dira cupido rei.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The Sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride;
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with
judicious
care;
And 'Let us worship GOD!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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--
There
Lancelot
and Tristram (famed in fight)
Are seen, with many a dame and errant knight;--
Genevra, Belle Isonde, and hundreds more;
With those who mingled their incestuous gore
Shed by paternal rage; and chant beneath,
In baneful symphony, the Song of Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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With her chapelles fair Smyrna--
A gay
princess
is she!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One moment
conquered
boldness so imprudent:
My soul, so proud, is finally dependant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Night after night I creep
Into the royal park, and leave some flowers
Upon her
favourite
seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Another and another Cup to drown
The Memory of this
Impertinence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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1 That is, the Emperor has set up his
temporary
capital there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
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computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
your equipment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And there is no place
In all the coast for
wreckage
like this bay;
There often will my grannam be, a sack
Over her shoulders, turning up the crust
Of sun-dried weed to find her winter's warmth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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May my verse, which I so reverse
That it's
unhindered
by woods or hills,
Go, where one feels not frost or ice,
Nor does the cold have power to sting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What dens, what forests these,
Thus in
wildering
race I see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He would not
elude the horror of this story by simply not mentioning it, like Homer, or
by
pretending
that an evil act was a good one, like Sophocles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He stood before the tumbling main
With joy too tense for sober brain;
He shared the life of the element,
The tie of blood and home was rent:
As if in him the welkin walked,
The winds took flesh, the
mountains
talked,
And he the bard, a crystal soul
Sphered and concentric with the whole.
| Guess: |
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nearer now we drew,
Arriv'd' whence in that part, where first a breach
As of a wall appear'd, I could descry
A portal, and three steps beneath, that led
For inlet there, of
different
colour each,
And one who watch'd, but spake not yet a word.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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When awed strangers come
Who've seen Fox-Mazarin wince at the stings
In my epistles--and bring admiring votes
Of learned colleges, they strain to see
My figure in the glare--the usher utters,
"Behold and
hearken!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Abandoned he sinks in a trance of despair, _5
The monster transfixes his prey,
On the sand flows his life-blood away;
Whilst India's rocks to his death-yells reply,
Protracting the
horrible
harmony.
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Shelley |
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ffor to
worschipe
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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blake-poems |
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If I never knew how to gain its flower,
Without every day enduring pain,
I'd be of good heart still, that's plain,
And my joy is
therefore
more alive,
Since I'm of good heart, and for it I strive.
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Troubador Verse |
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And ever the type-keys chatter; and ever our keen
wires bring
Word from the
watchers
a-crouch below, word from
the watchers a-wing:
And ever we hear the distant growl of our hid 'guns
thundering.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A best disgrace a brave man feels,
Acknowledged of the brave, --
One more "Ye Blessed" to be told;
But this
involves
the grave.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Kline (C)
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This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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neas, brandishing his blade,
In dust Orsilochus and Crethon laid,
Whose sire Diocleus, wealthy, brave and great,
In well-built Pherae held his lofty seat:(152)
Sprung from Alpheus' plenteous stream, that yields
Increase of
harvests
to the Pylian fields.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I am
inclined
to keep to
the reading of the MS.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Caesar, says Mommsen, was the
complete
and perfect man.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the
conflict
of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This anecdote--if not in fact true--illustrates very well the gloomy
depression of spirit which alternated with those
outbursts
of feverish
energy in which his poems were composed.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Wise is the ancient sacrament that blends
This weakling cry of
children
in our churches
With strength of prayer or anthem that ascends
To Him who hearts of men and children searches;
Since we are like the babe, who, soothed again,
Within her mother's cradling arm lay nested,
Bright as a new bud, now, refreshed by rain:
And on her hair, it seemed, heaven's radiance rested.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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