'Whylom I thinke how Love to me
Seyde he wolde taken atte gree
My servise, if
unpacience
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I have
likewise
completed my
poem on the "Dogs," but have not shown it to the world.
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I quaked at heart; and still afraid, to see
All the Court filled with
stranger
things than he,
Ran out as fast as one that pays his bail
And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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These but deprive my sweet boy of his most
opportune
times.
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Included among the "Poems
referring
to the Period of Old Age.
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And why on
horseback
have you set
Him whom you love, your idiot boy?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My Lucia in the dew did go,
And prettily
bedabbled
so,
Her clothes held up, she showed withal
Her decent legs, clean, long, and small.
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Robert Herrick |
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gae, Helice, thy power obey,(195)
And gifts
unceasing
on thine altars lay.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Let me, now that my error is all too clear,
Mingle my
wretched
son's blood with my tears.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon I heard again a tapping
somewhat
louder than before.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
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Aeschylus |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The
shouting
and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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How didst thou stand, in high
abstracted
mood,
Scarce moving with slow dignity thine eyes!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I to my chimney's shine
Brought him, as Love professes,
And chafed his hands with mine,
And dried his
dropping
tresses.
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Robert Herrick |
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I drink your lips,
I eat the
whiteness
of your hands and feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So pagans fled, and chased them well the Franks
Through the Valley of Shadows, close in hand;
Towards Sarraguce by force they chased them back,
And as they went with killing blows attacked:
Barred their
highways
and every path they had.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Tarentines were convinced that their countrymen were
irresistible in war; and this conviction had emboldened them to
treat with the grossest indignity one whom they
regarded
as the
representative of an inferior race.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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"
The _Leaves of Grass_ excited no sort of notice until a letter from
Emerson[5] appeared,
expressing
a deep sense of its power and magnitude.
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Whitman |
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PART II
IMPERFECTION
MARY
[A LEGEND OF THE FORTY-FIVE]
I
_A street in
Carlisle
leading to the Scottish Gate.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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You filthy
villainous
fellow!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There is no pause (the knack
Is
perfect)
while his left hand pulls from out a stack
Leather —I think —the track
Curves sharp, and will not let me see
Just what the task .
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I must not speak
Whate'er my secret
thoughts
may be;
Though thou art all that man can reck
I dare not talk of Love to _thee_.
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Byron |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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King
My daughter, be not ashamed of this love,
Nor seek the means its power to disprove;
An
honourable
shame urges you in vain;
Your duty is done, your honour true again;
Your father's satisfied, as his avenger
You have so often placed his life in danger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A cackling goose among
melodious
swans.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore
desire, of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--
'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My friend,
I've not
forgotten
the old pranks!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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how often thy feet have trod this path to the
prairie!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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About the hollows of
his temples the helmet rings with incessant clash, and the solid brass
is riven beneath the stones; the horsehair crest is rent away; the
shield-boss avails not under the blows; Mnestheus
thunders
on with his
Trojans, and pours in a storm of spears.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Ed ecco, si come ne scrive Luca
che Cristo apparve a' due ch'erano in via,
gia surto fuor de la sepulcral buca,
ci apparve un'ombra, e dietro a noi venia,
dal pie
guardando
la turba che giace;
ne ci addemmo di lei, si parlo pria,
dicendo: <>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The way I read a letter 's this:
'T is first I lock the door,
And push it with my fingers next,
For
transport
it be sure.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this
ultimate
dim Thule.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches
of salt from a bag and
throwing
them into the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But sun and moon, those
watchmen
of the world,
With their own lanterns traversing around
The mighty, the revolving vault, have taught
Unto mankind that seasons of the years
Return again, and that the Thing takes place
After a fixed plan and order fixed.
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Lucretius |
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rure etiam teneris curam
exhibitura
puellis
molle gerit tergo lucida uellus ouis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Put me, I pray, in the
forefront
of the battle.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In 998 Yo Shih added the prose works, consisting of five letters and
various prefaces, petitions,
monumental
inscriptions, etc.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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7255
But Beggers with these hodes wyde,
With sleighe and pale faces lene,
And greye clothis not ful clene,
But fretted ful of tatarwagges,
And highe shoes, knopped with dagges, 7260
That frouncen lyke a quaile-pype,
Or botes
riveling
as a gype;
To such folk as I you devyse
Shuld princes and these lordes wyse
Take alle her londes and her thinges, 7265
Bothe werre and pees, in governinges;
To such folk shulde a prince him yive,
That wolde his lyf in honour live.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In yond' carnation go and seek,
There thou shalt find her lip and cheek;
In that enamell'd pansy by,
There thou shalt have her curious eye;
In bloom of peach and rose's bud,
There waves the
streamer
of her blood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If die I must, then my last vow shall be,
You'll with a tear or two
remember
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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She swoons away with loss of blood;
chilling
in
death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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sayd,
Bot
graunted
hastyly; 690
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[501] Herod the Great, who on the return of
Antigonus
had fled
to Rome and chosen the winning side.
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Tacitus |
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Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career,
Till civil-suited Morn appear,
Not trick'd and
frounced
as she was wont
With the Attic Boy to hunt,
But kercheft in a comely cloud
While rocking winds are piping loud,
Or usher'd with a shower still,
When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the rustling leaves
With minute drops from off the eaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Then such a rearing without bridle,
A raging which no arm could fend,
An opening of new
fragrant
spaces,
A thrill in which all senses blend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of sleeping gods,
And sing with her in
canebrakes
and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Cyrus turns away his head
To Pholoe's frown; but sooner gentle roes
Apulian wolves shall wed,
Than Pholoe to so mean a
conqueror
strike:
So Venus wills it; 'neath her brazen yoke
She loves to couple forms and minds unlike,
All for a heartless joke.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Who that shall point as with a wand and say
"This portion of the river of my mind
Came from yon
fountain?
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| Question: |
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William Wordsworth |
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For
additional
contact information:
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The Human Nature shall no more remain nor Human acts
Form the free
rebellious
Spirits of Heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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E forse che la mia
narrazion
buia,
qual Temi e Sfinge, men ti persuade,
perch' a lor modo lo 'ntelletto attuia;
ma tosto fier li fatti le Naiade,
che solveranno questo enigma forte
sanza danno di pecore o di biade.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
"I have no friends," said Lamia," no, not one;
My
presence
in wide Corinth hardly known:
My parents' bones are in their dusty urns
Sepulchred, where no kindled incense burns,
Seeing all their luckless race are dead, save me,
And I neglect the holy rite for thee.
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Koch: _perspecta egregie
est_ Baehrens: _perspecta est igni tum_ Palmer
CI
Multas per gentes et multa per aequora uectus
aduenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
et mutam nequiquam
alloquerer
cinerem.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But for to tellen forth in special 260
As of this kinges sone of which I tolde,
And leten other thing collateral,
Of him thenke I my tale for to holde,
Both of his Ioye, and of his cares colde;
And al his werk, as
touching
this matere, 265
For I it gan, I wol ther-to refere.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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That grateful Greece with streaming eyes might raise
Historic marbles to record his praise;
His praise, eternal on the faithful stone,
Had with
transmissive
honours graced his son.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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_
deliciae
somnusque solent adamare querelas.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Why him with thee should thy dear light
surround?
| 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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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Awhile she paused in timid thought,
Then
promptly
hurried in and bought
'Two kippers, please.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Suffer Spain to denigrate my fame
For having failed the honour of my
station!
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
[Illustration]
The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens,
And ink in
unfailing
supplies:
While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens,
And watched them with wondering eyes.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Some god has told them, or
themselves
survey
The bark escaped; and measure back their way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, or leave their
children
free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But the boy
Ascanius is in the valleys, exultant on his fiery horse, and gallops
past one and another, praying that among the
unwarlike
herds a foaming
boar may issue or a tawny lion descend the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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In attempting des oeufs a la Princesse, he had
unfortunately perpetrated an omelette a la Reine; the discovery of a
principle in ethics had been
frustrated
by the overturning of a stew;
and last, not least, he had been thwarted in one of those admirable
bargains which he at all times took such especial delight in bringing
to a successful termination.
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Each groan he doubled, and each sigh she sighed,
Repeated over to the restless night ;
No
trembling
string, composed to numbers new,
Answers the touch in notes more sad, more true.
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Marvell - Poems |
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diliuere
vp ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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'T is an instant's play,
'T is a fond ambush,
Just to make bliss
Earn her own
surprise!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I SHOULD observe, the aged tutor cried,
The princess, while for liberty she sighed,
And quite alone remained (by Hispal left,)
That she might be of idleness bereft,
Resolved most fervently a god to serve,
From whom she
scarcely
since would ever swerve,
A god much worshipped 'mong the people there,
With num'rous temples which his honours share,
Denominated cabinets and bow'rs,
In which, from high respect to heav'nly pow'rs,
They represent the image of a bird,
A pleasing sight, though (what appears absurd)
'Tis bare of plumage, save about the wings;
To this each youthful bosom incense brings,
While other gods, as I've been often told,
They scarcely notice, till they're growing old.
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La Fontaine |
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Description
of England in
Shakespeare's Youth.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Strange armed men beside the dwelling there
Lie
ambushed!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The last
suggests
that the one is
a copy of the other, but again they diverge in such cases as III.
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John Donne |
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Little poet people
snatching
ivy,
Trying to prevent one another from snatching ivy.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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How may the Duke be therewith satisfied,
Whose messengers are here about my side,
Upon some present
business
of the state
To bring me to him?
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Shakespeare |
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(_d_) Verbal
parallelism
in the couplet, _e.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Or on that
loneliest
of eves when afar and benighted we stood,
She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together,
Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather,
Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the
dressing
of his lines!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet,
Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest
welcome?
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