More than I, if truth were told,
Have stood and sweated hot and cold,
And through their reins in ice and fire
Fear
contended
with desire.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Can I forget that
miserable
hour, 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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BATTLE DAYS
I
Veteran
memories
rally to muster
Here at the call of the old battle days:
Cavalry clatter and cannon's hoarse bluster:
All the wild whirl of the fight's broken maze:
Clangor of bugle and flashing of sabre,
Smoke-stifled flags and the howl of the shell,
With earth for a rest place and death for a neighbor,
And dreams of a charge and the deep rebel yell.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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William Wordsworth |
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To nurse a blind ideal like a girl,
Methinks
he seems no better than a girl;
As girls were once, as we ourself have been:
We had our dreams; perhaps he mixt with them:
We touch on our dead self, nor shun to do it,
Being other--since we learnt our meaning here,
To lift the woman's fallen divinity
Upon an even pedestal with man.
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Tennyson |
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What need hath Nature of
silver dishes,
multitudes
of waiters, delicate pages, perfumed napkins?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Carmen
reliquum
in futurum tempus relegatum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The latter then appears, and in
successive characters
selected
from his different Tragedies--now Menelaus
meeting Helen again in Egypt, now Echo sympathising with the chained
Andromeda, presently Perseus about to release the heroine from her
rock--pleads for his unhappy father-in-law.
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Aristophanes |
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In England the
saraband
was soon transformed into an ordinary
country-dance.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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God
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips,
I ascended the holy
mountain
and spoke unto God, saying, "Master,
I am thy slave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Therefore a bad
poet would, I grant, make a false critique, and his self-love would
infallibly bias his little judgment in his favor; but a poet, who is
indeed a poet, could not, I think, fail of making-a just critique;
whatever should be deducted on the score of self-love might be replaced
on account of his intimate
acquaintance
with the subject; in short,
we have more instances of false criticism than of just where one's own
writings are the test, simply because we have more bad poets than good.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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On such a dawn, or such a dawn,
Would anybody sigh
That such a little figure
Too sound asleep did lie
For
chanticleer
to wake it, --
Or stirring house below,
Or giddy bird in orchard,
Or early task to do?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And now they approached the camp and drew
near the wall, when they descry the two turning away by the pathway to
the left; and in the glimmering darkness of night the
forgotten
helmet
betrayed Euryalus, glittering as it met the light.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And similarly, if we cannot accept the current
estimate
of Li Po,
we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that some of China's
most celebrated writers are on our side.
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Li Po |
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REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Lewis Carroll |
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What a tale their terror tells
Of
Despair!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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of receipt of the work.
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Lewis Carroll |
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found:'
are not destined to be
discovered
till some future time.
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Alexander Pope |
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XXIII
He came from
billeting
the bands which lay
Dispersed about that province, foot and horse;
For the surrounding district, to obey
King Charlemagne, had raised another force.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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active links or
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Chanson de Roland |
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Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--that light
bequeathed
5
To Beings else forlorn and blind!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Is it Setebos
Who deals in her
command?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
"
And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys
That
exquisite
nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our vacuity.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Blurt out the love,
she has
suspicion
for, so?
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The philosopher's amazement did not prevent a narrow
scrutiny
of the
stranger's dress and appearance.
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Listened, to keep, to sing--now
translating
the notes,
Following you, my brother.
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Whitman |
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Something
o' that, I said.
Guess: |
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Such a strong
adjective
would however come better after
'devills' in the next line.
Guess: |
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Source: |
John Donne |
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Therein the Patient
Must
minister
to himselfe
Macb.
Guess: |
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Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
This:
The world is yet
unspoiled
for you,
you wait, expectant--
you are like the children
who haunt your own steps
for chance bits--a comb
that may have slipped,
a gold tassel, unravelled,
plucked from your scarf,
twirled by your slight fingers
into the street--
a flower dropped.
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Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
It is hardly
credible
that a work so closely reasoned was, as a whole,
composed in lucid intervals between fits of madness; but, on the other
hand, there are signs of flagging in the later portions, and the work
comes to a sudden conclusion.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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LES ASSIS
Noirs de loupes, greles, les yeux cercles de bagues
Vertes, leurs doigts boulus crispes a leurs femurs,
Le sinciput plaque de
hargnosites
vagues
Comme les floraisons lepreuses des vieux murs,
Ils ont greffe dans des amours epileptiques
Leur fantasque ossature aux grands squelettes noirs
De leurs chaises; leurs pieds aux barreaux rachitiques
S'entrelacent pour les matins et pour les soirs.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Source: |
Villon |
|
Not one new thing under the sun has
happened
in Mauchline since you
left it.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
IV
--"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say;
"I did not will a grave
Should end thy
pilgrimage
to-day,
But I, too, am a slave!
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The crowds passed, and one, who
had laid down his knife to yawn and stretch himself, heard a voice
speaking far off, and knew that the Druid Patrick was
preaching
within
the king's house; but our hearts were deaf, and we carved and disputed
and read, and laughed a thin laughter together.
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Source: |
Yeats |
|
_
Unhappily
my trials would'st thou hear,
To whom to die has not been fated;
For this would be release from sufferings;
But now there is no end of ills lying
Before me, until Zeus falls from sovereignty.
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Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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* * * * *
[The following Strictures on
Scottish
Song exist in the handwriting of
Burns, in the interleaved copy of Johnson's Musical Museum, which the
poet presented to Captain Riddel, of Friars Carse; on the death of
Mrs.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Robert Burns |
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I'd play incessantly upon these jades,
Even till
unfenced
desolation
Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Worthiest
man!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Far from our pious rites those dear remains
Must feast the
vultures
on the naked plains.
Guess: |
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which
husbandry
in honour might uphold,
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the present
edition, the substance of the Riverside Edition has been preserved,
with hardly an exception, although some poems and
fragments
have been
added.
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Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I call him, and _think _him the noblest of poets,
_not _because the impressions he produces are at _all _times the most
profound--_not _because the
poetical
excitement which he induces is at
_all _times the most intense--but because it is at all times the most
ethereal--in other words, the most elevating and most pure.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
George Edward
Woodberry
and the _Boston Herald_:--"On the Italian
Front, MCMXVI"; Mr.
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Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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His virgin-sword AEgysthus' veins imbrued;
The
murderer
fell, and blood atoned for blood.
Guess: |
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Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Search
narrowly
the lines!
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I had no
thoughts of
publishing
it, till it pleased some Persons of Rank and
Fortune (the Authors of _Verses to the Imitator of Horace_, and of an
_Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court_) to
attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my Writings (of which,
being public, the Public is judge), but my P_erson, Morals_, and
_Family_, whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be
requisite.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
The elder
poet, in the epitaph which he wrote for himself, and which is a
fine
specimen
of the early Roman diction and versification,
plaintively boasted that the Latin language had died with him.
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Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I was left alone with
Tietjens
and my own affairs.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
"
On which Violet, who was perfectly
acquainted
with the art of
mitten-making, said to the Crabs, "Do your claws unscrew, or are they
fixtures?
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Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Let earth unbalanced from her orbit fly,
Planets and suns run lawless through the sky;
Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurled,
Being on being wrecked, and world on world;
Heaven's whole
foundations
to their centre nod,
And nature tremble to the throne of God.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
And
plenteous
funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed,
Are free from anguish now.
Guess: |
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Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
where the mighty sword
Which slew its master
righteously?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Cheetah
I
remember
a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by the Bibliotheque
nationale
de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.
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Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
ADMETUS (_in a
comparatively
light tone_).
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Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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We hear the warlike clarions we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in
indolence
reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
And I
therewith
began: "So may no time
Filch your remembrance from the thoughts of men
In th' upper world, but after many suns
Survive it, as ye tell me, who ye are,
And of what race ye come.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Satan
compares
Iniquity with each of these in turn.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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LOOK Nymphs, and
Shepherds
look,
What sudden blaze of majesty
Is that which we from hence descry
Too divine to be mistook:
This this is she
To whom our vows and wishes bend,
Heer our solemn search hath end.
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Source: |
Milton |
|
In the lair (the form) of the female hare
superfetation
(second conception during gestation) is possible.
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
THE STAND
Go now, and tell out days summed up with fears,
And make them years;
Produce thy mass of
miseries
on the stage,
To swell thine age;
Repeat of things a throng,
To show thou hast been long,
Not lived: for life doth her great actions spell.
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Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
And the
question
is 'License or Banns?
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
h2
139 _simus hec
tibique_
O
143 _io hymen hymenee io_ ?
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Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
As we entered the passage, the contrast between the external glare and
the
interior
gloom struck heavily upon my spirits.
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Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
So
beautiful
it is to wake at night!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
at is euenlyche
p{ur}posed
to ?
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
[_Reads:_
'It is the King's wish, that you should wed Prince
Philibert
of Savoy.
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Source: |
Tennyson |
|
The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
]
THETIS
ORDERING
THE NEREIDS TO DESCEND INTO THE SEA.
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Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare--
For him the
happiness
of light,
For me a delicate despair.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
[Illustration]
The Nutritious Newt,
who
purchased
a Round Plum-pudding
for his grand-daughter.
Guess: |
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Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Ring, for the scant
salvation!
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
Guess: |
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Question: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
She bows her head and composes her face,
Her teeth are pressed on her red lips:
She bows and kneels
countless
times.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
CHORUS
Alack, the
battering
at the gates is loud!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Up then, and let us
follow where divine
commandments
lead; let us appease the winds, and
seek the realm of Gnosus.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
]
* * * * *
SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER
MODERNISED
Wordsworth's
modernisations
of Chaucer were all written in 1801.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
King
Hygelāc
fell on an
expedition against the allied Franks, Frisians, and Hūgas, 1211, 2917.
Guess: |
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Beowulf |
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for through the long and common night,
Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child,
Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed,
With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled
The weary soul of man in troublous need,
And from the far and
flowerless
fields of ice
Has brought fair flowers to make an earthly paradise.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,
Fitted for only
banquets
of the night where dancers to late music slide,
The unhealthy pleasures, extravagant dissipations of the few,
With perfumes, heat and wine, beneath the dazzling chandeliers.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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CHORUS
'Tis said, he loved, in
semblance
of a bull.
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Aeschylus |
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Her feeling speeches some
compassion
moved
In hart, and chaunge in that great mothers face:
Yet pittie in her hart was never proved 215
Till then: for evermore she hated, never loved.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The wave--there is a
movement
there!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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