All have not appeared in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp
sorcerers
and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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(aside) I'm sure, madam, you need not
Be always
throwing
those jewels in my teeth.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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ensuring the
transport
of tax revenues to the throne.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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We Americans especially have
patronized
this happy
idea, and we Bostonians very especially have developed it in full.
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Poe - 5 |
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_He has
evidently
bathed and changed his garments and
drunk his fill, and is now revelling, a garland of flowers on his head.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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'
There, O my Friend, beneath the
chestnut
bough,
Gazing on thee immerged in modern strife,
I framed a prayer of fervency -- that thou,
In soul and stature larger than thy kind,
Still more to this strong Form might'st liken thee,
Till thy whole Self in every fibre find
The tranquil lordship of thy chestnut tree.
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Sidney Lanier |
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At a house near the western boundary of Chateau Richer, whose master
was said to speak a very little English, having
recently
lived at
Quebec, we got lodging for the night.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Love
sometimes
leads astray to misery.
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Shelley |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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phasidos_ GBVen: _fasi_(_ci_
R)_dicos_
OR ||
_aeetaeos_] _oeticos_ GRVenAC: _ceticos_ La1 et O qui in marg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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The cross, by angels on the aerial rock
Planted, a flight of
laughing
demons mock.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Who are these gaily riding
along the river-bank,
Three by three and five by five,
glinting
through the willow-boughs?
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Li Po |
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e
emperour
al-so,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee or thought,
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree:
And even in Hades' halls
Amidst thy fellow-thralls
No
friendly
shade thy shade shall company!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_
So, in the universe's
Consummated
undoing,
Our seraphs of white mercies
Shall hover round the ruin.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Lawrence and Amy Lowell
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Imagists |
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"
Our poets have as yet a better right to sing of cider than of wine;
but it
behooves
them to sing better than English Phillips did, else
they will do no credit to their Muse.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Farewell, thou
generous
heart and true!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it
cautions
arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt" exclaim!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O
warblings
under the sun--ushered, as now, or at noon, or setting!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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[
Whispers
in's ear ] Forbear me till anon-
This wine for Lepidus!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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It may, therefore
stand as the typical case; since Homer and these
Northern
poems are what
most people have in their minds when they speak of "authentic" epic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If fire was never yet by fire subdued,
If never flood fell dry by
frequent
rain,
But, like to like, if each by other gain,
And contraries are often mutual food;
Love, who our thoughts controllest in each mood,
Through whom two bodies thus one soul sustain,
How, why in her, with such unusual strain
Make the want less by wishes long renewed?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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20
Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Thou,
breathing
thy communicable grace
Of life into my light,
Mine astral faces, from thine angel face,
Hast inly fed,
And flooded me with radiance overmuch
From thy pure height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then
vanished
to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'And whan the night is comen, anon
A
thousand
angres shal come upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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though his artless strains he rudely sings,
And throws his hand
uncouthly
o'er the strings,
He glows with all the spirit of the Bard,
Fame, honest fame, his great, his dear reward.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hollow-necked and hollow-flanked, lean of rib and hip,
Strained and sick and weary with the wallow of the ship,
Glad to smell the turf again, hear the robin's call,
Tread again the country road they lost at
Montreal!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Two Truths are told,
As happy
Prologues
to the swelling Act
Of the Imperiall Theame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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For he hears the lambs' innocent call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is
watchful
while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through branches bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms
it almost to a mortal thing.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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II
Unconquerably there must
As my hope hurls itself free
Burst on high and be lost
In silence and in fury
A voice alien to the wood
Or
followed
by no echo,
The bird one never could
Hear again in this life below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans sur la vie
Du grand desert, ou luit la Liberte ravie,
Forets, soleils, rives,
savanes!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
]
Like
Casabianca
on the devastated deck,
In years yet younger, but the selfsame core.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
com
forwards
to hart@prairienet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without
untangling
them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Climb up, and seize him by the toes,--all
studious
as he sits,--
And pull him down, and chop him into endless little bits!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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With dismay,
Wanton and wild her weeping thousands pour,
Convulsive grasp the ground, its rage to stay,
Implore the angry Mount--in vain
implore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a whirlwind I feel you are riding nigh;
I am
counting
the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Or ache with
tremendous
decisions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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And if more were needed to
disprove
Mons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And
therefore
what
At any time unto these senses showed,
The same is true.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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She is
desperate
here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
That was the mother
knocking
at our door,
And we must take the children home to us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The newly recovered section of the epic contains two legends which
supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with
subjects
for
seals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Happy old man, who 'mid
familiar
streams
And hallowed springs, will court the cooling shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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ergo postque
magisque
uiri nunc gloria claret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
To him the fading child
Looked up and cried, "Oh,
brother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
He soon learned the
language
of every bird and every beast; and Iagoo, the great boaster
and story-teller, made him a bow with which he shot the red deer.
| 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 |
|
When I think on the
lightsome
days
I spent wi' thee, my Dearie;
And now what seas between us roar,
How can I be but eerie?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for
uninvited
guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an unbidden presence the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen
Were imaged by the water's love
Of that fair forest green:
And all was
interfused
beneath
With an Elysian glow,
An atmosphere without a breath,
A softer day below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
485;
_Remarks
on Several Parts of Italy_, ii.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Salacious
Tavern and ye taverner-host,
From Pileate Brothers the ninth pile-post,
D'ye claim, you only of the mentule boast,
D'ye claim alone what damsels be the best
To swive: as he-goats holding all the rest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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He swells his lifted chest, and backward flings
His bridling neck between his tow'ring wings;
Stately, and burning in his pride, divides
And glorying looks around, the silent tides:
On as he floats, the silver'd waters glow,
Proud of the varying arch and
moveless
form of snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Swift
squirrels
on the pastures took their ease,
With leaping lambs safe from the unfeared knife;
All singing-birds rejoicing in those trees
Fulfilled their careless life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Under the
greenwood
tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And tune his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat--
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
--
Then the bulwark-of-earls {29a} bade bring within,
hardy chieftain, Hrethel's heirloom
garnished with gold: no Geat e'er knew
in shape of a sword a
statelier
prize.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
if I am
ready to take them into
alliance
after Turnus' destruction, why do I not
rather bar the strife while he lives?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty
dreaming
years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Loud was the lightsome tumult on the shore;
Oft Music changed, but never ceased her tone,
And timely echoed back the measured oar,
And
rippling
waters made a pleasant moan:
The Queen of tides on high consenting shone;
And when a transient breeze swept o'er the wave,
'Twas as if, darting from her heavenly throne,
A brighter glance her form reflected gave,
Till sparkling billows seemed to light the banks they lave.
| 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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Get thee forth, Old Man, and quick
Tell
Clytemnestra
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Of his
appearance
among the sons as well as the daughters of men, we
have the account of Dugald Stewart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Although Erdman does not address this issue in his notes, he does make some silent decisions regarding the order of the text, the most
significant
being his placement of this 4-line stanza at the very end of his transcription of p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
No trouble she to carry here nor there;
No balls she visits, and requires no care;
The conquest easy, we may talk or not;
The only
difficulty
we have got,
Is how to find one, we may faithful view;
So let us choose a girl, to love quite new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The sun flicks here and there like a throned tyrant,
Snapping
his whip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
In 2001, the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure and
permanent future for Project Gutenberg(TM) and future generations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Shall I not find your turrets toward the north,
Where you defied white winter armed for war;
Your southern
casements
where the sun blows in
Between the leaf-bent boughs the wind has lifted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
This was complied with, and Gama, in a manly speech,
set forth the greatness of his
sovereign
Emmanuel, the fame he had heard
of the zamorim, and the desire he had to enter into an alliance with so
great a prince; nor were the mutual advantages of such a treaty omitted
by the admiral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Two
together!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Poscia non sia di qua vostra reddita;
lo sol vi mosterra, che surge omai,
prendere
il monte a piu lieve salita>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
][30]
What dost thou here,
Katrina dear,
At daybreak drear,
Before thy lover's
chamber?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
When I left the
train I did
business
with divers Kings, and in eight days passed through
many changes of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Poems of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar
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Wilde - Poems |
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ULYSSES:
O
Jupiter!
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Shelley |
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Imagists |
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On this she stopt, and Richard dropt his chin,
Rejoiced
to 'scape from such unwelcome din.
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La Fontaine |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old
palace was there, how
charming
its grey and pink--
goats and monkeys, with such hair too!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Foss; Bridget Bruin, Miss Charlotte Morland; Maire Bruin,
Miss
Winifred
Fraser; A Faery Child, Miss Dorothy Paget.
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Yeats |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Mere
withered
stalks and fading trees,
And pastures spread with hills and rushes,
Are all my fading vision sees;
Gone, gone are rapture's flooding gushes!
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John Clare |
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= It was once the hall of the
King's palace at Westminster,
originally
built by William Rufus.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What peace,
unravished
of our ken,
Annihilate from the world of men?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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