My nurse would tell me of a
molehill
crying
To a mountain 'Stand aside and room for me!
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Tennyson |
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Would'st thou haue that
Which thou esteem'st the
Ornament
of Life,
And liue a Coward in thine owne Esteeme?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Much he
questioned
old Nokomis
Of his father Mudjekeewis;
Learned from her the fatal secret
Of the beauty of his mother,
Of the falsehood of his father;
And his heart was hot within him,
Like a living coal his heart was.
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Longfellow |
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'
And
therwithal
he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and sorwfully he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I'll do't, but it
dislikes
me.
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Shakespeare |
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Tu compterais dans tes lits
Plus de baisers que de lys
Et
rangerais
sous tes lois
Plus d'un Valois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The word refers to various sorts of pipes, some of which were made of cane and
featured
a single 'reed' cut into the side of the cane itself.
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Troubador Verse |
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"Now I'll to the burn," quoth Maclean, "for it still may be,
If a slimmer-paunched
henchman
will hurry with me,
I shall kill me the ten-tined buck for a gift to the wife and the child!
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Sidney Lanier |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O hide it, death, in
everlasting
night!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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180
Now I've a notion, if a poet
Beat up for themes, his verse will show it;
I wait for
subjects
that hunt me,
By day or night won't let me be,
And hang about me like a curse,
Till they have made me into verse,
From line to line my fingers tease
Beyond my knowledge, as the bees
Build no new cell till those before
With limpid summer-sweet run o'er; 190
Then, if I neither sing nor shine,
Is it the subject's fault, or mine?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Whose hopes united banish our despair 1
Digitized by
Google
82 THE POEMS
A
DIALOGUE
BETWEEN THYRSIS AND
DORINDA.
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Marvell - Poems |
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a house on earth in
contrast
with a
dwelling in heaven): nom.
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Beowulf |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Not from one lone cloud,
But every
mountain
now hath found a tongue;
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud,
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The same sort of
familiarity
is hinted at in Stubbes, _Anatomy
of Abuses_ (Part 1, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thus was the first Day Eev'n and Morn:
Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung
By the Celestial Quires, when Orient Light
Exhaling first from
Darkness
they beheld;
Birth-day of Heav'n and Earth; with joy and shout
The hollow Universal Orb they fill'd,
And touch't thir Golden Harps, & hymning prais'd
God and his works, Creatour him they sung,
Both when first Eevning was, and when first Morn.
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Milton |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a
Labyrinth
also O pity me O Enionwhere we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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not for thee, (86)
Aurunculeia, risk we deem,
That fairer femininety
Clear day
outdawned
from Ocean stream 85
Shall ever more behold.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
UNDER THE WILLOWS
DARA
THE FIRST SNOW-FALL
THE SINGING LEAVES
SEAWEED
THE FINDING OF THE LYRE
NEW-YEAR'S EVE, 1850
FOR AN AUTOGRAPH
AL FRESCO
MASACCIO
WITHOUT AND WITHIN
GODMINSTER
CHIMES
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
ALADDIN
AN INVITATION.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Whether the shrimps or
crawfish
gray,
Or crafty Mermaids stole them away,
Nobody knew; and nobody knows
How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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the wreathed green
Disparted, and far upward could be seen
Blue heaven, and a silver car, air-borne,
Whose silent wheels, fresh wet from clouds of morn,
Spun off a
drizzling
dew,--which falling chill 521
On soft Adonis' shoulders, made him still
Nestle and turn uneasily about.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Keats |
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--his friends came round
Supported him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its
marriage
robe, the heavy body wound.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Set me where, in the heart of frozen plains,
No tree is freshened by a summer wind,
A quarter of the globe enthralled by rains,
And Jove unkind;
Or set me 'neath the chariot of the Sun,
Where,
overnear
his fires, no homes may be;
I'll love, for her sweet smile and voice, but one--
My Lalage.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Heap high the logs, and melt the cold,
Good Thaliarch; draw the wine we ask,
That
mellower
vintage, four-year-old,
From out the cellar'd Sabine cask.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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if thy impudence but dare
Approach yon wall, I
prophesy
thy fare:
Dearly, full dearly, shalt thou buy thy bread
With many a footstool thundering at thy head.
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore
From my home and my weeping friends never to part;
My little ones kiss'd me a
thousand
times o'er,
And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The_ CARDINAL _comes
in his
gigantic
scarlet litter, borne by twenty-four
footguards.
| 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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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
_The Cellar Door_
By the old tavern door on the causey there lay
A
hogshead
of stingo just rolled from a dray,
And there stood the blacksmith awaiting a drop
As dry as the cinders that lay in his shop;
And there stood the cobbler as dry as a bun,
Almost crackt like a bucket when left in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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For mark these very same:
Exiles from country, fugitives afar
From sight of men, with charges foul attaint,
Abased with every wretchedness, they yet
Live, and where'er the wretches come, they yet
Make the
ancestral
sacrifices there,
Butcher the black sheep, and to gods below
Offer the honours, and in bitter case
Turn much more keenly to religion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the
suffocating
night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty unrivalled yet--
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now--
spread larve across them,
not honey but
seething
life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The
confusion
of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Then he bethought him
To take from us our
privilege
of hiring
Our serfs at will; we are no longer masters
Of our own lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
I wonder if
sometimes
in the dusk,
When the brave lights that gild thy
evenings
Have not yet been touched with flame,
I wonder if sometimes in the dusk
Thou rememberest a time,
A time when thou loved me
And our love was to thee thy all?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The world replies,
He is a
charming
youth and wise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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at tary he ne my3t;
Ofte he wat3 runnen at, when he out rayked,
1728 [D] & ofte reled in a3ayn, so
reniarde
wat3 wyle.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Gin, v, 35, engine,
instrument
(of torture).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Now filled with confidence, now doubtfulness,
I promise
deliverance
to my captive heart,
Trying in vain to fool myself by art,
Between hope, and doubt, and fearfulness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
There's mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Phaedra
I
predicted
it, but you'd not accept it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Yonder,
lightening
other loads,
The seasons range the country roads,
But here in London streets I ken
No such helpmates, only men;
And these are not in plight to bear,
If they would, another's care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
And as a sleep is broken and dispers'd
Through sharp encounter of the nimble light,
With the eye's spirit running forth to meet
The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg'd;
And the upstartled wight loathes that he sees;
So, at his sudden waking, he misdeems
Of all around him, till assurance waits
On better judgment: thus the saintly came
Drove from before mine eyes the motes away,
With the
resplendence
of her own, that cast
Their brightness downward, thousand miles below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
" The hairs are spoken of here as the least
important
part of
the body; the heart, on the other hand, has always been thought of as
the most important organ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
Search for the foe in thine own soul,
The sloth, the
intellectual
pride;
The trivial jest that veils the goal
For which, our fathers lived and died;
The lawless dreams, the cynic Art,
That rend thy nobler self apart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Phoebus, God, was all thy mind
Turned unto
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"
"I will go where I am wanted, for the sergeant does not mind;
He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:
He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,
And I never knew a
sweetheart
spend her money on a chap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Meanwhile, her wheeling king
Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty, spangled hems,
Leaving a new necessity, --
The want of
diadems!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Appresso
il fine ch'a quell' inno fassi,
gridavano alto: 'Virum non cognosco';
indi ricominciavan l'inno bassi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
And now the news was to Duke William brought, 65
That men of Haroldes armie taken were;
For theyre good cheere all caties were enthoughte,
And Gyrthe and
Eilwardus
enjoi'd goode cheere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
* You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Pride, power, love, wealth, and all
Time's touchstone shall destroy,
And, like base coin, prove all
Vain
substitutes
for joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
But I have scribbled on 'till I hear the
clock has intimated the near
approach
of
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Prince, why wilt thou smite
The
smitten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Joy to Admetus, Lord of
Thessaly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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LEILI
The
serpents
are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my
thoughts
could hide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Then, Pallas over all his
features
shed 180
Superior beauty, dignified his form
With added amplitude, and pour'd his curls
Like hyacinthine flow'rs down from his brows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
We in the field have won so many fights,
Combating
through so many regions wide
That Charles holds, whose beard is hoary white!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Now all is done, save what shall have no end:
Mine
appetite
I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including
any word
processing
or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The world heaved--
we are next to the sky:
over us, sea-hawks shout,
gulls sweep past--
the
terrible
breakers are silent
from this place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Pope's new friends seem to have
treated him with a deference which he had never
experienced
before, and
which bound him to them in unbroken affection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
" said Maisie,
sniffing
the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in
character
was done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Bloom, O ye
amaranths!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
_this forward heresie,
That women can no parts of
friendship
bee.
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But what is your
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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She asked: "Am I
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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We find
him in his place in the Parliament that
assembled
at Oxford, 1665.
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And if it may
be said that the insistence of racial circumstance in Homer gives him a
greater intensity of cordial, human inspiration, it must also be said
that the larger, less exacting conditions of Milton's mental life allow
his art to go into greater scope and more subtle
complexity
of
significance.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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Long years ago--so long, they are a doubt[466]
In memory, and yet they live in annals:
When I was in my youth, and served the Senate
And Signory as Podesta and Captain
Of the town of Treviso, on a day
Of festival, the sluggish Bishop who 20
Conveyed the Host aroused my rash young anger,
By strange delay, and arrogant reply
To my reproof: I raised my hand and smote him,
Until he reeled beneath his holy burthen;[fp]
And as he rose from earth again, he raised
His
tremulous
hands in pious wrath towards Heaven.
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Byron |
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Jean and her friends insisted much that
she should stand along with me in the kirk, but the
minister
would not
allow it, which bred a great trouble I assure you, and I am blamed as
the cause of it, though I am sure I am innocent; but I am very much
pleased, for all that, not to have had her company.
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A
neighbouring
wood born with himself he sees,
And loves his old contemporary trees.
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And this proud sign, wrought on his shield, he bears--
The vault of heaven, inlaid with blazing stars;
And, for the boss, the bright moon glows at full,
The eye of night, the first and
lordliest
star.
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Aeschylus |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and sacrificial Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The
bewildering
wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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For when the
conquering
wolves
Into that village won, we in our huts
Lay hearkening to their rejoicing hunger;
But Gwat stayed out in the stars all night long.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
"Thy aid avails me not (the chief replied);
My own experience shall their doom decide:
A witness-judge
precludes
a long appeal:
Suffice it then thy monarch to conceal.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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net
Title: Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
An
Alliterative
Romance-Poem (c.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply;
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain,
For
unremembered
lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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THE RETURN By Scudder Middleton
Hold me, O hold me,
love—your
lips are life!
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