The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all
worldlings
try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
"Oh, that's a meteor sent us, a message dumb, portentous,
An
undeciphered
solemn signal of help or hurt.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
In dreary, doubtful, waiting hours,
Before the brazen frenzy starts,
The horses show him nobler powers;
O patient eyes,
courageous
hearts!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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e erly & late; 495
And tou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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How well I call to mind,
When from those boughs the wind
Shook down upon her bosom flower on flower;
And there she sat, meek-eyed,
In midst of all that pride,
Sprinkled
and blushing through an amorous shower
Some to her hair paid dower,
And seem'd to dress the curls,
Queenlike, with gold and pearls;
Some, snowing, on her drapery stopp'd,
Some on the earth, some on the water dropp'd;
While others, fluttering from above,
Seem'd wheeling round in pomp, and saying, "Here reigns Love.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He paid no
attention
to this, but soon he
heard the vestibule door open.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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False love he makes, slave of a far country,
Now
laughter
and jests turn to misery.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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blake-poems |
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" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting
each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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goddes hous in
Ierusalems
burgh?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of
thralled
discontent,
Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The foreign words in
_Bēowulf_
(as ceaster-here) are not numerous;
others are (aside from proper names like _Cain, Abel_, etc.
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Beowulf |
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The _Curse of Minerva_ is the
complete
edition of 312
lines.
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Byron |
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For
_Ninsun_
as
mother of Gilgamish see SBP.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Somewhat
as in the Greek
Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave
that falls over in the last.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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An Irish critic has told us
to study the stage-management of Antoine, but that is like telling a
good
Catholic
to take his theology from Luther.
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Yeats |
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And those things which I say in consequence
Are rubies
mortised
in a gate of stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And now your orphan parent's call
Sounds your
untimely
funeral ;
Death-trumpets creak in such a note, 415
And 'tis the sourdine in their throat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Left to myself I wander as I will,
And as my fancy leads me, through this house,
Nor could I ask a
dwelling
more complete
Were I indeed the Goddess that he deems me.
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Longfellow |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly
penetrate
her--
she opening to you,
engulfing you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He could not bear it--shut his eyes in vain;
Imagination
gave a dizzier pain.
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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"
—The Rochester Herald, Rochester, New York
— The
Literary
Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Man's broken Word, and
violated
gods!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When there are no more
memories
of heroes and martyrs,
And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged
from any part of the earth,
Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from
that part of the earth,
And the infidel come into full possession.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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--
Thou dar'st not tell me that in
earnest!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
General
Information
About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We thought our Union grand, and our
Constitution
grand;
I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are;
I am this day just as much in love with them as you;
Then I am in love with you, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Deuce take me if you
wouldn't clear
everybody
out of your way.
| 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 |
|
_Ephesus_ was a city of
_Ionia_, in the Lesser Asia, now called
_Ajaloue_
by the Turks, who
are masters of the place.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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Din filled the room; the Danes were bereft,
castle-dwellers and
clansmen
all,
earls, of their ale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
710
But now to Alfwoulde he opposynge went,
To whom compar'd hee was a man of stre,
And wyth bothe hondes a myghtie blowe he sente
At Alfwouldes head, as hard as hee could dree;
But on hys payncted sheelde so
bismarlie
715
Aslaunte his swerde did go ynto the grounde;
Then Alfwould him attack'd most furyouslie,
Athrowe hys gaberdyne hee dyd him wounde,
Then soone agayne hys swerde hee dyd upryne,
And clove his creste and split hym to the eyne.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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'tis a
touching
tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's
sensitive
conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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No mediaeval learning or citation of
authority
to be found in
Rowley; no references to the Round Table and stories of chivalry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And too much
resembled
this wife's chocolate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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220
Ulysses shall not from his friends, henceforth,
Live absent long, but, hasting to his home,
Comes even now, and as he comes, designs
A bloody death for these, whose bitter woes
No few shall share, inhabitants with us
Of
pleasant
Ithaca; but let us frame
Effectual means maturely to suppress
Their violent deeds, or rather let themselves
Repentant cease; and soonest shall be best.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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540
So saying he caught him up, and without wing
Of Hippogrif bore through the Air sublime
Over the Wilderness and o're the Plain;
Till underneath them fair Jerusalem,
The holy City lifted high her Towers,
And higher yet the glorious Temple rear'd
Her pile, far off appearing like a Mount
Of Alabaster, top't with golden Spires:
There on the highest Pinacle he set
The Son of God; and added thus in scorn: 550
There stand, if thou wilt stand; to stand upright
Will ask thee skill; I to thy Fathers house
Have brought thee, and highest plac't, highest is best,
Now shew thy Progeny; if not to stand,
Cast thy self down; safely if Son of God:
For it is written, He will give command
Concerning
thee to his Angels, in thir hands
They shall up lift thee, lest at any time
Thou chance to dash thy foot against a stone.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And now I only remember my dead Joy in
remembering
my dead Sorrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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130
Hir herte was wedded to him with a ring;
So
ferforth
upon trouthe is hir entente,
That wher he goth, hir herte with him wente.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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These, sensual men thought mad because they would not be partakers
or
practisers
of their madness.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He roamed through
the classic poets,
translating
passages that pleased him, went up for a
time to London to get lessons in French and Italian, and above all read
with eagerness and attention the works of older English poets,--Spenser,
Waller, and Dryden.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Who could see
clearly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Aghorenath
Chattopadhyay, is descended
from the ancient family of Chattorajes of Bhramangram, who were
noted throughout Eastern Bengal as patrons of Sanskrit learning,
and for their practice of Yoga.
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The life and aspect of London are treated, for
the most part, in the Notes; the issues of state
involved
in Jonson's
satire are presented in historical discussions in Section C, III.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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These felouns, fulle of falsitee,
Have many sythes bigyled me,
And through
falshede
hir lust acheved,
Wherof I repente and am agreved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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' quod she, 800
Come [neer], and if it lyke yow
To dauncen,
daunceth
with us now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
XLI
He was beloved: or say at least,
He thought so, and
existence
charmed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Three armies have grown gray and old,
Fighting
ten thousand leagues away from home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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TITYRUS
The city, Meliboeus, they call Rome,
I, simpleton, deemed like this town of ours,
Whereto we shepherds oft are wont to drive
The
younglings
of the flock: so too I knew
Whelps to resemble dogs, and kids their dams,
Comparing small with great; but this as far
Above all other cities rears her head
As cypress above pliant osier towers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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LFS}
Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
Like Sons & DaughtersFairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen, Daughter of Beulah Sing
His fall into Division & his Resurrection to Unity
His fall into the
Generation
of Decay & Death & his Regeneration by the Resurrection from the dead*
Begin with Tharmas Parent power.
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Blake - Zoas |
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) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew
Prophets
to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Pett,
Who was partly
consumed
by regret;
He sate in a cart, and ate cold apple tart,
Which relieved that old person of Pett.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
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Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
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permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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surely this were governance
Of Life in most august omnipresence,
Through which the rational intellect would find
In passion its expression, and mere sense,
Ignoble else, lend fire to the mind,
And being joined with it in harmony
More mystical than that which binds the stars planetary,
Strike from their several tones one octave chord
Whose cadence being
measureless
would fly
Through all the circling spheres, then to its Lord
Return refreshed with its new empery
And more exultant power,--this indeed
Could we but reach it were to find the last, the perfect creed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" But
Haterius Agrippa, by moving to have "the decrees of that day engraved
in letters of gold, and hung up in the Senate," became an object of
derision; for that, as he was an ancient man, he could reap from his
most
abominable
flattery no other fruit but that of infamy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"
She thrust a dimpled finger
In each ear, shut eyes and ran:
Curious Laura chose to linger
Wondering at each
merchant
man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Of all nations, the United States, with veins full of poetical stuff, most
needs poets, and will
doubtless
have the greatest, and use them the
greatest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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As I could,
I stilled the tingling of my blood,
And followed him in their despite, _875
As a widow follows, pale and wild,
The murderers and corse of her only child;
And when we came to the prison door
And I prayed to share his dungeon floor
With prayers which rarely have been spurned, _880
And when men drove me forth and I
Stared with blank frenzy on the sky,
A farewell look of love he turned,
Half calming me; then gazed awhile,
As if thro' that black and massy pile, _885
And thro' the crowd around him there,
And thro' the dense and murky air,
And the thronged streets, he did espy
What poets know and prophesy;
And said, with voice that made them shiver _890
And clung like music in my brain,
And which the mute walls spoke again
Prolonging it with deepened strain:
'Fear not the tyrants shall rule for ever,
Or the priests of the bloody faith; _895
They stand on the brink of that mighty river,
Whose waves they have tainted with death:
It is fed from the depths of a thousand dells,
Around them it foams, and rages, and swells,
And their swords and their sceptres I
floating
see, _900
Like wrecks in the surge of eternity.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But Beowulf, on general
principles
and from his observation
of the particular case, foretells trouble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
130
He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends
The little engine on his fingers' ends;
This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,
As o'er the
fragrant
steams she bends her head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Ronsard refers to Neo-Platonic metaphysics in
criticising
Plato's 'Idealism'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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His little range of water was denied; [i]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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THE BOOK OF HOURS
_The Book of A Monk's Life_
I live my life in circles that grow wide
And endlessly unroll,
I may not reach the last, but on I glide
Strong
pinioned
toward my goal.
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Oh,
Good and noble, you,
Your face should sweeter show,
Light my heart through and
through!
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The pasture cows that herded on the moor
Printed their footsteps to the very door,
Where little summer flowers with seasons blow
And
scarcely
gave the eldern leave to grow.
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Not thus
I am to do, but in my heart to break
All the reluctance; it must have on me
No pleasure; else I am
endlessly
tortured_.
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Princess
(Duchess of Albany), iii.
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Byron |
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Chopin wrote for the pianoforte a
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You of the mighty Slavic tribes and
empires!
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Whitman |
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Styme, the
faintest
trace.
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IV
River, that stealest with such silent pace
Around the City of the Dead, where lies
A friend who bore thy name, and whom these eyes
Shall see no more in his
accustomed
place,
Linger and fold him in thy soft embrace
And say good night, for now the western skies
Are red with sunset, and gray mists arise
Like damps that gather on a dead man's face.
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Longfellow |
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But the
evidence
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Aristophanes |
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the
track of the sea-gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,
the waves are our
comrades
all.
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By the hour of dawn he was proud and stark,
Kissed the Indian babes with a sigh,
Went forth to live on roots and bark,
Sleep in the trees, while the years howled by--
Calling the catamounts by name,
And buffalo bulls no hand could tame,
Slaying never a living creature,
Joining the birds in every game,
With the
gorgeous
turkey gobblers mocking,
With the lean-necked eagles boxing and shouting;
Sticking their feathers in his hair,--
Turkey feathers,
Eagle feathers,--
Trading hearts with all beasts and weathers
He swept on, winged and wonder-crested,
Bare-armed, barefooted, and bare-breasted.
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LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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To
Hondscio
then was that harassing deadly,
his fall there was fated.
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By brooks too broad for leaping
The
lightfoot
boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
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The lover may sparkle and glow,
Approaching his bonie bit gay thing:
But
marriage
will soon let him know
He's gotten--a buskit up naething.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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As, lo, this man, not great in Argos, not
With pride of house uplifted, in a lot
Of
unmarked
life hath shown a prince's grace.
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forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
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He had learned how to erect a thesis^ and to defend it
pro and con with a serviceable distinction
And so, thinking himself now ripe and qualified for
the greatest undertakings and highest fortune, he
therefore exchanged the
narrowness
of the university
for the town ; but coming out of the confinement of
the square cap and the quadrangle into the open air,
the world began to turn round with him, which he
imagined, though it were his own giddiness, to be
nothing less than the quadrature of the circle.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And the Golden Grouse came there,
And the Pobble who has no toes,
And the small
Olympian
bear,
And the Dong with a luminous nose.
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