Others like sisters wander, grave and slow,
Among the rocks haunted by
spectres
thin,
Where Antony saw as larvae surge and flow
The veined bare breasts that tempted him to sin.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The chants
of the Welsh harpers preserved, through ages of darkness, a faint
and
doubtful
memory of Arthur.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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XC
Yet he who would excuse the sudden wheel,
Upon his courser might the blame bestow:
But, after, he so ill his strokes did deal,
Demosthenes
his cause might well forego.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But
those
blessings
which the apparent gods bestow in common every day, not
on one family, nor on a single city, but on the whole world, why do you
not acknowledge?
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Tacitus |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Their voices, dying as they fly,
Thick on the wind are sown;
The names of men blow
soundless
by,
My fellows' and my own.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_ hoc
est, soles hoc
praestare
matribus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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" And that
illustrious
judgment
by the most learned M.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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On
the other hand, Archimago symbolizes the
deceptions
of the Jesuits and
Duessa the false Church of Rome masquerading as true religion.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And can ye thus
unfriended
leave me?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Which, if it now or shall
hereafter
shine,
'Twas by your splendour, lady, not by mine.
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Robert Herrick |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Their perpetual
revolts, their impatience of all rule and civilized life, their
treachery and cruelty, obliged the
authorities
to keep a sharp watch
upon them in order to reduce them to submission.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Suddenly
we heard a voice crying, "This is the
sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" He had an
unassuaged
thirst for the absolute.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats |
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He sate his horse, the which he called Marmore,
Never so swift was any bird in course;
He's loosed the reins, and spurring on that horse
He's gone to strike Gerin with all his force;
The scarlat shield from's neck he's broken off,
And all his sark thereafter has he torn,
The ensign blue clean through his body's gone,
Until he flings him dead, on a high rock;
His
companion
Gerer he's slain also,
And Berenger, and Guiun of Santone;
Next a rich duke he's gone to strike, Austore,
That held Valence and the Honour of the Rhone;
He's flung him dead; great joy the pagans shew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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E io: <
memoria o uso a l'amoroso canto
che mi solea quetar tutte mie doglie,
di cio ti piaccia
consolare
alquanto
l'anima mia, che, con la sua persona
venendo qui, e affannata tanto!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Why are Eyelids stord with arrows ready drawn,
Where a thousand
fighting
men in ambush lie!
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blake-poems |
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If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence
Unroused
by winds, that ply a busier trade
Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes,
Or the dull sobbing drafty that moans and rakes
Upon the strings of this AEolian lute,
Which better far were mute.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We all are sensible that there is a set of critics now existing, who
prefer Lucilius [d] to Horace, and Lucretius [e] to Virgil; who
despise the eloquence of
Aufidius
Bassus [f] and Servilius Nonianus,
and yet admire Varro and [g] Sisenna.
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Tacitus |
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THAT
advantageous
'tis, we now will prove:
Folks laugh; your wife a pliant glove shall move;
But, if you've twenty favourites around,
A single syllable will ne'er resound.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Fame that her high worth to raise,
Seem'd erst so lavish and profuse,
We may justly now accuse 10
Of
detraction
from her praise,
Less then half we find exprest,
Envy bid conceal the rest.
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Milton |
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The happier state
In Heav'n, which follows dignity, might draw
Envy from each inferior; but who here
Will envy whom the highest place exposes
Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime
Your bulwark, and
condemns
to greatest share
Of endless pain?
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Milton |
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Expectation and doubt 5
Flutter my
timorous
heart.
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Sappho |
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Franz said it shows
Power of religion, and it does, perhaps--
Religion
or morphine or poultices--God knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Creating the works from print editions not
protected
by U.
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Wilde - Poems |
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There is a brief how many sports are ripe;
Make choice of which your
Highness
will see first.
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Shakespeare |
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'TWAS very cold, and
darkness
'gan to peep;
The place was distant yet, where they might sleep.
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La Fontaine |
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With terrors round, can Reason hold her throne,
Despise the known, nor tremble at the
unknown?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower:
The great
Emathian
conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground: and the repeated air
Of sad Electra's poet had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept
silently
to rest.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I know your face, for now 'twill do;
A
distinguished
lady is visiting you.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
VI chp 12 v (King James version)]*
VALA
Night the First
The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath* {This page is a very thicket of revisions, erasures, and
inconsistent
directions for rearranging the order of the lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Can it be that they are afraid of an attack by the Kirghiz; but
then is it likely that Ivan
Kouzmitch
would hide from me such a trifle?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'96'
Point out the exact meaning of this
familiar
line.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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There was a
strangeness
in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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It would be beside the purpose to discuss these ideas to-day or to
attempt an
elaborate
refutation of their claims to acceptance.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Like impressionist pictures, or Wagner's rugged music, the very
absence of conventional form
challenges
attention.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" 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.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CXIX
Rodomont
o'er the plain pursues his man.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It
is also
uncertain
whether he knew, when he entered the service of Lin,
that this prince was about to take up arms against the Emperor.
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Li Po |
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" KAU}
They weighd & orderd all & Urizen [in comfort saw]
comforted
saw {The erased phrase "in comfort saw" is speculation on Erdman's part.
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Blake - Zoas |
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THE
AMERICAN
VOLUNTEERS
MARIE VAN VORST
August, 1914-April, 1917
_In the long months before the United States entered the war many
Americans took service under the flag of France.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He looked at me with eyes inconsolably
heartbroken
and giving forth an
insidious intoxication, and cried in a chanting voice: "If thou wilt, if
thou wilt, I will make thee an overlord of souls; thou shalt be master
of living matter more perfectly than the sculptor is master of his clay;
thou shalt taste the pleasure, reborn without end, of obliterating
thyself in the self of another, and of luring other souls to lose
themselves in thine.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"_Where_ is
Blackmouth?
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And, as the mystic aisles I pace,
By aureoled workmen built,
Lives ending at the Cross I trace
Alike through grace and guilt;
One Mary bathes the blessed feet
With ointment from her eyes,
With
spikenard
one, and both are sweet,
For both are sacrifice.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"_Where_ is
Blackmouth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Emperor of Germany now sent Petrarch a third letter of invitation to
come and see him, which our poet promised to accept; but alleged that he
was
prevented
by the impossibility of getting a safe passage.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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FAUSTUS: See, see, my
gracious
lord!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To my sage counsel
therefore
did I turn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_
THE PRAISES OF LAURA
TRANSCEND
HIS POETIC POWERS.
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Petrarch |
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I say not this as covertly glancing at the authors of certain
manuscripts which have been submitted to my
literary
judgment (though an
epick in twenty-four books on the 'Taking of Jericho' might, save for
the prudent forethought of Mrs.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lay him soft in the silks he had
pleasure
to fold
When, beside thee at night, holy dreams deep and deeper
Enclosed his young life on the couch made of gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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[Burns, when he calls on the bards of Ayr and Doon to join in the
lament for Mailie,
intimates
that he regards himself as a poet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The Scarecrow
Once I said to a scarecrow, "You must be tired of
standing
in this
lonely field.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Where he
is
passionate
and romantic, she is simple and homely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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A
peaceful
rumbling there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Doubt is fled, and clouds of reason,
Dark
disputes
and artful teazing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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It has been said that Satan is the hero of
_Paradise
Lost_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1310
Your
entreaties
made me forget my duty.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The cold black fear is
clutching
me to-night
As long ago when they would take the light
And leave the little child who would have prayed,
Frozen and sleepless at the thought of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
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Keats - Lamia |
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]
OSWALD
Herbert!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And the horizon throws away its shroud,
Sweeping a stretching circle from the eye;
Storms upon storms in quick
succession
crowd,
And oer the sameness of the purple sky
Heaven paints, with hurried hand, wild hues of every dye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I think the
notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own
writings
is
another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Enhaloed by a mild, warm glow,
From man's
humanity
apart,
She hears old footsteps wandering slow
Through the lone chambers of the heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
"
The Two Learned Men
Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who
hated and
belittled
each other's learning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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That region left, the vale unfolds
Rich groves of lofty stature,
With Yarrow winding through the pomp
Of
cultivated
Nature;
And rising from those lofty groves
Behold a ruin hoary,
The shatter'd front of Newark's Towers,
Renown'd in Border story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Madame, the
bohemian
glass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Carjat lui-meme, par trop juge et partie, ni celui des
encore assez nombreux survivants d'une scene assurement peu glorieuse
pour Rimbaud, mais demesurement grossie et
denaturee
jusqu'a la plus
complete calomnie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
"I Am Not Yours"
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a
snowflake
in the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
On the
accession
of Don Pedro the Cruel to the throne of
Castile many of the disgusted nobility were kindly received by Don
Pedro, through the interest of his beloved Inez.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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From balance of
accounts
'twill both exempt:
'Tis better far to love than show contempt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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410
So he; whose words soon as the sacred might
Heard of Telemachus,
approaching
quick
His father, thus, humane, he interposed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Without a moment's
hesitation I marched briskly past the tussocks where Gunga Dass had
snared the crows, and out in the
direction
of the smooth white sand
beyond.
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Kipling - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So far from caring,
I laughed inside, and only cranked the faster,
(It ran as if it wasn't greased but glued);
I welcomed any moderate disaster
That might be calculated to postpone
What
evidently
nothing could conclude.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past,
That shrunk thy streams; Return
Sicilian
Muse,
And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast
Their Bels, and Flourets of a thousand hues.
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Milton |
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She came
close to the bed, and the terrified man
recognized
the Countess.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Charle is at hand, full
vengeance
he'll exact.
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Chanson de Roland |
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They look on thee and me, a
stricken
twain,
Who have wrought no sin that God should have thee slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Yet will you take a
faithful
friend's advice?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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While God is
marching
on.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A
miserable
race!
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Iliad - Pope |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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