Meadowlarks
In the silver light after a storm,
Under
dripping
boughs of bright new green,
I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks
Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I was made to repeat it several times over
till they could
pronounce
it; and then 'Stepney Marai no Toote' was
echoed through an hundred mouths at once.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Creating the works from print
editions
not protected by U.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Among them one,
Who seem'd to me much wearied, sat him down,
And with his arms did fold his knees about,
Holding his face between them
downward
bent.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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God save her
Grace; and death to
Northumberland!
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Tennyson |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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the
spelling
_souo_ = _suo_
in 44.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices,
Hanging with threat'ning jut, like precipices;
O'er-arching, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves,
Supporting roofs, fantastic, stony groves;
Windows and doors in nameless
sculptures
drest
With order, symmetry, or taste unblest;
Forms like some bedlam Statuary's dream,
The craz'd creations of misguided whim;
Forms might be worshipp'd on the bended knee,
And still the second dread command be free;
Their likeness is not found on earth, in air, or sea!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Undue significance a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and
therefore
hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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This verse was
introduced
in 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Snakes on the ground were
writhing
about.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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William Wordsworth |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Hast long been in the
service?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The pangs of people--when I sport, what
matters?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Ne wæs þǣm ōðrum swā,
syððan
hē hine tō gūðe gegyred hæfde.
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Beowulf |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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= Gifford points out that the punning
allusion
of
_foul_ to _fowl_ is a play upon the word dottrel.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Rilke - Poems |
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For he hears the lambs'
innocent
call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watching while they are in peace,
For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.
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blake-poems |
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O lord of the steed and the sea,
be thy trident
uplifted
to smite
In eager desire of the fray, Poseidon!
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Aeschylus |
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168
Lines written beneath an Elm, in the
Churchyard
of p.
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Byron |
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By standing just aside,
By seeing you go on,
Day after day,
In ways I may not tread; By
watching
your dear feet Stumble in paths
My word could save you from, Yet never speaking it;
By knowing past all doubting That the day will come, When, all else gone,
Alone,
Deserted,
You will turn your face To meet my waiting eyes, And there
Behold your own.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' He is a man
immoderate
and 'no mercy uses,' for be it churl or chaplain that by the
chapel rides, monk or mass-priest, or any man else, it is as pleasant
to him to kill them as to go alive himself.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whose life is all
A simpering pretence of
modesty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wrath and revenge from men and gods remove:
Far, far too dear to every mortal breast,
Sweet to the soul, as honey to the taste:
Gathering
like vapours of a noxious kind
From fiery blood, and darkening all the mind.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Such weapon in God's hand, and wielded so,
A woman's beauty may be now, I pray;
A pestilence
suddenly
in this foreign blood,
A blight on the vast growth of Assyrian weed,
A knife to the stem of its main root, the heart
Of Holofernes.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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1400
>>
Cerises
fresches
vermeilletes,
Cormes, alies et noisetes; 1360
De haus loriers et de haus pins
Refu tous pueples li jardin,
Et d'oliviers et de cipres,
Dont il n'a gaires ici pres;
Ormes y ot branchus et gros,
Et avec ce charmes et fos,
Codres droites, trembles et chesnes,
Erables haus, sapins et fresnes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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SI
Q{UA}NTAS
RAPIDIS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Their station
Already is
assigned
them in my mind.
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Longfellow |
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XII
Well: Here at morn they'll light on one
Dangling
in mockery
Of what he spent his substance on
Blindly and uselessly!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a
mysterious
way-
The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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T.S. Eliot |
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God's passionless reformers, influences,
That purify and heal and are not seen,
Shall man say whence your virtue is, or how 350
Ye make
medicinal
the wayside weed?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Virtues
Are forced upon us by our
impudent
crimes.
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T.S. Eliot |
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what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
And kept unused the user so
destroys
it.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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`What wene ye your wyse fader wolde
Han yeven Antenor for yow anoon, 905
If he ne wiste that the citee sholde
Destroyed
been?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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farewell
for e'er!
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Hugo - Poems |
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They might do that, if poetry had
to
inculcate
a moral, as some have supposed.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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15
Joyous as morning, [5]
Thou art
laughing
and scorning;
Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest,
And, though little troubled with sloth,
Drunken Lark!
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William Wordsworth |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He painted, as they allege, the popes and
cardinals in the
gloomiest
colouring.
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Petrarch |
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540
LXI
Then seek this path, that I to thee presage,
Which after all to heaven shall thee send;
Then peaceably thy painefull pilgrimage
To yonder same
Hierusalem
do bend,
Where is for thee ordaind a blessed end: 545
For thou emongst those Saints, whom thou doest see,
Shall be a Saint, and thine owne nations frend
And Patrone: thou Saint George shalt called bee,
Saint George?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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servil mind
Rewarded
well with servil punishment!
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Milton |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The moon she possibly doth shine because
Strook by the rays of sun, and day by day
May turn unto our gaze her light, the more
She doth recede from orb of sun, until,
Facing him opposite across the world,
She hath with full
effulgence
gleamed abroad,
And, at her rising as she soars above,
Hath there observed his setting; thence likewise
She needs must hide, as 'twere, her light behind
By slow degrees, the nearer now she glides,
Along the circle of the Zodiac,
From her far place toward fires of yonder sun,--
As those men hold who feign the moon to be
Just like a ball and to pursue a course
Betwixt the sun and earth.
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Lucretius |
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Can you imagine the ragings of Juno if in love's skirmish
Poisonous
weapons on her by her own spouse had been turned?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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ai
schullen
also; whan ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It only remains to find (if we can) his Ruling Passion: That
will
certainly
influence all the rest, and can reconcile the seeming or
real inconsistency of all his actions, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The essential spirit of the age
breathes
from
every line.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He will do all in all as
Hastings
doth.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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She has gone, and left me in
torment!
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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The hours that feed on war go heavy-hearted,
Death is no fare
wherewith
to make hearts fain.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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tante chi stipa
nove
travaglie
e pene quant' io viddi?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He counted out ninety-four-thousand
rubles and passed them to Herman, who
accepted
them without showing the
least surprise, and at once withdrew.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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They
grumbled
aloud, and Iwan Ignatiitch, who
executed the Commandant's orders, heard them with his own ears say
pretty clearly--
"Only wait a bit, you garrison rat!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Assis, les poings crispes dans des
manchettes
sales,
Ils songent a ceux-la qui les ont fait lever,
Et de l'aurore au soir des grappes d'amygdales
Sous leurs mentons chetifs s'agitent a crever.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Shall I really ever see such
happiness?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and
Mathematics
in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then chaplain to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It was a fatal day when the public
discovered
that the pen is
mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the
brickbat.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Fasse mich nicht so
gewaltsam
an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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VII
Yea, seeds of
crescive
sympathy
Were sown by those more excellent than he,
Long known, though long contemned till then--
The gods of men in amity.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pines aforetimes sprung from Pelion peak floated, so 'tis said, through
liquid billows of Neptune to the flowing Phasis and the confines Aeetaean,
when the picked youth, the vigour of Argive manhood seeking to carry away
the Golden Fleece from Colchis, dared to skim o'er salt seas in a
swift-sailing ship,
sweeping
caerulean ocean with paddles shapen from
fir-wood.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
| Guess: |
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Imagists |
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illa licet nullo
pinnarum
certet honore,
his tamen insultans uocibus usa datur:
'quamuis innumerus plumas uariauerit ordo,
mersus humi semper florida terga geris:
ast ego deformi sublimis in aera pinna
proxima sideribus numinibusque feror.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Giving himself to make man capable
Of his return to life, than had the terms
Been mere and
unconditional
release.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
difference
to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Once it had lifted its hand, and moved its lips, but was silent,
As if an iron will had
mastered
the fleeting intention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Gama
received
them
kindly, gave them an entertainment, and some silken garments, which they
received with visible joy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
One of our plays, _The Well of the Saints_, has been accepted for
immediate
production
by the Deutsches Theatre of Berlin; and another,
_The Shadow of the Glen_, is to be played during the season at the
National Bohemian Theatre at Prague; and my own _Cathleen ni Houlihan_
has been translated into Irish and been played at the Oireachtas,
before an audience of some thousands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
]
Fines and confiscations,
And a forced loan from the refractory city,
Will fill our coffers: and the golden love _285
Of loyal gentlemen and noble friends
For the worshipped father of our common country,
With contributions from the catholics,
Will make
Rebellion
pale in our excess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
A Hair perhaps divides the False and True;
Yes; and a single Alif were the clue--
Could you but find it--to the Treasure-house,
And
peradventure
to THE MASTER too;
LI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
In August the Moravians have their fete,
But it is radiant June in which Lusace
Must consecrate her noble
Margrave
race.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
gives no example of the
adjectival
use
earlier than 1613.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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There they to hunt the luscious fruit delight,
And dabbling keep within their charges' sight;
Oft
catching
prickly struttles on their rout,
And miller-thumbs and gudgeons driving out,
Hid near the arched brig under many a stone
That from its wall rude passing clowns have thrown.
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John Clare |
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Too weak too wilt thou prove
My passion to remove;
Physic to other ills, thou'rt
nourishment
to love.
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Golden Treasury |
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No smother'd spark like mine emits a flame
To catch the public eye, as you can boast--
A leading name in Cupid's
numerous
host!
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Petrarch |
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Men tire me when I am
not
constantly
greeted and refreshed as by the flux of sparkling
streams.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Papiol is Bertran de Born's court minstrel,
jongleur
or joglar.
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Troubador Verse |
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The Moors I knew, and, for their fraud prepar'd,
I left my fix'd command my navy's guard:[555]
Whate'er from shore my name or seal convey'd
Of other weight, that fix'd command forbade;
Thus, ere its birth destroy'd,
prevented
fell
What fraud might dictate, or what force compel.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not
In holier shapes; for there is
boundless
theft
In limited professions.
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Shakespeare |
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SYLVAN _and_ KATRINA
_talking
to
each other and betweenwhiles thinking to themselves_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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folcrihta
gehwylc, swā his fæder āhte, 2609.
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Beowulf |
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Monastic
Zitza!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The annotated musical directions which here
accompany
`The Cantata',
arranged for the composer's use, were first sent with the newly-completed text
in a private letter to Mr.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"The sky is pure, the
sparkling
stream is clear:
Unloose your zones, my maidens!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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