Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,
She is not thou, and only thou art she,
Still, still as though some dear _embodied_ Good,
Some
_living_
Love before my eyes there stood
With answering look a ready ear to lend,
I mourn to thee and say--"Ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Alive was he still,
still
wielding
his wits.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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An hundred great towns are inhabited in that opulent
realm; from it our
forefather
Teucer of old, if I recall the tale
aright, sailed to the Rhoetean coasts and chose a place for his kingdom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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MARMADUKE 'Twas dark--dark as the grave; yet did I see,
Saw him--his face turned toward me; and I tell thee
Idonea's filial
countenance
was there
To baffle me--it put me to my prayers.
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William Wordsworth |
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Pleas'd his warmth to view,
Convinc'd his promise and his heart were true,
The
illustrious
GAMA thus his soul express'd
And own'd the joy that labour'd in his breast:
"Oh thou, benign, of all the tribes alone,
Who feel the rigour of the burning zone,
Whose piety, with Mercy's gentle eye
Beholds our wants, and gives the wish'd supply,
Our navy driven from many a barb'rous coast,
On many a tempest-harrow'd ocean toss'd,
At last with thee a kindly refuge finds,
Safe from the fury of the howling winds.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Li Po |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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So those passionate letters, that audacious pursuit were
not the result of
tenderness
and love.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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who
believed
not, nor would heed the
warning mouth.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[VIJAYA _goes_]
O Brahma, guard in sleep
The merry lambs and the complacent kine,
The flies below the leaves, and the young mice
In the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks
Of red flamingo; and my love, Vijaya;
And may no
restless
fay with fidget finger
Trouble his sleeping: give him dreams of me.
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Yeats |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A fairy land of flowers, and fruit, and sunshine,
And crystal lakes, and over-arching forests,
And mountains, around whose
towering
summits the winds
Of Heaven untrammelled flow--which air to breathe
Is Happiness now, and will be Freedom hereafter
In days that are to come?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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At last he caught him; but no more could spell
Where he had wandered from the beaten way:
Two hundred miles he roved, 'twist hill and plain,
Ere he came up with
Rodomont
again.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It makes one look old, and it
spoils one's career at
critical
moments.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The foe, the victim, and the fond ally
That fights for all, but ever fights in vain,
Are met--as if at home they could not die--
To feed the crow on Talavera's plain,
And
fertilise
the field that each pretends to gain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And how will you acquit
yourself
before
the Tzarina, my little mother?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I caught a glimpse of some such thing,
Sort of pearl
bracelet
I should think it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree
stiffens
in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are fragrant at this height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For who of us
Wondereth if some one gets into his joints
A fever, gathering head with fiery heat,
Or any other dolorous disease
Along his
members?
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Lucretius |
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Each life
converges
to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Letts_
BETWEEN THE LINES
When consciousness came back, he found he lay
Between the opposing fires, but could not tell
On which hand were his friends; and either way
For him to turn was chancy--bullet and shell
Whistling and shrieking over him, as the glare
Of searchlights scoured the
darkness
to blind day.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
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Poe - 5 |
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Her leaders have taken
soundings
of every man.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I may be wrong, and I may have told it badly,
But it struck _me_ as being
extremely
ludicrous.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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1295
View it with another eye as
pardonable
error.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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Farm hands from the
terraces
of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny Appleseed laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hesitated so
This side the
victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Stephen Crane |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Her
Highness
is unwell.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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'You must not think I
am an
ordinary
dancing-girl,' she said to him, 'I can recite Master Po's
"Everlasting Wrong.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But upon Padus' brink shall die
Volusius
his annals
And to the mackerel oft loose-fitting jacket afford.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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While thus, from shore to cruel shore long driven,
To thee
conducted
by a guide from heaven,
We come, O monarch, of thy truth assur'd,
Of hospitable rites by Heaven secur'd;
Such rites[165] as old Alcinous' palace grac'd,
When 'lorn Ulysses sat his favour'd guest.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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ei
worchipeden
him alle wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Grosart takes upon himself the
responsibility for this title; but it should not have been printed as
the title in chief, or as the
headline
to the text.
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William Wordsworth |
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Field
THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD
I know a beach road,
A road where I would go,
It runs up northward
From Cooden Bay to Hoe;
And there, in the High Woods,
Daffodils
grow.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And town and friends
forgotten
quite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Some
Peculiarity
in every man, characteristic to
himself, yet varying from himself, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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creatures
full of sense!
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Aristophanes |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
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Byron |
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BETWEEN the clothes in haste Camillus flew,
Without inviting
Constance
to pursue.
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La Fontaine |
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I see before me the Gladiator lie:
He leans upon his hand--his manly brow
Consents to death, but conquers agony,
And his drooped head sinks
gradually
low--
And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow
From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,
Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now
The arena swims around him: he is gone,
Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light
{According
to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a different text for 8, ending ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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And as they were speaking
together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed the Blessed
City, where each man lives according to the
Scriptures?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Their petals, red with joy, or
bleached
by tears,
Waved to and fro i' the winds of hopes and fears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Whither dost thou loiter, by what murmuring hollows,
Where oleanders scatter their
ambrosial
fire?
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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' Then he bangs the butt of his gun for a
gavel and says, 'By virtue of the authority vested in me by my own right
hand and the help of Peachey, I declare myself Grand Master of all
Freemasonry in
Kafiristan
in this the Mother Lodge o' the country, and
King of Kafiristan equally with Peachey!
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Kipling - Poems |
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et je ne puis, Megere libertine,
Pour briser ton courage et te mettre aux abois,
Dans l'enfer de ton lit devenir
Proserpine!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
The goddess fled away on her golden shell,
Her adored image
returning
to us on the swell,
And the sky shone beneath the scarf of Iris.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
replaced
older file is renamed.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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Watch
patiently
till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from
time to time.
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| Question: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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They're of a noble house, I dare to swear,
They have a proud and
discontented
air.
| Guess: |
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--On n'est pas serieux, quand on a dix-sept ans
Et qu'on a des
tilleuls
verts sur la promenade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I could indeed have sworn, when I was
listening
to you,
that you were the son of some warrior who dreams of nothing but wounds
and bruises, of some Boulomachus or Clausimachus;[388] go and sing your
plaguey songs to the spearmen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's
dreadful
pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a
superior
bush.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the
daybreak
call--hark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"To-day be wise and great,
And put off
hesitation
and go forth 5
With cheerful courage for the diurnal need.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Long, long ago they passed threescore-and-ten,
And in this doll's house lived
together
then;
All things they have in common, being so poor,
And their one fear, Death's shadow at the door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Dog, which still was hovering nigh,
Repeating
the same timid cry, 55
This Dog, had been through three months' space
A dweller in that savage place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
With
sharpened
sight pale antiquaries pore,
The inscription value, but the rust adore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
I take my hat: how can I make a
cowardly
amends
For what she has said to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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joined
together
let no man put asunder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face,
Till, checking his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and opposite sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's
wrinkled
countenance,
And pledge him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Crime of sorts ever
precedes
some greater crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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We encourage the use of public domain
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Meredith - Poems |
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Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been
ranked as the first of American lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which
has so long
controlled
the destinies of American Letters, in conducting
the thing called "The North American Review.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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--Ah, thy shoulders urging shape
Of
loveliness
into thy hair's pouring gleam!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
Which in smooth streams a sinking weight doth
raise,
So man, declining, always
disappears
In the weak circles of increasing years ;
And his short tumults of themselves compose.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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A blast of Gabriel's horn has torn away
The last haze from our eyes, and we can see
Past the three hundred skies and gaze upon
The Ineffable Name
engraved
deep in the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Pierce the woods, the earth;
Somewhere,
listening
to catch you, must be the one I want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Panic took them, and deaf as they were then, 1535
They
recognised
neither voice nor the rein.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Suche meruayles
fortuned
than; F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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No dainty rhymes or
sentimental
love verses for you, terrible year!
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Whitman |
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Thus
translated
by Fanshaw--
------------_curst their ill luck,
Th' old Devil and the Dam that gave them suck.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional
materials
through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[6]
So that she thought, "And who shall gaze upon
My palace with
unblinded
eyes,
While this great bow will waver in the sun,
And that sweet incense rise?
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Tennyson |
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May one not speed her but in phrase
askance?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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