I tell you spirits, to the face,
I give to spirit-tyranny no place,
My spirit cannot
exercise
it.
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While yet we live, scarse one short hour perhaps,
Between us two let there be peace, both joyning,
As joyn'd in injuries, one enmitie
Against a Foe by doom express assign'd us,
That cruel Serpent: On me
exercise
not
Thy hatred for this miserie befall'n,
On me already lost, mee then thy self
More miserable; both have sin'd, but thou 930
Against God onely, I against God and thee,
And to the place of judgement will return,
There with my cries importune Heaven, that all
The sentence from thy head remov'd may light
On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe,
Mee mee onely just object of his ire.
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Milton |
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XI
On your
midnight
pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'Tis Thou that crown'st my glittering hearth
With
guiltless
mirth;
And giv'st me wassail bowls to drink,
Spiced to the brink.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
The
Bodleian
Quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The world
dishonored
thou hast left.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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gov'ment promised Indians lots,
But at last it closed
accounts
with shots.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It is discordaunce that can accorde, 4715
And
accordaunce
to discorde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then to perform the cure so well begun,
To him I showed this glonous setting sun ;
How, by her people's looks pursued from far,
She mounted on a bright
celestial
car, .
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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e
borelych
burne on bent, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
The Other Language
Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing
with
astonished
dismay on the new world round about me, my mother
spoke to the wet-nurse, saying, "How does my child?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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His other brothers, proud and high,
Masters, who, in prosperity,
Might rival kings;
Who made the bravest and the best
The
bondsmen
of their high behest,
Their underlings;
What was their prosperous estate,
When high exalted and elate
With power and pride?
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Longfellow |
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The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of
northern
winds
Is sweetest nutriment to him,
His best Norwegian wines.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I want a Shakspeare; I want
likewise
an English dictionary--Johnson's,
I suppose, is best.
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Robert Burns |
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Even so I sit and howl in dust,
You sit in gold and sing: 30
Now which of us has
tenderer
heart?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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more
horrible
than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The birds of passage, which follow
ministerial sunshine through every clime of political faith and
manners, flocked to your branches; and the beasts of the field (the
lordly
possessors
of hills and valleys) crowded under your shade.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Come, sir, leave me your
snatches
and yield me a direct
answer.
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Shakespeare |
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Will bleat of flocks or
bellowing
of herds
Make up for the lost music, when your teams
Drag home the stingy harvest, and no more
The feathered gleaners follow to your door?
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Longfellow |
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dead even
then;
Months, years, an echoing,
garnished
house-but dead, dead, dead!
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Whitman |
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Golden Treasury |
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She hailed him there in his pride,
Home from the
perilous
years,
In the heart of his walled lands,
In the Giants' cloud-capt ring;
Herself, none other, laid
The hone to the axe's blade;
She lifted it in her hands,
The woman, and slew her king.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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Villon |
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"
The truth may be that he
contracted
his last illness as the result of
falling into the water while drunk.
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Li Po |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Li Po |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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XXI
Softly the first step of twilight
Falls on the
darkening
dial,
One by one kindle the lights
In Mitylene.
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Sappho |
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"
PINE
By John Russell McCarthy
You must have dreamed a little every year For fifty years: you must have been a child, Shy and diffident with the violets, School-girlish with the daisies, or perhaps
A youthful Indian with the hickory tree;
You must have been a lover with the beech, A wise young father walking with your sons Beneath the maple; then have battled long Grim and defiant with the oak : all these
You must have been for fifty
dreaming
years Before you may hold converse with the pine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thereon, of lordly work and no less fair,
Cushions
were laid, with jewels shining bright.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Comrades!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more priceless far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over
clustering
ivy-berries pale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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t,
&
Anticrist
to de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We build our houses on the sand
Comely
withoutside
and within; 20
But when the winds and rains begin
To beat on them, they cannot stand;
They perish, quickly overthrown,
Loose from the very basement stone.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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And of Henri IV:
Henrie the greate, great both in peace and war
Whom none could teach or imitate aright,
Findes peace above, from which he here was far;
A victor without
insolence
or spite,
A Prince that reigned, without a Favorite.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of becoming
involved
in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.
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T.S. Eliot |
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But thou, flee far and with unfaltering speed;
For they shall hunt thee through the
mainland
wide
Where'er throughout the tract of travelled earth
Thy foot may roam, and o'er and o'er the seas
And island homes of men.
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Aeschylus |
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And if I did so say,
The beauty that me bound
Increase
from day to day,
More cruel to my wound!
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Petrarch |
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Perhapshedidnotjest;
theysaysomesimpleshave
More wide-spanned power than old wives draw
from them.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Marvell - Poems |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then
vanished
to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Ambassadors from India GAMA sought,
And oaths of peace, for oaths of
friendship
brought;
The glorious tale, 'twas all he wish'd, to tell;
So Ilion's[542] fate was seal'd when Hector fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds
strange?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
"There, while they stood in a green wood
And marvelled still on Ill and Good,
Came
suddenly
Minister Mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
She does not heed thee,
wherefore
should she heed,
She knows Endymion is not far away;
'Tis I, 'tis I, whose soul is as the reed
Which has no message of its own to play,
So pipes another's bidding, it is I,
Drifting with every wind on the wide sea of misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath
funereal
ceilings afflicted by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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]
One day, the sombre soul, the Prophet most sublime
At Patmos who aye dreamed,
And
tremblingly
perused, without the vast of Time,
Words that with hell-fire gleamed,
Said to his eagle: "Bird, spread wings for loftiest flight--
Needs must I see His Face!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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There's one thing I'm in doubt about: in order to be Presidunt, 160
It's absolutely ne'ssary to be a Southern residunt;
The
Constitution
settles thet, an' also thet a feller
Must own a nigger o' some sort, jet black, or brown, or yeller.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Another point he handled very well,
Though oft'ner he'd thereon have liked to dwell,
And this the children of the present day,
So fully know, there's naught for me to say:
John to the senses things so clearly brought,
That much by wives and husbands he was sought,
Who held his knowledge of superior price,
And paid
attention
to his sage advice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Where is the breath of Poseidon,
Cool from the sea-floor with
evening?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Then, a couch we will provide you
Where no summer heats shall dazzle,
Strewing on you and beside you
Thyme and rosemary and basil,
And the yew-tree shall grow
overhead
to keep all safe and cool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Say the Saints--No deaths
decrease
us,
Where our rest is glorious.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The contemptible 'lady of spirit and woman of fashion' is one of
Jonson's
favorite
types.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[The Provost and Bailies
complied
at once with the modest request of
the poet: both Jackson and Staig, who were heads of the town by turns,
were men of taste and feeling.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
"--
"And dost thou
forgive?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
They are in league with the great Motherhood
Who brings the seasons forth in the open world;
And if to them She hands, unseen by us,
Their marvellous bringing forth of children, what
Spirit of Her great
dreadful
mountain-spell,
Wherein the rocks have purpose against us,
Sealed up in watchful quiet stone, may not
Pass on to their dark minds, that seem so mild,
Yet are so strange; or what charm'd word from out
Her forests whispering endless dangerous things,
Wherefrom our hunters often have run crazed
To hear the trees devising for their souls;
What secret share of Her earth's monstrous power
May She not also grant to women's lives?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Not liche to the
apostles
twelve,
They deceyve other and hem-selve;
Bigyled is the gyler than.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
We pass thru a door leading onto the ledge--
Wind, night and space
Oh
terrible
height
Why have we sought you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant personification in our age of the
"power of
servitude
in all nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The dream of loving thee and being loved
Hath been my life; yea, with it I have kept
My heart drugg'd in a long
delicious
night
Colour'd with candles of imagined sense,
And musical with dreamt desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Neath blood-red hands my young life
withered
there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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We cannot
overcome
destiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Fast,
stubborn
rock,
At thy fear'd trident shrinking, doth unlock
Its deep foundations, hissing into foam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Thus as to and fro they went,
Over upland and through hollow,
Giving their
impatience
vent,
Perched upon the Emperor's tent,
In her nest, they spied a swallow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
e sone his fader mette,
Wel
myldeliche
he him grette,
And bad him of his guode.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Which heaven planted us to please,
But, to exclude the world, did guard
With watery, if not flaming sword, —
What
luckless
apple did we taste,
To make us mortal, and thee waste ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The man, for her, of wealth had been bereft;
How ask the only
treasure
he had left?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
HILDA:
Deliciously!
| 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 |
|
Radiant life,
Face so fair--
Crowned with the
gracious
glory of wife--
Your glance lights all this happy day,
Your tender glow
And murmurs low
Make miracle, miracle, everywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
But now the wise
instructions
of the sage,
And manly thoughts inspired by manly age,
Teach me to seek redress for all my woe,
Here, or in Pyle--in Pyle, or here, your foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
When empires must be wound, we bring the shroud,
The time-old web of the
implacable
Three:
Is it too coarse for him, the young and proud?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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It had been
promised
to me, and already
I bought new clothing for my ragged babes, _305
And my wife smiled; and my heart knew repose.
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Are those
Twin tigers, who burst, when the waters arose, _40
In the agony of terror, their chains in the hold;
(What now makes them tame, is what then made them bold;)
Who crouch, side by side, and have driven, like a crank,
The deep grip of their claws through the
vibrating
plank
Are these all?
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{40c} Ten Brink points out the
strongly
heathen character of this
part of the epic.
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'Those trackless deeps, where many a weary sail
Has seen above the illimitable plain,
Morning on night, and night on morning rise, _90
Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread
Its shadowy mountains on the sun-bright sea,
Where the loud roarings of the tempest-waves
So long have mingled with the gusty wind
In melancholy loneliness, and swept _95
The desert of those ocean solitudes,
But vocal to the sea-bird's harrowing shriek,
The bellowing monster, and the rushing storm,
Now to the sweet and many-mingling sounds
Of
kindliest
human impulses respond.
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No doubt many of these Quatrains seem
unaccountable
unless mystically
interpreted; but many more as unaccountable unless literally.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets, --
Prodigal
of blue,
Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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' And then the two
men parted, with an angry flush and bitter hearts, and had I not cast
between them some common words or other, might not have parted, but
have fallen rather into an angry
discussion
of the value of their dead
sons.
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Yeats |
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Quae tamen aspectans
cedentem
maesta carinam
Multiplices animo volvebat saucia curas.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Our bastard
children
are but like to plate
Made by the coiners--illegitimate.
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Explicit
Liber Primus
BOOK II.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To us, the remnant of the host of Greece,
Comes weal beyond all counterpoise of woe;
Thus boast we
rightfully
to yonder sun,
Like him far-fleeted over sea and land.
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THE
UNIVERSAL
PRAYER.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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My heart was fill'd with wonder and amaze,
As one struck dumb, in silence stands at gaze
Expecting
counsel, when my friend drew near,
And said: "What do you look?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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