Thus the
herdsman coming home in the twilight at one day's close might meet and
hail the shepherd who was
starting
betimes for the next day's work.
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Mid acorn-laden oaks
Would they refresh their bodies for the nonce;
And the wild berries of the arbute-tree,
Which now thou seest to ripen purple-red
In winter time, the old telluric soil
Would bear then more
abundant
and more big.
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glytered
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Herself the chest prepares; in order roll'd
The robes, the vests are ranged, and heaps of gold
And adding a rich dress inwrought with art,
A gift
expressive
of her bounteous heart.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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Come color dinanzi vider rotta
la luce in terra dal mio destro canto,
si che l'ombra era da me a la grotta,
restaro, e trasser se in dietro alquanto,
e tutti li altri che venieno appresso,
non
sappiendo
'l perche, fenno altrettanto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But you'll have
no great cause to be proud of your
insolence!
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Aristophanes |
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Everything
else
I'll keep.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Happy old man, who 'mid familiar streams
And
hallowed
springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And when Pope had once done a good piece of
work, he had all an artist's
reluctance
to destroy it.
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Alexander Pope |
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Of
excising
our cups, and taxing our smoke.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_Prototypes of the leading Characters_
The position of the leading
characters
has already been indicated.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If it doesn't merit any change of course,
We'll leave: and
whatever
the cost to us may be, 735
We'll yet place the sceptre in hands more worthy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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--2)
associated with general
infinitives
of motion and aim: imper.
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Beowulf |
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Like tears upon the palfreys' muzzles were
The hard reflections of the metal there;
From out these spectres, ages past exhumed,
And as their shadows on the roof-beams loomed,
Cast by the trembling light, each figure wan
Seemed growing, and a monstrous shape to don,
So that the double range of horrors made
The darkened zenith clouds of
blackest
shade,
That shaped themselves to profiles terrible.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When you have reached the borders of your quest,
Homesick at last, by many a devious way,
Winding the
wonderlands
circuitous,
By foot and horse will trace the long way back!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Historical
Essay concerning Witchcraft.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Here one black, mute midsummer night I sat,
Lonely, but musing on thee,
wondering
where,
Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing,
And once or twice I spake thy name aloud.
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Tennyson |
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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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At least, when summer's flame burns low
And on our heads the
drifting
snow
Settles and stays,
We shall rejoice that in our earlier days
We boldly then
Struck hands, young men!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Consuls for the following year were,
Tiberius
the third time,
Germanicus the second.
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Tacitus |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Speak nothing more; through you I am dismayed:
What I owed you, I've
generously
paid.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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e erly & late; 495
And tou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
treasured
dreams of times long past,
We'll keep them, winsome Marrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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Wilde - Poems |
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But whanne he hadde a space fro his care, 505
Thus to him-self ful ofte he gan to pleyne;
He sayde, `O fool, now art thou in the snare,
That whilom Iapedest at loves peyne;
Now artow hent, now gnaw thyn owene cheyne;
Thou were ay wont eche lovere
reprehende
510
Of thing fro which thou canst thee nat defende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The day returns, my bosom burns,
The
blissful
day we twa did meet:
Tho' winter wild in tempest toil'd,
Ne'er summer-sun was half sae sweet.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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and proud submission,
Still dreading death, when she had marked long,
Her hart gan melt in great compassion,
And
drizling
teares did shed for pure affection.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
80
A wond'rous Bag with both her hands she binds,
Like that where once Ulysses held the winds;
There she
collects
the force of female lungs,
Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues.
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Alexander Pope |
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I procured
a stiff piece of whalebone, thrust it down the throat of the corpse,
and deposited the latter in an old wine box-taking care so to double
the body up as to double the
whalebone
with it.
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Poe - 5 |
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When the living leave us, moved, I gaze,
For to enter death, is
entering
the temple;
And when a man dies, and goes his way,
I see my own ascent, clear, like crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
Would God and Nature to the world have shown
Such virtue in a young and gentle breast,
Were not eternal rest
The
appointed
guerdon of a life so fair?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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associated
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Imagists |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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From Fiffe, great King,
Where the
Norweyan
Banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He gave what are really
excellent
titles,
but he does not tell us that they are his own!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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MY DEAR THOMSON,
You cannot have any idea of the
predicament
in which I write to you.
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Robert Forst |
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Now even had his
authorities
been
well informed, which they were not by any means, and had Chatterton
never misread or misunderstood them, which he very frequently did, it
was impossible that his work should have been anything better than
a mosaic of curious old words of every period and any dialect.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I give thee, sir, the gold-hemmed girdle as a token of thy
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Lives there a man so dead to fame, who dares
To think such meanness, or the thought
declares?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Pergama cum
caderent
bello superata bilustri,
ex tot in Atrides pars quota laudis erat?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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each charm above
Was veil'd from sight in an
unfriendly
cloud:
Stung by a lurking snake, as flowers that pine
Her head she gently bow'd,
And joyful pass'd on high, perchance secure:
Alas!
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Petrarch |
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Though they sleep or wake to torment
and wish to
displace
our old cells--
thin rare gold--
that their larve grow fat--
is our task the less sweet?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But like a giant wading in the sea
Stands in the rapture, and
refusing
it,
And looking upward out of it to find
Who knows what sign?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This humble praise,
lamented
shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
And we hold the land: in all
their
thousands
the nations of Italy are under arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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' Jonson ridicules the use of the
word in similar fashion in the Masque of _Mercury
Vindicated
from
the Alchemists_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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II
A thing all
consequence
here takes the lead,
Reigning knight-errant oer this dirty breed--
A bailiff he, and who so great to brag
Of law and all its terrors as Bumtagg;
Fawning a puppy at his master's side
And frowning like a wolf on all beside;
Who fattens best where sorrow worst appears
And feeds on sad misfortune's bitterest tears?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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gegongen
þæt, _had attained it, that_
.
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Beowulf |
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Up, gird thee now to the steep Isthmian way,
Seeking Athena's blessed rock; one day,
Thy doom of blood
fulfilled
and this long stress
Of penance past, thou shalt have happiness.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Wilde - Poems |
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_70
When trees look green, full well the
gardener
knows
That fruits and blooms will deck the coming year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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"
He found him in a little
moonlight
room,
Pale, lattic'd, chill, and silent as a tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
In the sonnet,
belonging
to the year 1807,
beginning:
"Beloved Vale!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Appoloinaire |
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Scorn & Indignation rose upon Enitharmon
Then Enitharmon reddning fierce stretchd her
immortal
hands *
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I
prophetic
see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the sentence deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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blake-poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And fires, stackt hugely high with timber, shall
With nightlong blaze make
friendly
the dark and cold,
Cheer our bodies, and roast great feasts of flesh,--
Ah, to burn trunks of trees, not bracken and ling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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 |
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_
THINKING ALWAYS OF LAURA, IT PAINS HIM TO
REMEMBER
WHERE SHE IS LEFT.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
It descended
tremblingly
from their temples and ribs.
| 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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"Why," said she, "do you want to go to
Petersburg?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Where fifty voices in one strand did twist
Their
varicolored
tones, and left no want
To the delighted soul, which sank abyssed
In the warm music cloud, while, far below,
The organ heaved its surges to and fro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Hier ist das Fenster, hier die Ture,
Ein
Rauchfang
ist dir auch gewiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Even as you list invite your many guests;
But if, as now it seems, your vision rests
With any
pleasure
on me, do not bid 100
Old Apollonius--from him keep me hid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Meanwhile in the
heavenly
dwellings Latona's daughter addressed fleet
Opis, one of her maiden fellowship and sacred band, and sadly uttered
these accents: 'Camilla moves to fierce war, O maiden, and vainly girds
on our arms, dear as she is beyond others to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Were I a man among you, I would not stay
Behind the walls to weep this insolence;
I'ld take a sword in my hand and God in my mind,
And seek under the
friendship
of the night
That tent where Holofernes' crimes and hate
Sleep in his devilish brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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From windows in my father's house,
Dreaming
my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city's lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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It
would, on the contrary, have been strange if these things had not
come to pass; and we should be justified in pronouncing them
highly probable even if we had no direct
evidence
on the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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O leave them to their woes;
For thou art weak to sing such tumults dire:
A solitary sorrow best befits
Thy lips, and
antheming
a lonely grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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_ Who holds the helm of that
Necessity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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At first, the elf-like laughter of a
streamlet
roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which hastened onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till unobserved its sobbing echoes died.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',
And will, thy soul knows, is
admitted
there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A beggar dares thus address a
general!
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Aristophanes |
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The tribute to each
fragment
is the same
Service to all of Beauty--and her due.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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and
described
by all
With truth and goodness, as with crown and ball.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A PARABLE
Worn and
footsore
was the Prophet,
When he gained the holy hill;
'God has left the earth,' he murmured,
'Here his presence lingers still.
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James Russell Lowell |
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We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In
Midnight
by the Master of the Show;
LXIX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I love to see the cottage smoke
Curl upwards through the trees,
The pigeons nestled round the cote
On November days like these;
The cock upon the
dunghill
crowing,
The mill sails on the heath a-going.
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John Clare |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Illustration]
The Absolutely
Abstemious
Ass,
who resided in a Barrel, and only lived on
Soda Water and Pickled Cucumbers.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The bridal-songs and cradle-songs have
cadences
of sorrow,
The laughter of the sun to-day, the wind of death to-morrow.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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