They wore
the cast-off graces of the gentry;--and this, I believe,
involves
the
best definition of the class.
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Poe - 5 |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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Imagists |
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Castilian literature will furnish us with another
parallel
case.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Soon as the foe the shining chiefs beheld
Rush like a fiery torrent o'er the field,
Their force
embodied
in a tide they pour;
The rising combat sounds along the shore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Say I: scarce
courteous
is he crowned,
The man who shall of Love despair.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
And here their wondering host hath interposed--
"Whate'er there be between you undisclosed,
This is no time nor fitting place to mar
The
mirthful
meeting with a wordy war.
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Byron |
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Yet, why go
thither?
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La Fontaine |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach, Prometheus by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced
eternally
to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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I never thought that Jason sought
For any golden fleece;
But then I am a rural man,
With
thoughts
that make for peace.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Semiriamis; _rest_
Semiramus
(_as in_ Leg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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Death is, then, to us
Much less--if there can be a less than that
Which is itself a nothing: for there comes
Hard upon death a
scattering
more great
Of the throng of matter, and no man wakes up
On whom once falls the icy pause of life.
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Lucretius |
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ere hij
schullen
it fynde.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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As for the lass, lascivious body,
She's had
mischief
enough already,
Weel stang'd by market, mill, and smiddie,
She's suffer'd sair;
But may she wintle in a widdie,
If she wh--re mair.
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Robert Burns |
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PETER'S IN THE
DISTANCE
66
12.
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Petrarch |
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Good morrow,
neighbor
Corey.
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Longfellow |
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He wished at
first to live within the walls of the monastery, and the Carthusians
made him welcome to do so; but he could not dispense with
servants
and
horses, and he feared that the drunkenness of the former might trouble
the silence of the sacred retreat.
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Petrarch |
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But when we turn to William of Malmesbury, we
find that Hume, in his eagerness to relate these
pleasant
fables,
has overlooked one very important circumstance.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The dead hand slipped, the dead finger dipped
In the broth as the dead man slipped,--
That same instant, a rosy red
Flushed the steam, and
quivered
and clipped
Round the dead old head.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Knight and Una
are
conducted
with great honors into the palace.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[47]
Sometimes
he is even a virtuous character.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tanto si da quanto trova d'ardore;
si che,
quantunque
carita si stende,
cresce sovr' essa l'etterno valore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[22]
Whoever was responsible for this
collection
of Donne's poems, it was
evidently made with care, at least as regards the canon.
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John Donne |
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During the night he awoke with a start; the moon shone into his chamber,
making
everything
plainly visible.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Darkness
deepens.
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Hugo - Poems |
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So should kinsmen be,
not weave one another the net of wiles,
or with deep-hid treachery death contrive
for
neighbor
and comrade.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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There will be no chance of
dressing
properly
out yonder.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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However, if you provide access to or
distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the
official
version
posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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To blame him useless 'twere you must allow;
The French such
frolicks
readily avow.
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La Fontaine |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Ay, and Zeus,
Precipitated thus, shall learn at length
The
difference
betwixt rule and servitude.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Its
sway has been wider than that of Rome itself: and the Genius that broods
over the
Capitoline
Hill might with some show of justice still claim, as
his gaze sweeps over the immense field of modern poetry, that he beholds
nothing which does not owe allegiance to Rome:
Iupiter arce sua totum cum spectat in orbem,
nil nisi Romanum quod tueatur habet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then I will dream of blue horizons deep;
Of gardens where the marble fountains weep;
Of kisses, and of ever-singing birds--
A sinless Idyll built of
innocent
words.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"
Everyone hastened, gulled by the dissolute boy, who feigning
Earnest, had
summoned
them all (Fame by no means lagged behind).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs
laughing
by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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blake-poems |
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Now, Christ be
thanked!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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new collection verse
WHITE FOUNTAINS
A BOOK OF VERSE
Published on February 2 1 st by Small,
MaynarrJ
& Company, 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Towards
Vespasian
I have from the beginning shown
respect.
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Tacitus |
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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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GHOST
In dreams ye chase a prey, and like some hound,
That even in sleep doth ply his
woodland
toil,
Ye bell and bay.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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65
The thundering tube the aged angler hears,
And swells the
groaning
torrent with his tears.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The lettres eek, that she of olde tyme 470
Hadde him y-sent, he wolde allone rede,
An hundred sythe, a-twixen noon and pryme;
Refiguringe
hir shap, hir womanhede,
With-inne his herte, and every word and dede
That passed was, and thus he droof to an ende 475
The ferthe day, and seyde, he wolde wende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Therein I
treasure
the spice and scent
Of rich and passionate memories blent
Like odours of cinnamon, sandal and clove,
Of song and sorrow and life and love.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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If, howsoever, I were doomed to find
Such lines as fully would content the mind:
Though I should fail in matter, still in art;
I might
contrive
some pleasure to impart.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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This
discipline
shows thou hast been in love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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C'est que la voix des mers, comme un immense rale,
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau
cavalier
pale,
Un pauvre fou s'assit, muet, a tes genoux!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I never saw your
Highness
moved till now.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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XXX
Love shakes my soul, like a mountain wind
Falling upon the trees,
When they are swayed and
whitened
and bowed
As the great gusts will.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Much use for years
Had
gradually
worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and struggled in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He, the brilliant causeur, the chief blaguer of a circle
in which young James McNeill
Whistler
was reduced to the role of a
listener--this most spiritual among artists, found himself a failure in
the Belgian capital.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Not to a boy,
Insanely
boiling, captured by my beauty--
But to the heir of Moscow's throne give I
My hand in solemn wise, to the tsarevich
Rescued by destiny.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder's Green;
Where are the eagles and the
trumpets?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Each at the Head
Level'd his deadly aime; thir fatall hands
No second stroke intend, and such a frown
Each cast at th' other, as when two black Clouds
With Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come rattling on
Over the Caspian, then stand front to front
Hov'ring a space, till Winds the signal blow
To joyn thir dark
Encounter
in mid air:
So frownd the mighty Combatants, that Hell
Grew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood; 720
For never but once more was either like
To meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
Had been achiev'd, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the Snakie Sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
Ris'n, and with hideous outcry rush'd between.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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To such the gentle murmurs of the main
Seem to re-echo all they mourn in vain;
To such the
gladness
of the gamesome crowd
Is source of wayward thought and stern disdain:
How do they loathe the laughter idly loud,
And long to change the robe of revel for the shroud!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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wherefore
bend thine eye
Back on the time that never shall return?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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nec
contemne
tuas quasi paruo in corpore uires;
quod ualet, immensum est.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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& his hHorse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
Afar off, Rushing back,
reddning
with rage the [[Eternal]] Mighty Father
Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
Of war.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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" I agree
with De Sade in conjecturing that Laura in
receiving
some of his verses
had touched the hand that presented them, in token of her gratitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Rude
representations
of warriors show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Perhaps, ere dying thus,
She looked up in his face (which never stirred
From its
clenched
anguish) as to make excuse
For leaving him for his, if so she erred.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Accursed
be this blood that flows so fast;
For double curses will be my meed now
At home--What home?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Too long shut in strait and few,
Thinly dieted on dew,
I will use the world, and sift it,
To a
thousand
humors shift it,
As you spin a cherry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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'tis impertinence _290
To write what none will read, therefore will I
To please the young and
thoughtless
people try.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Don't think that Hercules be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His
adulation
of me makes him now god upon earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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ant_, and _Godwit_, here in
_London_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Am a poor,
ignorant
child, don't see
What he can possibly find in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Not being able to refute my arguments, you chatter at random and
exert
yourself
to no purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then, quietly
to
himself_)
Lucky Bolanus, with your hot temper!
| 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 |
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And deemest thou as those who pore,
With aged eyes, short way before,--
Think'st Beauty
vanished
from the coast
Of matter, and thy darling lost?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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ON A BOX
CONTAINING
HIS OWN WORKS
I break up cypress and make a book-box;
The box well-made,--and the cypress-wood tough.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Jetzt, da der Himmel voller Sterne gluht,
Sollt Ihr ein wahres Kunststuck horen:
Ich sing ihr ein
moralisch
Lied,
Um sie gewisser zu betoren.
| Guess: |
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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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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THREE
MEMORIAL
POEMS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I call him bankrupt in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter
do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But for time to come the sea gulf,
Clearly know, will be called Ionian,
Memorial
of thy passage to all mortals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And yet there hides
No sorrowful
repentance
here, but mirth,
Not for the fault (that doth not come to mind),
But for the virtue, whose o'erruling sway
And providence have wrought thus quaintly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Les
richesses
jaillissant a chaque demarche!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Beautiful
Eyes that gleam with mystic light
As candles lighted at full noon; the sun
Dims not your flame phantastical and bright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
net
ROBERT HERRICK
THE
HESPERIDES
& NOBLE
NUMBERS: EDITED BY
ALFRED POLLARD
WITH A PREFACE BY
A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Royalty
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Wilde - Poems |
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II
De sa
fourrure
blonde et brune
Sort un parfum si doux, qu'un soir
J'en fus embaume, pour l'avoir
Caressee une fois, rien qu'une.
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And then, maybe, if you have dreamed enough, If there are strange old terrors in your eyes
And wild new fancies singing prophecies,
You may bring tribute to the king of dreams; And -he will read your eyes' weird
mysteries
And give you stranger terrors of your own, And chant you wilder fancies — 'til you know The vague old magic of the haunted wood.
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]: and the oddness of their notions as to the line of his images' life that pleasd the God and Father of men, is always in|structive, specially when set beside many of the popular ideas on this and like
subjects
now.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This dear child
of mine has often heard me telling
glorious
stories of all the famous
things you have done for the king and the people.
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Lest you be
the
martyred
slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without
cease!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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proposes _quiet sea_ as trans, of
sioleða
bigong, and compares
Goth.
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Lear's works to
have been the
prevalent
characteristics of the inhabitants of
Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry treasure in my mouth,
As an
elephant
his ivory.
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Appoloinaire |
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