650
To
disentangle
that confusing problem, too
My sister would have handed you the fatal clew.
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Nescioquid
certest: an vere fama susurrat 5
Grandia te medii tenta vorare viri?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in
separate
drawers,
Until their time befalls.
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ome
_Ladies_
when they meete 35
Cannot be merry, and laugh, but they doe ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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`And yet this is a wonder most of alle, 1100
Why thou thus sorwest, sin thou nost not yit,
Touching hir goinge, how that it shal falle,
Ne if she can hir-self
distorben
it.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So these survivors, each by
different
ways,
Some strange, all sudden, none dishonourable, _400
Met in triumphant death; and when our army
Closed in, while yet wonder, and awe, and shame
Held back the base hyaenas of the battle
That feed upon the dead and fly the living,
One rose out of the chaos of the slain: _405
And if it were a corpse which some dread spirit
Of the old saviours of the land we rule
Had lifted in its anger, wandering by;--
Or if there burned within the dying man
Unquenchable disdain of death, and faith _410
Creating what it feigned;--I cannot tell--
But he cried, 'Phantoms of the free, we come!
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Shelley |
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The
Boscombe
manuscript--evidently a first draft--from which
(through Dr.
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Shelley |
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It must not be forgotten that
Coleridge
is never fantastic.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Note: Fulk is
Foulques
V of Anjou (its capital Angers) also known as Foulques the Younger, Count of Anjou 1109-1129, and King of Jerusalem from 1131 to his death in 1143.
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Troubador Verse |
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and let them lie
Folded upon thy narrow shelves,
As garments by the soul laid by,
And precious only to
ourselves!
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Longfellow |
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sinews & flesh Exalt thyself attain a voice
Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together
To
desolate
their cities!
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the wall,
While the best, loveliest of them all
I have with me until the dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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LXII
And after that is come duke Neimes furth,
(Better vassal there was not upon earth)
Says to the King: "Right well now have you heard
The count Rollanz to bitter wrath is stirred,
For that on him the
rereward
is conferred;
No baron else have you, would do that work.
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Chanson de Roland |
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270
XXXI
All in a kirtle of discolourd say
He clothed was, ypainted full of eyes;
And in his bosome secretly there lay
An
hatefull
Snake, the which his taile uptyes
In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Who knowes if
Donalbane
be with his brother?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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' On this subject we had long and
frequent
disputes,
always seasoned with pleasantry.
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Petrarch |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet the admission is made with a smile,
and more than one
suggestion
is allowed to float across the scene that in
real life such conduct would be hardly wise.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It
comes
naturally
and inevitably out of man.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have not now at least one
battlemented
tower.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Cold, alter'd friendship's cruel part,
To poison Fortune's
ruthless
dart--
Let me not break thy faithful heart,
And say that fate is mine, Love.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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IV
The diver at Sorrento from beneath
The vitreous indigo, who swiftly riseth,
By will and not by action as it seemeth,
Moves not more smoothly, and no thought sur-
miseth
How she takes motion from the lustrous sheath
Which, as the trace behind the swimmer, gleameth Yet
presseth
back the aether where it streameth.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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From thieving light of eyes impure,
From
coveting
sun or wind's caress,
Her days are guarded and secure
Behind her carven lattices,
Like jewels in a turbaned crest,
Like secrets in a lover's breast.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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How dreary to be
somebody!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" replied, with a sigh,
"I
informed
you the day we embarked.
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Lewis Carroll |
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]
++What
discordable
cause ha?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Laud 740, in the
Bodleian
Library; Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Slombrestow
as in a lytargye?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'
He spoke, he turned, then,
flinging
round her neck,
Claspt it, and cried, 'Thine Order, O my Queen!
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Tennyson |
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'Twas granted him not
that ever the edge of iron at all
could help him at strife: too strong was his hand,
so the tale is told, and he tried too far
with
strength
of stroke all swords he wielded,
though sturdy their steel: they steaded him nought.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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LIFE IS THE BODY'S LIGHT
Life is the body's light; which, once declining,
Those crimson clouds i' th' cheeks and lips leave shining:-
Those counter-changed tabbies in the air,
The sun once set, all of one colour are:
So, when death comes, fresh tinctures lose their place,
And dismal
darkness
then doth smutch the face.
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Robert Herrick |
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Petrarch
speaks with high praise of those poets in his
Triumphs
of Love.
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Petrarch |
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[This letter was first
published
in the Edinburgh Chronicle.
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Robert Burns |
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Should we within the palace, we alone,
Assail them all, I fear lest thy revenge
Unpleasant to thyself and deadly prove,
Frustrating
thy return.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There on a fir, whose spiry
branches
rise
To join its summit to the neighbouring skies;
Dark in embowering shade, conceal'd from sight,
Sat Sleep, in likeness of the bird of night.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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To be sure
Together we have
wandered
o'er
The world enough.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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My only
visitor!
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Keats |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
|
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Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of
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Stephen Crane |
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Hailie the bordeleire, who lyves to reste,
Ne ys att nyghtys
flemynge
hue dysmayde;
The starres doe scantillie[110] the sable brayde; 1010
Wyde ys the sylver lemes of comforte wove;
Speke, Celmonde, does ytte make thee notte afrayde?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A wooden block for hats or wigs;
hence, a
blockish
or stupid head.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy,
He soon grows fond of
unconditioned
rest;
And therefore such a comrade suits him best,
Who spurs and works, true devil, always busy.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For it's a certainty,
Although
I never knew it till last night,
That marriage, because it is the height of life,
Can only be accomplished to the full
In the high days of the year.
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Yeats |
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He did not commence writing till an
advanced
age.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Lord of Sweden hath by envoys tendered
Alliance
to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--
My
Daughter
does not know how weak I am;
And, as thou see'st, under the arch of heaven
Here do I stand, alone, to helplessness,
By the good God, our common Father, doomed!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
|
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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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_) Is that your
grievance
against them?
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Aristophanes |
|
[266]
Nor long her blood for
vengeance
cried in vain:
Her gallant lord begins his awful reign,
In vain her murd'rers for refuge fly,
Spain's wildest hills no place of rest supply.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Though that thou slepe, we may here
Of
Ielousie
gret noyse here.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The gorger or wimple is stated first to have appeared in Edward the
First's reign, and an example is found on the
monument
of Aveline,
Countess of Lancaster, who died in 1269.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep
thoughts
are a duty--
Where Love's a grown up God--
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Be not too
familiar
with Poins; for he misuses thy
favours so much that he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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How shall I behold the face
Henceforth
of God or Angel, erst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld?
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
"
And at night by the light of the Mulberry moon
They danced to the Flute of the Blue Baboon,
On the broad green leaves of the
Crumpetty
Tree,
And all were as happy as happy could be,
With the Quangle Wangle Quee.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
XXIII
More than a hundred fathom buried so,
Where hidden it had lain a mighty space,
The
infernal
tool by magic from below
Was fished and born amid the German race;
Who, by one proof and the other, taught to know
Its powers, and he who plots for our disgrace,
The demon, working on their weaker wit,
As last upon its fatal purpose hit.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Now fall the chill
reactionary
snows
Of man's defect, and every wind that blows
Keeps back the Spring of Freedom's perfect Rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Sanche
That a spirit accustomed to great action
Cannot bow readily in submission:
It cannot see what
justifies
such shame:
The word alone the Count resists, I say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Alle these thinges, wel avysed, 475
As I have you er this devysed,
With gold and asure over alle
Depeynted
were upon the walle.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Bourget
classified
him as
mystic, libertine, and analyst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
U nevre
arvyepihf^
nevr* *Ai6ao nvXai !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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What need hath Nature of
silver dishes, multitudes of waiters,
delicate
pages, perfumed napkins?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
XXVI
In my young days of wild delight
On balls I madly used to dote,
Fond
declarations
they invite
Or the delivery of a note.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
"
The clock is on the stroke of twelve,
And Johnny is not yet in sight:
--The Moon's in heaven, as Betty sees,
But Betty is not quite at ease; 155
And Susan has a
dreadful
night.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And
where the dew lies on the primrose, the violet and whitethorn leaves
they are emerald and beryl, yet nothing more than the dews of the
morning on the budding leaves; nay, the road grasses are covered with
gold and silver beads, and the further we go the
brighter
they seem to
shine, like solid gold and silver.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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For wher-so men had pleyd or waked,
Me thoghte the
felawship
as naked
Withouten hir, that saw I ones,
As a coroune withoute stones.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sometimes indeed, when for an hour or two my spirits are a
little lightened, I _glimmer_ a little into futurity; but my principal
and indeed my only
pleasurable
employment is looking backwards and
forwards in a moral and religious way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
God is not only
merciful
to call
Men to repent, but when He strikes withal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
CARL SANDBURG
AND SO TO-DAY
And so to-day--they lay him away--
the boy nobody knows the name of--
the buck private--the unknown soldier--
the
doughboy
who dug under and died
when they told him to--that's him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Diaphenia
like the daffadowndilly
Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Most of these Drawings and Rhymes were transferred to lithographic stones
in the year 1846, and were then first
published
by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
, _massacre through cunning,
murderous
attack_: acc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is
sometimes
caught
Without her diadem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
thou leadest me to summer clime,
And I must taste the
blossoms
that unfold
In its ripe warmth this gracious morning time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Curious persons
had
intercepted
their letters to each other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Tchaplitzky,
who died in poverty after having squandered millions, lost at one time,
at play, nearly three hundred
thousand
rubles.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How bright shine the cutlasses of the
foremost
troops!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
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I have a bum-bailiff in the
bedclothes
biting me.
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Aristophanes |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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blake-poems |
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_We are often made to feel, with a
shivering
delight,
that from an earthly harp are stricken notes which _cannot _have been
unfamiliar to the angels.
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Poe - 5 |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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shall I win from thee
Not promise only, but
performance
kind
Of my request?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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We
understand
then do we not?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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