The
threadbare
trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" In translating the German "Werdende"
(literally, the _becoming, developing_, or _growing_) by the term _word_,
I mean the _word_ in the largest sense: "In the
beginning
was the Word,
&c.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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Wilde - Poems |
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- Welch erbarmlich Grauen
Fasst
Ubermenschen
dich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Where the
resounding
power of water shakes 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open
darkness
which then drew us in,
The dark that swallows all, and nought throws up.
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Imagists |
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As when a Gryfon through the Wilderness
With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale,
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stelth
Had from his wakeful custody purloind
The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend
Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,
And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes: 950
At length a universal hubbub wilde
Of
stunning
sounds and voices all confus'd
Born through the hollow dark assaults his eare
With loudest vehemence: thither he plyes,
Undaunted to meet there what ever power
Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss
Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask
Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes
Bordering on light; when strait behold the Throne
Of Chaos, and his dark Pavilion spread 960
Wide on the wasteful Deep; with him Enthron'd
Sat Sable-vested Night, eldest of things,
The consort of his Reign; and by them stood
Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name
Of Demogorgon; Rumor next and Chance,
And Tumult and Confusion all imbroild,
And Discord with a thousand various mouths.
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Milton |
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On this
wondrous
sea,
Sailing silently,
Ho!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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LXXXI
Hark, love, to the tambourines
Of the minstrels in the street,
And one voice that throbs and soars
Clear above the
clashing
time!
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Sappho |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The
sentence
was cut by a roar of laughter from Boulte's lips.
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Kipling - Poems |
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DAKRY:
In a crisis
Of such
exceeding
delicacy, I think
We ought to put her Majesty, the QUEEN, _70
Upon her trial without delay.
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Shelley |
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Can there be anything so important as to cry out that what we
call romance, poetry,
intellectual
beauty, is the only signal that the
supreme Enchanter, or some one in His councils, is speaking of what has
been, and shall be again, in the consummation of time?
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Yeats |
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And the ancient Mariner
beholdeth
his native country.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron,
Michigan!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet she wrote verses in great
abundance; and though brought curiously
indifferent
to all
conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own,
and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own
tenacious fastidiousness.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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The last proof
reaches me just a year after the first, and the
progress
of the work has
not in the interval been interrupted.
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Milton |
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His majesty in great
wrath swore he would give all he was worth to have the
offender
killed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Riley
considered Reggie a wild, feather-headed idiot, given to Heaven only
knew what dissipation in low places called "Messes," and totally unfit
for the serious and solemn
vocation
of banking.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In 'The World's Classics' the contents of these two books, together
with other poems, were first
published
in one volume in 1913.
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Christina Rossetti |
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(Puritans like
Xenophanes
were
annoyed not with the gods for being as Homer described them, but with
Homer for describing them as he did.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Three times shall a young foot-page
Swim the stream and climb the mountain
And kneel down beside my feet--
'Lo, my master sends this gage,
Lady, for thy pity's
counting!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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E da questa
credenza
ci convene
silogizzar, sanz' avere altra vista:
pero intenza d'argomento tene>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Tacitus |
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But Thou, Lord, giv'st us men our clay
In
helpless
bondage thus
To Time and Chance, and seem'st straightway
To think no more of us!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But the breezes shred all asunder and give them
unaccomplished
to the
clouds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O
murtherous
slumber,
Layest thou thy leaden mace upon my boy
That plays thee music?
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Shakespeare |
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[Footnote: The character of Heracles in connexion with the Komos, already
indicated by Wilamowitz and
Dieterich
(_Herakles_, pp.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea
With news about the Future scent the sea:
My brain is beating like the heart of Haste:
I'll loose me a bird upon this Present waste;
Go,
trembling
song,
And stay not long; oh, stay not long:
Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove,
But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Duke
Williams
menne, of comeing dethe afraide,
All nyghte to the great Godde for succour askd and praied.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He took an
important
part in the taking of Worms, 4th October; of
Mayence (Maenz) 21st October.
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William Wordsworth |
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But there was an earlier Latin literature, a literature truly
Latin, which has wholly perished, which had, indeed almost wholly
perished long before those whom we are in the habit of regarding
as the
greatest
Latin writers were born.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You Thibet trader on the wide inland or
bargaining
in the shops of Lassa!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Have you so little knowledge of his heart's
reality?
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Die Glocke ruft, das
Stabchen
bricht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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let him seize
Pure
pleasure
while he can; the scorching ray
Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease:
Then let his length the loitering pilgrim lay,
And gaze, untired, the morn, the noon, the eve away.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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, Walt Whitman
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, James Russell Lowell
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, Francis Miles Finch
AT THE
FARRAGUT
STATUE, Robert Bridges
GRANT, H.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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So
threaten
not, thou, with thy bloody spears,
Else thy sublime ears shall hear curses.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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And after hours of
contention
they
parted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'
'What is the
doctrine?
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Yeats |
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Believe me, dearest Father--such you are-- _500
This driving of the herds is none of mine;
Across my
threshold
did I wander ne'er,
So may I thrive!
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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The success of the
Rehearsal
was instant and
signal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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So whilst our infant loves did grow,
Disguises
did, and shadowes, flow, 10
From us, and our cares; but, now 'tis not so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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10
Betray kind husband thy spouse to our sights,
And let myne amorous soule court thy mild Dove,
Who is most trew, and
pleasing
to thee, then
When she'is embrac'd and open to most men.
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John Donne |
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_
HE
COMPARES
HIMSELF TO A MOTH.
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Petrarch |
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The
principal duties of this office seem to have consisted in being
sent on errands, handing the lady to her coach, and preceding her
on any
occasion
where ceremony was demanded.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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I pray you first to make the difficult choice;
Will you the
necklace
wear of pearls, or else
The emerald half-moon?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Yes, there's
something
the dead are keeping back.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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5
Yet even the high gods at times do err;
Be therefore thou not
overcome
with woe,
But dedicate anew to greater love
An equal heart, and be thy radiant self
Once more, Gorgo.
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Sappho |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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agite ite ad alta, Gallae, Cybeles nemora simul,
simul ite, Dindimenae dominae uaga pecora,
aliena quae petentes uelut exules loca,
sectam meam exsecutae duce me mihi comites, 15
rapidum salum
tulistis
truculentaque pelagi,
et corpus euirastis Veneris nimio odio;
hilarate aere citatis erroribus animum.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
| Guess: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Steel did the labour of the gods destroy,
And strike to dust th'
aspiring
tow'rs of Troy;
Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,
And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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"
The Ear listened, and after listening
intently
awhile, said, "But
where is any mountain?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_O bella man, che mi
distringi
'l core.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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[These
sarcastic
lines contain a too true picture of the times in
which they were written.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Bring the rathe
Primrose
that forsaken dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Never, please God His Angels and His Saints,
Never by me shall
Frankish
valour fail!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Bro: O brother, 'tis my father
Shepherd
sure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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s _R_; LXI 16 iunia
_GOR_, uinia _uel_ iu(l)lia _reliqui_; 146 ni _GOR_, ne _plerique_;
LXIV 227
obscurata
_GO_, obscura?
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
Chalmers
was a
writer in Ayr.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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During the great
Licinian
contest the Plebeian poets were,
doubtless, not silent.
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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There is
some
villainy
at work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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] {and} refuseth alle
deuysyou{n}
/ ne I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Licinius Crassus Frugi
was accused of treason to Nero by
Aquilius
Regulus, an
informer, whom one of Pliny's friends calls 'the vilest of
bipeds'.
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Tacitus |
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One keeps the heart-bred villain full in sight,
The other cants and acts the hypocrite,
Smoothing the deed where law sharks set their gin
Like a coy dog to draw
misfortune
in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Beauties
in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Thou wilt, in part, thyself
Fit speech devise, and heav'n will give the rest;
For thou wast neither born, nor hast been train'd
To manhood, under
unpropitious
Pow'rs.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Why then
tomorrow
night, or Tuesday morn,
On Tuesday noon, or night, on Wednesday morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting
anything
in its bite
Unless your princely lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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_John Finley_
CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES
["I have once more to remark upon the devotion to duty, courage, and
contempt of danger which has characterized the work of the Chaplains of
the Army
throughout
this campaign.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ay, there some dropples
moistened
on my face,
And pattered on my hat--tis coming nigh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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What profits
loathing
ere ye know?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Hardy, Masefield, Binyon, Newbolt,
Watson, Rupert Brooke, and the two young soldiers--the one English, the
other American--who have lately lost their lives while on active
service: Captain Charles
Hamilton
Sorley, who was killed at Hulluch,
October 18, 1915; and Alan Seeger, who fell, mortally wounded, during
the charge on Belloy-en-Santerre, July 4, 1916.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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So we cannot say that Homer was not as deliberate a
craftsman
in words
as Milton himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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what
is the
diversion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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The porch of the house is meant, and the
allusions are to the ceremonies at the
threshold
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet they abstain'd not, and a dreadful fate
Due to their
wickedness
have, therefore, found.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Paul Verlaine
'Paul Verlaine'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p248, 1896)
Internet
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The piano kissed.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This book
contains
much just and brilliant
writing.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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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
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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)[34] Going
round mountains and
skirting
lakes was as nothing to them.
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Li Po |
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The summer trees have clad
themselves
in shade;
The autumn "lan"[51] already houses the dew.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Yea, and paid me richly for the
practice
of it.
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Shakespeare |
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