Lov'st not good
company?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestination
round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The rest fell into a
disgraceful
panic and fled, but the pursuit was
not continued beyond Fidenae.
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Tacitus |
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Cupid sagaciously led past those
palazzos
so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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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.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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tte,
And she hym
graunted
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Her face is fair, her heart is true;
As
spotless
as she's bonie, O:
The op'ning gowan, wat wi' dew,
Nae purer is than Nanie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The church-bells tolled, the chant of monks drew near,
Loud trumpets stammered forth their notes of fear,
A line of torches smoked along the street,
There was a stir, a rush, a tramp of feet,
And, with its banners floating in the air,
Slowly the long procession crossed the square,
And, to the statues of the
Prophets
bound,
The victims stood, with fagots piled around.
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Longfellow |
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VI
1 stood on the hill of Yrma
when the winds were a-hurrying,
With the grasses a-bending
I
followed
them,
Through the brown grasses of Ahva unto the green of Asedon.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And when he raised it dripping once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only
disinterestedly
to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,
I see the
procession
of steamships, the Empress Engenie's leading the van,
I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level
sand in the distance,
I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
The gigantic dredging machines.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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As for me, I have found my _black tulip_
and my _blue
dahlia_!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
Centennial
Cantata.
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Sidney Lanier |
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As yet there is
evidently
nothing
serious.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And have deserved as much, Love knows,
As to be
canonized
'mongst those
Whose deeds and deaths here written are
Within your Greeny-kalendar.
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Robert Herrick |
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This breathing house not built with hands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,
O'er aery cliffs and
glittering
sands
How lightly then it flash'd along:
Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore,
On winding lakes and rivers wide,
That ask no aid of sail or oar,
That fear no spite of wind or tide!
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Golden Treasury |
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Horribly
beautiful!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Les
voyageurs n'ont pas a rendre leur
commission
de sitot!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
Following the taste of his times in landscape gardening, he adorned his
lawns with
artificial
mounds, a shell temple, an obelisk, and a
colonnade.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
A
thousand
voices called to me.
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Stephen Crane |
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Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot,
And thou, the Muses' seat, art now their grave,
Some gentle spirit still
pervades
the spot,
Sighs in the gale, keeps silence in the cave,
And glides with glassy foot o'er yon melodious wave.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Behold the king of simple life and plain,
Harry of England, sitting there alone:
He through his
branches
better issue spreads.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It may be also that the heavens do all
Remain at rest, whilst yet are borne along
The lucid constellations; either because
Swift tides of ether are by sky enclosed,
And whirl around, seeking a passage out,
And everywhere make roll the starry fires
Through the Summanian regions of the sky;
Or else because some air, streaming along
From an eternal quarter off beyond,
Whileth the driven fires, or, then, because
The fires
themselves
have power to creep along,
Going wherever their food invites and calls,
And feeding their flaming bodies everywhere
Throughout the sky.
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Lucretius |
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One sleeps, one groans and weeps in piteous plight,
Because her wild desire more fiercely glows;
And on her wearied eyes should slumber light,
All is
deceitful
that brief slumber shows.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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While close at hand the glow-worm lights her lamp
Or
twinkles
from afar.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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SALADIN: Ah, brave young man, I'm not
deceived
in thee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
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Meredith - Poems |
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La Fontaine |
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Which in expressing, we
ourselves
betray !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yet even this way of life is in their estimation happier than groaning over the plough; toiling in the
erection
of houses; subjecting their own fortunes and those of others to the agitations of alternate hope and fear.
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Tacitus |
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Il n'etait pas voute, mais casse, son echine
Faisant avec sa jambe un parfait angle droit,
Si bien que son baton, parachevant sa mine,
Lui donnait la tournure et le pas maladroit
D'un
quadrupede
infirme ou d'un juif a trois pattes.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Hurl'd on the
monstrous
shapes she bred,
Earth groans, and mourns her children thrust
To Orcus; Aetna's weight of lead
Keeps down the fire that breaks its crust;
Still sits the bird on Tityos' breast,
The warder of unlawful love;
Still suffers lewd Pirithous, prest
By massive chains no hand may move.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Of such (said he) I chiefly do inquere, 275
And shall you well reward to shew the place,
In which that wicked wight his dayes doth weare:
For to all
knighthood
it is foule disgrace,
That such a cursed creature lives so long a space.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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_Enter_ PHERES _with
followers
bearing robes and gifts_.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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They are
welcome guests here, as a matter of course, but it has been found best
to
restrain
their influence.
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Kipling - Poems |
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foly telle: 87
A wise man wolde
aschamed
be; ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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When the skies are sad and murky,
'Tis a cheerful thing to meet
Round this homely roast of turkey--
Pilgrims, pausing just to greet,
Then, with earnest grace, to eat
A new
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such offended silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you
remember?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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His robe, which spots indelible besmear,
In rags dishonest flutters with the air:
A stag's torn hide is lapp'd around his reins;
A rugged staff his
trembling
hand sustains;
And at his side a wretched scrip was hung,
Wide-patch'd, and knotted to a twisted thong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But the Sun, though not overcast, must set
And the night cometh; I am old in days,
And deeds, and contemplation, and have met
Destruction
face to face in all his ways.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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He
trembled
when he caught my eye,
And got behind a chair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Must he then only live to weep,
Who'd prove his
friendship
true and deep
By day a lonely shadow creep,
At night-time languish,
Oft raising in his broken sleep
The moan of anguish?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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I love thee--in thy sight
I stand transfigured,
glorified
aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed
Out of my face toward thine.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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at tyde,
& ofte
chaunged
his cher, ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Field
THE BEACH ROAD BY THE WOOD
I know a beach road,
A road where I would go,
It runs up northward
From Cooden Bay to Hoe;
And there, in the High Woods,
Daffodils
grow.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
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or PGLAF), owns a
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copyright in the collection of Project
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'
`Y-wis, myn uncle,' quod she, `grant mercy;
Your
freendship
have I founden ever yit; 240
I am to no man holden trewely,
So muche as yow, and have so litel quit;
And, with the grace of god, emforth my wit,
As in my gilt I shal you never offende;
And if I have er this, I wol amende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Onward he jolls, nor can the minstrel-throngs
Entice him once to listen to their songs;
Nor marks he once a blossom on his way;
A senseless lump of animated clay--
With weather-beaten hat of rusty brown,
Stranger to brinks, and often to a crown;
With slop-frock suiting to the ploughman's taste,
Its greasy skirtings twisted round his waist;
And hardened high-lows
clenched
with nails around,
Clamping defiance oer the stoney ground,
The deadly foes to many a blossomed sprout
That luckless meets him in his morning's rout.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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They always do with any poet
worthy of the name, though few have been so frank in
acknowledging
this
as Baudelaire.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A Roman citizen
afflicted
to see his country, which is by
right the mistress of the world, the slave of the vilest of men!
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Petrarch |
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By the happy breezes fanned
See her stand,--
Blushing like a living rose,
On her bosom
swelling
high
If a fly
Dare to seek a sweet repose.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Blurt out the love,
she has
suspicion
for, so?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He deems it sin to sing, yet not to say
A song--a mighty
difference
in his way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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5
LIBATION
By Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Yet, do not do so: for what then would I be
Other than an empty phantom after death,
Bodiless on that shore where love is surely less
(Pardon me Dis) than our idlest
fantasy?
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"Wait, Petr' Andrejitch," said she, "I am
changing
my dress.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Oh, more
profound
than the moving sea
That never has shown myself to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And why on
horseback
have you set
Him whom you love, your idiot boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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On snow and sand and turf, I see
Where Love has left a printed trace
With
straining
in the world's embrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Fingal saw
Clessammor
low; he moved in the sound of his steel.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite
contrary
I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The moment was
important
in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness
of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been
unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was
acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply in some degree
the deficiency.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I
do--for my words are naught but thy own
thoughts
in sound and my
deeds thy own hopes in action.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For lo,
henceforth
in Ares' court we stand,
Who judges not by witness but by war:
No pledge of silver now can bring the cause
To issue: ere this thing end, there must be
Corpse piled on corpse and many lives gasped forth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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e
giser of ticius is so
fulfilled
of his songe ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Housman's
poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and fragrant mental and
emotional temper,
vibrating
equally whether the theme dealt with is
ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and
ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
excitement
of the talk had died away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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O
sweetest
essence!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Gosse has said, in speaking of the edition of 1633: 'The
poems are thrown together without any attempt at
intelligent
order;
neither date, nor subject, nor relation is in the least regarded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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For now all scenes around her shift,
Like those before a racer's eyes
When, foremost sped and madly swift,
Quick stretching toward the goal he flies,
Yet feels his
strength
wane with his breath,
And purpose fail 'mid fears of death,--
Till, like the flashing of a lamp,
Starts forth the sight of Arnold's camp,--
The bivouac flame, and sinuous gleam
Of steel,--where, crouched, the army waits,
Ere long, beyond the midnight stream,
To storm Quebec's ice-mounded gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It's not time but we
ourselves
who pass,
And soon beneath the silent tomb we lie:
And after death there'll be no news, alas,
Of these desires of which we are so full:
So love me now, while you are beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
This is one, and the most remarkable way in which the wild apple is
propagated; but commonly it springs up at wide
intervals
in woods and
swamp, and by the sides of roads, as the soil may suit it, and grows
with comparative rapidity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
When Nature's hand, in endless iteration,
The thread across the
whizzing
spindle flings,
When the complex, monotonous creation
Jangles with all its million strings:
Who, then, the long, dull series animating,
Breaks into rhythmic march the soulless round?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
Therwith the teres from hir eyen two 750
Doun fille, as shour in Aperill ful swythe;
Hir whyte brest she bet, and for the wo
After the deeth she cryed a thousand sythe,
Sin he that wont hir wo was for to lythe,
She mot for-goon; for which
disaventure
755
She held hir-self a forlost creature.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It
bringeth
little profit, speech like this.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Sache qu'il faut aimer, sans faire la grimace,
Le pauvre, le mechant, le tortu, l'hebete,
Pour que tu puisses faire a Jesus, quand il passe,
Un tapis
triomphal
avec ta charite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Oliver feels death's anguish on him now;
And in his head his two eyes swimming round;
Nothing he sees; he hears not any sound;
Dismounting
then, he kneels upon the ground,
Proclaims his sins both firmly and aloud,
Clasps his two hands, heavenwards holds them out,
Prays God himself in Paradise to allow;
Blessings on Charles, and on Douce France he vows,
And his comrade, Rollanz, to whom he's bound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He took his degree of Doctor of
Science at the
University
of Edinburgh in 1877, and afterwards
studied brilliantly at Bonn.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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try thy Arts I also will try mine
For I percieve Thou hast
Abundance
which I claim as mine
Urizen startled stood but not Long soon he cried
Obey my voice young Demon I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Thus Urizen spoke collected in himself in awful pride
Art thou a visionary of Jesus the soft delusion of Eternity
Lo I am God the terrible destroyer & not the Saviour
Why should the Divine Vision compell the sons of Eden to forego each his own delight to war against his Spectre
The Spectre is the Man the rest is only delusion & fancy
So spoke the Prince of Light & sat beside the Seat of Los
Upon the sandy shore rested his chariot of fire
Ten thousand thousand were his hosts of spirits on the wind:
Ten thousand thousand glittering Chariots shining in the sky:
They pour upon the golden shore beside the silent ocean.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Shall lovers higgle, heart for heart,
Till wooing grows a trading mart
Where much for little, and all for part,
Make love a
cheapening
art,
Fair Lady?
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Sidney Lanier |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Facing the timorous
nakedness
of the gazelle
That trembles, on her back like an elephant gone wild,
Waiting upside down, she keenly admires herself,
Laughing with her bared teeth at the child:
And, between her legs where the victim's couched,
Raising the black flesh split beneath its mane,
Advances the palate of that alien mouth
Pale, rosy as a shell from the Spanish Main.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances;
The door passing the
dissevered
friend, flushed and in haste;
The door that admits good news and bad news;
The door whence the son left home, confident and puffed up;
The door he entered again from a long and scandalous absence, diseased,
broken down, without innocence, without means.
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Whitman |
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Is this mine own
countree?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Spite of bald translations, their action was sufficiently
dramatic to make them successes, and even still
enduring
on our stage.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Why make a partnership
with us, if thou canst not carry it
through?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Bugles are blown facing the Cave of the Moon,5 32 in the gray
mountains
the banners are mournful.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_Toutes vos autres
volentes
Ferai_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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