But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming simplicity of the play,
competent
Grecians
have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each
padlocked
door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And wondered why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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At twenty-four, in a disinterested description of himself for the benefit
of a friend whom he had not yet met, he declares, "the walk of the whole
man
indicates
_indolence capable of energies_.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Sara Teasdale |
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L
_ Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the
quietest
places
Under the sun.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'
"We have only one more anecdote to give of his Life, and that relates
to the close; it is told in the anonymous preface which is sometimes
prefixed to his poems; it has been printed in the Persian in the
Appendix to Hyde's Veterum
Persarum
Religio, p.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Nor
eastward
far though fair Malacca[607] lie,
Her groves embosom'd in the morning sky;
Though with her am'rous sons the valiant line
Of Java's isle in battle rank combine,
Though poison'd shafts their pond'rous quivers store;
Malacca's spicy groves and golden ore,
Great Albuquerque, thy dauntless toils shall crown!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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His friends tried to interfere with her, and said
that it was an extravagance, and that the money that the perfume cost
should have been expended on
charitable
relief of people in want, or
something of that kind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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CHORUS
Perish the wretch whose vaunt
affronts
our home!
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Aeschylus |
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Leave my
loneliness
unbroken!
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Poe - 5 |
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Full early before
daybreak
the folk uprise, saddle their horses, and
truss their mails.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But Beowulf, on general
principles
and from his observation
of the particular case, foretells trouble.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yea, only Thee my choice is fixed upon
In heaven or earth, eternity or time:--
Lord, hold me fast, Lord, leave me not alone,
Thy silly heartless dove that sees the lime
Yet almost
flutters
to the tempting bough:
Cover me, hide me, pluck me from this crime.
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Christina Rossetti |
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--
don't call these things, kisses--
mouth-kisses, hand-kisses,
elbow, knee and toe,
and let it go at that--
disappear and promise
what you'll never perform:
we've known you to slink away
until drought-time,
drooping-time,
withering-time:
we've caught you
crawling
off
into winter-time,
try to cover what you've done
with a long white scarf--
your own frozen tears
(likely phrase!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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What guilty spirit, in what shrubbery dim,
Heard not the
stirring
summons of that hymn?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Gia era 'l Caponsacco nel mercato
disceso giu da Fiesole, e gia era
buon
cittadino
Giuda e Infangato.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We have not been
discovering what an epic poem ought to be, but roughly
examining
what
similarity of quality there is in all those poems which we feel,
strictly attending to the emotional experience of reading them, can be
classed together and, for convenience, termed epic.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O what a canty world were it,
Would pain and care and
sickness
spare it;
And Fortune favour worth and merit
As they deserve;
And aye rowth o' roast-beef and claret,
Syne, wha wad starve?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What
opulence
the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose farthest of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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s Altar, by legend
constructed
by Duke Wen of Qin, was a mound that marked Fuzhou, where Du Fu?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"By Babel streams I have sat and wept" almost ever since I
wrote you last; I have only known
existence
by the pressure of the
heavy hand of sickness, and have counted time by the repercussions of
pain!
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Robert Burns |
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in the
Appendix
to this volume, p.
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William Wordsworth |
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6
_gemelli_]
_tenelli_ Haupt
7 _lecticulo_ O, Munro
9 _sociei_ Scaliger: _socii et_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Abominable
Gloucester, guard thy head,
For I intend to have it ere long.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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meque inter seros
laudabit
Roma nepotes:
illum post cineres auguror ipse diem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If thou wouldst shun some
heartaches
sore,
And ward off gloom that gnaws thy core,
Grapple none closely to thy heart:
If less thy joy, then less thy smart.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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As strange a
question
as
this was, I hesitated not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Cum scholte latis genus htesit agris,
Nota quae sedes fuerat bubulcis ;
Cum, tog^ abjecta, pavidus
reliquit
Oppida doctus.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The Count, her lover, was
probably
Roger of Foix (1188-1223).
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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At least, it solaces to know
That there exists a gold,
Although I prove it just in time
Its
distance
to behold!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Where'er the summons found them, whate'er the tie that bound them,
'Tis this alone the record of the sleeping army saith:--
They knew no creed but this, in duty not to falter,
With strength that naught could alter to be
faithful
unto death.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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On a laisse les pieces objectionables au point de vue bourgeois, car le
point de vue chretien et surtout catholique dont je m'honore d'etre un
des plus indignes peut-etre mais a coup sur le plus sincere tenant, me
semble
superieur
et doit etre ecarte--j'entends, notamment les
_Premieres Communions_, les _Pauvres a l'eglise_ (pour mon compte,
j'eusse neglige cette piece brutale ayant pourtant ceci:
_.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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570
Duke Wyllyam gave commaunde, eche Norman knyghte,
That been war-token in a shielde so fyne,
Shoulde onward goe, and dare to closer fyghte
The Saxonne warryor, that dyd so entwyne,
Lyke the neshe bryon and the eglantine, 575
Orre Cornysh wrastlers at a
Hocktyde
game.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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illic sit quicumque meos
uiolauit
amores,
optauit lentas et mihi militias.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And on the
verdaunt
playne he layde the champyone lowe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Did you suppose there
could be only one
Supreme?
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Whitman |
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`For if ther sit a man yond on a see,
Than by necessitee bihoveth it
That, certes, thyn
opinioun
soth be, 1025
That wenest or coniectest that he sit;
And ferther-over now ayenward yit,
Lo, right so it is of the part contrarie,
As thus; (now herkne, for I wol not tarie):
`I seye, that if the opinioun of thee 1030
Be sooth, for that he sit, than seye I this,
That he mot sitten by necessitee;
And thus necessitee in either is.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Both these
statements
would be quite
true.
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced
neighboring
ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"_CON tal que las costumbres de un autor_," says Don Thomas de las
Torres, in the preface to his "Amatory Poems" _"sean puras y castas,
importo muy poco que no sean igualmente severas sus obras"_--meaning,
in plain English, that, provided the morals of an author are pure
personally, it
signifies
nothing what are the morals of his books.
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Poe - 5 |
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]
Why, ye tenants of the lake,
For me your wat'ry haunt
forsake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died,
vitality
begun.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In vain the laughing girl will lean
To greet her love with love-lit eyes:
Down in some
treacherous
black ravine,
Clutching his flag, the dead boy lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
[Picture: We chumped and chawed the
buttered
toast]
"That story is in print!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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James's park in London, a
favorite
place at this
time for promenades.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A
cluttered
incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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He fears nor kris nor assegai,
He gazes at man, with no cares at all,
And smiles at the sepoy's musket-ball,
That merely
rebounds
from his hide.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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"I ha' paid Port dues for your Law," quoth he, "and where is the Law ye boast
If I sail
unscathed
from a heathen port to be robbed on a Christian coast?
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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What if the breath that kindl'd those grim fires 170
Awak'd should blow them into
sevenfold
rage
And plunge us in the Flames?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"But I can't
understand
it!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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By that hidden way
My guide and I did enter, to return
To the fair world: and heedless of repose
We climbed, he first, I following his steps,
Till on our view the beautiful lights of heav'n
Dawn'd through a
circular
opening in the cave:
Thus issuing we again beheld the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Hear how they counsel in manly measure
Action and
pleasure!
| 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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Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans^2 dance,
Or owre the lays, in
splendid
blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Or for Colean the rout is ta'en,
Beneath the moon's pale beams;
There, up the Cove,^3 to stray an' rove,
Amang the rocks and streams
To sport that night;
[Footnote 2: Certain little, romantic, rocky, green hills,
in the neighbourhood of the ancient seat of the Earls of
Cassilis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A Story of
Christmas
Eve.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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When I flew to
Blackmoor
Vale,
Whence the green-gowned faeries hail,
Roosting near them I could hear them
Speak of queenly Nature's ways,
Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LE BUFFET
C'est un large buffet sculpte; le chene sombre,
Tres vieux, a pris cet air si bon des vieilles gens;
Le buffet est ouvert, et verse dans son ombre
Comme un flot de vin vieux, des parfums engageants;
Tout plein, c'est un
fouillis
de vieilles vieilleries,
De linges odorants et jaunes, de chiffons
De femmes ou d'enfants, de dentelles fletries,
De fichus de grand'mere ou sont peints des griffons;
--C'est la qu'on trouverait les medaillons, les meches
De cheveux blancs ou blonds, les portraits, les fleurs seches
Dont le parfum se mele a des parfums de fruits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
50
_Vesperugo
stella quae uespere oritur, a
quo eam Opilius scribit Vesperum; itaque dicitur ?
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered
in straw?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I have just finished the
following
song, which to a lady the
descendant of Wallace--and many heroes of his true illustrious
line--and herself the mother of several soldiers, needs neither
preface nor apology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Then the telephone becomes a tinkling terror, because
it tells you of the sudden deaths of men and women that you knew
intimately, and the prickly heat covers you with a garment, and you
sit down and write: "A slight increase of
sickness
is reported from
the Khuda Janta Khan District.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The hieratic accent is discovered chiefly in
the first half of the verse: where the natural accent of a disyllabic
word is
neglected
and the stress falls constantly on the final
syllable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
| 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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Our
wretched
life thou hast despoil'd outright
Of every honour, every ornament!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Is this mine own
countree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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_
For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Meredith - Poems |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_I once pierced the flesh
of the wild-deer,
now am I afraid to touch
the blue and the gold-veined
hyacinths?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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syllīc spell rehte (_told a
wondrous
tale_), 2111; so
intrans.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at
each
momentary
recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her
throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Or superbite, e via col viso altero,
figliuoli
d'Eva, e non chinate il volto
si che veggiate il vostro mal sentero!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved,
uniquely
and strangely, everything summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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From the
Northwest
comes a shadowy wind,1 somberly following the Uighurs.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Bright wanderer, fair
coquette
of Heaven,
To whom alone it has been given
To change and be adored for ever,
Envy not this dim world, for never
But once within its shadow grew _5
One fair as--
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EPITAPH.
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Shelley |
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Carried to Colmekill,
The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors,
And
Guardian
of their Bones
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Discreet
and prudent we that discord call, II.
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--Some say they have heard her sighs
On Alpine height or Polar peak
When the night
tempests
rise.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The rain and the wind
splashed
and gurgled and moaned round the
house, and the toddy palms rattled and roared.
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Kipling - Poems |
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White shapes flit to and fro
From mast to mast;
They feel the distant tempest
That nears them fast:
Great rocks are
straight
ahead,
Great shoals not past;
They shout to one another
Upon the blast.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"But the eyes which
enslaved
me are ever before me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" cried,
"Oh, my own
brother!
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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The see may never be so stil,
That with a litel winde it [nil]
Overwhelme
and turne also, 3775
As it were wood, in wawis go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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, London and Bungay
and now reprinted lithographically in Great Britain
at the
University
Press, Oxford
by Vivian Ridler
Printer to the University
INTRODUCTION.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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But cruel day, so wel-awey the
stounde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Des lors il fut semblable aux betes de la rue,
Et, quand il s'en allait sans rien voir, a travers
Les champs, sans
distinguer
les etes des hivers,
Sale, inutile et laid comme une chose usee,
Il faisait des enfants la joie et la risee.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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