me whan it
remembre?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thus, if this Age but as a comma show
'Twixt weightier clauses of large-worded years,
My calmer soul scorns not the mark: I know
This crooked point Time's complex
sentence
clears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats |
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Bar [22-58]and bulwark no longer shelter the Trojans; nay,
within the gates and even on the mounded walls they clash in battle and
make the
trenches
swim with blood.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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591
In A schort tyme hit was diht,
ful
richeliche
and Al ari?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It makes an even face
Of
mountain
and of plain, --
Unbroken forehead from the east
Unto the east again.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take:
The laughing flowers that round them blow
Drink life and
fragrance
as they flow.
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Golden Treasury |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Bronzino
was one of
the poet's preferences.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I was rejoiced to
behold places
described
by Virgil, and, what is more surprising, by
Homer before him.
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Petrarch |
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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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Stephen Crane |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither
fragments
51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Song_
Mary, leave thy lowly cot
When thy thickest jobs are done;
When thy friends will miss thee not,
Mary, to the
pastures
run.
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John Clare |
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celtum_ Ven: _celitum_ GLa1ACD
50 _ferri
stringere_
Heyse: _ferris frin_(_fin.
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Latin - Catullus |
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My dearest child, forgive me--why delay
So long
approaching
me?
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Byron |
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Dear Earth, and House of
sheltering
walls,
And wedded homes of the land where my fathers lie!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You
sacrifice
time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As when a flame the winding valley fills,
And runs on crackling shrubs between the hills;
Then o'er the stubble up the mountain flies,
Fires the high woods, and blazes to the skies,
This way and that, the spreading torrent roars:
So sweeps the hero through the wasted shores;
Around him wide, immense destruction pours
And earth is deluged with the sanguine showers
As with
autumnal
harvests cover'd o'er,
And thick bestrewn, lies Ceres' sacred floor;
When round and round, with never-wearied pain,
The trampling steers beat out the unnumber'd grain:
So the fierce coursers, as the chariot rolls,
Tread down whole ranks, and crush out heroes' souls,
Dash'd from their hoofs while o'er the dead they fly,
Black, bloody drops the smoking chariot dye:
The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore;
And thick the groaning axles dropp'd with gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thus watch'd the Grecians,
cautious
of surprise,
Each voice, each motion, drew their ears and eyes:
Each step of passing feet increased the affright;
And hostile Troy was ever full in sight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;
The name they dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church,
Is
finished
using now,
And they can put it with my dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools
I've finished threading too.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Works,
comprised
in the folio ed.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Quis hoc potest videre, quis potest pati,
Nisi inpudicus et vorax et aleo,
Mamurram habere quod Comata Gallia
Habebat ante et ultima
Britannia?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
Bellerephon was the first to ride Pegasus when he
attacked
the Chimaera.
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Appoloinaire |
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inges I may
reduce{n}
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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My host was
of a less
excitable
temperament, and, although greatly depressed in
spirits, exerted himself to sustain my own.
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Poe - 5 |
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_ alas, that magical sad sound
Transfomring
all!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_Si
traviato
e 'l folle mio desio.
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Petrarch |
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"A Winter Walk"
appeared
in _The
Dial_ in the same month and year.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ideas of a very practical nature have now taken
possession
of the
people.
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Li Po |
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You must
come to a great distance, for we were
commanded
to build our temple
between the pure multitude by the waves and the impure multitude of
men.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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All Russia hath submitted
Unto Dimitry; with
heartfelt
repentance
Basmanov hath himself led forth his troops
To swear allegiance to him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one,
settling
a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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nous secouerons toute la nuit les sistres
La voix ligure etait-ce donc un talisman
Et si tu n'es pas de droite tu es sinistre
Comme une tache grise ou le pressentiment
Puisque l'absolu choit la chute est une preuve
Qui double devient triple avant d'avoir ete
Nous avouerons que les
grossesses
nous emeuvent
Les ventres pourront seuls nier l'aseite
Vois les vases sont pleins d'humides fleurs morales
Va-t'en mais denude puisque tout est a nous
Ouis du choeur des vents les cadences plagales
Et prends l'arc pour tuer l'unicorne ou le gnou
L'ombre equivoque et tendre est le deuil de ta chair
Et sombre elle est humaine et puis la notre aussi
Va-t'en le crepuscule a des lueurs legeres
Et puis aucun de nous ne croirait tes recits
Il brillait et attirait comme la pantaure
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
Et les femmes la nuit feignant d'etre des taures
L'eussent aime comme on l'aima puisqu'en effet
Il etait pale il etait beau comme un roi ladre
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Au lieu du roseau triste et du funebre faix
Que n'alla-t-il vivre a la cour du roi D'Edesse
Maigre et magique il eut scrute le firmament
Pale et magique il eut aime des poetesses
Juste et magique il eut epargne les demons
Va-t'en errer credule et roux avec ton ombre
Soit!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_ So is the nearest of the two next, as
The priests say (and no doubt they should know best),
Therefore
I'll stick by this--as being both
To suffer martyrdom, at least with such
An epitaph as larceny upon my tomb.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Now there are certain scioli or smatterers that are busy in the
skirts and outsides of learning, and have scarce
anything
of solid
literature to commend them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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on high,
Whence on my heart she beams more bright than eye,
Not on mine eyes; from them a dark veil hides
Those lovely orbs, and makes me, ere life's span
Is
measured
half, an old and broken man.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The court
forthwith
is ordered all to close.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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At length, with heart recover'd, I began:
"'From Troy's famed fields, sad wanderers o'er the main,
Behold the relics of the Grecian train:
Through various seas, by various perils toss'd,
And forced by storms, unwilling on your coast;
Far from our
destined
course and native land,
Such was our fate, and such high Jove's command!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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TO ONE AWAY
I HEARD a cry in the night,
A
thousand
miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
wound with wires, kept ward o'er the head,
lest the relict-of-files {15c} should fierce invade,
sharp in the strife, when that
shielded
hero
should go to grapple against his foes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O mark ye how
The soul of nature melts in numbers: now
See, a
thousand
Cupids fly
To light their tapers at the bride's bright eye.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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And he had passed a
restless
night,
And was not well in health;
The women sat down by his side,
And talked as 'twere by stealth.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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And when the annihilating waters roar
Above what they have done,
Envy the giant
patriarchs
then no more,
And scorn thy sire as the surviving one!
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| Source: |
Byron |
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" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd Plotting to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely
beautiful
the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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THE FOUR ZOAS
VALA *
The torments of Love & Jealousy in
The Death and
Judgement
of Albion the Ancient Man
a Dream
of Nine Night
by William Blake 1797
PAGE 2
Rest before Labour
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[Greek text] [For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness
of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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No fors of wikked tonges Ianglerye, 755
For ever on love han
wrecches
had envye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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After so many years he still keeps finding
Good
arguments
he sees he might have used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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, _ale-bench, bench for those
drinking
ale_: dat.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Efte have I treynted noyance throughe the hoaste,
Athorowe swerdes, alyche the Queed dystraughte, 455
Have Magnus
pressynge
wroghte hys foemen loaste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Just heaven thee, like Tiresias, to requite,
Rewards with
prophecy
thy loss of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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SEA LONGING
A THOUSAND miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,
The ebbing tide
forsakes
the listless land
With the old murmur, long and musical;
The windy waves mount up and curve and fall,
And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow,--
Tho' I am inland far, I hear and know,
For I was born the sea's eternal thrall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But canst thou not array
Thyself in rare disguise,
And feign like truth, for one mad day,
That Earth is
Paradise?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Now fearfuller qualm than famine eagerly
Handles my life and pulls at it,--my faith's
Hunger for being fed with sounds and visions:
The firelight mixt with a
trooping
bustle of shadows,
The silence suddenly shouting with surprise,
That tells of men astounded out of sleep
To find that God hath dreadfully been among them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The pow'rs above could
PRUDENCE
ne'er design;
For those who fondly court the SISTERS NINE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Therefore
thou must needs forgive me,
That I devise how this my beauty, this
Sacred to thy long-dead joy of desire,
May turn to weapon in the hand of God;
Such weapon as he hath taken aforetime
To sword whole nations at a stroke to their knees,--
Storms of the air and hilted fire from heaven,
And sightless edge of pestilence hugely swung
Down on the bulk of armies in the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Reeds in a trice are
sprouting
and rustling in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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--Et je sens les baisers qui me
viennent
aux levres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It was the time when first the question rose
About the
founding
of a Table Round,
That was to be, for love of God and men
And noble deeds, the flower of all the world.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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THE treaty was most faithfully observed;
No
calculation
wrong; from naught they swerved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and
wretched
minutes kill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Who tell the triumphs of that day,
When, smiling at the cannon's roar,
Our hero, 'mid the bloody fray,
Conquered
on Erie's echoing shore.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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During his stay at Phocoea,
Homer is said to have
composed
the Little Iliad, and the Phocoeid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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No, no, too eagerly my soul deceives
Its
powerless
self: I know this cannot be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Cio ch'io dicea di quell' unica sposa
de lo Spirito Santo e che ti fece
verso me volger per alcuna chiosa,
tanto e risposto a tutte nostre prece
quanto 'l di dura; ma com' el s'annotta,
contrario
suon prendemo in quella vece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
| 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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This was that, when his appointed
time for death came, he might escape if he could find some
volunteer
to
die for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The very sticks and
stones lodged in the tree-top might have
convinced
you of the
savoriness of the fruit which has been so eagerly sought after in past
years.
| Guess: |
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See how the woods form an amphitheatre about it, and it is an
arena for all the
genialness
of nature.
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Aristophanes, here and elsewhere, makes many jests on
this
weakness
of theirs.
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Great
businesse
must be wrought ere Noone.
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Il commenca, dit-on, par etonner les sots, mais il devait etonner bien
davantage les gens d'esprit en
laissant
a la posterite ce livre
immortel: _les Fleurs du Mal.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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II
Dryads
haunting
the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and Assyrian wine
to shatter her fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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To me it seems the line _must_ go with
what follows, and that 'so' (which should have no comma) is not an
illative conjunction but a
subordinate
conjunction of effect.
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John Donne |
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Grounded in magic he knew the future and predicted the
Christian
coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_("Qu'est-ce que Sigismond et
Ladislas
ont dit.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It was
a
favorite
drink in the Middle Ages, and consisted of a mixture
of honey and water with the addition of a ferment.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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: _et
fututa_ h2 ||
_pandas_
h
14 _nei_ Marcilius: _nec_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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TEMPLAR: Nathan, thy hand; I blush
To have
mistaken
thee.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In that cave beakers of stone
And jars are seen; bees lodge their honey there;
And there, on slender
spindles
of the rock
The nymphs of rivers weave their wond'rous robes.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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O
woodland
Queen,
What smoothest air thy smoother forehead woos?
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Keats |
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Gyrthe waxen hotte; fhuir in his eyne did glare; 145
And thus he saide; oh brother, friend, and kynge,
Have I
deserved
this fremed speche to heare?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Behold, we are life's pitiful least,
And we perish at the first smell
Of death, whither heaves earth
To spurn us
cringing
into hell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Act IV Scene III (The King, Diegue, Arias, Rodrigue, Sanche)
King
Noble heir of an illustrious family
Ever Castille's pillar and its glory,
Race of
ancestors
of signal valour,
Whom by these deeds of yours you honour,
My power to recompense you now is slight;
You show greater merit than I have might.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers
aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and gleaming hand.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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