I'll teach the
villains!
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steer
straight
toward Boston
bay.
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Whitman |
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Frail as dew upon the grass
Or the
spindrift
of the sea,
Out of nothing they were fashioned
And to nothing must return.
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Sappho |
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I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy,
happiness
all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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" at which some groan'd; 110
Some started on their feet; some also shouted;
Some wept, some wail'd, all bow'd with reverence;
And Ops,
uplifting
her black folded veil,
Show'd her pale cheeks, and all her forehead wan,
Her eye-brows thin and jet, and hollow eyes.
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Keats |
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I knew not this, and
therefore
did I weep:
That God would love a Worm I knew, and punish the evil foot
That wilful bruis'd its helpless form: but that he cherish'd it
With milk and oil I never knew, and therefore did I weep,
And I complaind in the mild air, because I fade away.
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blake-poems |
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Yet force of wind must not be rashly deemed
As altogether and
entirely
cold--
That force which is discharged from on high
With such stupendous power; but if 'tis not
Upon its course already kindled with fire,
It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat.
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Lucretius |
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Will
_nobody_
answer this bell?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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As he grew older he seemed to hunt for more acrid
odours; he often presents an elaborately chased vase the carving of
which
transports
us, but from which the head is quickly averted.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Of course the servants sneer
Behind my back at me;
Of course the village girls,
Who envy me my curls
And gowns and idleness, 480
Take comfort in a jeer;
Of course the ladies guess
Just so much of my history
As points the
emphatic
stress
With which they laud my Lady;
The gentlemen who catch
A casual glimpse of me
And turn again to see,
Their valets on the watch
To speak a word with me, 490
All know and sting me wild;
Till I am almost ready
To wish that I were dead,
No faces more to see,
No more words to be said,
My Mother safe at last
Disburdened of her child,
And the past past.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And whom will you against me send, the Cossack
Karel or
Mnishek?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thou wanting, never son and heir
The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
By issue girt, yet can it bear,
Thou willing:--with such Deity,
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Who the youth was, what his name was, where the place from
which he came was,
Who had brought him from the battle, and had left him at our door,
He could not speak to tell us; but 'twas one of our brave fellows,
As the
homespun
plainly showed us which the dying soldier wore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thence to the ridge, where roots outthrust, and
twisted
branches
of trees
Clutched the hill like clawing lions, firm their
prey to seize.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Biglow, in the present instance, has only made use of a license assumed
by all the
historians
of antiquity, who put into the mouths of various
characters such words as seem to them most fitting to the occasion and
to the speaker.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Until a few years ago, known only to a relatively small
community
on the
continent but commanding an ever increasing attention which has borne
his name far beyond the boundary of his country, the personality of
Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day beside the most illustrious poets of
modern Europe.
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Rilke - Poems |
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or think you any Grecian gift is free of
treachery?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He
is upbraidingly called a poet, as if it were a contemptible nick-name:
but the professors, indeed, have made the learning cheap--railing and
tinkling rhymers, whose writings the vulgar more
greedily
read, as being
taken with the scurrility and petulancy of such wits.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To crush an
innocent
respondent, that is a sort of
tyrant's-way of getting room to breathe in embarrassment.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man of Messina,
Whose
daughter
was named Opsibeena;
She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig,
To the perfect delight of Messina.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Or ti riman, lettor, sovra 'l tuo banco,
dietro
pensando
a cio che si preliba,
s'esser vuoi lieto assai prima che stanco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much
weakness
for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He, on his part,
As calm as Pelion in the rain or hail,
Bristled majestic from the teeth to tail,
And shook full fifty
missiles
from his hide,
But no heed took he; steadfastly he eyed,
And roared a roar, hoarse, vibrant, vengeful, dread,
A rolling, raging peal of wrath, which spread,
Making the half-awakened thunder cry,
"Who thunders there?
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Hugo - Poems |
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INDIAN DANCERS
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth
heavens that glimmer around them in
fountains of light;
O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music
that cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire,
And
beautiful
dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A
terrific
combat between these
heroes ensues, [10] in which Enkidu conquers, and in a magnanimous
speech he reminds Gilgamish of his higher destiny.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The honey
dropping
from Favonio's tongue,
The flowers of Bubo, and the flow of Y--ng!
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Our satisfaction will there
scarcely
endanger a world.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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With gen'rous rage the Lusian race beheld,
And each brave breast with indignation swell'd,
To view such foes, like snarling dogs, display
Their threat'ning tusks, and brave the
sanguine
fray:
Together with a bound they spring to land,
Unknown whose step first trod the hostile strand.
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| Question: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the
daffodils
away,
And home at noonday from the hills
They bring no dearth of daffodils.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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God Neptune's
palaces!
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Keats |
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Must I battle with a thousand rivals,
To the earth's ends extend my labours,
Attack a camp alone, or rout an army,
Exceed the fame of heroes
legendary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"O mother Ida,
manyfountained
Ida,
Dear mother Ida, hearken ere I die.
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Tennyson |
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Inepuisable
puits de sottise et de fautes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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' --
`Steersman,' I said, `hold
straight
into the West.
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Sidney Lanier |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Easily
mightest
thou a maid ensnare,
Lord as thou was, and idol in her sight.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But, however this may be, I felt the omission the
more keenly, as I had, in expectation of the new catalogue, enriched the
library of the Jaalam Athenaeum with the old one then in my possession,
by which means it has come about that my
children
will be deprived of a
never-wearying winter evening's amusement in looking out the name of
their parent in that distinguished roll.
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James Russell Lowell |
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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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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Frōfor eft gelamp
"sārig-mōdum somod ǣr-dæge,
"syððan hīe
Hygelāces
horn and bȳman
2945 "gealdor ongeāton.
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Beowulf |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in
diseased
flesh,
Ambition is engendered readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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*
Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a
whirlwind
*
Uttering this darkness in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Also, to avoid any appearance of precedence,
they have been put in
alphabetical
order.
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Imagists |
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They placed in the barrow that precious booty,
the rounds and the rings they had reft erewhile,
hardy heroes, from hoard in cave, --
trusting the ground with
treasure
of earls,
gold in the earth, where ever it lies
useless to men as of yore it was.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The tsar rewarded
His
services
with honour and with gold.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O friend, my friend, as God might be my friend,
Thou only hast not
trampled
on my tears.
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Euripides - Electra |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Say,
Have I in Argos any still to trust;
Or is the love, once borne me, trod in dust,
Even as my
fortunes
are?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The mother-murder, even if done by a god's
command, is a sin; a sin to be
expiated
by unfathomable suffering.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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We see the first (the only one we know)
Dispersed and, shining through,
The other six declining: Those that hold
The stars and moons, together with all those
Containing rain and fire and sullen weather;
Cellars of dew-fall higher than the brim;
Huge arsenals with centuries of snows;
Infinite
rows of storms and swarms of seraphim.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No soul of
greatness
springing up within?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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But when the
vigilant
patrol
Of stars walk round about the pole.
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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What physician will
pronounce that a strong habit of body, which
requires
constant care
and anxiety of mind?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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We have two accounts; one of which represents the pseudo-Rowley
rubbing a parchment upon a dirty floor after
smearing
it with ochre
and saying 'that was the way to antiquate it'; the other, even more
explicit, is the testimony of a local chemist, one Rudhall, who was
for some time a close friend of Chatterton's.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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* How should we grieve must we be seen,
^ (Each one a spouse, and each a queen,)
* Who can in heaven hence behold
* Our
brighter
robes and crowns of gold!
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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V
Long had he fancied each
successive
slope
Concealed some cottage, whither he might turn
And rest; but now along heaven's darkening cope
The crows rushed by in eddies, homeward borne.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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teeple, to the
Standard
in _Cheepe_:
And lead thee a daunce, through the ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If I can find them, I
will forward them by you; if not, you must
apologize
for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Unconscious of the worth that fires the brave,
In state a monarch, but in heart a slave,
He view'd brave VASCO, and his gen'rous train,
As his own
passions
stamp'd the conscious stain:
Nor less his rage the fraudful regent fir'd;
And valiant GAMA'S fate was now conspir'd.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some
instinct
the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee:
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind,
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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With regard to his 'wit',
its range and character, erudition and ingenuity, all
generations
of
critics have been at one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Politian is expected
Hourly in Rome--Politian, Earl of
Leicester!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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In sooth, we all thus err, nor man there be
But in some matter a
Suffenus
see
Thou canst: his lache allotted none shall lack 20
Yet spy we nothing of our back-borne pack.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Herrick uses the noun and its adjective rather
curiously
of
the dead: cp.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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the morning is at hand;--
The bloated
wassaillers
will never heed:--
Let us away, my love, with happy speed;
There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,--
Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead:
Awake!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Nor could
even the tasteless
Dionysius
distort and mutilate them into mere
prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He was buried close to the tomb of Chaucer in the Poets' Corner in
Westminster Abbey, his fellow-poets bearing the pall, and the Earl of Essex
defraying the
expenses
of the funeral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The next morning the
treasure
had again vanished deep into
the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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That shall not be
forgiven
in this world,
Nor in the world to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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what is this
mistihede?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ronsard |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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From this moment,
The very
firstlings
of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Did clap their bloody hands :
He nothing common did, or mean,
Upon that
memorable
scene.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Aufgescheucht
fliegen die Eulen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Old play-goers recall Macready as "Werner," and
many persons have read _Cain_; but apart from
students
of literature,
readers of _Sardanapalus_ and of _The Two Foscari_ are rare; of _The Age
of Bronze_ and _The Island_ rarer still.
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Byron |
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Despite being fragments the pieces communicate some part of the loss suffered, and the
thoughts
engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ilke
souereyne
p{ur}ueaunce ha?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But
yesterday
a hundred drums were heard when I went by;
Full forty agas turned their looks respectful on mine eye,
And trembled with contracted brows within their hall of state.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O Rose of the crimson beauty,
Why hast thou awakened the
sleeper?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Bright was the morn,--the
waveless
bay
Shone like a mirror to the sun;
'Mid greenwood shades and meadows gay,
The matin birds their lays begun:
While swelling o'er the gloomy wood
Was heard the faintly-echoed roar,--
The dashing of the foaming flood,
That beat on Erie's distant shore.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What is its
occupation?
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Kipling - Poems |
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"A pair of coursers, born of heav'nly breed,
Who from their nostrils breathed ethereal fire;
Whom Circe stole from her
celestial
sire,
By substituting mares produced on earth,
Whose wombs conceived a more than mortal birth.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The Winter Of Life
But lately seen in gladsome green,
The woods rejoic'd the day,
Thro' gentle showers, the
laughing
flowers
In double pride were gay:
But now our joys are fled
On winter blasts awa;
Yet maiden May, in rich array,
Again shall bring them a'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And eek I counseile thee, y-wis,
The God of Love hoolly foryet, 3245
That hath thee in sich peyne set,
And thee in herte
tormented
so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Once Again on Passing by Zhaoling 347 He never shamed or killed those who criticized him directly, 12 the road for the virtuous was not hard-going.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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King
No, no, he lives,
And bears you yet his
unchanging
love:
Quiet this sorrow borne of your distress.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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