I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength
And impulse, having dipped a finger-length
And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed
A flower to try its
currents
where they crossed.
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LORD in thine anger do not reprehend me
Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;
Pity me Lord for I am much deject
Am very weak and faint; heal and amend me,
For all my bones, that even with anguish ake,
Are troubled, yea my soul is
troubled
sore
And thou O Lord how long?
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Milton |
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CXCV
Horses they leave under an olive tree,
Which by the reins two Sarrazins do lead;
Those
messengers
have wrapped them in their weeds,
To the palace they climb the topmost steep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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One of the major troubadours of the twelfth century, his warlike nature and love of political intrigue,
particularly
his espousing the divisive cause of Henry, the Young English King, caused Dante to place him in the Inferno, Canto XXVIII, as a stirrer-up of strife.
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Troubador Verse |
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and that you left
This woman here, your wife,
kneeling
alone
Upon the hearth?
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Longfellow |
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When such was the
prevailing
sentiment, any man who chose
to declare that, in the midst of the confusion and slaughter, he
had seen two godlike forms on white horses scattering the
Latines, would find ready credence.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Seized then its chain-hilt the Scyldings' chieftain,
bold and battle-grim,
brandished
the sword,
reckless of life, and so wrathfully smote
that it gripped her neck and grasped her hard,
her bone-rings breaking: the blade pierced through
that fated-one's flesh: to floor she sank.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Experienced
age
May timely intercept the ruffian rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O lead me onward to the loneliest shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where
kingcups
grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.
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John Clare |
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Master, must thou too die, thou beautiful
As Lucifer unstained,
fearless
as Michael helmed
For war?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper
edition.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Surely, you're
incorrect?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Are you
hankering
after a nunnery?
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Troubador Verse |
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See in what wanton
harmless
folds.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Not to the skies in useless columns tost,
Or in proud falls
magnificently
lost,
But clear and artless, pouring through the plain
Health to the sick, and solace to the swain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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also [draca]
fȳrwylmum
fāh, 2672, 2577.
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Beowulf |
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the brown bird has ceased: one
exquisite
trill
About the sombre woodland seems to cling
Dying in music, else the air is still,
So still that one might hear the bat's small wing
Wander and wheel above the pines, or tell
Each tiny dew-drop dripping from the bluebell's brimming cell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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For while he closely scans the
temple that towers above him, while,
awaiting
the queen, he admires the
fortunate city, the emulous hands and elaborate work of her craftsmen,
he sees ranged in order the [457-491]battles of Ilium, that war whose
fame was already rumoured through all the world, the sons of Atreus and
Priam, and Achilles whom both found pitiless.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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with
transports
of your own.
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William Wordsworth |
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And Troilus, that al this purveyaunce
Knew at the fulle, and waytede on it ay,
Hadde here-up-on eek made gret ordenaunce, 535
And founde his cause, and ther-to his aray,
If that he were missed, night or day,
Ther-whyle he was aboute this servyse,
That he was goon to doon his sacrifyse,
And moste at swich a temple alone wake, 540
Answered
of Appollo for to be;
And first to seen the holy laurer quake,
Er that Apollo spak out of the tree,
To telle him next whan Grekes sholden flee,
And forthy lette him no man, god forbede, 545
But preye Apollo helpen in this nede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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]
[Footnote 4:
trayveres
(?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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--
Then the Teutonic dames, a dauntless race,
Who rush'd on death to shun a foe's embrace;--
And Judith chaste and fair, but void of dread,
Who the hot blood of
Holofernes
shed;--
And that fair Greek who chose a watery grave
Her threaten'd purity unstain'd to save.
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Petrarch |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"So far as I can ascertain it is
an attempt to write
extremely
corrupt Greek on the part"--here he glared
at me with intention--"of an extremely illiterate--ah--person.
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Kipling - Poems |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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2 A return alive is what
happened
today, 4 for a while I had been someone on back roads.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'
And they, they
whispered
kindly to him 'Come!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To stern Tydides now he falls a prey,
No friend to guard him in the
dreadful
day!
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Iliad - Pope |
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LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And
therefore
mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_ I had adopted
the reading 'nill' for 'will'
conjecturally
before I found it in _W_.
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John Donne |
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[This was not the
original
title of this sweet poem: I have a copy in
the handwriting of Burns entitled "The Gowan.
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The chief advantage of a chronological arrangement of the Works of any
author--and especially of a poet who himself adopted a different
plan--is that it shows us, as nothing else can do, the growth of his own
mind, the
progressive
development of his genius and imaginative power.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For pain and
pleasure
flow
Like tides upon us of the self-same sea.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Hsiang, king of Ch'u, was
feasting
in the Orchid-tower Palace, with Sung
Yu and Ching Ch'ai to wait upon him.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And did he give
Some privy
message?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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with him she swells in mickle glee
Even from that day, and makes of me a jest;
And of that evil which I brought on me
I
languish
yet, and find no place of rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'fore I even had settled my price
They tuck
affidavy
without no bones
And levelled upon me fur all ther loans
To the 'mount of sum nine hundred dollars or more,
And sold me out clean for eight hundred and four,
As sure as I'm Ellick Garry!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"
LXXXVI
Says Oliver: "In this I see no blame;
I have beheld the
Sarrazins
of Spain;
Covered with them, the mountains and the vales,
The wastes I saw, and all the farthest plains.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Yes, Time reigns; Time has
regained
his brutal mastery.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Auld
Scotland
has a raucle tongue;
She's just a devil wi' a rung;
An' if she promise auld or young
To tak their part,
Tho' by the neck she should be strung,
She'll no desert.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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{and}
retournen
to
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Whatever absence from her must endure,
Sire, it is yet
happiness
to hope for more.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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GD}
They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges
The innumerable sons &
daughters
of Luvah closd in furnaces
Melt into furrows.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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I went bed agen and did nothing but dream
Of Robin and
moonlight
and flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Shameless
I left my father's home;
Shameless I cheat the expectant grave;
O heaven, that naked I might roam
In lions' cave!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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--Priam is said to have influenced by gifts the
wife and mother of Eurypylus, to persuade him to the assistance of Troy,
he being himself
unwilling
to engage.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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quem primum
interius
licuit cognoscere stellas
munere caelestum?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
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Emerson - Poems |
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--The changeful hue
Of his
incestuous
brother meets your view,
Who lurks behind: observe the sudden turn
Of love and hatred blanch his cheek, and burn!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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317_
Gluck, music of _Don Juan; or, The
Libertine
Destroyed_, _vi.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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I love the verse that mild and bland
Breathes
of green fields and open sky,
I love the muse that in her hand
Bears flowers of native poesy;
Who walks nor skips the pasture brook
In scorn, but by the drinking horse
Leans oer its little brig to look
How far the sallows lean across,
And feels a rapture in her breast
Upon their root-fringed grains to mark
A hermit morehen's sedgy nest
Just like a naiad's summer bark.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'
XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this
inconstant
stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Why does he never sit
On
horseback
in his company, nor with uneven bit
His Gallic courser tame?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--
Let the winged Fancy roam
Pleasure
never is at home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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the disciple sank
With
anguished
cry .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering
a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
MENALCAS
"In dazzling sheen with
unaccustomed
eyes
Daphnis stands rapt before Olympus' gate,
And sees beneath his feet the clouds and stars.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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_
Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue,
America's crusading host of
warriors
bold and true;
They battled for the rights of man beside our brave Allies,
And now they're coming home to us with glory in their eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Imagination
slept, 260
And yet not utterly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks,
He takes his
chirping
pint, and cracks his jokes;
"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word;
And lo!
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| 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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"Is my face enough in
profile?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The Years
To-night I close my eyes and see
A strange
procession
passing me--
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the sensitive, shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Then the plan laid out, and, I believe, partly
suggested
by me, was,
that Wordsworth should assume the station of a man in mental repose,
one whose principles were made up, and so prepared to deliver upon
authority a system of philosophy.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to
flatterer
stopped are.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Some Egyptian royal love-lilt, 5
Some
Sidonian
refrain,
Vows of Paphos or of Tyre,
Mount against the silver sun.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Oppose the
arrogant
and prove your courage:
Only blood may redeem this outrage;
Kill, or die.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It falls
naturally
into three parts.
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Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and
permanent
future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Feast on, and
meanwhile
I will let thee know
Of all these things around us.
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Then shouted loud the Latines;
And with one rush they bore
The
struggling
Romans backward
Three lances' length and more:
And up they took proud Tarquin,
And laid him on a shield,
And four strong yeomen bare him,
Still senseless, from the field.
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie
And see the
coloured
counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
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And where are you going to, since you have not deposited
your
belongings?
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Aristophanes |
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XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's
abundance
weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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SPIKKY SPARROW
THE BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS THE TABLE AND THE
CHAIR
NONSENSE
STORIES.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For Solomon he liv'd at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aim'd not beyond
Higher design then to enjoy his State;
Thence to the bait of Women lay expos'd;
But he whom we attempt is wiser far
Then Solomon, of more exalted mind,
Made and set wholly on the accomplishment
Of
greatest
things; what woman will you find,
Though of this Age the wonder and the fame,
On whom his leisure will vouchsafe an eye 210
Of fond desire?
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his
temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance
with the dictates of
reason.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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After the _Aeneid_, the epic style must be of
this fashion:
Ibant ovscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna:
Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna
Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra
Jupiter, et rebus nox
abstulit
atra colorem.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Gone are the angels and the archangels,
The saints, the little lamb above thy door,
The
shepherd
Christ!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Outside the young boy-priest passed singing clear,
'Jesus the son of Mary has been slain,
O come and fill His
sepulchre
with flowers.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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