Throbbing
THIS throbbing shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander,
straying!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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For dark my mother was in eyes and hair,
And dark in hair and eyes am I; and dark
Was Gorlois, yea and dark was Uther too,
Wellnigh
to blackness; but this King is fair
Beyond the race of Britons and of men.
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Tennyson |
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He
had stepped out of his place; he had not
appeared
at his office at the
proper time, and his dog-cart was not upon the public roads.
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Kipling - Poems |
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He'd much to say to us about his cousins,
And sent to each, through us, his
compliments
by dozens.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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In the edition for
1831, however, this poem, its author's longest, was introduced by the
following twenty-nine lines, which have been omitted in--all subsequent
collections:
AL AARAAF
Mysterious
star!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin
wherewith
the Face of Man
Is blacken'd--Man's forgiveness give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_ Metaphor of a sea-shell giving an impression of
exquisite colour and
delicate
form.
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Keats |
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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.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You would never believe how
frightened
I used to be of those confounded
Pagans.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_The new
Philosophy
calls all in doubt, &c.
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John Donne |
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I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In
shanties
by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop -- docile and omnipotent --
At its own stable door.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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but from the
Universal
Brotherhood of Eden John I c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Have you not felt, I mean, a serious
intention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It's a
dreadful
affair
Is Saint Valentine's Day!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Rend hearts and rend not
garments
for our sins;
Gird sackcloth not on body but on soul;
Grovel in dust with faces toward the goal
Nor won, nor neared: he only laughs who wins.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The two songs in Ramsay,
one of them
evidently
his own, are never to be met with in the
fire-side circle of our peasantry; while that which I take to be the
old song, is in every shepherd's mouth.
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Robert Forst |
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And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a
frightened
girl.
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Wilde - Poems |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But so as seide a
philosophre
[the
moore excellent by me].
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yet, to be just to these poor men of pelf,
Each does but hate his
neighbour
as himself:
Damned to the mines, an equal fate betides
The slave that digs it, and the slave that hides.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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, 615, 641, 1949, 2026; epithet of women of
princely
rank.
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Beowulf |
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"Who told you to write and
denounce
me?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
Conquest
of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and fleeting grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a
mountain
crag, young Angelo--
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky,
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Lord
vouchsafed
not
Healing to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And the still Valkyrie hover panting for
hallowed
souls.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ther were so many trees yit,
That I sholde al
encombred
be
Er I had rekened every tree.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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There wait embower'd, while I ascend alone
To great
Alcinous
on his royal throne.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I have just received from my
gentleman
that horrid summons in the book
of Revelations--"That time shall be no more!
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Robert Burns |
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So, in the year, my favourite season is the last slow part of summer that just precedes autumn, and, in the day, the hour when I walk is when the sun
hesitates
before vanishing, with rays of yellow bronze over the grey walls, and rays of red copper over the tiles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Does his murderer make this his
sanctuary?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then the Colonel began to make inquiries
for the rest of the Regiment, and the
language
he used was wonderful.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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Varro, whose authority on all questions connected with the
antiquities of his country is entitled to the greatest respect,
tells us that at banquets it was once the fashion for boys to
sing,
sometimes
with and sometimes without instrumental music,
ancient ballads in praise of men of former times.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The palfrey was as fleet as wind,
And they rode
furiously
behind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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We would prefer to send you
information
by email.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And what a privilege to be
But the
remotest
star!
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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conspicuous than in this Poem.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Methinks
among you I descry
New faces.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Apart from the specific form of epic, it shares much of its
ultimate
intention
with the greatest kind of drama (though not with all
drama).
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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After due enquiry, it
appears that
_codicillus_
was used by the Latin authors, for what we
now call _the letters patent of a prince_.
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Tacitus |
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Till the
sun got low, I did not believe that there were so many
redcoats
in the
forest army.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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AMPHION
First
published
in 1842.
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Tennyson |
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To
Hondscio
then was that harassing deadly,
his fall there was fated.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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With Kultur-flag unfurled
And prayer on lip he runs amuck,
imperilling
the world.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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Blake - Zoas |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To her whom it adorns this sheath imparteth
The living motion from the light surrounding; And thus my nobler parts, to grief's confounding, Impart into my heart a peace which starteth
From one round whom a graciousness is cast Which
clingeth
in the air where she hath past.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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According
to the
restored text, she is the wife of Ongenþēow, the Scylfing, 62, 63.
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Beowulf |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the
Bibliotheque
Nationale of Paris.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'
So she, like many another babbler, hurt
Whom she would soothe, and harmed where she would heal;
For here a sudden flush of
wrathful
heat
Fired all the pale face of the Queen, who cried,
'Such as thou art be never maiden more
For ever!
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Tennyson |
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from his helpless
Creature
be repaid
Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd--
Sue for a Debt he never did contract,
And cannot answer--Oh the sorry trade!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The slave of none, of beasts alone the lord,
He marches with his flute, his book, and sword,
Well taught by that to feel his rights, prepar'd
With this "the
blessings
he enjoys to guard.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Hrothgar
couldst thou
aid at all, the honored chief,
in his wide-known woes?
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
colour black
preponderates
in her; all that she inspires is nocturnal
and profound.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Matrimonial
bed's insecure and so's fornication;
Husband, lover and wife pass to each other the hurt.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Responsive
sighing, weeping as I weep:
"Alas," she pitying says, "ere yet the hour,
Why hurry life away with swifter flight?
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Petrarch |
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>>
A l'accent
familier
nous devinons le spectre;
Nos Pylades la-bas tendent leurs bras vers nous.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Elvire
Beware lest Heaven
punishes
your pride
And sees you avenged, though he has died.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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_("Les
feuilles
qui gisaient.
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Hugo - Poems |
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They are weeping in the
playtime
of the others,
In the country of the free.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Let him not shrink in terror from a
friendly
face.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer,
Straight
as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And how, upon a market-night,
When not a star bestowed its light,
A farmer's shepherd, oer his glass,
Forgot that he had woods to pass:
And having sold his master's sheep,
Was overta'en by
darkness
deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The good characters of the
victorious
heroes, however
neglected by the great genius of Homer, have a fine effect in making an
epic poem interest us and please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Many
things may be learned together, and
performed
in one point of time; as
musicians exercise their memory, their voice, their fingers, and
sometimes their head and feet at once.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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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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And they give forth
O'er skiey levels of the spreading world
A sound on high, as linen-awning, stretched
O'er mighty theatres, gives forth at times
A
cracking
roar, when much 'tis beaten about
Betwixt the poles and cross-beams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Now near the beech-tree, and the Scaean gates,
The hero halts, and his
associates
waits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In June, 1916, he joined the Royal Field
Artillery
and
went out to France once again with a battery of field guns at the
beginning of March, 1917.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
)
The battle rages with many a loud alarm and
frequent
advance and retreat,
The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs,
The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and
leadballs do their work,
The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are choked with their own blood,
The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the
infidel enter'd into full possession.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The foolhardy
ploughman
I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Greek sang and
Tcherkass
for his pleasure,
And Kergeesian captive is dancing;
In the eyes of the first heaven's azure,
And in those black of Eblis is glancing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Stand under this tree and see how finely its leaves are cut against
the sky,--as it were, only a few sharp points
extending
from a midrib.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
* Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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--The Creation of Adam_
Asked by Adam to tell him about the motions of the
heavenly
bodies,
Raphael adjures him to refrain from thought on "matters hid; to serve
God and fear; and to be lowly wise.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I could have
touched!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He faces
the horror; realises it; and tries to
surmount
it on the sweep of a great
wave of religious emotion.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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188
Occasional
Pieces: written in 1807-8:
The Adieu (and 15 others) p.
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Byron |
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Has it a
speaking
virtue?
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Robert Herrick |
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I wol
merueylen
on ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In slumbers of my night-repose,
infusing
a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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What pert, low dialogue has
Farquhar
writ!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Their only
expectations
rest upon you.
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Petrarch |
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At the same time, it is a proud trait in Petrarch's character that he
showed himself on this
occasion
not only an orator and a lawyer, but a
perfect gentleman.
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Petrarch |
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