Even the King agrees, the truth is plain,
That in
Rodrigue
your father lives again;
If you'd have me explain it in a breath,
You pursue public ruin through his death.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise:
If that ye winds would hear
A voice
surpassing
far Amphion's lyre,
Your furious chiding stay;
Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
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Golden Treasury |
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What master of the pencil or the style
Had trac'd the shades and lines, that might have made
The
subtlest
workman wonder?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She
was not an invalid, and she lived in
seclusion
from no
love-disappointment.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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) The custom of throwing a little Wine on the ground before
drinking still continues in Persia, and perhaps
generally
in the East.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Did you so,
_Diuell_?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Wherever
two or three forgather
In public places, instantly a spy
Worms himself in; the tsar himself examines
At leisure the denouncers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Her work was in the
world's
possession
for not far short of a thousand years--a thousand years
of changing tastes, searching criticism, and familiar use.
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Sappho |
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was it thy desire
That I should hide thee with my power & delight thee with my beauty
And now there
darknest
in my presence, never from my sight
Shalt thou depart to weep in secret.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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My pregnant womb is
laboring
to bring forth
Thy offspring, Archon, heir to thy just worth.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The editors are confid ent that the magazine's year will be
regarded
as notable in American literature.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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" the
flatterer
swears
'Tis true, for ten days hence 'twill be King Lear's.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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on of his
seruaunttes
was thane thore,
Page 61
293
That stode and lokeyd Alex by|fore.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
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Wilde - Poems |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence below.
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Thy
presence
grieves me--go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
A heavy and
terrible
knocking reverberates upon the door, and, as in a
hellish dream, it seems to me as though I had received a blow from a
mattock.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Our
guardsmen
have slept well, since we came in?
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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The
factions
of the great ones call,
To side with them, the commons all.
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Robert Herrick |
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Her humblesse low
In so ritch weedes and seeming glorious show, 185
Did much emmove his stout
heroicke
heart,
And said, Deare dame, your suddin overthrow
Much rueth me; but now put feare apart,
And tell, both who ye be, and who that tooke your part.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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org
CASSELL'S
NATIONAL
LIBRARY.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"Therewithal
Silvanus came, with rural honours crowned;
The
flowering
fennels and tall lilies shook
Before him.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Even her shade, nor of her feet a sign,
Outwearied
and supine,
As one who midway sleeps, upon the grass
Threw me, and there, accusing the brief ray,
Of bitter tears I loosed the prison'd flood,
To flow and fall, to them as seem'd it good.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XIX
Devouring
Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oh, the sweet life-tree that drops
Shade like light across the river
Glorified
in its for-ever
Flowing from the Throne!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Valerius
struck at Titus,
And lopped off half his crest;
But Titus stabbed Valerius
A span deep in the breast.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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(The
lengthened
shadow of a man
Is history, said Emerson
Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney straddled in the sun).
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T.S. Eliot |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the
later drama, which he composed in 1838, he depicts in lurid light
the corruption into which that
nobility
afterwards fell.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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through the sense
By which thy inner nature was apprised _50
Of outward shows, vague dreams have rolled,
And varied
reminiscences
have waked
Tablets that never fade;
All things have been imprinted there,
The stars, the sea, the earth, the sky, _55
Even the unshapeliest lineaments
Of wild and fleeting visions
Have left a record there
To testify of earth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Knowing I know not how Na
Audiart
Thou wert once she,
For whose
fairness
one forgave, Que be-m vols mal.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Banquets
and game tables, operas, balls, promenades down the Corso?
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
and
distributed
to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
or charges.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das war ein schoner
Zeitvertreib!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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" If
it is desirable to print these poems, in such an edition as this, it is
equally desirable to separate them from those which
Wordsworth
himself
sanctioned in his final edition of 1849-50.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Like some fair plant set by a
heavenly
hand,
He grew, he flourish'd, and he bless'd the land;
In all the youth his father's image shined,
Bright in his person, brighter in his mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Have ye not graceful ladies, whose
spotless
lineage springs
From Consuls, and High Pontiffs, and ancient Alban kings?
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries,
"Fools!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The melody upon clear strings inflected
Were dull when o'er taut sense thy presence floweth, With
quivering
notes' accord that never palleth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
`And hardily, ne dredeth no poverte, 1520
For I have kin and
freendes
elles-where
That, though we comen in oure bare sherte,
Us sholde neither lakke gold ne gere,
But been honured whyl we dwelten there.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of unswerving
indifference
to me?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Some, too, there are which justly are supposed
To be nor smooth nor
altogether
hooked,
With bended barbs, but slightly angled-out,
To tickle rather than to wound the sense--
And of which sort is the salt tartar of wine
And flavours of the gummed elecampane.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Lo, how dismay
Is fallen on the camp in a strange wind:
The ground, that seemed as spread with yellow embers,
Leaps into blazing, and like cinders whirled
And scattered up among the flames, are black
Bands of frantic men
flickering
about!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
His poor fingers
aimlessly
and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and laughable enough.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How, coming with his startled horse,
To where two roads a hollow cross;
Where, lone guide when a
stranger
strays,
A white post points four different ways,
Beside the woodride's lonely gate
A murdering robber lay in wait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Startled
sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows bewilder the Tartar sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
LXXXVII
Farewell!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Observ'd ye yon reverend lad
Mak faces to tickle the mob;
He rails at our
mountebank
squad,--
It's rivalship just i' the job.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
fountains
mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Thy
presence
grieves me--go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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You
understand
what he says.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Therefore
they watch'd a time when they might sift
This hidden whim; and long they watch'd in vain;
For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift,
And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
And when she left, she hurried back, as swift
As bird on wing to breast its eggs again; 470
And, patient, as a hen-bird, sat her there
Beside her Basil, weeping through her hair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The
first deals with the rules derived by classic critics from the practice
of great poets, and ever since of binding force both in the composition
and in the
criticism
of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And in these problems, shrink, my Memmius, far
From yielding faith to that
notorious
talk:
That all things inward to the centre press;
And thus the nature of the world stands firm
With never blows from outward, nor can be
Nowhere disparted--since all height and depth
Have always inward to the centre pressed
(If thou art ready to believe that aught
Itself can rest upon itself ); or that
The ponderous bodies which be under earth
Do all press upwards and do come to rest
Upon the earth, in some way upside down,
Like to those images of things we see
At present through the waters.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Here, where I dwell, I waste to skin and bone;
The curse is come upon me, and I waste
In penal torment
powerless
to atone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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candet ebur soliis, collucent pocula mensae, 45
tota domus gaudet regali
splendida
gaza.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
But comes the violence of the bigger rains
When violently the clouds are
weighted
down
Both by their cumulated mass and by
The onset of the wind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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What can hide man from
mutability?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
He turned to God for one
enlightening
ray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Scarce heard, their
chattering
lips her shoulder chill,
And her cold back their colder bosoms thrill;
All blind she wilders o'er the lightless heath,
Led by Fear's cold wet hand, and dogg'd by Death;
Death, as she turns her neck the kiss to seek,
Breaks off the dreadful kiss with angry shriek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
IGNIS-FATUUS:
With reverence be it spoken, I will try
To overcome the lightness of my nature;
Our course, you know, is
generally
zigzag.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions,
Mingling
for hypocrites their pleasure in vice and remorse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
farewell
for e'er!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
London:
documents
at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
He may have
accompanied
Richard I and Aimar V ofLimoges on the Third Crusade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
It wanteth litel I wol thee slo; 3150
For
Bialacoil
ne knew thee nought,
Whan thee to serve he sette his thought;
For thou wolt shame him, if thou might,
Bothe ageyn resoun and right.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that
with perfect complaisance devours all things, the endless pride and
outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that
fill each minute of time for ever,
What have you reckoned them for,
camerado?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
at bere
blusschande
beme3 as ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Mark having offered to defray the
expense of lodging and
preserving
his library, the republic decreed that
our poet's offer did honour to the Venetian state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The
Boeotians
seized them at Phyle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
POICTIERS, POICTIERS: this grain i' the eye of France
Had swelled it to a big and
bloodshot
ball
That looked with rage upon a world askew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
INFANT SORROW
My mother groaned, my father wept:
Into the
dangerous
world I leapt,
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I sat there mutely and biting my
passionate
lips almost bloody
Half from delight at the ruse, partly from stifled desire:
Such a long time until dark, then another four hours of waiting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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quae simul ac rostro uentosum proscidit aequor,
tortaque
remigio spumis incanuit unda,
emersere feri candenti e gurgite uultus
aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
But
sickness
gnaws him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
blondenfeax
= _grizzly-haired_ (Bright, Reader, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
Bernart de
Ventadorn
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Troubador Verse |
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Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred
brighter
eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Thou for thy wedded lord
The cleansing wave hast poured--
A treacherous
welcome!
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Aeschylus |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Strange ghostly banners o'er them float,
Strange bugles sound an awful note,
And all their faces and their eyes
Are lit with
starlight
from the skies.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Young, as
she
promised
me at Dalswinton that she would do me the honour to
introduce me at Tinwald; and it was impossible, not from your
ladyship's accessibility, but from my own feelings, that I could go
alone.
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Robert Burns |
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But woe to those women who break their oaths, who
speculate
on
the public misfortune, who seek to alter the laws and the decrees, who
reveal our secrets to the foe and admit the Medes into our territory so
that they may devastate it!
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Aristophanes |
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currite
ducentes
subtegmina, currite, fusi.
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Latin - Catullus |
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' Quod she, `Nay, by my
trouthe!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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With lips unbrightened,
wreathless
brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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