you liberty-lover of the
Netherlands!
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Whitman |
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Or, like a
starving
mountebank, expose
Thy beauty and thy tear-drowned smile to those
Who wait thy jeste to drive away thy spleen.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Chimene
You think if he's the victor I'll
surrender?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Not with such
transport
would my eyes run o'er,
Again to hail them in their native shore,
As loved Ulysses once more to embrace,
Restored and breathing in his natal place.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But Pandarus brak al this speche anoon, 1600
And seyde to Deiphebus, `Wole ye goon,
If youre wille be, as I yow preyde,
To speke here of the nedes of
Criseyde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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there are spirits of the air,
And genii of the evening breeze,
And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair
As star-beams among
twilight
trees:--
Such lovely ministers to meet _5
Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet.
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Shelley |
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the lake
A
conscious
slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was
wondering
if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL
TRANQUILLITY
AND DECAY, A SKETCH.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
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Imagists |
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No son have I nor
daughter
to succeed;
That one I had, they slew him yester-eve.
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Chanson de Roland |
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]
The very tint
Of her that I was
speaking
of but now.
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Yeats |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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) He--he--he only spoke
yesterday
afternoon.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_
'_The hues of life are dull and gray,
The sweets of life insipid,
When thou, my charmer, art away--
Old Brick, or rather, let me say,
Old
Parallelepiped!
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Lewis Carroll |
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My
comrades
furl the sails and swing the prows to shore.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Vengeance
had her own_.
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Byron |
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"Will you be good enough to stop talking
nonsense?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The heritage of a kingly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly
with human kind.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In the amplitude of her joy, the Moon filled all your chamber as with a
phosphorescent air, a luminous poison; and all this living radiance
thought and said: "You shall be for ever under the
influence
of my kiss.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Round eastward
slanteth
the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To houseward all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I
reproduce
here a lute-accompaniment
found in William Corkine's _Second Book of Ayres_ (1612).
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John Donne |
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Whene'er a
brilliant
courtly dame
Presents her quarto amiably,
Despair and anger seize on me,
And a malicious epigram
Trembles upon my lips from spite,--
And madrigals I'm asked to write!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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uncomforted
And
friendless
solitude, groaning and tears,
And savage faces, at the clanking hour,
Seen through the steams and vapour of his dungeon,
By the lamp's dismal twilight!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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2 By the
pricking
of my Thumbes,
Something wicked this way comes:
Open Lockes, who euer knockes.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Bright with the stars comes the evening, ringing with songs that are tender,
And the glow of the moon, brighter than
northern
sun.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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TVT TT-J i
Drink we the lusty robbers twain,
Black is the pitch o' their wedding dress, Lips shrunk back for the wind's caress
As lips shrink back when we feel the strain Of love that loveth in hell's disdeign
And sense the teeth through the lips that press 'Gainst our lips for the soul's distress
That
striveth
to ours across the pain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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We passed the school where
children
played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Our
Emperour
has sent you here this brief.
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Chanson de Roland |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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Troubador Verse |
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NIGHT IN NEW YORK
Haunted by unknown feet--
Ways of the
midnight
hour!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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She stood and wrung her hands, her weeping eyes
To heaven uplifted, while she thus express'd
The agitated
feelings
of her heart:
"O Thou, the First of Gods, who didst create
This world from night of darkness, and who gav'st
A heart to man!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ou hast
concludid
{and} p{ro}ued.
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Elle saigna du nez,
Et se sentant bien chaste et pleine de faiblesse,
Pour
savourer
en Dieu son amour revenant,
Elle eut soif de la nuit ou s'exalte et s'abaisse
Le coeur, sous l'oeil des cieux doux, en les devinant;
De la nuit, Vierge-Mere impalpable qui baigne
Tous les jeunes emois de ses silences gris;
Elle eut soif de la nuit forte ou le coeur qui saigne
Ecoute sans temoin sa revolte sans cris.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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And who could reproduce the sun,
At period of going down --
The lingering and the stain, I mean --
When Orient has been outgrown,
And
Occident
becomes unknown,
His name remain.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What Syrtis, what
grasping Scylla, what vast
Charybdis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[228] What a charming
apostrophe
is
"O fickle fortune, why this cruel sporting,
Why thus perplex us, poor sons of a day?
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Robert Forst |
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Beowulf |
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"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy
something
far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For, between the hands and before
the faces of his
sorrowing
parents, lo!
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That eve--that eve--I should
remember
well--
The sun-ray dropp'd, in Lemnos, with a spell
On th'Arabesque carving of a gilded hall
Wherein I sate, and on the draperied wall--
And on my eye-lids--O the heavy light!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending
at a small hotel;
Princess Volupine arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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In rapturous wonder oft I said,
Sure she in Paradise was made,
Thence sprang that bright angelic state,
Those looks, those words, that heavenly gait,
That
beauteous
smile, that voice divine,
Those graces that around her shine:
Transported I beheld the fair,
And sighing cried, How came I here?
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Petrarch |
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Gutenberg
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He tells me further that in Andrew
Clark's edition of the University Matriculation Registers it
is stated that the date of his
matriculation
was between Oct.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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This
prepared
me for something serious, since it was usually my mother
who wrote, and he only added a few lines at the end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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am I by fate, 'tis clear,
To find no grace with her my soul holds dear:
I'd nothing left; and when I saw the bird,
To kill it instantly the thought occurred;
Those naught we grudge nor spare to entertain,
Who o'er our feeling bosoms sov'reign reign:
All I can do is
speedily
to get,
Another falcon: easily they're met;
And by to-morrow I'll the bird procure.
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La Fontaine |
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We want nothing but an
increased
supply of members to enable us to give to
a large circle of readers many an equally interesting record of Early
English minds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete and ready for the revels rude,
When
dreadful
guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the
affrighted
steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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) Long live our mighty
sovereign!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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By night, by day, a-field, at hame,
The
thoughts
o' thee my breast inflame;
And aye I muse and sing thy name--
I only live to love thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life explodes
everywhere?
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
|
Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
| Guess: |
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Ronsard |
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The
portrait
of Atticus, on the other hand, was, as we know,
the work of years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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{o}u
ne mayst wel
p{er}forme
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
And of him-self
imagened
he ofte
To ben defet, and pale, and waxen lesse
Than he was wont, and that men seyden softe,
`What may it be?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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l paubres quan jai el ric ostal
No more than a beggar dare complain,
Estat ai gran sazo
I've felt, for so long, so
Raimbaut de
Vaqueiras
(c1155- fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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In newer days of war and trade,
Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
When Science armed and guided war,
And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
When France, where poet never grew,
Halved and dealt the globe anew,
GOETHE, raised o'er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life
And brought
Olympian
wisdom down
To court and mart, to gown and town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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reads mōdega for gōda, "because the attribute cannot be
separated from the word
modified
unless the two alliterate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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This allowed the fashionable lady who rose
at noon time to do a little
shopping
and perform "the long labours of
the toilet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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A just applause the cares of dress impart,
And give soft
transport
to a parent's heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I never thought that Jason sought
For any golden fleece;
But then I am a rural man,
With
thoughts
that make for peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Who writes a keener
epigram?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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What my private
sentiments
are, you will
find out without an interpreter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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228, 627, 1780, 2798);
_according
as_ (l.
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Beowulf |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And
nobility
of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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Appoloinaire |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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the
approaching
steeds your contest end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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This
gentleman
of mine hath serv'd me long;.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Again, if
it be too little, there ariseth no
pleasure
out of the object; it affords
the view no stay; it is beheld, and vanisheth at once.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" Tied for life to a woman with whom he
had not one essential sympathy, the whole of his nature was put out of
focus; and perhaps nothing but "the joy of grief," and the terrible and
fettering power of
luxuriating
over his own sorrows, and tracing them to
first principles, outside himself or in the depths of his sub-
consciousness, gave him the courage to support that long, everpresent
divorce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"To thy wife's eyes I'll bring their long-lost gleam,
I'll bring back to thy child his
strength
and light,
To him, life's fragile athlete I will seem
Rare oil that firms his muscles for the fight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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We were glad at last to come to a place of rest,
With wine enough to drink
together
to our fill,
Long I sang to the tune of the Pine-tree Wind;
When the song was over, the River-stars[46] were few.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Cease now, my flute, now cease
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Of
resemblance
of specific details not much can be made.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For this reason there is no
truth
comparable
to sorrow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A maiden shining bright of blee,
As Myrtle
branchlet
Asia bred,
Which Hamadryad deity
As toy for joyance aye befed
With humour of the dew.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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All her curls are yellow and her eyes are blue,
And her cheeks were rosy red till a secret care made
Hollow whiteness of their
brightness
as a care will do.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Let vs seeke out some
desolate
shade, & there
Weepe our sad bosomes empty
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Who would take on such an
adversary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The rats are
underneath
the piles.
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T.S. Eliot |
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