Two notes are especially struck by them: the
passions
and
the absurdity of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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To think the
difference
will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond
the difference.
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distribute it in the United States without
permission
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thou Celtiber art, in Celtiberia born,
Where man who's urined
therewith
loves a-morn
His teeth and ruddy gums to scour and score;
So the more polisht are your teeth, the more 20
Argue they sipping stale in ampler store.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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sawest thou the impious Polypheme _370
Feasting upon your loved
companions
now?
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Shelley |
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Sanborn brought out a book
entitled
"Poems of
Nature by Henry David Thoreau," in which were collected "perhaps two
thirds of [the poems] which Thoreau preserved.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
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La Fontaine |
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Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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Whitman |
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Perishing
gloomily,
Spurr'd by contumely,
Cold inhumanity,
Burning insanity,
Into her rest.
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Golden Treasury |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Cuchulain has killed kings,
Kings and sons of kings,
Dragons out of the water and witches out of the air,
Banachas
and Bonachas and people of the woods.
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Yeats |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Rilke - Poems |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
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Troubador Verse |
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And now the
profundity
of the sky dismays me!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
Thus having spoke, the
illustrious
chief of Troy
Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A most gentle maid
Who dwelleth in her
hospitable
home
Hard by the Castle, and at latest eve,
(Even like a Lady vow'd and dedicate
To something more than nature in the grove)
Glides thro' the pathways; she knows all their notes,
That gentle Maid!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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,
ballad-making is now as
completely
my hobby-horse as ever
fortification was Uncle Toby's; so I'll e'en canter it away till I
come to the limit of my race--God grant that I may take the right side
of the winning post!
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Robert Burns |
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There
pilgrims
climb slowly one by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
With him I will walk till day is done
Up the pathway that no one knows .
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Rilke - Poems |
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But he himself is coming
To his ancestral throne with
dreadful
escort.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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It must
give it up because, as a wise man once said many
centuries
before
Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone; there is no such
thing as governing mankind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Golden Treasury |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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First, from all things
We see soever, evermore must flow,
Must be
discharged
and strewn about, about,
Bodies that strike the eyes, awaking sight.
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Lucretius |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats - Lamia |
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I see the long river-stripes of the earth,
I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,
I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River,
the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the
Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder,
I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the
Venetian
along the Po,
I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But cruel day, so wel-awey the
stounde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Can you not let them rest, those sacred ghosts
Of our dead selves—yes, yours and mine and theirs Who knew not life, yet wept its utmost cares And laughed more joys than all
creation
boasts?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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COMB in the death-foreboded park, to view
How yonder smiling bank in radiance shimmers,
The virgin cloudlets'
unexpected
blue
Upon the tarn and tinted pathway glimmers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Chvabrine
was very witty.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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'Our great protestant divines' are one of his courts of appeal,
and
included
Luther and Calvin of whom he never speaks but with the
deepest respect.
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John Donne |
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The little dog
retreated under the sofa cushion, and showed by the fat white back of
him that he really had no further
interest
in the discussion.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Why is Time such a niggard of
hair, being, as it is, so
plentiful
an excrement?
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Shakespeare |
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Spotless
the oilcloth on the floor,
Limpid as water each glass case,
Each thing precisely in its place.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Most strange of all that we so young
Dared learn but would not speak love's tongue,
Love pledged but in the reveries
Of our sad and
dreaming
eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For while
under the present system a very large number of people can lead lives of
a certain amount of freedom and expression and happiness, under an
industrial-barrack system, or a system of
economic
tyranny, nobody would
be able to have any such freedom at all.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But, old owl, you should
eternally
pray God for me and my lads
that you and your master do not swing up there with the other rebels.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Bishop Colonna and
Petrarch had
intended
to remain for some time at Toulouse; but their
sojourn was abridged by their horror at a tragic event[D] in the
principal monastery of the place.
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Petrarch |
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How mighte it ever y-red ben or y-songe,
The pleynte that she made in hir
distresse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A war on tick's ez dear 'z the deuce,
But it wun't leave no lastin' traces, 50
Ez 'twould to make a sneakin' truce
Without no moral specie-basis:
Ef
greenbacks
ain't nut jest the cheese,
I guess ther' 's evils thet's extremer,--
Fer instance,--shinplaster idees
Like them put out by Gov'nor Seymour.
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James Russell Lowell |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was
scarcely
visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Why with the animals
wanderest
thou on the plain?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"The Holy Fair," though
stained in one or two verses with personalities, exhibits a scene
glowing with character and incident and life: the aim of the poem is
not so much to satirize one or two Old Light divines, as to expose and
rebuke those almost indecent festivities, which in too many of the
western parishes accompanied the
administration
of the sacrament.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Fondly I gaz'd
Upon those patterns of meek humbleness,
Shapes yet more precious for their artist's sake,
When "Lo," the poet whisper'd, "where this way
(But slack their pace), a
multitude
advance.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their spindles the consenting Fates
By Destiny's
unalterable
decree.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But over them, lying there,
shattered
and mute,
What deep echo rolls?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How can you shame to act this part
Of
unswerving
indifference to me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Two separate--yet most
intimate
things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE IN THE
PRESIDENCY
IN ANSWER
TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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507-583)
The road that I came by mounts eight
thousand
feet:
The river that I crossed hangs a hundred fathoms.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The larger portion of the
original
draft
subsequently became the property of the present editor, but it is not
considered just to the poet's memory to publish it.
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Poe - 5 |
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Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright
Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night,
And flamed, one
brilliant
instant, on the world,
Then back into the historic moat was hurled
And Night was King again, for many years.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I
The clowdy
Messenger
turnes me his backe,
And hums; as who should say, you'l rue the time
That clogges me with this Answer
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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) I could give
you many
instances
to the contrary, though not from memory.
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Li Po |
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Note: The last two lines remain perplexing, but suggest that Guillaume was
inviting
a similarly ironic song, a counter or duplicate, in reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Troubador Verse |
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Next in order have these
mourners their place whose own
innocent
hands dealt them death, who
flung away their souls in hatred of the day.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Give me O God to sing that thought,
Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,
In Thy ensemble, whatever else
withheld
withhold not from us,
Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
Health, peace, salvation universal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sometimes, as on the Western Railroad,
you are whirled over mountainous embankments, from which the scared
horses in the valleys appear
diminished
to hounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And we
probably
never shall see her more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
As we approached Orenburg we saw a crowd of
convicts
with cropped heads,
and faces disfigured by the pincers of the executioner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Tertius van Dyke and the _Spectator_:--"Oxford
Revisited
in
War-Time.
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"Sit and roast there with your meat, sit and bake there with your bread,
You who sat to see us starve," one
shrieking
woman said:
"Sit on your throne and roast with your crown upon your head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
But
where the prince is good,
Euripides
saith, "God is a guest in a human
body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| 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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'This ill-timed compliment to himself, Jonson might have spared, with
some
advantage
to his judgment, at least, if not his modesty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The styles are taken from
Classical
art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Young Charlie Cochran
Was the sprout of an aik;
Bonnie and bloomin'
And
straught
was its make:
The sun took delight
To shine for its sake,
And it will be the brag
O' the forest yet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"Will he obey when one
commands?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
A
wretched
life and worse death they'll win,
A grievous time, whether far or near;
And Saracen, Turk, Persian, Paynim,
Who, more than all, found you to dread,
Will grow in pride and power instead.
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These bungalows are
objectionable
places to put up in.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And thus it led me back, ashamed and slow,
To see those eyes with love's own lustre rife
Which I am watchful never to offend:
Thus may I live
perchance
awhile below;
One glance of yours such power has o'er my life
Which sure, if I oppose desire, shall end.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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My cries alone make the
woodlands
ring,
And the idle horses all forget my calling.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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quae_ G:
_Orcique_
COVen ||
_bella al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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We will swap horses with the rising moon,
And mend that funny skillet called Orion,
Color the stars like San Francisco's street-lights,
And paint our sign and signature on high
In planets like a bed of crimson pansies;
While a million fiddles shake all listening hearts,
Crying good fortune to the Universe,
Whispering
adventure to the Ganges waves,
And to the spirits, and all winds and gods.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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To male
acquaintances
he bows,
And finally he deigns let fall
Upon the stage his weary glance.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A month has flown already
Since,
cloistered
with his sister, he forsook
The world's affairs.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I have no earthly spot where I can live,
I have no love, I have no household fane,
And all the things to which myself I give
Impoverish me with
richness
they attain.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So
afterwards
they made sky ladders and hanging bridges.
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Li Po |
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sed quicumque deus, quicumque
uocaberis
heros,
sit soror et mater, sit puer incolumis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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