Hence his over-emphasis,
his
rhetoric
of humility.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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No Grecian art, nor Roman,
Hath yet revealed such
loveliness
as hers.
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Longfellow |
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Like mighty
footlights
burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far theatricals of day
Exhibiting to these.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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IV
Telles vous cheminez, stoiques et sans plaintes,
A travers le chaos des vivantes cites,
Meres au coeur saignant,
courtisanes
ou saintes,
Dont autrefois les noms par tous etaient cites.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Hither our nymphs and heroes did resort,
To taste awhile the pleasures of a court;
In various talk the cheerful hours they passed, 75
Of who was bit, or who capotted last;
This speaks the glory of the British queen,
And that describes a
charming
Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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"--"If I should stay,"
Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay,
And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough,
What canst thou say or do of charm enough
To dull the nice
remembrance
of my home?
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Keats - Lamia |
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He who has
suffered
shipwreck fears to sail
Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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Robert Herrick |
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The smile of love, the friendly tear,
The
sympathetic
glow!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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288
Of these four Poems
attributed
to Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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BRANDER:
Doppelt
Schwein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Circling
bloom
Crowned the loose-lifted tresses there.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The wind rose instantly, blew out
The fire of the
nocturnal
lights;
A trouble fell upon the sprites;
Oneguine lightning glances shot;
Furious he from the table rose;
All arise.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Eve
following
eve,
Dear tranquil time, when the sweet sense of Home
Is sweetest!
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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XXXVIII
There, when the rains of spring we mark
Upon the meadows showering,
The shepherd plaits his shoe of bark,(66)
Of Volga fishermen doth sing,
And the young damsel from the town,
For summer to the country flown,
Whene'er across the plain at speed
Alone she gallops on her steed,
Stops at the tomb in passing by;
The tightened
leathern
rein she draws,
Aside she casts her veil of gauze
And reads with rapid eager eye
The simple epitaph--a tear
Doth in her gentle eye appear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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" and all other
references
to Project Gutenberg,
or:
[1] Only give exact copies of it.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Driven from our course, we go
wandering
on the blind waves.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O son, this breast
Pillowed thine head full oft, while, drowsed with sleep,
Thy
toothless
mouth drew mother's milk from me.
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Aeschylus |
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)
The King of France in a loud voice has called:
"Barons and Franks, good vassals are ye all,
Ye in the field have fought so great combats;
See the pagans; they're felons and cowards,
No
pennyworth
is there in all their laws.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
{139a} "There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from
heavenly
realms.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Of
resurrection?
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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" Turning to the bards,
When she had ceas'd, I noted in their looks
A smile at her conclusion; then my face
Again
directed
to the lovely dame.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Deep love lieth under
These
pictures
of time;
They fade in the light of
Their meaning sublime.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O
wretched
minds of men!
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| Question: |
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Lucretius |
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Verbenna
down to Ostia
Hath wasted all the plain;
Astur hath stormed Janiculum,
And the stout guards are slain.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Come discente ch'a dottor seconda
pronto e libente in quel ch'elli e esperto,
perche la sua bonta si disasconda,
<>, diss' io, <
attender
certo
de la gloria futura, il qual produce
grazia divina e precedente merto.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e emperour 289
went in to
euffamyans
hous;
They axyd hym of syche a man;
he sayde he knwe there of noone.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It is one of the earliest and most thoughtful
appeals for toleration, for the candid scrutiny of religious
differences, which was written perhaps in any country--one of the
most striking symptoms of the new eddies produced in the stream of
religious feeling by the meeting currents of the
Reformation
and the
Counter-Reformation.
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John Donne |
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Poi che noi fummo in su l'orlo suppremo
de l'alta ripa, a la
scoperta
piaggia,
<>, diss' io, <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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SOLNESS _(with a glance at_ KAIA):
Halvard!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Aft hae I rov'd by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and
woodbine
twine;
And ilka bird sang o' its luve,
And fondly sae did I o' mine.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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It would have been more true to
say--for all his works
illustrate
it--that he was of the same politics
as Burke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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Hence, heap of wrath, foul
indigested
lump,
As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I savoured it slowly and did not throw a coin through the window for fear of troubling my spirit and
discovering
that not only the instrument was playing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Good health to you, mine
hostess!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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or the
skin bone or any other parte of any dead person, to be imployed
or used in any manner of Witchcrafte
Sorcerie
Charme or
Inchantment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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e han south
euerichon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Joy to
humanity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Oh,
everlasting
wearisome attire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Lo
naturale
e sempre sanza errore,
ma l'altro puote errar per malo obietto
o per troppo o per poco di vigore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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DEMOGORGON:
Ye Kings of suns and stars, Daemons and Gods,
Ethereal Dominations, who possess _530
Elysian, windless,
fortunate
abodes
Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness:
A VOICE FROM ABOVE:
Our great Republic hears: we are blest, and bless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was
withered
at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape,
And
stubborn
oaks sweat honey-dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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That may not be, (said he) ne maist thou yit
Forgo that royall maides
bequeathed
care,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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Sweeney Erect
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with
continual
surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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He even
thought of resigning his commission and going to Paris to force a
fortune from
conquered
fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For whan the sonne, cleer in sighte,
Cast in that welle his bemes brighte,
And that the heet
descended
is, 1575
Than taketh the cristal stoon, y-wis,
Agayn the sonne an hundred hewes,
Blewe, yelowe, and rede, that fresh and newe is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The fountain rears up in long
broken spears of
disheveled
water and flattens into the earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
Marya saw a lady seated on a little rustic bench
opposite
the monument,
and she went and seated herself at the other end of the bench.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"O rise, our strong
Atlantic
sons,
When war against our freedom springs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its wavering fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning
Curtains
to shut me from God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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July, 1922
CONTENTS
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
Ryton Firs
MARTIN ARMSTRONG
The Buzzards (from 'The Buzzards')
Honey Harvest
Miss
Thompson
Goes Shopping (from 'The Buzzards')
EDMUND BLUNDEN
The Poor Man's Pig (from 'The Shepherd')
Almswomen (from 'The Waggoner')
Perch-fishing " " "
The Giant Puffball (from 'The Shepherd')
The Child's Grave " " "
April Byeway " " "
WILLIAM H.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Fiercest attack
Was as a
perfumed
breeze to them, which drew
Their souls still closer unto God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A wider space, an
ornamented
grave?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But that's little use to me,
She holds me in
suspense
I vow
Like a ship upon the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
"And why, O swain of
unbelieving
mind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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We have few moments in the longest life
Of such delight and wonder as there grew,--
Nor yet unsuited to that solitude:
A burst of joy, as if we told the fact
To ears intelligent; as if gray rock
And cedar grove and cliff and lake should know
This feat of wit, this triumph of mankind;
As if we men were talking in a vein
Of
sympathy
so large, that ours was theirs,
And a prime end of the most subtle element
Were fairly reached at last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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[562] According to the scholiast, an adulterer was
punished
in the
following manner: a radish was forced up his rectum, then every hair was
torn out round that region, and the portion so treated was then covered
with burning embers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Banquets and game tables, operas, balls,
promenades
down the Corso?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy
undulation
57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er renounced 61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Implacable fate, whose
harshness
parts
My honour from my desire,
Is it written my choice, counter my heart,
Must quench forever my loving fire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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"By the singular favour of Heaven we have regained the ancient right of
being
governed
by a prince of our own nation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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What horror
spreading
through this place
Makes my distraught family flee my face?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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possum nihil ego sobrius; bibenti
succurrent
mihi quindecim poetae.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In carven coffers hidden in the dark
Have you not laid a sapphire lit with flame
And
amethysts
set round with deep-wrought gold,
Perhaps a ruby?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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That way
blocked!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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You are near to me, and your naked feet in their sandals,
And through the scent of the balcony's naked timber
I
distinguish
the scent of your hair; so now the limber
Lightning falls from heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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As a leaf
From autumn branches, or a drop of rain
That hung in
frailest
splendor from a bough--
Bright, glistening in the sunlight of God's day--
So had she clung to virtue once.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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O, sigh and shake your blue
apparel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
What this
suggests
is the fairly obvious fact that
the second poem is to some extent a reply to the first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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" and
as this was seriously meant for a joke, his laugh was
chorused
by the
seven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
"
V
"Yet," said they, "his frail speech,
Hath accents pitched like thine--
Thy mould and his define
A
likeness
each to each--
But go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And how the enemy's shell
Came crashing, heavy and oft,
Clouds of
splinters
flying aloft
And falling in oaken showers--
But ah, the pluck of the crew!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell,
There God is
dwelling
too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
/)
CONTEMPORARY VERSE VOtUMK III FEBRUARY, 1917 Number 3
THE MAN TO HIS DEAD POET By John Hall Wheelock
In the small, bare room brimmed up with
twilight
Hours long in silence I had sat
By the bed on which my youth lay dying And the poet that I once had been.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ed elli a me: <
montagna
e tale,
che sempre al cominciar di sotto e grave;
e quant' om piu va su, e men fa male.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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HIS wife he straight shut up within a tower,
Where, morn and night, he showed a husband's pow'r,
Reproach bestowed: while she
bewailed
her lot,
'Twere better far, if he'd concealed the blot;
For now, from mouth to mouth, and ear to ear,
It echoed, and re-echoed far and near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
A real tragedy was to mark that year:
his
daughter
Leopoldine being drowned in the Seine with her husband, who
would not save himself when he found that her death-grasp on the sinking
boat was not to be loosed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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They said I was a wealthy man;
My sheep upon the
mountain
fed,
And it was fit that thence I took
Whereof to buy us bread:"
"Do this; how can we give to you,"
They cried, "what to the poor is due?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"I can do no more," Madame said, between
laughing
and crying.
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Kipling - Poems |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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O ill-starred maid, what frenzy caught thy soul
The daughters too of Proetus filled the fields
With their feigned lowings, yet no one of them
Of such
unhallowed
union e'er was fain
As with a beast to mate, though many a time
On her smooth forehead she had sought for horns,
And for her neck had feared the galling plough.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And is this one of your double
Cloakes?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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how
beautiful
it is, and how glad I am
that I am alive to-day!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Yet, I dread thy nature will
Grieve more above the blighted name and ashes
Which once were mightiest in Assyria--than----
But I grow
womanish
again, and must not;
I must learn sternness now.
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Byron |
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THE
CHILDREN
OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES ARE SENT AWAY.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I am
poisoned
with the rage of song.
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Imagists |
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Meanwhile, Otho and Vitellius were held up to praise or
blame, insult
providing
the more fruitful stimulus.
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Tacitus |
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Ursley, she thinks those velvet patches grace
The candid temples of her comely face;
But he will say, whoe'er those
circlets
seeth,
They be but signs of Ursley's hollow teeth.
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Robert Herrick |
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I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the
terrible
tableaus.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The dust replaced in hoisted roads,
The birds jocoser sung;
The sunshine threw his hat away,
The orchards
spangles
hung.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This tablet has been erroneously
assigned
to Book
IV, but it appears to be Book III.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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