The wood still
cheerfully and unsuspiciously echoes the strokes of the axe that fells
it, and while they are few and seldom, they enhance its wildness, and
all the elements strive to
naturalize
the sound.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thucydides, who mark'd distinct and clear
The tardy round of many a bloody year,
And, with a master's graphic skill, pourtray'd
The fields, "whose summer dust with blood was laid;"
And near Herodotus his
ninefold
roll display'd,
Father of history; and Euclid's vest
The heaven-taught symbols of that art express'd
That measures matter, form, and empty space,
And calculates the planets' heavenly race;
And Porphyry, whose proud obdurate heart
Was proof to mighty Truth's celestial dart;
With sophistry assail'd the cause of God,
And stood in arms against the heavenly code.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
youthful
knight for reptiles had, we find,
Less dread than what prevails with human kind;
He bore them in his arms:--they marked his birth;
From noble Cadmus sprung, who, when on earth,
At last, to serpent was in age transformed;
The adder's bush the clown no longer stormed;
No more the spotted reptile sought to stay,
But seized the time, and quickly crept away.
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La Fontaine |
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--Il n'est pas une jeune fille catholique
a laquelle on ne l'ait appris, pendant les jours de preparation a la
communion sainte, pas un berger des bords de la
Blackwater
qui ne le
puisse redire a la veillee.
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Yeats |
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leave them for the waking;
Throw them earthward where they grew;
Dim are such beside the breaking
Amaranths he looks unto:
Folded eyes see
brighter
colours than the open ever do.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In the rich South there flows
A
fountain
from the sun its name that wins,
This marvel still that shows,
Boiling at night, but chill when day begins;
Cold, yet more cold it grows
As the sun's mounting car we nearer see:
So happens it with me
(Who am, alas!
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Petrarch |
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Now gift of
treasure
and girding of sword,
joy of the house and home-delight
shall fail your folk; his freehold-land
every clansman within your kin
shall lose and leave, when lords high-born
hear afar of that flight of yours,
a fameless deed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[William Shakespeare]
"'Neath blue-bell or streamer--
Or tufted wild spray
That keeps, from the dreamer,
*The
moonbeam
away--
Bright beings!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on,
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Now many an earl
of Beowulf brandished blade ancestral,
fain the life of their lord to shield,
their praised prince, if power were theirs;
never they knew, -- as they neared the foe,
hardy-hearted heroes of war,
aiming their swords on every side
the accursed to kill, -- no keenest blade,
no farest of
falchions
fashioned on earth,
could harm or hurt that hideous fiend!
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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The question is whether it would be for the good of
Individualism that such an
advantage
should be taken away.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
And we walked on, till in a quiet cover we saw a man
scooping
up
the foam and putting it into an alabaster bowl.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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From an early period they had been admitted to some share
of
political
power.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This is the sum of the profitable uses
of
individuals
or states, and of present action and grandeur, and of the
subjects of poets.
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Whitman |
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With whomsoever they come to sojourn, by him they are maintained; always
very prodigal of the substance of others, always despising what is their
own, till the
feebleness
of old age overtakes them, and renders them
unequal to the efforts of such rigid bravery.
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Tacitus |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Of all
the
qualities
we assign to the author and director of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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Robert Forst |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter,
slumbering
in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Woe to the conquering, not the
conquered
host,
Since baffled Triumph droops on Lusitania's coast.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[Footnote 1: An extraordinary production for a boy of twelve, but we
need not suppose that if 'Elenoure and Juga' were written in 1764 and
not published until 1769 no alterations and
improvements
were made by
its author in the period between these dates.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Fleeing, he sought our South-Dane folk,
over surge of ocean the Honor-Scyldings,
when first I was ruling the folk of Danes,
wielded, youthful, this
widespread
realm,
this hoard-hold of heroes.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Last year came out our
Daughter
Dell,
And all the Birds received her well.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Then my hammock should be silk,
White as milk;
And, more soft than down of dove,
Velvet cushions where I sit
Should emit
Perfumes
that inspire love.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: XIX
So often forging peace, so often fighting,
So often breaking up, and then re-forming,
So often blaming Love, so often praising,
So often
searching
out, so often fleeing,
So often hiding ourselves, so often revealing,
So often under the yoke, so often freeing,
Making our promises and then retracting,
Are signs that Love strikes at our very being.
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Ronsard |
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The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea,
than he is of the fruition of his love, and of all
perfection
and beauty.
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Whitman |
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They clapped their hands, and set up
a shout of
laughter
which shook the theatre.
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| Question: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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e mounte3,
[E] Vch hille hade a hatte, a myst-hakel huge;
Broke3 byled, & breke, bi bonkke3 aboute,
Schyre
schaterande
on schore3, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Rodrigue
I haste towards that hour
That yields my being to your
vengeful
power.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the
dreadful
light shall break.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's
lordliest
pageants!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yes, I know:
Like swimming against a mighty will, that wears
The cruelty, the race and scolding spray
Of
monstrous
passionate water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The next long hour slowly strikes at last,
The whole house stirs again, the feast is past,
And sadly passes by the
afternoon
.
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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PROMETHEUS
Yet,--though in shackles close and strong
I lie in wasting torments long,---
Yet the new tyrant, 'neath whose nod
Cowers down each blest
subservient
god,
One day, far hence, my help shall need,
The destined stratagem to read,
Whereby, in some yet distant day,
Zeus shall be reaved of pride and sway:
And no persuasion's honied spell
Shall lure me on, the tale to tell;
And no stern threat shall make me cower
And yield the secret to his power,
Until his purpose be foregone,
And shackles yield, and he atone
The deep despite that he hath done!
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Aeschylus |
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Elwin's idea that in the 'Essay on Man' Pope, "partly the
dupe, partly the accomplice of Bolingbroke," was attempting
craftily
to
undermine the foundations of religion, is a notion curiously compounded
of critical blindness and theological rancor.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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We seek the Brocken here, on the Walpurgis night,
Then hold ourselves, when here,
completely
isolated!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It were
dishonour
double-dyed.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Marya
Ivanofna
looked disturbed, and grew very red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Ada Turrell and the
_Saturday
Review_:--"My Son.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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{31b}
Repeated
in the following Latin.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All human beings, not utterly savage, long for some
information about past times, and are
delighted
by narratives
which present pictures to the eye of the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lord, how they picked off our men, from the
treacherous
vantage-ground of the wood!
| 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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'Twill turn out
dangerous
maybe, but still,--a game.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The malice which he bears to one or two,
Makes him
unjustly
hate and blame the rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Let's hush over all that's denied us,
Let's promise at peace to remain,
Though
everything
else be decried us
But still a stroll-round atwain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet sometimes this or that deceit
Encountered
punishment
complete,
And sometimes into snares as well
Himself just like a greenhorn fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And--no, he wa'n't resigned,
But
concluded
he had missed his find.
| 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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"
MENALCAS
"I am all hers; she wept to see me go,
And,
lingering
on the word, 'farewell' she said,
'My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Antiquaries differ widely as to the
situation
of the field of
battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Leave me, with the weight
Of that old Man's forgiveness on thy heart,
Pressing
as heavily as it doth on mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
In Yen and Chao are many fair ladies,
Beautiful
people with faces like jade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The majority of people spoil their lives by an
unhealthy
and exaggerated
altruism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Some of these seem to have an
autobiographic
interest
sufficient to justify their publication.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
[23]
Restored
from Tab.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As too narrow by far for his expatiation ;
Digitized by VjOOQIC
284 THE POEMS
But do not consider how in process of times,
That for namesake he may with Hyde-Park it
enhirge,
And with that
convenience
he soon, for his crimes,
At Tyburn may land and spare the Tower-
barge.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Nothing the dire
contagion
can oppose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Baudelaire
divined the work of the artist and set it
down scrupulously in a prose of exceeding rectitude.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I
approached
him, gave my name and reason for
searching him out, and asked him if he did not find the sun rather hot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Ah me,
My brother, should it strike not him, but thee,
This
wrestling
with dark death, behold, I too
Am dead that hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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This brilliant and versatile author has
written many essays on phases of the war, including weekly contributions
to _The
Illustrated
London News_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Hesperides, an
inference
from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A Negress
Possessed by some demon now a negress
Would taste a girl-child saddened by strange fruits
Forbidden ones too under the ragged dress,
This glutton's ready to try a trick or two:
To her belly she twins two
fortunate
tits
And, so high that no hand knows how to seize her,
Thrusts the dark shock of her booted legs
Just like a tongue unskilled in pleasure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Stripedest,
kickingest
kittens escaped,
Caterwauling "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
Renounced their poor relations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
And turned to tiny tigers
In the humorous forest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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`And over al this, your fader shal despyse
Us alle, and seyn this citee nis but lorn;
And that
thassege
never shal aryse, 1480
For-why the Grekes han it alle sworn
Til we be slayn, and doun our walles torn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O, write my name among that
minstrel
choir,
And my proud head shall strike upon the sky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
His life was replete
with
romantic
episodes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His children as
pleasant
and happy as he,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Complaining
of me, indeed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of
Sicilian
July, with Etna smoking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
No, no;
But to our own work, to the blaze we
kindled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Have ye not
graceful
ladies, whose spotless lineage springs
From Consuls, and High Pontiffs, and ancient Alban kings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
She
touches these themes
sometimes
lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is
never by any chance frivolous or trivial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
is child to cherche com,
To
vnderfonge
cristendom,
As ri?
| 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 |
|
White Beast Hall is
properly
White Tiger Hall, renamed because of the taboo on Tang Taizu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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This
reasoning
will tell thee why.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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As ye hae generous done, if a' the land
Would take the Muses'
servants
by the hand;
Not only hear, but patronize, befriend them,
And where he justly can commend, commend them;
And aiblins when they winna stand the test,
Wink hard, and say The folks hae done their best!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
blanching
moon rides high and free, The lamps like stars amid the trees Throw fluctuating arabesques
Upon the feather-fingered breeze.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Behold (says he) the
fountain
of our woe.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A man whose father and mother were Irish
Ran a goat farm half-way down the mountain;
He drove a covered wagon years ago,
Understood
how to handle a rifle,
Shot grouse, buffalo, Indians, in a single year,
And now was raising goats around a shanty.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Madman, by Khalil Gibran
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Aux maigres
orphelins
sechant comme des fleurs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Noble king,
conquered
are all our troops,
And the admiral to shameful slaughter put!
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Chanson de Roland |
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ealne ūtan-weardne, 2298; gif hē þæt eal gemon, 1186, 2428;
þæt eall geondseh, recedes geatwa, 3089; ealne wīde-ferhð,
_through
the
whole wide life, through all time_, 1223; instr.
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Beowulf |
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O my
abandoned
youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
These words soft pity in the chief inspire,
Touch'd with the dear
remembrance
of his sire.
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Iliad - Pope |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But, finding that of the
Hindoos inaccessible, he had
recourse
to art.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--
don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible
of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your blandishment?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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