Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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I saw the
setting sun lighting up the
opposite
side of a stately pine wood.
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I love to see the cottage smoke
Curl upwards through the trees,
The pigeons nestled round the cote
On
November
days like these;
The cock upon the dunghill crowing,
The mill sails on the heath a-going.
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--that old promise-breaker,
The cozening fortune-teller that comes whispering,
'You will have all you have wished for when you have earned
Land for your
children
or money in a pot.
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For they appear not only men that love,
The gods themselves do fill this myrtle grove:
You see fair Venus caught by Vulcan's art
With angry Mars; Proserpina apart
From Pluto, jealous Juno, yellow-hair'd
Apollo, who the young god's courage dared:
And of his
trophies
proud, laugh'd at the bow
Which in Thessalia gave him such a blow.
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Petrarch |
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If Hope
prostrate
lie,
Love too will sink and die.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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us I
confesse
{and} am aknowe q{uo}d I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'Read this without
attending
to the rhymes
and you will find it good prose.
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John Donne |
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Only thine eyes remained;
They would not go--they never yet have gone;
Lighting
my lonely pathway home that night,
They have not left me (as my hopes have) since;
They follow me--they lead me through the years.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Drugs of
Immortality
are instruments of folly.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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), though that was not the verdict
of�the
court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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fetching
it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thy
sweetheart
sits there lonely,
And all to her is close and drear.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Were the precedent dim ages debouching
westward
from Paradise so long?
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Whitman |
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Perseus escaped by looking
only at her
reflection
in his shield.
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Keats |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For help is none in me; the glorious sun
No longer sees me such, as when in aid
Of the
Achaians
I o'erspread the field
Of spacious Troy with all their bravest slain.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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* * * * *
"O Wagner, westward bring thy
heavenly
art,
No trifler thou: Siegfried and Wotan be
Names for big ballads of the modern heart.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" cried he, with
indignant
surprise.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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* * * *
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of
windows?
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T.S. Eliot |
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--
That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn
marvellously!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes,
Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
And, swiftly as a bright
Phoebean
dart,
Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!
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Keats - Lamia |
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And all was well:
Old
circumstance
resumed its former show,
And on my head the dews of comfort fell
As ere my woe.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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notations
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Meredith - Poems |
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--Out of it we
Had like
imaginations
stept to be
Beauty and golden wonder; and for the lovely fear
Of coming perfect joy, had changed
The terror that dreamt there!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wherefore
did he come to me?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And we know what it is to reign,
And finally did heark--
Aye, masters of the narrow Neck,
We
hearkened
to our heart,
And gave him freedom on our deck,
His town, and gold--in part.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Dextrously thou aim'st; 880
So willingly doth God remit his Ire,
Though late repenting him of Man deprav'd,
Griev'd at his heart, when looking down he saw
The whole Earth fill'd with violence, and all flesh
Corrupting
each thir way; yet those remoov'd,
Such grace shall one just Man find in his sight,
That he relents, not to blot out mankind,
And makes a Covenant never to destroy
The Earth again by flood, nor let the Sea
Surpass his bounds, nor Rain to drown the World 890
With Man therein or Beast; but when he brings
Over the Earth a Cloud, will therein set
His triple-colour'd Bow, whereon to look
And call to mind his Cov'nant: Day and Night,
Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost
Shall hold thir course, till fire purge all things new,
Both Heav'n and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell.
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Milton |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The hum of
multitudes
was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The son
Of the Terrible--But stay--
(Goes to the door and
examines
it.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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How your
impudence
excites my passion!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The world makes war on them,
Tunnels their granite cliffs,
Splits down their shining sides,
Plasters their cliffs with soap-advertisements,
Destroys the lonely
fragments
of their peace.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Whene'er a brilliant courtly dame
Presents her quarto amiably,
Despair and anger seize on me,
And a
malicious
epigram
Trembles upon my lips from spite,--
And madrigals I'm asked to write!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few
are
attracted
strongly to Nature.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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He
then describes the western
peninsula
of India--the shores of
Malabar--and Calicut, the capital of the Zamorim, where Gama had landed.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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No more, ye
warblers
of the wood!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[OSWALD
conducts
him to the dungeon.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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O the cursed
tormentors!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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That "irresistible needle-touch,"
as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very
core of a thought, has found a response as wide and
sympathetic
as
it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling
power.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A RING
PRESENTED
TO JULIA.
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Robert Herrick |
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And send us prying into the abyss,
To gather what we shall be when the frame
Shall be resolved to something less than this
Its
wretched
essence; and to dream of fame,
And wipe the dust from off the idle name
We never more shall hear,--but never more,
Oh, happier thought!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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inges
reioisen
hem of hir retournynge
a?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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My good I seek in the good of another,
This
marriage
means so much to all three;
Make my soul strong, or complete it swiftly.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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HE SO
HIMSELFE
HAD DREST, he had thus attempted (to take his life).
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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10
XLVII
Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
Of the great tides of the sea,
Carried past the harbour-mouth
To the deep beyond return,
I am buoyed and borne away 5
On the
loveliness
of earth,
Little caring, save for thee,
Past the portals of the night.
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Sappho |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
OP
MARYELL*
91
* DAMON THE MOWER.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Wherefore the more
That man doth justly seem to us a god,
From whom sweet solaces of life, afar
Distributed o'er
populous
domains,
Now soothe the minds of men.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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ra
On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Strangely
enough, Bessie objected and Dick laughed.
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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CLXXVII
A hundred men had past before the rest,
All taken from the poorest of the town;
And in one fashion equally were drest
Those
beadsmen
all, in black and trailing gown.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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8164
(unpublished) _al-gar_, _al-gar-balag_ in list with _(gis)-a-la_,
also an
instrument
of music.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Your lordship, I fear,
hardly hears of that, as willing to breed them in your eye and at home,
and
doubting
their manners may be corrupted abroad.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Our
general cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona; who let
us not
therefore
blame.
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Shakespeare |
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For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from
instruments
defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now the little winds, as bees,
Bowing the blooms come
wandering
where I lie
Mixt soul and body with the clover-tufts,
Light on my spirit, give from wing and thigh
Rich pollens and divine sweet irritants
To every nerve, and freshly make report
Of inmost Nature's secret autumn-thought
Unto some soul of sense within my frame
That owns each cognizance of the outlying five,
And sees, hears, tastes, smells, touches, all in one.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The victims, vow'd to each
Tartarian
power,
Eurylochus and Perimedes bore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Leave tenantless thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in
Sicilian
night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Oh, the easy,
impudent
air
With which he spoke to Marie!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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or undoe myself in sport 35
By having but that
dangerous
name in Court?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Bow,
Whom nobody happened to know;
So they gave him some soap, and said coldly, "We hope
You will go back
directly
to Bow!
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
[Illustration: THE
JUDGMENT
OF PARIS.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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'303 Sporus':
a
favorite
of Nero, used here for Lord Hervey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Your person somewhat takes the eye,
Boldness you'll find an easy science,
And if you on
yourself
rely,
Others on you will place reliance.
| 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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An
apartment
in a Palace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And soon the Caesar, with an eye a-flame
Whole nations' contact urging
To gain his soldiers gold and fame
Oh, Sun on high emerging,
Whose
dazzling
lustre fired the hells
Embosomed in grim bronze, which, free, arose
To change five hundred thousand base-born Tells,
Into his host of half-a-million heroes!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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No sound of guns or drums
Disturbs
the air.
| 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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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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The tumult crouches over us,
Or
suddenly
drifts to one side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Strait is the spot and green the sod
From whence my sorrows flow;
And soundly sleeps the ever dear
Inhabitant
below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
We know not when
Death or disaster comes,
Mightier
than battle-drums
To summon us away.
| 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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Without rest or pause--while those frumious jaws
Went
savagely
snapping around--
He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
Till fainting he fell to the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[41]
Literally
nostrils.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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IRISH
NATIONAL
DRAMATIC COMPANY AT ANTIENT CONCERT ROOMS.
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Yeats |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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From the circle of your cropped hair
there is light,
and about your male torse
and the foot-arch and the
straight
ankle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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Why how now Hecat, you looke
angerly?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The willow trees glisten,
The
sparrows
chirp under the eaves; but the face in my heart
Is a secret of music.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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