Marya arrived safely at Sofia, and, learning that the court at this time
was at the summer palace of Tzarskoe-Selo, she
resolved
to stop there.
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Nusiligga,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Surged the roar of battle round them,
Swiftly flew the iron hail,
Forward dashed a
thousand
bayonets,
That lone battery to assail.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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From these monkish
reveries
Petrarch was awakened by an astounding
public event, namely, the elevation of Cola di Rienzo to the tribuneship
of Rome.
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Petrarch |
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Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant
backbone
and neck, flesh not flabby,
good-sized arms and legs,
And wonders within there yet.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Who can
contemplate
fame through clouds unfold
The star which rises o'er her steep, nor climb?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,
Of his self-love to stop
posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thus all mie wandrynge faytour
thynkeynge
strayde,
And eche dygne buylder dequac'd onn mie mynde,
Whan from the distaunt streeme arose a mayde,
Whose gentle tresses mov'd not to the wynde; 40
Lyche to the sylver moone yn frostie neete,
The damoiselle dyd come soe blythe and sweete.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They
shall arise in America, and be responded to from the
remainder
of the
earth.
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Whitman |
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The
unappeasable
loveliness
is calling to me out of the wind,
And because your name
is written upon the ivory doors,
The wave in my heart is as a green wave, unconfined, Tossing the white foam toward you;
And the lotus that pours
Her fragrance into the purple cup
Is more to be gained with the foam Than are you with these words of mine.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Then we said,
"Our feast, too, shall soon be spread,
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_Braik_, an
instrument
for rough-dressing flax.
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Robert Burns |
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But perhaps 70
The way seems
difficult
and steep to scale
With upright wing against a higher foe.
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Milton |
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I saw them coming in: O
horrible!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For him no tree of
knowledge
is forbid,
Or sweeter if forbid.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
XXVIII
I still a
complication
view,
My country's honour and repute
Demands that I translate for you
The letter which Tattiana wrote.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Adam was a mighty man, and Noah a captain of the moving waters,
Moses was a stern and
splendid
king, yea, so was Moses.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
agitation
of my mind seemed less
hard to bear than the dark melancholy in which I had been previously
plunged.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So long as sovereigns live, the subjects kneel,
Crouching like
spaniels
at their royal heel;
But when their might flies, they are shunned by all,
Save worms, which--human-like--still to them crawl
On Troy or Memphis, on Pyrrhus the Great,
Or on Psammeticus, alike falls fate.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This was the Lamentation of Enion round the golden Feast
[[End of the First Night]]y
Eternity groand and was troubled at the image of Eternal Death
Without the body of Man an
Exudation
from his sickning limbs
Now Man was come to the Palm tree & to the Oak of Weeping
Which stand upon the edge of Beulah & he sunk down
From the Supporting arms of the Eternal Saviour; who disposd
The pale limbs of his Eternal Individuality
Upon The Rock of Ages.
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Blake - Zoas |
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About Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic
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Stephen Crane |
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Those chiefs, that used her utmost rage to meet,
Lie pierced with wounds, and
bleeding
in the fleet.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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IV
Into the darkness fared the outcast Queen;
Fearless her face, and
searching
with proud gaze
The impenetrable hour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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But, with such burthen on my
shoulders
set.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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it back returns upon a nether course
Till fired with ardour fresh
recruited
in its humble spring season
It rises up on high all summer till its wearied course
Turns into autumn.
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Blake - Zoas |
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330
They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung
Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch
On duty,
sleeping
found by whom they dread,
Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
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Milton |
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t,
&
Anticrist
to de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Not one of these;
Only when left
yourselves
to please
This morning but a moment here
'Mid papers tinted by my mind
You took some embryo verses near--
Half formed, but fully well designed
To open out.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I thuswise fashioned by rustic art
And from dried poplar-trunk (O
traveller!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Here come the
cymbaleers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That, that the se, that gredy is to flowen,
Constreyneth
to a certeyn ende so
Hise flodes, that so fiersly they ne growen
To drenchen erth and alle for everemo;
And if that Love aught lete his brydel go,
Al that now loveth asonder sholde lepe,
And lost were al that Love halt now to kepe.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Stephen Crane |
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--
But the sin
forgiven
by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway!
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Poe - 5 |
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"
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and
followed
faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never--nevermore.
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Poe - 5 |
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C'est ainsi qu'a travers l'Humanite frivole
Le vin roule de l'or,
eblouissant
Pactole;
Par le gosier de l'homme il chante ses exploits
Et regne par ses dons ainsi que les vrais rois.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
KORE
From the " Poems of
Frederic
Manning,'* published by John Murray, with whose permission we here reprint it.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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What are
Moslems?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thus Harold inly said, and passed along,
Yet not insensible to all which here
Awoke the jocund birds to early song
In glens which might have made e'en exile dear:
Though on his brow were graven lines austere,
And tranquil
sternness
which had ta'en the place
Of feelings fierier far but less severe,
Joy was not always absent from his face,
But o'er it in such scenes would steal with transient trace.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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No, I have nought to do there, nor
Am aught
connected
with that city.
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Byron |
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GLOSSARY
TO THE BIGLOW PAPERS
III.
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James Russell Lowell |
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, _in abundance, in joyous plenty_: drēamum lifdon
ēadiglīce, _lived in
rejoicing
and plenty_, 100.
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Beowulf |
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"
"I will go where I am wanted, where there's room for one or two,
And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;
Where the standing line wears thinner and the
dropping
dead lie thick;
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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of
isof is of
is
of
of
fit
This book should be
returned
to the Library on or before the last date stamped below.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The
Hesperides
& Noble Numbers: Vol.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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THE
WATCHING
ANGEL.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A cotton dress her morning gown,
Her face was rosy health:
She traced the
pastures
up and down
And nature was her wealth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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' I long to
catch the subtle music of their fairy dances and make a poem with
a rhythm like the quick
irregular
wild flash of their sudden
movements.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Tho
mightest
thou caroles seen,
And folk [ther] daunce and mery been, 760
And make many a fair tourning
Upon the grene gras springing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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]
and
enforcest
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Agamemnon's
murderer
lies
Dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Electra |
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Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where
sometime
she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose.
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Keats |
|
[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:--
"'Khayyam, who
stitched
the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
difference
to me!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And ill
Such intertwine beseems
triumphal
wreaths
Strew'd before _thy_ advancing!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome,
And
swallows
in the dusk
Circling a darkened dome!
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Sara Teasdale |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 354 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And if it be not,
wherefore
in such guise
Are they condemned?
| Guess: |
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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1 I haue no
singular
seruice=, etc.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Belike my words seem
ancientry
to thee--
Such, natheless, O Prometheus, is the meed
That doth await the overweening tongue!
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Aeschylus |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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His army stands in battle-line arrayed:
His
couriers
fly: all's done: now God decide!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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O
phantoms!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers,
pleasant
in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit - somewhat deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Nor bid me sigh for mine own cost,
Nor count its loss, for mine annoy,
Nor say my
stubbornness
hath lost
A paradise of dainty joy:
I'll not believe thee, till I know
That sober reason turns an ape,
And acts the harlequin, to show
That cares in every shape,
Heart-achings, sighs, and grief-wrung tears,
Shame-blushes at betrayed distress,
Dissembled smiles, and jealous fears,
Are nought but real happiness:
Then will I mourn what now I brave,
And suffer Celia's quirks to be
(Like a poor fate-bewilder'd slave,)
The rulers of my destiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
My First is
followed
by a bird:
My Second by believers
In magic art: my simple Third
Follows, too often, hopes absurd
And plausible deceivers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Petrarch, nevertheless, condescended to
be godfather to one of Barnabo's sons, and
presented
the child with a
gilt cup.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
The sun sets slowly on a
peaceful
world,
And sheds a quiet light across the fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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'My eye, piercing the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In
brightness
and shuddering, O jewels!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
ELWARDE, bie Syrr
_Thybbot
Gorges_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
And his ivory lyre
responds to your plaintive accents; he gathers the choir of the gods and
from their
immortal
lips rushes a sacred chant of blessed voices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
_The Men of the House of Colonna_, _The Czars_, _Charles XII Riding
Through the Ukraine_ are
portrayed
each with his individual historical
gesture, with a luminosity as strong as the colour and movement which
they gave to their time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
"
ECLOGUE III
MENALCAS
DAMOETAS
PALAEMON
MENALCAS
Who owns the flock, Damoetas?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
XXVIII
"Nor man I see, nor see I work, which shows
That man
inhabits
in this isle; nor I
See ship, in which (a refuge from my woes),
Embarking, I from hence may hope to fly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Twitchell
Copyright, 1901, by The Current
Literature
Publishing Company
AT the house of Naroumov, a cavalry officer, the long winter night had
been passed in gambling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
" Is it not more likely an ancient Superstition; a Libation to
propitiate Earth, or make her an
Accomplice
in the illicit Revel?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Alas, poor princess,
Thou divine Imogen, what thou endur'st,
Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,
A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
More hateful than the foul
expulsion
is
Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
Of the divorce he'd make!
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11-13 '_Tam gratum est
mihi quam ferunt puellae Pernici
aureolum
fuisse malum, Quod
zonam soluit diu ligatam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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No saving grace in thee was
evermore
ready,
That to have pity on me vouchsafed thy pitiless bosom?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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During my long
residence
in France, while the
Revolution was rapidly advancing to its extreme of wickedness, I had
frequent opportunities of being an eye-witness of this process, and it
was while that knowledge was fresh upon my memory, that the Tragedy of
'The Borderers' was composed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Yet what
grieving
words didst thou speak when bidding thy bridegroom
farewell!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
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Keats - Lamia |
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How
did she know of your
arrival?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I will
endeavour
you shall be his guardians
In his distraction: and for your land, Master Wellborn,
Be it good or ill in law, I'll be an umpire
Between you and this the undoubted heir
Of Sir Giles Overreach; for me, here's the anchor
That I must fix on.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And then how vain
To think we can hold back from being
enricht!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Undoubtedly, disdain alone
Should
recompense
his idle jeers,
But fools--their calumnies and sneers"--
Behold!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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