"Not a whit inferior to its predecessor in grand extravagance of
imagination, and delicious
allegorical
nonsense.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Like wind, leaving no
footsteps
in the grass, It will depart.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In everie merriemakeyng, fayre or wake,
I kenn'd a perpled lyghte of Wysdom's raie;
He eate downe
learnynge
wyth the wastle cake.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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]
[Footnote 297: The entry made on this
occasion
in the Lodge-books of St
Abb's is honorable to
"The brethren of the mystic level.
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Robert Burns |
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I envy light that wakes him,
And bells that boldly ring
To tell him it is noon abroad, --
Myself his noon could bring,
Yet interdict my blossom
And
abrogate
my bee,
Lest noon in everlasting night
Drop Gabriel and me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Dans l'ombre des couloirs aux
tentures
moisies,
En passant il tirait la langue, les deux poings
A l'aine, et dans ses yeux fermes voyait des points.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"I have heard," I
exclaimed
(very much to the point), "that the Bashkirs
intend to attack your fort.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ay, to you
I doubt not I seem
admirable
now,
Worthy of being sung in loudest praise;
But to myself how seem I?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I tell you this: whatever of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness
such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin caresses
stroking
her.
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Ronsard |
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The
landscape
on my sight!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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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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blake-poems |
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Fluch sei der
Hoffnung!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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at mihi per numeros ignotaque nomina rerum
temporaque et uarios casus momentaque mundi
signorumque uices
partisque
in partibus ipsis
luctandum est, quae nosse nimis, quid?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My
frivolous
muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips hitherto sealed so well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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No matter--wrong was right and right was wrong,
And freedom's bawl was
sanction
to the song.
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John Clare |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But the true voyagers are they who part
From all they love because a
wandering
heart
Drives them to fly the Fate they cannot fly;
Whose call is ever "On!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And Melancholy, silent maid,
With leaden eye, that loves the ground,
Still on thy solemn steps attend:
Warm Charity, the general friend,
With Justice, to herself severe,
And Pity
dropping
soft the sadly-pleasing tear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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10
Now must he wander o'er the
darkling
way
Thither, whence life-return the Fates denay.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lead thither; and, as thou art wont, revive
His
fainting
virtue.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And
clattered
with the pails.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A second arch is a wall
To
separate
our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
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Imagists |
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Sing in the silent sky,
Glad soaring bird;
Sing out thy notes on high
To sunbeam straying by
Or passing cloud;
Heedless
if thou art heard
Sing thy full song aloud.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Hyperbole!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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GD}
They melt the bones of Vala, & the bones of Luvah into wedges
The innumerable sons &
daughters
of Luvah closd in furnaces
Melt into furrows.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Fairest resemblance of thy Maker faire,
Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine
By gift, and thy Celestial Beautie adore 540
With
ravishment
beheld, there best beheld
Where universally admir'd; but here
In this enclosure wild, these Beasts among,
Beholders rude, and shallow to discerne
Half what in thee is fair, one man except,
Who sees thee?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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But Eugene
Stood as if struck by
lightning
fire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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TO JUVENTIUS
CONCERNING
THE CHOICE OF A FRIEND.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" KAU}
Los joyd & Enitharmon laughd, saying Let us go down
And see this labour & sorrow; They went down to see the woes
Of Vala & the woes of Luvah, to draw in their delights
And Vala like a shadow oft appeard to Urizen
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The King of Light beheld her mourning among the Brick kilns compelld
To labour night & day among the fires, her lamenting voice
Is heard when silent night returns & the labourers take their rest
O Lord wilt thou not look upon our sore
afflictions
Among these flames incessant labouring, our hard masters laugh
At all our sorrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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wæs sundes þē sǣnra þē hine swylt fornam
(_he was the slower in
swimming
as [whom?
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Beowulf |
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For as the nature of breathing creatures wastes,
Losing its body, when
deprived
of food:
So all things have to be dissolved as soon
As matter, diverted by what means soever
From off its course, shall fail to be on hand.
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Lucretius |
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Grant me pardon for my thoughts:
And for my strange petition I will make
Amends
hereafter
by some gaudy-day,
When your fair child shall wear your costly gift
Beside your own warm hearth, with, on her knees,
Who knows?
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Tennyson |
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His hands were clasped
pensively
together over his stomach, and his two
eyes were carefully rolled up into the top of his head.
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Poe - 5 |
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--Mais comme il est change, le logis d'autrefois:
Un grand feu petillait, clair, dans la cheminee,
Toute la vieille chambre etait illuminee;
Et les reflets vermeils, sortis du grand foyer,
Sur les meubles vernis
aimaient
a tournoyer.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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He once crossed the Bull Island Eddies and,
reaching
Ku-shu, was
delighted by a place called the Green Hill, which lay in the estate of
the Hsieh family.
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Li Po |
|
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In person,
according
to the description of
Aubrey, who knew him well, Marvell " was of a
middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish-faced^
cherry-cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown-haired.
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Marvell - Poems |
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In ranges as they moved distinct and bright,
On every burganet that met the light,
Some name of long renown,
distinctly
read,
O'er each majestic brow a glory shed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Such the fate they prove,
Who strive
presumptuous
with the sons of Jove!
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Foss; Bridget Bruin, Miss
Charlotte
Morland; Maire Bruin,
Miss Winifred Fraser; A Faery Child, Miss Dorothy Paget.
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Yeats |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A cackling goose among
melodious
swans.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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we; _rest insert_ my
_before_
wo.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"_
THE SPHINX
DURING the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the
invitation of a relative to spend a
fortnight
with him in the retirement
of his _cottage ornee_ on the banks of the Hudson.
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Poe - 5 |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
XVI
Chanty, thou art a lie,
A toy of women,
A
pleasure
of certain men.
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Stephen Crane |
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net
{Transcriber's note:
The
spelling
and hyphenation in the original are inconsistent, and have
not been changed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little,
alongside
personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Fy busy Lord, will it not thee suffice
To use the Rhetorique of her tongue and eyes 10
When I am waking, but that absent so
They invade mee
To
perswade
mee,
When that sleepe
Oft should keepe 15
And lock out every sence of woe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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If the grim brood, from Arctic shores that roam'd,
(Where helice, forever, as she wheels,
Sparkles a mother's
fondness
on her son)
Stood in mute wonder 'mid the works of Rome,
When to their view the Lateran arose
In greatness more than earthly; I, who then
From human to divine had past, from time
Unto eternity, and out of Florence
To justice and to truth, how might I choose
But marvel too?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the
disciple
watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[The following high-minded letter may be regarded as a sermon on
domestic morality
preached
by one of the experienced.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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I sought long days amid the cliffs
thinking
to find The body-house of him, and then
There at the blue cave-mouth my joy
Grew pain for suddenness, to see him 'live.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
They, like a spasm of the Hydra, hearing the angel
Once grant a purer sense to the words of the tribe,
Loudly
proclaimed
it a magic potion, imbibed
From some tidal brew black, and dishonourable.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The Consul, clad in his military garb, stands in the
vestibule of his house,
marshalling
his clan, three hundred and
six fighting men, all of the same proud patrician blood, all
worthy to be attended by the fasces, and to command the legions.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
| Guess: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Bands of moving bronze, emerald, yellow,
Circle the throat and arms of her,
And over the sands serpents move warily
Slow, menacing and submissive,
Swinging to the whistles and drums,
The whispering, whispering snakes,
Dreaming
and swaying and staring,
But always whispering, softly whispering.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
'
The hatch-cover is tilted; a mummy of sailcloth
Well
ballasted
with iron shoots clear of the poop;
Falls, like a diving gannet.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For they all thought he was dying, as they
gathered
'round
him crying,--
And they said, "O, how they'll miss him!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then
bethought
him the hardy Hygelac-thane
of his boast at evening: up he bounded,
grasped firm his foe, whose fingers cracked.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The green-swathed grasshopper, on treble pipe,
Sings there, and dances, in mad-hearted pranks;
There bees go courting every flower that's ripe,
On baulks and sunny banks;
And droning dragon-fly, on rude bassoon,
Attempts to give God thanks
In no
discordant
tune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
To the lover of
literature they are, until by
understanding
he can discount them,
a disadvantage because they invest the work of the poet with an
irrelevant air of strangeness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Sometimes
trooper of
The Royal Horse Guards
Obiit H.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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There
Was
twilight
dim, that far long the gloom
Mine eye advanc'd not: but I heard a horn
Sounded aloud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Stern Mars
attentive
hears the queen complain,
And to her hand commits the golden rein;
She mounts the seat, oppress'd with silent woe,
Driven by the goddess of the painted bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Ils revent que, penches sur leur petit bras rond,
Doux geste du reveil, ils
avancent
le front,
Et leur vague regard tout autour d'eux repose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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No
writings
or chest deposited in Redcliffe Church are mentioned in
Canynge's Will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam
Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream,
Till his bright self o'er his bright copy seem
Fulfillment
dropping
on a come-true dream;
So in this night of art thy soul doth show
Her excellent double in the steadfast flow
Of wishing love that through men's hearts doth go:
At once thou shin'st above and shin'st below.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
And now, Ulysses, with the swain his friend
Approach'd, when, hearing the
harmonious
lyre,
Both stood, for Phemius had begun his song.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
]
53 (return)
[ The
practice
of the Greeks in the Homeric age was the reverse of this.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
org),
you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
When Agnes passed, another sister came,
And ev'ry nun desired to do the same;
At length the
guardian
of the flock appeared,
And likewise passed, though much at first she feared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
They marched in even time, singing their
King; as whilome snowy swans among the thin clouds, when they return
from pasturage, and utter
resonant
notes through their long necks; far
off echoes the river and the smitten Asian fen.
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His
war poems and letters appear in a volume entitled _Marlborough and other
Poems_, published by the Cambridge
University
Press.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Likewise, thou canst ne'er
Believe the sacred seats of gods are here
In any regions of this mundane world;
Indeed, the nature of the gods, so subtle,
So far removed from these our senses, scarce
Is seen even by
intelligence
of mind.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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_Half stolen_, with acknowledgments, to be spoken in an
inarticulate
voice by Master ---- at the opening of the next
new theatre.
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Byron |
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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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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oh Peggy she was straight and tall as is the poplar tree,
Smooth as the
freestone
of the wall, and very dear to me.
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_Mynstrelles
Songe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And the sturdy artillery,
The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well the guns,
Unlimber
them!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a
vanished
day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till
helpless
to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This is the story:
Corporal Slane was engaged to be married to Miss Jhansi M'Kenna,
whose history is well known in the
regiment
and elsewhere.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But, like most of the numerous
epigrams
that have been made
about epic poetry, the remark does not describe the nature of epic, but
rather one of the conspicuous signs that that nature is fulfilling
itself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The Jew Of Malta
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Among the smoke and fog of a
December
afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--
With "I have saved this afternoon for you";
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
Drinking
late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Golden Treasury |
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