And
therefore
take thee that tap.
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& nine dark sleepless nights
But on the tenth bright trembling morn the Circle of Destiny Completet
Round rolld the Sea Englobing in a watry Globe self balancd*
{a light line appears through this line LFS} A Frowning Continent appeard Where Enion in the Desart
Terrified in her own
Creation
viewing her woven shadow
Sat in a sweet dread intoxication of false woven bliss self woven sorrow Repentance & Contrition*
{sequence of revisions, appearent in order presented here LFS} There is from Great Eternity a mild & pleasant rest
Namd Beulah a Soft Moony Universe feminine lovely
Pure mild & Gentle given in Mercy to those who sleep
Eternally.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Why this bemoaning and
beweeping
death?
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Lucretius |
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In battle it was the bravest who took spoils; but those whom they suffered to seize their houses, force away their children, and exact levies, were, for the most part, the cowardly and effeminate; as if the only lesson of
suffering
of which they were ignorant was how to die for their country.
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Tacitus |
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Can la verz folha s'espan
When the
greenery
unfolds
And the branch is white with flower,
With sweet birdsong in that hour
My heart gently onward goes.
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Troubador Verse |
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Who
whispers
him so pantingly and close?
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Keats |
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Symonds, of Hereford, about the year 1800, made one hogshead of cider
entirely from the rinds and cores of apples, and another from the pulp
only, when the first was found of
extraordinary
strength and flavor,
while the latter was sweet and insipid.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hardly the
springtime
knows
For which today the cuckoo calls,
And the white blossom blows.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
`Yes, yes,' quod he, `and bet wole er I go;
But, by my trouthe, I
thoughte
now if ye
Be fortunat, for now men shal it see.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
Which to their corses came again,
But a troop of spirits blest:
For when it dawned--they dropped their arms,
And
clustered
round the mast;
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Cuchulain
has gone out to die.
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Yeats |
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Master, hold
disaster
off
From the crest and from the trough;
Heartsease, on the heartache sea
God, thy God, will pilot thee.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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>>,
a dir mi
comincio
tutto rivolto;
<
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Were't not
That there is magic in that harp of his,
That makes me fear to raise a hand against him,
I would be of your mind; but when he plays it
Strange
creatures
flutter up before one's eyes,
Or cry about one's ears.
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Yeats |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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At last
Pugatchef
came out of the house.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Fiercely the orderly rode down the slope of the
corn-field--scarred and forlorn,
Rutted by violent wheels, and scathed by the
shot that had plowed it in scorn;
Fiercely, and burning with wrath for the sight
of his comrades crushed at a blow,
Flung in broken shapes on the ground like
ruined memorials of woe:
These were the men whom at
daybreak
he knew,
but never again could know.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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III
Among the hired
dismantlers
entered there
One till the moment of his task untold.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There are red
serpents
a hundred feet long,
And black snakes ten girths round.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_Cecil Chesterton_
THE NAME OF FRANCE
Give us a name to fill the mind
With the shining thoughts that lead mankind,
The glory of learning, the joy of art,--
A name that tells of a splendid part
In the long, long toil and the strenuous fight
Of the human race to win its way
From the feudal
darkness
into the day
Of Freedom, Brotherhood, Equal Right,--
A name like a star, a name of light--
I give you _France!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It is said of
the
incomparable
Virgil that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and
after formed them with licking.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They hang us now in
Shrewsbury
jail:
The whistles blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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LONG have I framed weak
phantasies
of Thee,
O Willer masked and dumb!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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So have I seen a rocke o'er others hange, 175
Who
stronglie
plac'd laughde at his slippry state,
But when he falls with heaven-peercynge bange
That he the sleeve unravels all theire fate,
And broken onn the beech thys lesson speak,
The stronge and firme should not defame the weake.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The music for this sestina
survives
in manuscript.
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Troubador Verse |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Wilt overtread
The eternal judgment, and abate
And spoil the
portions
of the dead?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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With a
breathing
and a flooding
Of the heaven-life on the whole,
While we hear the forests budding
To the music of the soul--
Yet is it tuned in vain?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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E quella a me: <
che
ricordarsi
del tempo felice
ne la miseria; e cio sa 'l tuo dottore.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The yells
which had ceased for a moment were
redoubled
anew.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ere yet aware of her, the ancient dame
On Doralice and
Mandricardo
came.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is there one Frank, that you to hang
committeth?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Returning home, a great eel on my
shoulder, his head
flapping
down in front, his tail sweeping the ground
behind, I met a fisherman of my acquaintance.
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Yeats |
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and is Lady
Mackenzie
recovering her
health?
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"
While thus he spake, his
changeful
look declar'd
In his proud breast what starting passions warr'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Nicolas, whose Edition has
reminded
me of several things, and
instructed me in others, does not consider Omar to be the material
Epicurean that I have literally taken him for, but a Mystic, shadowing
the Deity under the figure of Wine, Wine-bearer, &c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A
perilous
gash, a very limb lopp'd off.
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Shakespeare |
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--'tis well--I feared,
The Stranger had some pitiable sorrow
Pressing upon his
solitary
heart.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Violet now, in veil on veil of evening
The hills across from Cromwell grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol
In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are;
The
primrose
has opened her pale yellow flowers
And heaven is lighting star after star.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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A fog about the coppice drifts,
Or slowly
thickens
up and lifts
Into the moist, despondent air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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at
so{m}men
iugen wor?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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tolian warrior tugg'd his weighty spear:
Then sudden waved his flaming
falchion
round,
And gash'd his belly with a ghastly wound;
The corpse now breathless on the bloody plain,
To spoil his arms the victor strove in vain;
The Thracian bands against the victor press'd,
A grove of lances glitter'd at his breast.
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Iliad - Pope |
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If Bon-Bon had been astonished at the incident of the book, his
amazement was now much increased by the
spectacle
which here presented
itself to view.
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Poe - 5 |
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O lead me onward to the
loneliest
shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.
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John Clare |
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Now mine hand shall give thee defence in
war, and lead thee to great reward: do thou, when
hereafter
thine age
ripens to fulness, keep this in remembrance, and as thou recallest the
pattern of thy kindred, let thy spirit rise to thy father Aeneas, thine
uncle Hector.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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" I
answering
thus:
"Forese!
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Rilke - Poems |
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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy
unworthiness
rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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How had he
squandered
his money?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I was disturbed at this;
I
accosted
the man.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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_ Plainly know, I would not change
My ill fortune for thy servitude,
For better, I think, to serve this rock
Than be the faithful
messenger
of Father Zeus.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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C'est cele qui fait a usure
Prester mains por la grant ardure
D'avoir
conquerre
et assembler.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" and engaging his more
animated
brother to
flourish the Cid's sword and roar the tyrant's speeches.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Children
ran there joyously.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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"Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these
strangers
in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Prayers and praises are those spotless two
Lambs, by the law, which God
requires
as due.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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There came a
companion
to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart's Pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The tear of pity which he sheds,
He asks not to receive;
Let but his poor remains be laid
Obscurely
in the grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Soft gales and dews of life's delicious morn,
And thou, lost
fragrance
of the heart return!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Soft gales and dews of life's delicious morn,
And thou, lost
fragrance
of the heart return!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Baligant
sees his gonfalon disgraced,
And Mahumet's standard thrown from its place;
That admiral at once perceives it plain,
That he is wrong, and right is Charlemain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Baligant
sees his gonfalon disgraced,
And Mahumet's standard thrown from its place;
That admiral at once perceives it plain,
That he is wrong, and right is Charlemain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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One of them, "The Press-gang," is
familiar
in Giles's
translation.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--Amid all my hurry of business,
grinding the faces of the
publican
and the sinner on the merciless
wheels of the Excise; making ballads, and then drinking, and singing
them!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Magnificence, the sum of all the virtues, wins the
victory over Carnal Pride, and
restores
Holiness to its better half, Truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep
vermilion
in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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" In the first the
syllable
is enunciated in a level manner:
the voice neither rises nor sinks.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The process was
perfectly
natural.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He
told the ladies they might change their
husbands
and marry into the
official classes, but they refused, saying that they were pledged to
isolation and poverty and could not marry again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Phlebas, le Phenicien, pendant quinze jours noye,
Oubliait
les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,
Et les profits et les pertes, et la cargaison d'etain:
Un courant de sous-mer l'emporta tres loin,
Le repassant aux etapes de sa vie anterieure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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--C'est Cythere,
Nous dit-on, un pays fameux dans les chansons,
Eldorado
banal de tous les vieux garcons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Have you of God, the world, and all that it contains,
Of man, and all that stirs within his heart and brains,
Not given
definitions
with great power,
Unscrupulous breast, unblushing brow?
| 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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LIV
About the stripling's neck, a splendid string
Of gems,
descending
to mid-breast, is wound;
On each once manly arm, now glittering
With the bright hoop, a bracelet fair is bound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for
constant
heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"Self-immolated to his friend,
Shrined in world's wonder, Homer's page,
Is this the man, the less than men
Of this
degenerate
age?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
XVI
Of
cavaliers
and footmen such the squeeze,
That hardly can the place the press contain:
They cluster there as thick as swarming bees,
Who thither from each passage troop amain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I shall do so:
But I must also feele it as a man;
I cannot but
remember
such things were
That were most precious to me: Did heauen looke on,
And would not take their part?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
NOT long ago, then, in the city dwelled,
A master, who in
teaching
law excelled;
In other matters he, howe'er, was thought
A man that jollity and laughter sought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And whan she herde him werne hir so, 1485
She hadde in herte so gret wo,
And took it in so gret dispyt,
That she,
withoute
more respyt,
Was deed anoon.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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They both elaborately exposed the three demands of the
Roman people, namely, that the Pope, already the acknowledged patron of
Rome, should assume the title and functions of its senator, in order to
extinguish the civil wars kindled by the Roman barons; that he should
return to his pontifical chair on the banks of the Tiber; and that he
should grant
permission
for the jubilee, instituted by Boniface VIII.
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Petrarch |
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Muffling his face, of greeting friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so
ruefully?
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Keats |
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And left--her slender sweetness to divine,
Alone a necklace
wreathed
with silken tresses,
(With which a godly friend arrayed her shrine)
A marble block amid the weeds and cresses.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He stops the richest tyrant's breath
And lays his
mischief
still.
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John Clare |
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More force those shields, those helms, those breast-plates show
Than anvils
underneath
the sounding blow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Who
overcame
he?
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Shakespeare |
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And
this
accounts
for his prompt and general acceptance by the world of his
day.
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Alexander Pope |
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Here is the glen, and here the bower,
All
underneath
the birchen shade;
The village-bell has told the hour--
O what can stay my lovely maid?
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Robert Forst |
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A fog about the coppice drifts,
Or slowly thickens up and lifts
Into the moist,
despondent
air.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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