Asking what happened, scrambling to pull my
whiskers
88 who could glare or scold them just then?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and
exquisite?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Keep a watch,
watchman
there, on the tower,
For your lord: jealously he holds power,
He's more vexing than the dawn:
While words of love we speak here.
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Troubador Verse |
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Some are
little and dwarfs; so of speech, it is humble and low, the words poor and
flat, the members and periods thin and weak, without
knitting
or number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Some of his pictures
show a mastery which has rarely been
equalled
over the difficulties of
painting an immense plain as seen from a height, reaching straight away
from the eye of the spectator until it is lost in a dim horizon.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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You will
probably
have another scrawl from me in a stage or two.
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Robert Forst |
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"
The Eye
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a
mountain
veiled
with blue mist.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is
derived from texts not protected by U.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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880
Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal Love;
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Disjoyne
us, and I then too late renounce
Deitie for thee, when Fate will not permit.
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Milton |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"What's the need for saying
anything?
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Miss
Charlotte
Holmes Crawford and _Scribner's Magazine_:--"_Vive la
France!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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' Aeneas ended: they stood dumb in
silence, with faces bent
steadfastly
in mutual gaze.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[345]
The Gambia here his serpent-journey takes,
And, thro' the lawns, a thousand
windings
makes;
A thousand swarthy tribes his current laves
Ere mix his waters with th' Atlantic waves.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Chvabrine
led Pugatchef to Marya
Ivanofna's room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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blake-poems |
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Burbank crossed a little bridge
Descending
at a small hotel;
Princess Volupine arrived,
They were together, and he fell.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the
sweetest
flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the warbling birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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blake-poems |
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"
But in
curiously
passing near her I was able to divine the reason.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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During the same year, we find Petrarch complaining often
and
painfully
of his bodily infirmities.
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Petrarch |
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The porter of my father's lodge
As much
abasheth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Souldiers
Sir
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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he loved as in our times
Men love no more, as only the
Mad spirit of the man who rhymes
Is still condemned in love to be;
One image occupied his mind,
Constant affection intertwined
And an habitual sense of pain;
And distance interposed in vain,
Nor years of
separation
all
Nor homage which the Muse demands
Nor beauties of far distant lands
Nor study, banquet, rout nor ball
His constant soul could ever tire,
Which glowed with virginal desire.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Be still, thou vain
demented
soul;
My force thy craving shall control.
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Aeschylus |
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When will you bring back the
standard
and axe,1 40 unite our forces and sweep away the ill-omened comet?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He spoke: and proudly o'er the foaming tide,
Borne on the wind, the full-wing'd vessels ride;
While as they rode before the
bounding
prows
The lovely forms of sea-born nymphs arose.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms,
Whose chance on these
defenceless
doors may seize,
If deed of honour did thee ever please;
Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
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Golden Treasury |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Golden Treasury |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LE VIN DES AMANTS
Aujourd'hui l'espace est
splendide!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a
precipice
that seems to sink
Into everlasting gulfs below.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I
inclose a meteorological register, a list of the births, deaths, and
marriages, and a few _memorabilia_ of
longevity
in Jaalam East Parish
for the last half-century.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with
trembling
care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To know just how he
suffered
would be dear;
To know if any human eyes were near
To whom he could intrust his wavering gaze,
Until it settled firm on Paradise.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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God also to his servant had foresaid
The vengeance taken for Rogero's dead;
LXVI
Who shall, in vision, to his consort true
Appear
somedeal
before the dawn of day;
And shall relate how him the traitor slew,
And where his body lies to her shall say.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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'
Unmockingly the mocker ending here
Turned to the right, and past along the plain;
Whom Gareth looking after said, 'My men,
Our one white lie sits like a little ghost
Here on the
threshold
of our enterprise.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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About thy face in circles drawing near
My thought floats like a
fluttering
white wing.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her
numerous
charge among the verdant grass.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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'
The following note on Jones was
appended
to the edition of
1837:
"This excellent Person, one of my earliest and dearest friends, died
in the year 1835.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Ever alert
More evil from the
wretched
to avert,
Those hapless ones who 'neath Heaven's vault at night
Raise suppliant hands.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE HARP OF AENGUS
_Edain came out of Midher's hill, and lay
Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass,
Where time is drowned in odour-laden winds
And druid moons, and murmuring of boughs,
And sleepy boughs, and boughs where apples made
Of opal and ruby and pale chrysolite
Awake unsleeping fires; and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had been made wild by love;
When Midher's wife had changed her to a fly,
He made a harp with druid apple wood
That she among her winds might know he wept;
And from that hour he has watched over none
But
faithful
lovers.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The
strollers
in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue
disorder
of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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As the Evian on the height,
Roused from her sleep, looks wonderingly abroad,
Looks on Thrace with snow-drifts white,
And Rhodope by
barbarous
footstep trod,
So my truant eyes admire
The banks, the desolate forests.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied
patience
with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It has
long been known to observers that
squirrels
bury nuts in the ground,
but I am not aware that any one has thus accounted for the regular
succession of forests.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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{29d} The chronology of this epic, as
scholars
have worked it out,
would make Beowulf well over ninety years of age when he fights the
dragon.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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" It is
rather a
startling
sentence at first.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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quotiens
incanduit ore
confessus secreta rubor nomenque beatum
iniussae scripsere manus!
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Can it be that the morn shall fulfil
My dream, and
refashion
our clay
As the poet may fashion his rhyme?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Dinne, se la tua speme sia mai vana
E de pensieri lo miglior t' arrivi;
Cosi mi van burlando, altri rivi
Altri lidi t' aspettan, & altre onde
Nelle cui verdi sponde
Spuntati
ad hor, ad hor a la tua chioma 10
L'immortal guiderdon d 'eterne frondi
Perche alle spalle tue soverchia soma?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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no word of
sneering
scorn--
True, fallen; but God knows how deep her sorrow.
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Hugo - Poems |
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We have also heard
effective
arrangements, presumably by other
composers, of the adventures of the Table and the Chair, and of the cruise
of the Owl and the Pussy-cat,--the latter introduced into the "drawing-room
entertainment" of one of the followers of John Parry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Till even the little dark men of the south,
Who feared neither God nor man,
Those fierce, wild fighters of Afric's steppes,
Broke their
battalions
and ran:--
Ran as they never had run before,
Gasping, and fainting for breath;
For they knew 't was no human foe that slew;
And that hideous smoke meant death.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I would not have a pain to own
For those dark curls and those bright eyes
A
frowning
lip, a heart of stone,
False love and folly I despise.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Avaunt from sacred shrines,
Nor bring
pollution
by your touch on all
That nears you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"
This
blissful
day Alonzo's glories crown'd;
But pale disease now gave the secret wound;
Her icy hand his feeble limbs invades,
And pining languor through his vitals spreads.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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A star hath set, a star hath risen,
O
Geraldine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Oh the
gorgeous
Blossom-days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Visiting
churches
and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise;
I barter curl for curl upon that mart,
And from my poet's forehead to my heart
Receive this lock which
outweighs
argosies,--
As purply black, as erst to Pindar's eyes
The dim purpureal tresses gloomed athwart
The nine white Muse-brows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Who seeks for
friendship
sake
A beggar's house?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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'The
secounde
shal be Swete-Speche, 2825
That hath to many oon be leche,
To bringe hem out of wo and were,
And helpe many a bachilere;
And many a lady sent socoure,
That have loved par-amour, 2830
Through speking, whan they mighten here
Of hir lovers, to hem so dere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Down Aulus springs to slay him,
With eyes like coals of fire;
But faster Titus hath sprung down,
And hath
bestrode
his sire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Perform no
miracles
for me,
But justify Thy laws to me
Which, as the years pass by me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Happily now I've escaped, and my mistress knows Werther and Lotte
Not a whit better than who might be this man in her bed:
That he's a foreigner, footloose and lusty, is all she could tell you,
Who beyond
mountains
and snow, dwelt in a house made of wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven strongholds shall remain
Embodied
memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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in her hand
Their
destinies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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She doth not tack from side to side--
Hither to work us weal
Withouten wind,
withouten
tide
She steddies with upright keel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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the harbours thou
wouldst enter, far are they
sundered
by a long and trackless track
through length of lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The tribute of a tear is all I crave,
And the possession of a
peaceful
grave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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1922
VACHEL LINDSAY
Rhymes to be Traded for Bread
Privately
Printed; 1912
Springfield, Ill.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Notice the balmy
softness
which is given to this line by the use
of long vowels and liquid consonants.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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She was the
mother of Charles Baudelaire, and
inquired
rather anxiously of Du Camp:
"My son has talent, has he not?
| 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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Sweet smiles, mother's smiles,
All the
livelong
night beguiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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As whanne the
mornynge
sonne ydronks the dew,
Syche dothe thie valourous actes drocke[42] eche knyghte's hue.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To be jealous of a Hebe's fate
Possessed by some demon now a negress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
The sun, on the sand, O
sleeping
wrestler,
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
I bring you the child of an Idumean night!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was
withered
at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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there is ane--a
Scottish
callan!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue
Fierce and
sanguineous
as 'twas possible
In one whose brow had no dark veins to swell.
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Keats - Lamia |
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thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving
nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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bǣdde byre
geonge,
_encouraged
the youths_ (at the banquet), 2019.
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Beowulf |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What power becalms the
innavigable
seas?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The poem is told
with infinite pathos and rare
narrative
power.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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This
was the second _Battle of
Hastings_
as printed in this book.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Iris there with humid bow,
Waters the odorous banks that blow
Flowers of more mingled hew
Then her purfl'd scarf can shew,
And drenches with Elysian dew
(List mortals, if your ears be true)
Beds of Hyacinth, and roses
Where young Adonis oft reposes,
Waxing well of his deep wound 1000
In slumber soft, and on the ground
Sadly sits th'
Assyrian
Queen;
But far above in spangled sheen
Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc't,
Holds his dear Psyche sweet intranc't
After her wandring labours long,
Till free consent the gods among
Make her his eternal Bride,
And from her fair unspotted side
Two blissful twins are to be born,
Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn.
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Milton |
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--Oh, childish
thought!
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