But Love, who to entangle me still sought,
Spread in the
treacherous
grass his net once more,
So fed the fire with fuel as before,
That my escape I hardly could have wrought.
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Petrarch |
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The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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See him his arms entwine
Around the image of the maid divine--
Thus aided, for the deed he wrought
Unto the
judgment
wills he to be brought.
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Aeschylus |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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There must be the steady
pressing
down
of the stamp upon the wax.
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Poe - 5 |
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And then on that
propitious
day mortal eyes gazed
on sea-nymphs with naked bodies bare to the breasts outstanding from the
foamy abyss.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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_ No, I will
languish
still;
And all the while my part shall be to weep,
And with my sighs, call home my bleating sheep:
And in the rind of every comely tree
I'll carve thy name, and in that name kiss thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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The
selfsame
day
When, port and palace open thrown,
Low at thy footstool Egypt lay,
That selfsame day, three lustres gone,
Another victory to thine hand
Was given; another field was won
By grace of Caesar's high command.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Canst hear me through the water-bass,
Cry: "To the Shore,
Sweetheart?
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Sidney Lanier |
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But if there be in glory aught of good,
It may by means far different be attain'd
Without ambition, war, or violence; 90
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance; I mention still
Him whom thy wrongs with Saintly
patience
born,
Made famous in a Land and times obscure;
Who names not now with honour patient Job?
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Milton |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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If I've a worthy
daughter
made a nun,
Is that a reason she's a saint?
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La Fontaine |
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individual
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the
Thracian
lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I dared not curse him openly; I hardly dared jog
his memory, for I was dealing with the experiences of a
thousand
years
ago, told through the mouth of a boy of today; and a boy of today is
affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies
even when he desires to speak the truth.
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Kipling - Poems |
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God could not bind these
bragging
noises up
In Nebuchadnezzar's heart; it is not his,
But made by Babylonian gods or owned
By thrones that hold the heavens over Nineveh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He seemed to view Gama with enthusiasm, and confessed that
the build of the Portuguese ships, so much
superior
to what he had seen,
convinced him of the greatness of that people.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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death doth to life
transform!
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Petrarch |
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The mayster-hunte anoon, fot-hoot, 375
With a gret horne blew three moot
At the
uncoupling
of his houndes.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Here, silent as thou art, I know thy doubt;
And gladly will I loose the knot, wherein
Thy subtle
thoughts
have bound thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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Sappho |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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While an effort has been made to discover the exact order of the
composition of the poems--and this is shown, not only in the
Chronological Table, but at the beginning of each
separate
poem--it has
been considered expedient to depart from that order in printing some of
the poems.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" He in few
Thus
answering
spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And how can I respond when you're
accused?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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So, when I weary of praising the dawn and the sun-
set,
Let me be no more counted among the immortals; But number me amid the
wearying
ones,
Let me be a man as the herd,
And as the slave that is given in barter.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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After receiving the General's letter he had rather
cleverly
got rid of
Vassilissa Igorofna by telling her that Father Garasim had heard most
extraordinary news from Orenburg, which he was keeping most profoundly
dark.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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,
_cunning
and fierce_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I tell you, girl, come embrace;
What reck we of
churchling
and priest
With hands on paunch, and chubby face?
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He did not
understand
display.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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But these ways
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;
For
silliest
ignorance on these may light,
Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right;
Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance
The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_
There is a good deal of
vacillation
in the MSS.
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John Donne |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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345
Even now she decks for me a distant scene,
(For dark and broad the gulf of time between)
Gilding that cottage with her fondest ray,
(Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my way; 350
How fair its lawns and
sheltering
[97] woods appear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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>>
Deus damoiseles moult mignotes,
Qui estoient en pures cotes,
Et trecies a une tresce,
Faisoient
Deduit par noblesce
Enmi la karole baler;
Mes de ce ne fait a parler
Comme el baloient cointement.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He knew no law, he feared no binding law,
But ground them with inexorable jaw:
The luscious fat distilled upon his chin,
Exuded from his
nostrils
and his eyes, 30
While still like hungry death he fed his maw;
Till every minor crocodile being dead
And buried too, himself gorged to the full,
He slept with breath oppressed and unstrung claw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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cm Street Boston
SELECTED POEMS OF
Gustaf Froeding
The greatest poet of a great poetic literature, adequately
introduced
to English readers.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Indeed, I have no faith in the
selected
lists
of pomological gentlemen.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice
indicating
that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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But for us
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Prostrate in love, whom anxious anguish eats,
Whom
troubles
of any unappeased desires
Asunder rip.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There was a little figure plump
For every little knoll,
Busy needles, and spools of thread,
And
trudging
feet from school.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There wait embower'd, while I ascend alone
To great
Alcinous
on his royal throne.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Again,
As all the breathing creatures which take food
Are
outwardly
unlike, and outer cut
And contour of their members bounds them round,
Each differing kind by kind, they thus consist
Of seeds of varying shape.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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His poor fingers
aimlessly
and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and laughable enough.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The moaning wind went
wandering
round
The weeping prison wall:
Till like a wheel of turning steel
We felt the minutes crawl:
O moaning wind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
net (This file was produced from images
generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Not Phoebus doth the rude Parnassian crag
So ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
Of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven
Of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,
How all that is from these
beginnings
grew,
And the young world itself took solid shape,
Then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep
Shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things
Little by little; and how the earth amazed
Beheld the new sun shining, and the showers
Fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods
'Gan first to rise, and living things to roam
Scattered among the hills that knew them not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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But I departed thence, afire, Licinius, with thy wit and
drolleries, so that food was useless to my wretched self; nor could sleep
close mine eyes in quiet, but all o'er the bed in restless fury did I toss,
longing to behold
daylight
that with thee I might speak, and again we might
be together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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"Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant,
Majoresque
cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The
wrinkles
of the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late, celestial face,
Please God, shall
ascertain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Think you, mid all this mighty sum
"Of things for ever speaking,
"That nothing of itself will come,
"But we must still be
seeking?
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Singuliere
fortune ou le but se deplace,
Et, n'etant nulle part, peut etre n'importe ou!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tennyson |
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e whiche it
comp{re}hendi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I put myself in a regimen of
admiring a fine woman; and in
proportion
to the adorability of her
charms, in proportion are you delighted with my verses.
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Robert Burns |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Who late and
lingering
seeks thy shrine,
On him but seldom, Power divine,
Thy spirit rests!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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quare cur curis te amplius
excrucies?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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As they
hastened
onward, Hrothgar's gift
they lauded at length.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I'VE lately certain
information
had,
Your spouse (I scarcely thought the man so bad,)
Has with the lady an appointment made;
At Jack's nice bagnio he will meet the jade.
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La Fontaine |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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Yeats |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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