--
But still he holds the wedding-guest--
There was a Ship, quoth he--
"Nay, if thou'st got a
laughsome
tale,
"Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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From out the Christall palace of her breast,
The clearer soule was call'd to endlesse rest,
(Not by the
thundering
voyce, wherewith God threats,
But, as with crowned Saints in heaven he treats,) 10
And, waited on by Angels, home was brought,
To joy that it through many dangers sought;
The key of mercy gently did unlocke
The doores 'twixt heaven and it, when life did knock.
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John Donne |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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John Donne |
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LXXXI
The remnant of the winter, he with shield
And spear
achieved
things worthy to be shown,
I ween; but these were then so well concealed,
It is no fault of mine they are not blown;
For good Orlando was in fighting field,
Prompter to do, than make his prowess known.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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XXXV
No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver
fountains
mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You know
well how great is the
difference
between two companions lolling in a
post-chaise, and two travellers plodding slowly along the road, side
by side, each with his little knapsack of necessaries upon his
shoulders.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There was no need for them
to be "long choosing and
beginning
late.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' When Tarchon
had spoken in such wise, his
comrades
rise on their oar-blades and carry
their ships in foam towards the Latin fields, till the prows are fast on
dry land and all the keels are aground unhurt.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Il etait tard; ainsi qu'une medaille neuve
La pleine lune s'etalait,
Et la
solennite
de la nuit, comme un fleuve,
Sur Paris dormant ruisselait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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My readers, for a time, could they obtain
A dozen nuns like these, where
beauties
reign,
Would doubtless not be seen without their dress!
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La Fontaine |
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In the
communications
of the Gesellschaft fur Natur und Volkerkunde,
1889, Dr.
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Li Po |
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It was too late for man,
But early yet for God;
Creation
impotent
to help,
But prayer remained our side.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The rhyme in this verse, as in one about sixty
lines before, has an
appearance
of affectation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Accursed
be that tongue that tels mee so;
For it hath Cow'd my better part of man:
And be these Iugling Fiends no more beleeu'd,
That palter with vs in a double sence,
That keepe the word of promise to our eare,
And breake it to our hope.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thou, thou, who long ere aught of ill was done
Thy child, when
Agamemnon
scarce was gone,
Sate at the looking-glass, and tress by tress
Didst comb the twined gold in loneliness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now I have
realised
that it is in me, I see quite clearly what I ought to
do; in fact, must do.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Let us drink and enjoy
together
the wine you have brought:
For my course is set and cannot now be altered.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Who hang so
fiercely
on the flying Gaul,
Foiled by a woman's hand, before a battered wall?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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Vespasian,
Governor
of Judaea, proclaimed Emperor at Alexandria.
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Tacitus |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And Susan she begins to fear
Of sad
mischances
not a few,
That Johnny may perhaps be drown'd,
Or lost perhaps, and never found;
Which they must both for ever rue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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One and all, they are
inventing
excuses to be off home.
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Aristophanes |
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Silvanus
was quite ineffective
as a general, and wasted every chance of action in talking about it.
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Tacitus |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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John Donne |
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[Footnote 1: This clause is obviously imperfect in some respect: it is here
reproduced
_verbatim_
from the American edition.
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Whitman |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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if either pencil's fame,
Or if my verse can
propagate
thy name.
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Marvell - Poems |
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with what a storm
Jove hangs the heav'ns, and
agitates
the Deep!
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Good is this life
That my delight sustains
Though he who knows strife
May otherwise complain
I know no gain
In
changing
of my life
All free of pain,
By my faith's, my share of strife.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But the great hall of
generations
dead
Has something more sepulchral and more dread
Than lurid glare from seven-branched chandelier
Or table lone with stately dais near--
Two rows of arches o'er a colonnade
With knights on horseback all in mail arrayed,
Each one disposed with pillar at his back
And to another vis-a-vis.
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Hugo - Poems |
|
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Keats |
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There in the self-same marble were engrav'd
The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,
That from
unbidden
office awes mankind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yet tender
thoughts
dwell there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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Whan I thus herde foules singe,
I fel faste in a weymentinge, 510
>>
Car tel joie ne tel deduit
Ne vit nus hons, si cum ge cuit,
Cum il avoit en ce vergier:
Car li leus d'oisiaus herbergier
N'estoit ne
dangereux
ne chiches.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In the talk on the soul
and
eternity
and God, off of his equal plane, he is silent.
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where,
foremost
writ, the name of Varus stands.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And roared out like
Perillus
in*s own bull ;
Sir, you read false.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept
silently
to Rest.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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--Nay, I have since
discovered
that a _godly
woman_ may be a *****!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Prometheus the unfortunate; to whom
Both Gods and men have shown
themselves
ungrateful.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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For this was the great
vengeance
wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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--For weeks the balmy air
breathed
soft and mild,
And on the gliding vessel Heaven and Ocean smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK'
I will accept thy will to do and be,
Thy hatred and intolerance of sin,
Thy will at least to love, that burns within
And thirsteth after Me:
So will I render fruitful, blessing still,
The germs and small
beginnings
in thy heart,
Because thy will cleaves to the better part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd Wherefore didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2
existing
lines.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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An empty flagon they have cast aside,
Broken and soiled, the dust upon my pride,
Will be your shroud, beloved
pestilence!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I had mine with a vengeance,--my king got his crown,
And made his whole
business
to break other folks's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Yet, whatever absurdities our
Mandevylles may have obtruded on the public, the
evidence
of the fact is
not thereby wholly destroyed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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The contents supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly
referred
to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The four
Epistles
were published separately.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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The Galli come:
And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines
Resound around to bangings of their hands;
The fierce horns
threaten
with a raucous bray;
The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds
In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives,
Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have power
The rabble's ingrate heads and impious hearts
To panic with terror of the goddess' might.
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Lucretius |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nor thou
altogether
a wise man.
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Shakespeare |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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^1
Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Its
popularity
must have returned,
however, since Barnaby Riche in the _Irish Hubbub_,1622, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very
threshold
I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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