"
And I
answered
them all, and said:
"Remember only that I smiled.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE NATURE OF EPIC
Rigid definitions in
literature
are, however, dangerous.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[*The Russian text has here a play on the words which cannot
be satisfactorily
rendered
into English.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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An old man's love
Who casts no second line, is hard to cure;
His
jealousy
is like his love.
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Yeats |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"--
"True," I replied; "but I
survived
the strife:
His arrows reach'd me, but were short of life.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,
Scattered
their forelocks free;
My friends made words of it with tongues
That talk no more to me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Next hearing Argalia, whom he slew,
(So was the warrior hight) that stream beside,
Thus his
unknightly
breach of promise blame,
He burned all over, flushed with rage and shame.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" In
other words, then, the 'Essay on Criticism' is at once the result of
Pope's early studies, the
embodiment
of the received literary doctrines
of his age, and, as a consecutive study of his poems shows, the
programme in accordance with which, making due allowance for certain
exceptions and inconsistencies, he evolved the main body of his work.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed
to the heavens.
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Stephen Crane |
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_insert_ the
_before_
servyse; _but_ Tn.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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com
forwards
to hart@prairienet.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The boy, that scareth from the spiry wheat
The melancholy crow--in hurry weaves,
Beneath an ivied tree, his
sheltering
seat,
Of rushy flags and sedges tied in sheaves,
Or from the field a shock of stubble thieves.
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John Clare |
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They may be modified and printed and given
away--you may do practically ANYTHING in the United States with eBooks
not
protected
by U.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How oft shall he
Bewail thy false
inconstancy!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some impassioned and
imperishable
dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the beauteous image 29
There laughs in the
heightening
year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Poi ch'io potei di me fare a mio senno,
trassimi
sovra quella creatura
le cui parole pria notar mi fenno,
dicendo: <
quel sanza 'l quale a Dio tornar non possi,
sosta un poco per me tua maggior cura.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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some hag of hell,
Raving a
truceless
curse upon her kin?
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Aeschylus |
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Imagists |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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My every power's
incipient
decay--
My wearied soul--alike, in warning say
"Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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th
fful
richeliche
al a-ry?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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that the
farthest
post
Hath been assign'd you, from this face remove
The harden'd veil, that I may vent the grief
Impregnate at my heart, some little space
Ere it congeal again!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Nay, how will you do for a
husband?
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Shakespeare |
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Why was she early born, or
wherefore
late was I?
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Petrarch |
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_
Ere my steel leap, and compassed round with death
Low he shall lie: and thus, full-fed with doom,
The Fury of the house shall drain once more
A deep third draught of rich
unmingled
blood.
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Aeschylus |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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There were also several packets of stamps,
Yellow and blue
Guatemala
parrots,
Blue stags and red baboons and birds from Sarawak,
Indians and Men-of-war
From the United States,
And the green and red portraits
Of King Francobollo
Of Italy.
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Imagists |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
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La Fontaine |
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And, since it is perfectly true that in the same
Desert is a wonderful city where all the rich money lenders retreat
after they have made their fortunes (fortunes so vast that the owners
cannot trust even the strong hand of the
Government
to protect them,
but take refuge in the waterless sands), and drive sumptuous C-spring
barouches, and buy beautiful girls and decorate their palaces with gold
and ivory and Minton tiles and mother-of-pearl, I do not see why Jukes's
tale should not be true.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
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Sara Teasdale |
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permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly
appetite
to please.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--
And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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) And Li T'ai-po lived many hundred years
ago, but
Shakespeare
lived at a more recent period.
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Li Po |
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The distant clock forgot, and chilling dew,
Pleas'd thro' the dusk their
breaking
smiles to view,
Only in the edition of 1793.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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quibus anticyris, quibus est
sauabilis
herbis,
Iniproba scribendi pestis, avanis amor !
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Marvell - Poems |
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When Po entered in obedience to the summons, he was so drunk
that the
courtiers
were obliged to dab his face with water.
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Li Po |
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swā him ǣr gescōd hild æt Heorote,
1588; sē þe him sāre ge-sceōd (_who injured him sorely_), 2224; nō þȳ ǣr
in gescōd hālan līce, 1503; bill ǣr gescōd eald-hlāfordes þām þāra māðma
mund-bora wæs (_the weapon of the ancient chieftain had before laid low the
dragon, the guardian of the treasure_), 2778 (or,
_sheathed
in brass_?
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Beowulf |
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Forslagenn
atte thie fote lette wylde beastes bee,
Lett thie floes drenche yer blodde, yett do ne bredrenn slee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[_She
releases
him.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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She wakes; and I
entreated
her come forth
And bear this work of heaven with patience;
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
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Shakespeare |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a
curiosity
not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's
sensitive
conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The two Battles of Hastings were written during this
period, and it appears that Barrett the surgeon, on being shown the
first poem, was for once very insistent in asking for the original,
whereupon
Chatterton
in a momentary panic confessed he had written the
verses for a friend; but he had at home, he said, the copy of what was
really the translation of Turgot's Epic--Turgot was a Saxon monk of
the tenth century--by Rowley the secular priest of the fifteenth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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no light
Of teaching, liberal nations, for the poor
Who sit in
darkness
when it is not night?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A UNE MALABARAISE
Tes pieds sont aussi fins que tes mains, et ta hanche
Est large a faire envie a la plus belle blanche;
A l'artiste pensif ton corps est doux et cher;
Tes grands yeux de velours sont plus noirs que ta chair
Aux pays chauds et bleus ou ton Dieu t'a fait naitre,
Ta tache est d'allumer la pipe de ton maitre,
De
pourvoir
les flacons d'eaux fraiches et d'odeurs,
De chasser loin du lit les moustiques rodeurs,
Et, des que le matin fait chanter les platanes,
D'acheter au bazar ananas et bananes.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Many of
these friends were
frequent
visitors in Concord.
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Emerson - Poems |
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No--let me never, in despight of thee, 210
Embark on board a raft, nor till thou swear,
O
Goddess!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He little suspected that all the most striking
passages in this chronicle were copied from a poem of the twelfth
century,--a poem of which the
language
and versification had long
been obsolete, but which glowed with no common portion of the
fire of the Iliad.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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And see the third house on the left, with that gleam 20
Of red
burnished
copper--the hinge of the door
Whereat I shall enter, expected so oft
(Let love be your sea-star!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Where
fortune seemed to allow and the Destinies granted Latinus' estate to
prosper, I
shielded
Turnus and thy city.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I should have been too glad, I see,
Too lifted for the scant degree
Of life's penurious round;
My little circuit would have shamed
This new circumference, have blamed
The
homelier
time behind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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But the longer I live on this
Crumpetty
Tree
The plainer than ever it seems to me
That very few people come this way
And that life on the whole is far from gay!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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As shows the air when with a rainbow grac'd,
So smiles that riband 'bout my Julia's waist:
Or like--nay 'tis that zonulet of love,
Wherein all
pleasures
of the world are wove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I wondered what machine of ages gone
This
represented
an improvement on.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Did you hear (I have a
daughter in her service who
reported
it) that she met the Queen at
Wanstead with five hundred horse, and the Queen (tho' some say they be
much divided) took her hand, call'd her sweet sister, and kiss'd not
her alone, but all the ladies of her following.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Public domain books are our
gateways
to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Therefore to winged Love she speaks these words:
'Son, who art alone my
strength
and sovereignty, son, who scornest the
mighty father's Typhoian shafts, to thee I fly for succour, and sue
humbly to thy deity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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A sept ans, il faisait des romans sur la vie
Du grand desert, ou luit la Liberte ravie,
Forets, soleils, rives,
savanes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ai weren yslawe;
precheden
cristendom;
And many man after hem; good prechour bycom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It must have been conceived and coddled first
By some old shopkeeper in Nuremberg,
His
slippers
warm, his children amply nursed,
Who, with his lighted meerschaum in his hand,
His nightcap on his head, one summer night
Sat drowsing at his door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Erkennst
du den Dieb,
Und darfst ihn nicht nennen?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Aristotle, with singular assurance, has
declared
poetry the most
philosophical of all writings*-but it required a Wordsworth to pronounce
it the most metaphysical.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Tu fero iuueni in manus
floridam ipse puellulam
dedis a gremio suae
Matris, O
Hymenaee
Hymen,
Hymen O Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Let all depart--alone
Leave the
tsarevich
with me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Lucas_
_REQUIESCANT_
In lonely watches night by night
Great visions burst upon my sight,
For down the
stretches
of the sky
The hosts of dead go marching by.
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Meredith - Poems |
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THE murmur of a bee
A witchcraft
yieldeth
me.
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III Power and beauty and knowledge
IV O Pan of the evergreen forest
V O Aphrodite
VI Peer of the gods he seems
VII The Cyprian came to thy cradle
VIII Aphrodite of the foam
IX Nay, but always and forever
X Let there be garlands, Dica
XI When the Cretan maidens
XII In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born
XIII Sleep thou in the bosom
XIV Hesperus, bringing together
XV In the grey olive-grove a small brown bird
XVI In the apple-boughs the coolness
XVII Pale rose-leaves have fallen
XVIII The courtyard of her house is wide
XIX There is a medlar-tree
XX I behold Arcturus going westward
XXI Softly the first step of twilight
XXII Once you lay upon my bosom
XXIII I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago
XXIV I shall be ever maiden
XXV It was summer when I found you
XXVI I recall thy white gown, cinctured
XXVII Lover, art thou of a surety
XXVIII With your head thrown backward
XXIX Ah, what am I but a torrent
XXX Love shakes my soul, like a
mountain
wind
XXXI Love, let the wind cry
XXXII Heart of mine, if all the altars
XXXIII Never yet, love, in earth's lifetime
XXXIV "Who was Atthis?
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Once a youthful pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the
curtains
of the night.
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blake-poems |
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[Footnote 23: The
original
means literally _sea-cat_.
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I meet with
_eyster_ for
_oyster_
as early as the fourteenth century.
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his
numbered
tomb.
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But France got drunk with blood to vomit crime,
And fatal have her Saturnalia been
To Freedom's cause, in every age and clime;
Because the deadly days which we have seen,
And vile Ambition, that built up between
Man and his hopes an
adamantine
wall,
And the base pageant last upon the scene,
Are grown the pretext for the eternal thrall
Which nips Life's tree, and dooms man's worst--his second fall.
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Their
writings
need sunshine.
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Martial's
importance
to literature
rests chiefly on two facts.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and
wriggling
on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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Mary
Ratcliffe
now stands.
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It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the
furthest
tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CHORUS
Then may the gods give fortune fair
Unto our chief, sent forth to dare
War's terrible
arbitrament!
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