'Sence I have bossed the
business
here,' says he,
'No fairer load was ever seen by me.
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James Russell Lowell |
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There is a copy, 'for the most part neat and
legible,' amongst the Shelley
manuscripts
at the Bodleian Library.
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Shelley |
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1717 'Works',
including
some new poems.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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'
Holding their heads thrust
menacingly
out,
As staggering cocks keep up their fighting posture,
The stranger smiled and said, 'Beyond a doubt
'Tis fortunate, my friends, that you have lost your 150
United parts of speech, or it had been
Impossible for me to get between.
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James Russell Lowell |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Imagists |
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He took an
important
part in the taking of Worms, 4th October; of
Mayence (Maenz) 21st October.
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William Wordsworth |
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bequeath
them to me!
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Whitman |
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By these sordid means, he collected such
sums, that, according to Villani, he left behind him, _in the sacred
treasury_, twenty-five
millions
of florins, a treasure which Voltaire
remarks is hardly credible.
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Petrarch |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From
poisonous
herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond mildewed sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the
windmill
of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Do you
think that in his use of hyperbole and impossibilities Spenser shows that
he was
deficient
in a sense of humor?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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O weary air of dumb despair,
From marble won, to marble
turning!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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shall reviving
thraldom
again be
The patched-up idol of enlightened days?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
^
indicates
'superscript' within the text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
We
continued
playing, and the more I sipped my
glass, the bolder I became.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Their offspring bold
fares hither to seek the
steadfast
friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--It cannot be--
Too many tears for lovers have been shed, 90
Too many sighs give we to them in fee,
Too much of pity after they are dead,
Too many doleful stories do we see,
Whose matter in bright gold were best be read;
Except in such a page where Theseus' spouse
Over the
pathless
waves towards him bows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
")_
Weak is the People--but will grow beyond all other--
Within thy holy arms, thou
fruitful
victor-mother!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Yet in this deep
suspicion
rest thou not
Contented unless she assure thee so,
Who betwixt truth and mind infuses light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Aloud he's cried: "Strike on, the
chevaliers!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
The
drawbridge
is soon let down, and the gates opened wide to receive
the knight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue,
When
Flattery
sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A Cooking Egg
En l'an
trentiesme
de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in
youthful
season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thence to the queen: "O partner of our reign,
O sole
beloved!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And
yesterday
it fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
It is I,
The wronged
Orestes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I am of the
terrible
people, I am of the strange Hebrews.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Were it not a dishonour to a
mighty prince, to have the majesty of his
embassage
spoiled by a careless
ambassador?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He spake, and by Eumaeus unperceived,
Telemachus
his father eyed and smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Sculptor, forever shun
Clay moulded there
By the thumb
When the mind's elsewhere;
Wrestle with Carrara,
With Parian marble rare
And hard,
Keep the outline clear;
From Syracuse borrow
Bronze which the proud
Furrow
Has
charmingly
endowed;
With a delicate hand,
The vein of agate, follow
Command
The profile of Apollo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
Music once more and
forever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms 410
DA
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall,
aetherial
rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
DA
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 420
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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aurum, quod penetrat thalamos
rumpitque
pudorem,
qua tectus saepe inlecebra micat impius ensis!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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TWO SONGS FOR SOLITUDE
I
~The Crystal Gazer~
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a
polished
crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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" KAU}
As[c]ending into her cloudy misty
garments
the blue smoke rolld to revive
Her cold limbs in the absence of her Lord.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Perhaps I injure
the man in the idea I am
sometimes
tempted to have of him--God forbid
I should!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
]
[Sidenote C: The lady inquire whether he has a
mistress
that he loves
better than her.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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SUNRISE
Would you know what joy is hid
In our green Musketaquid,
And for
travelled
eyes what charms
Draw us to these meadow farms,
Come and I will show you all
Makes each day a festival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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My little children are playing at my side,
Learning to talk, they babble
unformed
sounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How should I pay you,
miserable
people?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And as the lengthening days of summer throve,
She sighed, then
withered
by the waving rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Praised by Dante in the De vulgari eloquentia, he is, in the
Purgatorio
of The Divine Comedy, made the type of patriotic pride, bemoaning the state of Italy, as partially substantiated by the planh below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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--his friends came round
Supported him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its
marriage
robe, the heavy body wound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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with what
volubility
of speech
The table-hunter prates, like an old hag
Collied with chimney-smutch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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XIV
As we pass the summer stream without danger
That floods in winter, king of all the plain,
Rendering farmers' hopes and shepherds' vain,
In his proud flight, sinking fields in water:
As we see coward creatures at the slaughter
Outrage the dead lion after his brave reign,
Staining their jaws, revealing their disdain,
Daring their enemy bereft of power:
And as the least valiant Greeks at Troy
With brave Hector's corpse were wont to toy,
So those whose heads once used to bow,
When to Roman triumph they were drawn,
On dusty tombs exact their vengeance now,
The
conquered
daring the conqueror's scorn.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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By this the stars were almost gone,
The moon was setting on the hill,
So pale you
scarcely
looked at her:
The little birds began to stir,
Though yet their tongues were still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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ai nolde bilaue, 21
And to
penaunce
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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From an early period they had been admitted to some share
of
political
power.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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said I to myself,
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the
baffled?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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thy prison is a holy place
And thy sad floor an altar, for 'twas trod
Until his very steps have left a trace
Worn as if thy cold
pavement
were a sod,
By Bonnivard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
With him the guilt and
falsehood
little weigh,
Of which the offended myrtle told above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Indian hate an'
deviltry
he braved;
'N' scores an' scores of white men's lives he saved.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"I wish'd myself the fair young beech
That here beside me stands,
That round me,
clasping
each in each,
She might have lock'd her hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
"Slender in
bulk—but
it contains good poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for
originality
and imagination.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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From my memory
With nothing of language but
O dreamer, that I may dive
All at once, as if in play,
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Any solitude
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
The virginal, living and lovely day
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx,
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
To the sole task of voyaging
All summarised, the soul,
What silk of time's sweet balm
To introduce myself to your story
Crushed by the overwhelming cloud
My books closed again on Paphos' name,
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
Each Dawn however numb
She slept: her finger trembled, amethyst-less
Frigid roses to last
O so dear from far and near and white all
Mery,
Since Maria left me to go to another star - which one, Orion, Altair - or you
The flesh is sad, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest Chuck,
Till thou applaud the deed: Come, seeling Night,
Skarfe vp the tender Eye of
pittifull
Day,
And with thy bloodie and inuisible Hand
Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond,
Which keepes me pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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But sure 'tis time that Death's
relentless
bow
Had wing'd that fatal arrow to my heart,
So often bathed in life's dark crimson tide:
But though I crave he would this boon bestow,
He to my cheek his impress doth impart,
And yet o'erlooks me in his fearful stride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Or, on your
shoulders
further I propose,
To give you, with a cudgel, thirty blows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The chiefest blessings Adam's
chaplain
got.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
'
"He goes on to state, that years passed by, and both his old school-
friends found him out, and came and claimed a share in his good
fortune,
according
to the school-day vow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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A fifth,
_magnifique_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet no mean motive this
profusion
draws;
His oxen perish in his country's cause;
'Tis George and Liberty that crowns the cup,
And zeal for that great house which eats him up.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
We are tempted to reply that no foreigner
can be
qualified
to decide such a point.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
He
honoureth
not the hand that gave the bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Moore's garden, at the time of the Oireachtas, is a very good play,
but is, I think, the least
interesting
of his plays as literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ere long, the lonely mountains left, I moved, 495
Begirt, from day to day, with temporal shapes
Of vice and folly thrust upon my view,
Objects of sport, and ridicule, and scorn,
Manners and
characters
discriminate,
And little bustling passions that eclipse, 500
As well they might, the impersonated thought,
The idea, or abstraction of the kind.
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Can we
suppress
the old Remorse!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The tears and praises of all time, while thine
Would rot in its oblivion--in the sink
Of worthless dust, which from thy boasted line
Is shaken into nothing; but the link
Thou formest in his fortunes bids us think
Of thy poor malice, naming thee with scorn--
Alfonso!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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one arriv'd
To
multiply
our loves!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No lifetime set on them,
Apparelled as the new
Unborn, except they had beheld,
Born
everlasting
now.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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AN OLD MAN,
_formerly
servant to Agamemnon_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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{and} by
whiche lawes she
p{ur}ueiable
kepi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The virginal, living and lovely day
Will it
fracture
for us with a wild wing-blow
This solid lost lake whose frost's haunted below
By the glacier, transparent with flights not made?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I will not dwell on other
criticisms
of this type.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It
lies near the coast of the _Capitanate_, a
province
of the kingdom of
Naples, on the Gulf of Venice.
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Tacitus |
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_aspen-malady_,
trembling
like the leaves of the aspen-poplar.
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Keats |
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Many a fair Edifice besides, more like
Houses of Gods (so well I have dispos'd
My Aerie
Microscope)
thou may'st behold
Outside and inside both, pillars and roofs
Carv'd work, the hand of fam'd Artificers
In Cedar, Marble, Ivory or Gold.
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Milton |
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Being newly
returned
comforts me for a while?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In the faint fragrance of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Voila le
souvenir
enivrant qui voltige
Dans l'air trouble; les yeux se ferment; le Vertige
Saisit l'ame vaincue et la pousse a deux mains
Vers un gouffre obscurci de miasmes humains;
Il la terrasse au bord d'un gouffre seculaire,
Ou, Lazare odorant dechirant son suaire,
Se meut dans son reveil le cadavre spectral
D'un vieil amour ranci, charmant et sepulcral.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They chose, and the women and
children
that are greeting you here are
those
Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The man in the Book of Odes[18] who was given a quince
Wanted to pay it back with
diamonds
and rubies.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The cause unknown, amaze
Possess'd me, and both hands against my brow
Lifting, I interpos'd them, as a screen,
That of its
gorgeous
superflux of light
Clipp'd the diminish'd orb.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep
foundations
suffer first,
And all the structure crumbles then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Cure of that:
Can'st thou not Minister to a minde diseas'd,
Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the Braine,
And with some sweet Obliuious Antidote
Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that
perillous
stuffe
Which weighes vpon the heart?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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