add their
stubborn
strength to thine.
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Byron |
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Machine aveugle et sourde en cruaute
feconde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
The heroes kindle at his fierce command;
The martial
squadrons
close on either hand:
Here Troy and Lycia charge with loud alarms,
Thessalia there, and Greece, oppose their arms.
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Iliad - Pope |
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266, of a gallant
whose devotion to a lady in such that he
Salutes her pumps,
Adores her hems, her skirts, her knots, her curls,
_Will spend his
patrimony
for a garter_,
Or the least feather in her bounteous fan.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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To vice and folly to confine the jest,
Sets half the world, God knows, against the rest;
Did not the sneer of more
impartial
men
At sense and virtue, balance all again.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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--
And
thorough
all the land in deadly wise
Shall scatter venom, to exude again
In pestilence on men.
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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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"
Replied she: "While on earth your lot is cast,
Slave to the world's opinions blind and hard,
True happiness shall ne'er your search reward;
Death to the good a dreary prison opes,
But to the vile and base, who all their hopes
And cares below have fix'd, is full of fear;
And this my loss, now mourn'd with many a tear,
Would seem a gain, and, knew you my delight
Boundless
and pure, your joyful praise excite.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Fare thee weel, thou best and
dearest!
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Robert Forst |
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In the world,
So may thy name still rear its
forehead
high.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
IV
"This is the hour," she said, "of transmutation:
It is the
eucharist
of the evening, changing
All things to beauty.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The Tortoise
Feeling
'Feeling'
Raphael Sadeler (I), 1581, The Rijksmuseun
From magic Thrace, O
delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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The first are such
as love their own ease; or, out of vice, of nature, or self-direction,
avoid
business
and care.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I have
searched
all day for a grain of some sort, and
there is none to be found.
| Guess: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Orme: and at such lessons
she constantly assisted until her brother's departure for the Charter
House--where he had
Thackeray
for a schoolfellow.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The world and its affairs
Could not absorb me so,
That when men spoke of her
My heart it would not glow,
My face not
brighten
there.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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There was a
deliberate
clash,
an effect of burlesque; but of course the clash must not be too brutal.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Among
other stories of its origin a local tradition
preserves
the one here
given.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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No folk-king was there,
none at all, of the
neighboring
clans
who war would wage me with 'warriors'-friends' {35a}
and threat me with horrors.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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or if those women you note
Reflect your
fabulous
senses' desire!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Conquest
to-day my happier sword may bless,
'Tis man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Two separate--yet most
intimate
things.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'361 Denham's
strength
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
observed
that very few of the more mystical Quatrains are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They that soared so loftily, how
contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to
lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford
nourishment
to new
generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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LVI
Passes the day, the
darkness
is grown deep.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is
ripening
to excess,
If there's not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The loves of the Vestal and
the God of War, the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber, the
fig-tree, the she-wolf, the shepherd's cabin, the recognition,
the fratricide, the rape of the Sabines, the death of Tarpeia,
the fall of Hostus Hostilius, the struggle of Mettus Curtius
through the marsh, the women rushing with torn raiment and
dishevelled hair between their fathers and their husbands, the
nightly meetings of Numa and the Nymph by the well in the sacred
grove, the fight of the three Romans and the three Albans, the
purchase of the
Sibylline
books, the crime of Tullia, the
simulated madness of Brutus, the ambiguous reply of the Delphian
oracle to the Tarquins, the wrongs of Lucretia, the heroic
actions of Horatius Cocles, of Scaevola, and of Cloelia, the
battle of Regillus won by the aid of Castor and Pollux, the
defense of Cremera, the touching story of Coriolanus, the still
more touching story of Virginia, the wild legend about the
draining of the Alban lake, the combat between Valerius Corvus
and the gigantic Gaul, are among the many instances which will at
once suggest themselves to every reader.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Would you weave your dim moan with the
chantings
of love at my feast?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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' he cried, 'when we are dead, the Day
Of Judgement comes, and all shall surely know _4100
Whose God is God, each
fearfully
shall pay
The errors of his faith in endless woe!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the
fountains
draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted, guardian once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_alad_,
protecting
genius, 154, 18.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The Palace
itself is placed in the midst of
extensive
grounds just outside
the city, on the road to Tver, i.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I saw it now
as men must see it forever afterwards;
no poet could write again,
"the red-lily,
a girl's laugh caught in a kiss;"
it was his to pour in the vat
from which all poets dip and quaff,
for poets are
brothers
in this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| 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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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
And then, for that
perchance
no longer breath
Suffic'd him, of himself and of a bush
One group he made.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Mackail
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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_"--
"Then," cried the young Endymion, overjoy'd,
"We are twin
brothers
in this destiny!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Him warm I welcom'd, and with open arms
Receiv'd, who bold affirm'd that he had seen
My master with
Idomeneus
at Crete
His ships refitting shatter'd by a storm,
And that in summer with his godlike band
He would return, bringing great riches home,
Or else in autumn.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When the tradition
is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an
opposite
effect.
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout
joyously
from the deck.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
other was one founded on the Book of Job, which he never
abandoned
in
idea, but of which no trace remains among his papers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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It is
for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk
the real
difficulties
of his art.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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It was his custom once a year to hold a large
reception at his house, attended by all the families
connected
with
the institution and by the leading people of the town.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Men will know I
conquered
easily;
And only my regret would be left me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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whom vanity's light bark conveys
On fame's mad voyage by the wind of praise,
With what a
shifting
gale your course you ply,
For ever sunk too low, or borne too high!
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Or, beyond Lethe lulled to rest,
Hath the bard, by
indifference
blest,
Callous to all on earth become--
Is the world to him sealed and dumb?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They are always so
occupied
in being jealous
of other people's husbands.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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associated
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Epode
And are they of no more avail,
Ten
thousand
glittering pounds a-year?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The answer, I think, is
indicated
above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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With a glad heart, and a triumphal face,
The
princess
to the haughty Pharaoh led
The humble infant of a hated race,
Bathed with the bitter tears a parent shed;
While loudly pealing round the holy place
Of Heaven's white Throne, the voice of angel choirs
Intoned the theme of their undying lyres!
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Hugo - Poems |
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(Only certain very bold
instructions
of mine, encroachments etc.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where
Conspirers
are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill
Shall come against him.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Li Po |
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4 The
pheasant
tail fans were part of the imperial regalia.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
221 "No thought of flight,
None of retreat, no
unbecoming
deed
That argued fear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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þā wīgend hyra wunda
genǣson (_the warriors were
recovering
from their wounds_).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Till now she has
never been able to hear a gun fired without
trembling
all over.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He's soft and tender, pray take heed,
With bands of
cowslips
bind him,
And bring him home;--but 'tis decreed
That I shall never find him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,
The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
And tawny streaks and shades and
spreading
blue;
O sun of noon refulgent!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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[ORESTES
_departs
to the right_.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Ma
perciocche
giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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As you set it down it broke--
Broke, but I did not wince;
I smiled at the speech you spoke,
At your judgement that I heard: 20
But I have not often smiled
Since then, nor
questioned
since,
Nor cared for corn-flowers wild,
Nor sung with the singing bird.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Not a shriek, not a scream;
Scarcely
even a howl or a groan,
As the man they called "Ho!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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en hy3es heruest, &
hardenes
hym sone.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To push with
resistless
way and speed off in the distance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little
pleasure
in the house
When our gudeman's awa'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The green sea closes
Its
burnished
skin; the snaky swell smoothes over .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"Do you know
I have some very beautiful poems
floating
in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek
apparelled
thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful if it be crowned!
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Smalltoothcombia
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The
Latin ballads
perished
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Already the venom flows towards my heart,
An unaccustomed chill pierces my dying heart: 1640
Already I see as if through a clouded sky,
Heaven, and a husband my
presence
horrifies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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CHORUS
Maid of mysterious woes, mysterious lore,
Long was thy prophecy: but if aright
Thou readest all thy fate, how, thus unscared,
Dost thou
approach
the altar of thy doom,
As fronts the knife some victim, heaven-controlled?
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Aeschylus |
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"
Who
calleth?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Such was the position when Petilius
Cerialis
reached Mainz.
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