The child so taught by the paths,
Resigns her ecstasy
Says the word:
Anastasius!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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V
The
troubled
river knew them,
And smoothed his yellow foam,
And gently rocked the cradle
That bore the fate of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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tes
disseiued
is ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Suns are
hurrying
suns a-west,
And newborn moons make speed to meet their end.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Stewart that I have
acquitted
myself of my
promise.
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Robert Burns |
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Pressing
beneath his paunch full half the sea,
Now to the shore the monstrous whale repaired:
Firm stood Rogero, and the veil undone,
Appeared to give the sky another sun.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dufour de,
_Narrative
of an Embassy to Warsaw_, _v.
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Byron |
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er hou shal I my-seluen saue
To lyue in
maidenhede?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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First wash yourselves, and put ye on
Your tunics; bid ye, next, the maidens take
Their best attire, and let the bard divine
Harping melodious play a
sportive
dance,
That, whether passenger or neighbour near,
All may imagine nuptials held within.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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See the stars through them,
Through
treacherous
marbles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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In
metamorphoses
they've many a hero deceived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Or that the growth of seeds is for
agricultural
tables, or agriculture
itself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Therefore the earth is easily spoiled of light
And easily
refilled
and from herself
Washeth the black shadows quite away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lucretius |
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Alors, o ma beaute, dites a la vermine
Qui vous mangera de baisers,
Que j'ai garde la forme et l'essence divine
De mes amours
decomposes!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I knelt there, and it seemed, — One moment, that my torture had been dreamed
I drank most
thankfully
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But who, of all the
plunderers
of yon fane
On high, where Pallas lingered, loth to flee
The latest relic of her ancient reign--
The last, the worst, dull spoiler, who was he?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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My ground covers no more than ten acres:
My
thatched
cottage has eight or nine rooms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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MARMADUKE Would it were
possible!
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so
solemnly
the dead may feel so wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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but he is very
handsome
with his wings as crimson
as flame.
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Marlborough
(Mass.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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| Question: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He stood like a shadow
transfixed
by a stream,
And I couldn't forget him for hours.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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3 That is, as the Eastern Han
continued
the dynasty after the usurpation of Wang Mang, so the Tang will continue after the An Lushan Rebellion.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| 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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Among a
thousand
proofs let one suffice,
That as his exile hath no parallel,
Ne'er walked the earth a greater man than he.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
And
Baligant
begins to think, and frowns;
Such grief he has, doth nearly him confound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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For in the
gladsome
sunlight of thy smile
Of heaven or hell I have no thought or fear,
Seeing I know no other god but thee:
No other god save him, before whose feet
In nets of gold the tired planets move,
The incarnate spirit of spiritual love
Who in thy body holds his joyous seat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But let us hence to bed, there to enjoy 300
Tranquil
repose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
hesitates
to reject either.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Perchance where Dunia pours out tea
The young
proprietor
we find;
To Dunia then they whisper: Mind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'
"So works this music on the earth,
God so admits it, sends it forth
To add another worth to worth--
"A new creation-bloom that rounds
The old creation and expounds
His
Beautiful
in tuneful sounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And seest thou not how in the very earth
Sulphur is
gendered
and bitumen thickens
With noisome stench?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Blazing in gold and
quenching
in purple,
Leaping like leopards to the sky,
Then at the feet of the old horizon
Laying her spotted face, to die;
Stooping as low as the otter's window,
Touching the roof and tinting the barn,
Kissing her bonnet to the meadow, --
And the juggler of day is gone!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My lady shows herself, not to my good,
A woman indeed, scorns my behest,
Since she wishes not what she should
But what's
forbidden
her finds best.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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LX
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are
guttering
low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
And leave your friends and go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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2, 3) the Bard
prophesies
the fate of Edward II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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I've heard, the best
Riddance for evil notions in the mind,
Is for a toad to sit upon the tongue;
While,
breathed
against the scalp, some power of spells
Loosens the clasp the notion hath digg'd deep
Into the soul; so that it passeth down,
Shaken and mastered, and creeps into the toad,--
_3rd Woman_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Far I have wandered throughout the Nine Lands;
Wherever
I went such manners had disappeared.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He it was who first
taunted Nature with being an
imitator
of art, with always being the
same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then, with the bones of fools
He buys silken banners
Limned with his
triumphant
face;
With the skins of wise men
He buys the trivial bows of all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
XXIII
And sullen Moloch fled,
Hath left in shadows dred,
His burning Idol all of
blackest
hue,
In vain with Cymbals ring,
They call the grisly king,
In dismall dance about the furnace Blue; 210
And Brutish gods of Nile as fast,
lsis and Orus, and the Dog Anubis hast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
148
In
wildernesse
he woned; ?
| 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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THE CEREMONIES FOR
CANDLEMAS
DAY.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Belle ile aux myrtes verts, pleine de fleurs ecloses,
Veneree a jamais par toute nation,
Ou les soupirs des coeurs en adoration
Roulent comme l'encens sur un jardin de roses
Ou le
roucoulement
eternel d'un ramier
--Cythere n'etait plus qu'un terrain des plus maigres,
Un desert rocailleux trouble par des cris aigres.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"`And even while you're thus harassed,
I do believe, if out you went,
You'd go, in spite of all that's passed,
To the children of that
President!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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At last I saw the ocean, a
pleasing
sight to me:
I stood upon the shore of a mighty glorious sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
No doubt many of these Quatrains seem
unaccountable
unless mystically
interpreted; but many more as unaccountable unless literally.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Three hosts combine to offer sacrifice;
Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high;
Three gaudy
standards
flout the pale blue skies.
| 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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This hope hath been to me for love and fame,
Hath made me wholly lonely on the earth,
Building me up as in a thick-ribbed tower,
Wherewith enwalled my watching spirit burned,
Conquering its little island from the Dark,
Sole as a scholar's lamp, and heard men's steps,
In the far hurry of the outward world,
Pass dimly forth and back, sounds heard in dream, 130
As Ganymede by the eagle was
snatched
up
From the gross sod to be Jove's cup-bearer,
So was I lifted by my great design:
And who hath trod Olympus, from his eye
Fades not that broader outlook of the gods;
His life's low valleys overbrow earth's clouds,
And that Olympian spectre of the past
Looms towering up in sovereign memory,
Beckoning his soul from meaner heights of doom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Why will you plead yourself so sad forlorn,
While I am
striving
how to fill my heart
With deeper crimson, and a double smart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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It rustles at the window-pane, the smooth,
streaming
rain, and he is shut
within its clash and murmur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
The
Tarquins themselves are
represented
as Corinthian nobles of the
great House of the Bacchiadae, driven from their country by the
tyranny of that Cypselus, the tale of whose strange escape
Herodotus has related with incomparable simplicity and
liveliness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
XXXVII
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Of all that strong
divineness
which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Thrill of the Dawn
CAN such a pain be
branded?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Alone
I am alone, in spite of love,
In spite of all I take and give--
In spite of all your tenderness,
Sometimes
I am not glad to live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
What will you say, father, to that
terrible
sight?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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At the age of eight
we hear of him reading 'all day or as long as they would let him,'
confident that he was going to be famous, and
promising
his mother and
sister 'a great deal of finery' for their care of him when the day of
his fame arrived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
XLIII
But how long time, said then the Elfin knight,
Are you in this
misformed
house to dwell?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
*
Had he been first elected in 1658, he would
have been member
somewhat
more than that
period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
They their hands
Stretch'd forth together to the ready feast, 240
And when nor hunger more nor thirst remain'd
Unsated, thus the
beauteous
nymph began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Fifth Avenue and April
And love and lack of care--
The world is mad with music
Too
beautiful
to bear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
In the dim corner, from the oaken chest,
A few white dishes glimmer; through the shade
Stands a tall bed with dusky curtains dressed,
And a rough
mattress
at its side is laid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
He has
destroyed
the pillar of your throne,
He has killed my father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex imagination or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for
excluding
from Poetry - the unique source.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
--the damps of death were upon him--he could not
have
survived
an hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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She is the
sunshine
of my e'e,
To live but her I canna:
Had I on earth but wishes three,
The first should be my Anna.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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How still the bells in
steeples
stand,
Till, swollen with the sky,
They leap upon their silver feet
In frantic melody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
We are content with Cupid's delights, authentic and naked--
And with the
exquisite
creak /crack of the bed as it rocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At ease and leisure,--all day we talked;
Crowding
and jostling,--the feelings of many years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Out of this came,
nearly at the same time, two works wholly
different
in method and in
tone--so different, that at first sight it may seem absurd to speak of
them together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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; if the
honesty of his indignation led him into great imprudence, as certainly
it did, when at Goa he satirised the viceroy and the first persons in
power; yet let it also be remembered, that "The gifts of imagination
bring the heaviest task upon the vigilance of reason; and to bear those
faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety,
requires
a
degree of firmness and of cool attention, which doth not always attend
the higher gifts of the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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This quaintness is, in fact, a very powerful adjunct to
ideality, but in the case in question it arises
independently
of the
author's will, and is altogether apart from his intention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
Wherefore
gentle wife,
Obey, it is thy vertue: hold no acts
Of di?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
How still the bells in
steeples
stand,
Till, swollen with the sky,
They leap upon their silver feet
In frantic melody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
What mortal feeling kindled in his soul
That clear celestial flame, so pure and high,
O'er which nor time nor death can have control,
Would in
inglorious
pleasures basely fly
From sufferings whose reward is Immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Cry, Long live the tsar Dimitry
Ivanovich!
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" Lamb, who tells us how
Coleridge
repeated it "so enchantingly
that it irradiates and brings heaven and elysian bowers into my parlour
when he says or sings it to me," doubted whether it would "bear daylight.
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Then, rushing to his arms, he kiss'd his boy
With the strong
raptures
of a parent's joy.
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The blossoming of the scarlet oak,--the
forest-flower,
surpassing
all in splendor (at least since the maple)!
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Retire, while from my wearied limbs I lave
The foul
pollution
of the briny wave.
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The railway ruined it, the natives say,
That passed
unwisely
fifteen miles away,
And made a drain to which, with steady ooze,
Filtered away law, stage-coach, trade, and news.
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The peril of the ruling house is
something
like banner tassels attached?
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Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of
Calidorn
and that to none avail, ran mad in the
forest.
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instent mille licet
premantque
curae,
nostris carminibus tamen uacabit.
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430
As when a Vultur on Imaus bred,
Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar bounds,
Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids
On Hills where Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs
Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams;
But in his way lights on the barren plaines
Of Sericana, where Chineses drive
With Sails and Wind thir canie Waggons light:
So on this windie Sea of Land, the Fiend 440
Walk'd up and down alone bent on his prey,
Alone, for other Creature in this place
Living or liveless to be found was none,
None yet, but store hereafter from the earth
Up hither like Aereal vapours flew
Of all things transitorie and vain, when Sin
With vanity had filld the works of men:
Both all things vain, and all who in vain things
Built thir fond hopes of Glorie or lasting fame,
Or happiness in this or th' other life; 450
All who have thir reward on Earth, the fruits
Of painful Superstition and blind Zeal,
Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find
Fit retribution, emptie as thir deeds;
All th' unaccomplisht works of Natures hand,
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,
Dissolvd
on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,
Till final dissolution, wander here,
Not in the neighbouring Moon, as some have dreamd;
Those argent Fields more likely habitants, 460
Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold
Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde:
Hither of ill-joynd Sons and Daughters born
First from the ancient World those Giants came
With many a vain exploit, though then renownd:
The builders next of Babel on the Plain
Of Sennaar, and still with vain designe
New Babels, had they wherewithall, would build:
Others came single; hee who to be deemd
A God, leap'd fondly into Aetna flames, 470
Empedocles, and hee who to enjoy
Plato's Elysium, leap'd into the Sea,
Cleombrotus, and many more too long,
Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers
White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie.
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' So speaking, he twines green bay
about his brows, and
proclaims
Acestes conqueror first before them all.
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'Sit and roast there with your meat, sit and bake there with your bread,
You who sat to see us starve,' one
shrieking
woman said:
'Sit on your throne and roast with your crown upon your head.
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