"--and the
philosopher
dropped a tear.
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Poe - 5 |
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O
enviable
fate!
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Longfellow |
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I pause, my dreaming spirit hears,
Across the wind's unquiet tides,
The
glimmering
music of your spears,
The laughter of your royal brides.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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paragraph
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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forlyued
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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of paragraphs 1.
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Imagists |
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200:
'Haue not many handsome legges in silke
stockins
villanous splay feet
for all their great roses?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'So
yesterday
I read the acts
Of Hector and each clangorous king
With wrathful great Aeacides:--
Old Homer leaves a sting.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And the sturdy
artillery!
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Whitman |
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Siriskas,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I felt my lover look at her
And then turn
suddenly
to me,--
His eyes were magic to defy
The woman I shall never be.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And I wondered as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the
strength
of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Aux vitres
penchaient
leur feuillee
Malinement, tout pres, tout pres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Both groan'd at once, for both knew well
What
thoughts
were in his mind;
When he waked up, and stared like one
That hath been just struck blind.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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THOUGH NOT SECURE AGAINST THE WILES OF LOVE, HE FEELS
STRENGTH
ENOUGH TO
RESIST THEM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'Tis there that Agathon, the
celebrated
tragic poet,
dwells.
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Aristophanes |
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But as we walked, we saw a man sitting on a grey rock taking pinches
of salt from a bag and
throwing
them into the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any particular
state visit www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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So restless
Cromwell
could not cease
In the inglorious arts of peace,
But through adventurous war
Urged his active star:
And like the three-fork'd lightning first
Breaking the clouds where it was nurst,
Did thorough his own side
His fiery way divide:
For 'tis all one to courage high
The emulous, or enemy;
And with such, to enclose
Is more than to oppose;
Then burning through the air he went
And palaces and temples rent;
And Caesar's head at last
Did through his laurels blast.
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Golden Treasury |
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Dans mon coeur
plaintif
est entree;
Toi qui, forte comme un troupeau
De demons, vins, folle et paree,
De mon esprit humilie
Faire ton lit et ton domaine.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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OUR Gascon ev'ry minute knew alarm;
'Twas now a leg stretched out, and then an arm;
He even thought he felt the husband's beard;
But
presently
arrived what more he feared.
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La Fontaine |
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The sense of ills
misdealt
for blisses blanks the mien most
queenly,
Self-smitings kill self-joys; and everywhere beneath the sun
Such deeds her hands have done.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Choose out the old men
stricken
in years, and the matrons sick of the
sea, and all that is weak and fearful of peril in thy company.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The sovereign
Alchemist
that in a trice
Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute;
LX.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Imagists |
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'In secret chambers parents read, and weep,
My
writings
to their babes, no longer blind;
And young men gather when their tyrants sleep,
And vows of faith each to the other bind; _1525
And marriageable maidens, who have pined
With love, till life seemed melting through their look,
A warmer zeal, a nobler hope, now find;
And every bosom thus is rapt and shook,
Like autumn's myriad leaves in one swoln mountain-brook.
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Shelley |
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But I see the athletes--and I see the results glorious and inevitable--and
they again leading to other results;
How the great cities appear--How the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful,
as I love them,
How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and
resounding, keep on and on;
How society waits unformed, and is between things ended and things begun;
How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom, and
of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that
is begun;
And how the States are
complete
in themselves--And how all triumphs and
glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
And how these of mine, and of the States, will in their turn be convulsed,
and serve other parturitions and transitions.
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Whitman |
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Beneath the
bounding
yoke alike they hold
Their equal pace, and smoked along the field.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Shall we squander Life's prime,
While thou waitest and
weepest?
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Lewis Carroll |
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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this eBook or online at
www.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Bean fields in blossom almost reached the wall;
A garden with its
hawthorn
hedge was all
The space between.
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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Since an
immutable
somewhat still must be,
Lest all things utterly be sped to naught;
For change in anything from out its bounds
Means instant death of that which was before.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Ecco colei che tutto 'l mondo
appuzza!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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To escape is in vain
From this
horrible
rain!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Also, see
Coleridge's 'Poems on
Political
Events', 1828-9.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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While still I gazed, the heavens grew black around,
The fatal lightning flash'd, and sudden hurl'd,
Uprooted
to the ground,
That blessed birth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Wer lasst den Sturm zu
Leidenschaften
wuten?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Neath the willow's wavy boughs,
Dolly, singing, milks her cows;
While the brook, as
bubbling
by,
Joins in murmuring melody.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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--O
douleur!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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You are but a
mendicant
and you dare to use language of this
sort?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
In spite of the inherent charm of the
subject, the splendid
outbursts
of lyrical poetry in some of the choruses
and the beauty of the scenery and costumes, 'The Birds' failed to win the
first prize.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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T.S. Eliot |
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as written in the character of a Soldier of Fortune
in the
Seventeenth
Century.
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Golden Treasury |
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3960
He was for drede in such affray,
That not a word durste he say,
But quaking stood ful stille aloon,
Til
Ielousye
his wey was goon,
Save Shame, that him not forsook; 3965
Bothe Drede and she ful sore quook;
[Til] that at laste Drede abreyde,
And to his cosin Shame seyde:
Shame,' he seide, 'in sothfastnesse,
To me it is gret hevinesse, 3970
That the noyse so fer is go,
And the sclaundre of us two.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE COCK-FIGHT
By Ts'ao Chih
Our
wandering
eyes are sated with the dancer's skill.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ORCHESTER
(Pianissimo):
Wolkenzug und Nebelflor
Erhellen sich von oben.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dear things, kind things,
That my old love said,
Ranged
themselves
reproachfully
Round my bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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For if you were by my
unkindness
shaken,
As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time;
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffer'd in your crime.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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tacet omne pecus uolucresque feraeque
et simulant fessos curuata cacumina somnos,
nec
trucibus
fluuiis idem sonus; occidit horror
aequoris, et terris maria acclinata quiescunt.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He was indeed clever enough to
perceive its follies, and witty enough to make sport of them, but it is
much to be doubted whether he was wise enough at this time to raise his
eyes to
anything
better.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I have been feeling all the various
rotations
and movements
within, respecting the excise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in pleasant places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its
loveliness
become unto me
a thing of tears.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I'm bizzie, too, an' skelpin at it,
But bitter, daudin showers hae wat it;
Sae my auld stumpie pen I gat it
Wi' muckle wark,
An' took my
jocteleg
an whatt it,
Like ony clark.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What kind of life is this to be living,
Ennui to thyself and
youngsters
giving?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Hedgers now along the road
Homeward bend beneath their load;
And from the long furrowed seams,
Ploughmen loose their weary teams:
Ball, with urging lashes wealed,
Still so slow to drive a-field,
Eager blundering from the plough,
Wants no whip to drive him now;
At the stable-door he stands,
Looking round for friendly hands
To loose the door its
fastening
pin,
And let him with his corn begin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man
trembled
as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Blurt out the love,
she has
suspicion
for, so?
| 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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He does not even require for
the
perfection
of his art the finest materials.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The blest to-day is as
completely
so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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To sweet sung measure rows what happy fleet,
With at the lifted prows banners of flame,
Bravely scaring the darkness to betray
The black
embarasst
flood sheared by the stems?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with
sluttish
time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"And if they dare deny the same,
My herald shall appoint a week,
And let the
recreant
traitors seek
My tourney court--that there and then
I may dislodge their reptile souls
From the bodies and forms of men!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Birtha, adieu; but yette I
cannotte
goe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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THE SONG OF THE AIRMAN By Phoebe Hoffman
In the moonless night when the searchlight goes
sneaking
over the sky, I rise with a whirr of engines from the foam-tracked gloom of the sea, And shoot alone through the midnight where each star seems an Argos eye, To fence with Death in the darkness where the swift Valkyrie fly.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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ere is a Man of dedes gode,
Spirituel, & mylde of mode,
Now in Rome Cite; 843
In
penaunce
he is ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It
was
separated
by a narrow strait--scene of the naval battle of Salamis,
in which the Athenians defeated Xerxes--only from the Attic coast, and
was subject to Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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A slight wind shakes the seed-pods--
my
thoughts
are spent
as the black seeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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For brine is filtered off,
And then the liquid stuff seeps back again
And all re-poureth at the river-heads,
Whence in fresh-water currents it returns
Over the lands, adown the
channels
which
Were cleft erstwhile and erstwhile bore along
The liquid-footed floods.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
VI
HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: --
"I knew him of yore in his youthful days;
his aged father was
Ecgtheow
named,
to whom, at home, gave Hrethel the Geat
his only daughter.
| 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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Jove's favour is their guiding star,
And watchful
potencies
unweave
For them the tangled paths of war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The country lasses
slighted
were by thee, O ingle, till to-day: now the
bride's tiresman shaves thy face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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but
pleasure
has such power,
Too little have we reck'd the growing hour;
Behold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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For there are certain invisible lines, which as Truth
successively overpasses, she becomes Untruth to one and another of us,
as a large river, flowing from one kingdom into another,
sometimes
takes
a new name, albeit the waters undergo no change, how small soever.
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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blake-poems |
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ipsius at sedes, quacumque opulenta recessit
regia,
fulgenti
splendent auro atque argento.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He captured the wild
mountain
goats.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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2 Sions fair Gates the Lord loves more
Then all the
dwellings
faire
Of Jacobs Land, though there be store,
And all within his care.
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Milton |
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_ Inimica non tantum
hostilia
sed
perniciosa.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When to the Bad One's house we go,
She gains a
thousand
steps, you know.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The King of Aragon is James I, cousin of Count Raymond
Berenger
IV.
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Troubador Verse |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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blake-poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And have my feet at length
Attained
the summit of the rock i' the sand?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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