There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers -
accustomed
- blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce profaned - by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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There is
something
in
Plato, but--no, do not call them.
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"
Then Goody, who had nothing said,
Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And
kneeling
on the sticks, she pray'd
To God that is the judge of all.
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Pope's behavior, we must admit, was not altogether creditable, but it
was that of an artist
reluctant
to throw away good work, not that of a
ruffian who stabs a woman he has taken money to spare.
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To
begrudge
(a thing).
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net
The Oxford Book Of Latin Verse
From the
earliest
fragments to the end of the Vth Century A.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I
wondered
at you.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The beauty there
is in mosses must be
considered
from the holiest, quietest nook.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
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might such length of days to me be given,
And breath suffice me to
rehearse
thy deeds,
Nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then,
Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that
His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope,
And Linus fair Apollo.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The race of men
Chosen to My honour, with
impunity
_115
May sate the lusts I planted in their heart.
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Shelley |
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and how hath all true
reputation
fallen, since money began to
have any!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Why does your tender palm
dissolve
in dew?
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Keats |
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XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep
invention
in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If I be she that may yow do gladnesse, 180
For every wo ye shal
recovere
a blisse';
And him in armes took, and gan him kisse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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can tears
Speak grief in you,
Who were but born
just as the modest morn
Teem'd her
refreshing
dew?
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Robert Herrick |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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"
But she, like the others,
Kept cowled her face,
And
answered
in haste, anxiously,
"I am Good Deed, forsooth;
"You have often seen me.
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Stephen Crane |
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As the request you make to me
will
positively
add to my enjoyments in complying with it, I shall
enter into your undertaking with all the small portion of abilities I
have, strained to their utmost exertion by the impulse of enthusiasm.
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Robert Forst |
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--Not gone to burial
secretly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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230
A
thousand
roads ever open lead us on,
And my true grief will choose the shortest one.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The greatest
poet does not only dazzle his rays over character and scenes and
passions,--he finally ascends and finishes all: he
exhibits
the pinnacles
that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond--he glows a moment
on the extremest verge.
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Whitman |
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On the marble
pavement
dust grows.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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, were not peculiar to the Sufi; nor to Lucretius before
them; nor to Epicurus before him;
probably
the very original
Irreligion of Thinking men from the first; and very likely to be the
spontaneous growth of a Philosopher living in an Age of social and
political barbarism, under shadow of one of the Two and Seventy
Religions supposed to divide the world.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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]
Under the tow-path past the barges
Never an eight goes
flashing
by;
Never a blatant coach on the marge is
Urging his crew to do or die;
Never the critic we knew enlarges,
Fluent, on How and Why!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Wilde - Poems |
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But Malebolge all toward the mouth
Inclining of the
nethermost
abyss,
The site of every valley hence requires,
That one side upward slope, the other fall.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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My
shrivelled
wings were beaten,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
Before the box was opened
For the moth to fly.
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Imagists |
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Avenge O lord thy slaughter'd Saints, whose bones
Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old
When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones,
Forget not: in thy book record their groanes
Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold
Slayn by the bloody
Piemontese
that roll'd
Mother with Infant down the Rocks.
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Milton |
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In two
The six
associates
part.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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<< Pour
rafraichir
ton coeur nage vers ton Electre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played
measures
brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Whereupon
a million strove to answer him.
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Stephen Crane |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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[434] At
funerals
women tore their hair, rent their garments, and beat
their bosoms.
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Aristophanes |
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every
blooming
tree,
And spreads her sheets o' daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea:
Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams,
And glads the azure skies;
But nought can glad the weary wight
That fast in durance lies.
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Robert Forst |
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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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He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him,
tranquil
and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders, that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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To whisper and
conspire
against my youth?
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Shakespeare |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the
beauteous
image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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afraid,
She hears the bear behind her press,
Nor dares the
skirting
of her dress
For shame lift up the modest maid.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"I should have thought,"
observed
Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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He acknowledges his obligations to the ancient
chronicles; and had
doubtless
before him the Cronica del famoso
Cavallero Cid Ruy Diez Campeador, which had been printed as early
as the year 1552.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Apollinax
rolling under a chair
Or grinning over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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This
servitude
makes you to keep unwed.
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Shakespeare |
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_
THE HARP
One
musician
is sure,
His wisdom will not fail,
He has not tasted wine impure,
Nor bent to passion frail.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Offer the
offerings
just
Of righteousness and in Jehovah trust.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Traveller, to thee, perchance, a tedious road,
Or, it may be, a picture; to these men,
The
landscape
is an armory of powers,
Which, one by one, they know to draw and use.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Then enter'd all
The suitors, and began
cleaving
the wood.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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How long ago,
And on what pilgrimage and journey far Was lost this land
remembered
?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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e to stryke,
&
frounses
bo?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Art thou so bound
To men, that how thy name may sound
Will vex thee lying
underground?
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Tennyson |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If not the
tradesman
who set up to-day,
Much less the 'prentice who to-morrow may.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They assembled their wise men, and concocted the
most ingenious
constitution
it is possible to conceive.
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Poe - 5 |
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_"
["This song," says Sir Harris Nicolas, "which has been
ascribed
to
Burns by some of his editors, is in the Musical Museum without any
name.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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They hoy't out Will, wi' sair advice;
They hecht him some fine braw ane;
It chanc'd the stack he faddom't thrice^13
Was timmer-propt for thrawin:
He taks a swirlie auld moss-oak
For some black,
grousome
carlin;
An' loot a winze, an' drew a stroke,
Till skin in blypes cam haurlin
Aff's nieves that night.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Thee with my Lesbia durst it make
compare?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Why dost thou lift those tender eyes
With so much sorrow and
surprise?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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It is at the broader aspects of
artistic
purpose that I wish
to look.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Once more afresh the Grecian sorrows flow:
And now the sun had set upon their woe;
But to the king of men thus spoke the chief:
"Enough,
Atrides!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But now for a Patron whose name and whose glory,
At once may
illustrate
and honour my story.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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richlier
burn, ye clouds
Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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By what was done and wrought
In season, and so brought
To light: her
measures
are, how well
Each syllabe answered, and was formed, how fair;
These make the lines of life, and that's her air!
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Have you guessed you yourself would not
continue?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Oft have I heard our dame in furtive murmurs o'er telling,
When with her handmaids alone, these her
flagitious
deeds,
Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Account of that
division
tripartite
Expect not, fitter for thine own research.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But from the Hermaean height I cast a view,
Where to the port a bark high-bounding flew;
Her freight a shining band: with martial air
Each poised his shield, and each advanced his spear;
And, if aright these
searching
eyes survey,
The eluded suitors stem the watery way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But what I stomach least is that you go to sit on the
tribunal
by
order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Cast thine eye to yonder sky,
There the milky way doth lie ;
*Tis a sure, but rugged way,
That leads to
everlasting
day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of
withered
weeds
Is sadder than any words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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A perfume
of exalted virtue
emanated
from all her being.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Pray, how should you know such
garments?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Call here thy congress of the great, the wise,
The hearing ears, the seeing eyes, --
Enrich us out of every farthest clime, --
Yea, make all ages native to our time,
Till thou the freedom of the city grant
To each most antique habitant
Of Fame, --
Bring Shakespeare back, a man and not a name, --
Let every player that shall mimic us
In audience see old godlike Aeschylus, --
Bring Homer, Dante, Plato, Socrates, --
Bring Virgil from the visionary seas
Of old romance, -- bring Milton, no more blind, --
Bring large Lucretius, with unmaniac mind, --
Bring all gold hearts and high resolved wills
To be with us about these happy hills, --
Bring old Renown
To walk familiar citizen of the town, --
Bring Tolerance, that can kiss and disagree, --
Bring Virtue, Honor, Truth, and Loyalty, --
Bring Faith that sees with undissembling eyes, --
Bring all large Loves and heavenly Charities, --
Till man seem less a riddle unto man
And fair Utopia less Utopian,
And many peoples call from shore to shore,
`The world has bloomed again, at
Baltimore!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
MARMADUKE Have you
betrayed
me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
who will give me back my
terrible
array?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Violet and Slingsby and Guy and Lionel were greatly struck with this
singular and instructive settlement; and, having
previously
asked
permission of the Blue-Bottle-Flies (which was most courteously granted),
the boat was drawn up to the shore, and they proceeded to make tea in front
of the bottles: but as they had no tea-leaves, they merely placed some
pebbles in the hot water; and the Quangle-Wangle played some tunes over it
on an accordion, by which, of course, tea was made directly, and of the
very best quality.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Well doeth he, that bids his lineage cease,
Bagnacavallo;
Castracaro
ill,
And Conio worse, who care to propagate
A race of Counties from such blood as theirs.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Nowe to the warre lette all the
slughornes
sounde,
The Dacyanne troopes appere on yinder rysynge grounde.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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They said it so often and so
tediously
that, at
last, the Church has begun to say it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For here
availeth
no Swete-Thought, 4505
And Swete-Speche helpith right nought.
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And
straight
again they mounted,
And rode to Vesta's door;
Then, like a blast, away they passed,
And no man saw them more.
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