The thyrsus is the symbol of your astonishing duality, O powerful and
venerated master, dear
bacchanal
of a mysterious and impassioned Beauty.
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Grand are the forms of this body and nobly
positioned
each member.
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And as the newe abaysshed nightingale,
That stinteth first whan she
biginneth
to singe,
Whan that she hereth any herde tale, 1235
Or in the hegges any wight steringe,
And after siker dooth hir voys out-ringe;
Right so Criseyde, whan hir drede stente,
Opned hir herte and tolde him hir entente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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From the twins is nothing hidden,
To the pair is nought forbidden;
Hand in hand the comrades go
Every nook of Nature through:
Each for other they were born,
Each can other best adorn;
They know one only mortal grief
Past all balsam or relief;
When, by false companions crossed,
The
pilgrims
have each other lost.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Latin tragedies are bad
copies of the masterpieces of
Sophocles
and Euripides.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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if ever men's praise
Could be claimed for creating
heroical
lays,
Thou hast won it; if ever the laurel divine
Crowned the Maker and Builder, that glory is thine!
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James Russell Lowell |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You
contemplate
the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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-poems |
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)
Kisslet of savour so sweet sweetest
Ambrosia
unknows.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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ybred in filthy fen
He chose, which he had kept long time in
darksome
den.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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APOLLO
Lo, I desert thee never: to the end,
Hard at thy side as now, or
sundered
far,
I am thy guard, and to thine enemies
Implacably oppose me: look on them,
These greedy fiends, beneath my craft subdued!
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Aeschylus |
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Quand' elli ebbe 'l suo dir cosi compiuto,
la fiamma dolorando si partio,
torcendo e
dibattendo
'l corno aguto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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]
[Footnote 8: A note to Quatrain 234 admits that, however clear the mystical
meaning of such Images must be to Europeans, they are not quoted without
"rougissant" even by laymen in Persia--"Quant aux termes de tendresse
qui
commencent
ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos
lecteurs, habitues maintenant a 1'etrangete des expressions si souvent
employees par Kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la
singularite des images trop orientales, d'une sensualite quelquefois
revoltante, n'auront pas de peine a se persuader qu'il s'agit de la
Divinite, bien que cette conviction soit vivement discutee par les
moullahs musulmans, et meme par beaucoup de laiques, qui rougissent
veritablement d'une pareille licence de leur compatriote a 1'egard des
choses spirituelles.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If God ere then
relieves
us, well.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Me Love has left in fair cold arms to lie,
Which kill me wrongfully: if I complain,
My
martyrdom
is doubled, worse my pain:
Better in silence love, and loving die!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
While yet she spoke, the queen in transport sprung
Swift from the couch, and round the matron hung;
Fast from her eye
descends
the rolling tear:
"Say, once more say, is my Ulysses here?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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He received a commission in the Royal Marine Artillery
at the end of 1914 and served as a Second Lieutenant with an Anti-
Aircraft Battery in April, 1915,
returning
wounded during the following
June.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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Your flying wings may smite, but they can never spill
The cup
fulfilled
of love, from which my lips are wet.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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bēah (the collar of the
murdered
king of the Heaðobeardnas), 2042; bēg
(collective for the acc.
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Beowulf |
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'Methought her looks began to talk with me; _3010
And no articulate sounds, but something sweet
Her lips would frame,--so sweet it could not be,
That it was meaningless; her touch would meet
Mine, and our pulses calmly flow and beat
In response while we slept; and on a day _3015
When I was happiest in that strange retreat,
With heaps of golden shells we two did play,--
Both infants, weaving wings for time's
perpetual
way.
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Shelley |
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I went on to the balcony and caught up a little flower-pot, and when the
man
appeared
in the door-way beneath I let fall my engine of war
perpendicularly upon the edge of his pack, so that it was upset by the
shock and all his poor walking fortune broken to bits.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
"Verily it is neither-but beware how thou lettest the rope slip too
rapidly through thy fingers; for should the wicker-work chance to hang
on the projection of Yonder crag, there will be a woful
outpouring
of
the holy things of the sanctuary.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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"
When I awoke, before I had time to speak,
A
knocking
on the door sounded "Doong, doong!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Note the
skillful summary of events in xxvi, and observe that this stanza is the
_Central Crisis_ and
_Pivotal
Point_ of the whole Book.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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Not seldom this warrior
Is in weapons distinguished;
Never his beauty belies him,
His
peerless
countenance!
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Longfellow |
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A
crucifix
whereon to register
This sacred vow?
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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General William Booth Enters Into Mitchell Kennerley 1913
Heaven
The Congo and Other Poems The Macmillan Company 1915
The Chinese Nightingale The Macmillan Company 1917
The Golden Whales of
California
The Macmillan Company 1920
JAMES OPPENHEIM
Monday Morning and Other Poems Sturgis & Walton Co.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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His purposes are
so intelligible to everybody that everybody talks of him as if he
succeeded, although he fails in the end, as all men great and little
fail in Shakespeare, and yet his
conquests
abroad are made nothing by a
woman turned warrior, and that boy he and Katherine were to 'compound,'
'half French, half English,' 'that' was to 'go to Constantinople and
take the Turk by the beard,' turns out a Saint and loses all his father
had built up at home and his own life.
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Yeats |
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),
containing
a device (St.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Now knock when I bid you, sirrah
villain!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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But at His
Excellency Hsu's house I was offered the hand of his grand-daughter,
and
lingered
there during the frosts of three autumns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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O triumphs of my guileless days,
How sweet a dream your
memories
raise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE PEASANT AND HIS ANGRY LORD
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,
A lord,
possessed
of many large estates,
Was angry with a poor and humble clod,
Who tilled his grounds and feared his very nod.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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_
The red-coats fire, the
homespuns
fall:
The homespuns' anxious voices call,
_Brother, art hurt?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Space rolls to-day her
splendour
round!
| 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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To use the
language
of common speech, but to employ always the _exact_
word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.
| Guess: |
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Imagists |
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AND
SLUGGISH
GERMAN, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O'er her limbs the glittering current
In soft torrent
Rains adown the gentle girl,
As if, drop by drop, should fall,
One and all
From her
necklace
every pearl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Herte and al, so hole they yeve,
For the tyme that they may live,
So that, with her flaterye,
They maken foolis glorifye 5450
Of hir wordis [greet] speking,
And han [there]-of a reioysing,
And trowe hem as the Evangyle;
And it is al falsheed and gyle,
As they shal afterwardes see, 5455
Whan they arn falle in povertee,
And been of good and catel bare;
Than shulde they seen who
freendis
ware.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O would they stay aback frae courts,
An' please
themsels
wi' country sports,
It wad for ev'ry ane be better,
The laird, the tenant, an' the cotter!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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His small umbrella, quaintly halved,
Describing
in the air
An arc alike inscrutable, --
Elate philosopher!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Think of all that
is airy and fairy-like, and then of all that is hideous and unwieldy;
think of his huge bulk, the
Elephant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I would not feign a single tale
Thy
kindness
or thy love to seek;
Nor sigh for Jenny of the Vale,
Her ruby smile or rosy cheek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Before I knew, the Dawn was on the road,
Far from my side, so silently he went,
Catching his golden helmet as he ran,
And hast'ning on along the dun straight way,
Where old men's sabots now began to clack
And withered women, knitting, led their cows,
On, on to call the men of Kitchener
Down to their coasts,--I shouting after him:
"O Dawn, would you had let the world sleep on
Till all its
armament
were turned to rust,
Nor waked it to this day of hideous hate,
Of man's red murder and of woman's woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Elephants, whose indifferent backs
Heave with red lambrequins,
Tigers with golden muzzles,
Negresses, greased and turbaned in green and yellow,
Weave and interweave in the
merciless
glare of noon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
All inn-doors and windows _230
Were open to me:
I saw all that sin does,
Which lamps hardly see
That burn in the night by the curtained bed,--
The
impudent
lamps!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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You may think, also,
that the mere
incident
of the watch was too small and trivial to raise
this misunderstanding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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In
that holy but horrible cavern, as Petrarch calls it, they remained three
days and three nights, though Petrarch sometimes gave his comrades the
slip, and
indulged
in rambles among the hills and forests; he composed a
short poem, however, on St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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His
reputation
waxes with
the years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
If
transitory
things, which soone decay, 35
_Age_ must be lovelyest at the latest day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Ranaldo leaves Angelica's castle, and
Angelica
and a very
love-sick (but very chaste and proper) Orlando, set out for
France in search of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It is past the
infinite
of thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Plate, fine stuffs, costly furniture, rare
animals,
exquisite
paintings and sculptures, formed part of the
procession.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Adde nunc vires viribus,
Dulce balneum suavibus,
Unguentatum
odoribus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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He prostrated himself on the
cold floor, and
remained
motionless for a long time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And many a
thousand
summers
My gardens ripened well,
And light from meliorating stars
With firmer glory fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Sad recollection, rising with the morn,
Of my
disastrous
love, repaid with scorn,
Oppressed my sense; till welcome soft repose
Gave a short respite from my swelling woes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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An' Lord,
remember
singing Sannock,
Wi' hale breeks, saxpence, an' a bannock!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Hope: with all the
strength
thou usest
In embracing thy despair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the
sequence
even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Long, long the hour had past when home
Our
youthful
wanderer should roam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
MAD JUDY
WHEN the hamlet hailed a birth
Judy used to cry:
When she heard our
christening
mirth
She would kneel and sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
)[34] Going
round mountains and
skirting
lakes was as nothing to them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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tecum Lesbia nostra
comparatur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Among those who will forthcoming numbers a
volumes for contribute to
Scudder Middleton Marguerite Wilkinson John Russell McCarthy Phoebe Hoffman Ellwood Lindsay Haines Esther Morton Smith Howard Buck
Mary
Humphreys
Samuel Roth
John Hall Wheelock Laura Benet
Fullerton L.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing and
mouthing
of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
| 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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Mild
thoughts
you plant, and joy to see
Mild thoughts take root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Now, thonked be god, he may goon in the daunce
Of hem that Love list febly for to
avaunce!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why
compare?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So that although no sun-beam pierced the gloom,
Its splendour lit the
subterraneous
room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Even in the hut of
Faustulus,"--so these old lays appear to have run,--"the
children of Rhea and Mars were, in port and in spirit, not like
unto
swineherds
or cowherds, but such that men might well guess
them to be of the blood of kings and gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Driving the Female Emanations all away from Los *
I have refusd to look upon the Universal Vision
And wilt thou slay with death him who devotes himself to thee *
If thou drivst all the Males Females away from Vala Luvah I will drive all
The Males away from thee
Once born for the sport & amusement of Man now born to drink up all his Powers
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I heard the
sounding
sea; I heard the voice weaker and weaker;
The voice came & went like a dream, I awoke in my sweet bliss.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Da sitzt meine Mutter auf einem Stein,
Es fasst mich kalt beim
Schopfe!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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1481:
_mirescere_
O: _mit_(_tt_
C)_esc_(_isc_ BLa1)_ere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame puissante au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors paisiblement dans une pose etrange
Tes appas
faconnes
aux bouches des Titans!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And still the centre of his cheek
Is
blooming
as a cherry.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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blake-poems |
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And, as for poetic genius, those who, without being ready to
concede that faculty to Whitman, confess his
iconoclastic
boldness and his
Titanic power of temperament, working in the sphere of poetry, do in effect
confess his genius as well.
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Whitman |
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1270
My
murderous
hands, eager for vengeance,
Burn to plunge in the blood of innocence.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Not a whit could I with
Hrunting
do
in work of war, though the weapon is good;
yet a sword the Sovran of Men vouchsafed me
to spy on the wall there, in splendor hanging,
old, gigantic, -- how oft He guides
the friendless wight!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Red leaf that art blown upward and out and over The green sheaf of the world,
And through the dim forest and under
The
shadowed
arches and the aisles,
We, who are older than thou art,
Met and remembered when his eyes beheld her In the garden of the peach-trees,
In the day of the blossoming.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The curse is come on me, which makes no haste
And doth not tarry,
crushing
both the proud
Hard man and him the sinner double-faced.
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Christina Rossetti |
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At last the hour when I must leave her came:
But, as I turned, a fear I could not name
Possessed
me that the long sweet evening might
Prelude some sudden storm, whereby delight
Should perish.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I call him bankrupt in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter
do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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--Throughout the field I find no grain;
The cruel frost encrusts the
cornland!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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It is
sometimes
said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he
cannot realise his ideal.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Off: I am sorry what this
stoutness
will produce.
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Milton |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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