Quick, 'neath the spiral round
Of the deep
staircase
fly!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In my dream, I thought I held your hand
And asked you to tell me what your
thoughts
were.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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When they have stolen,
As is their wont, a
pittance
from strict time,
For rest not needed or exchange of love, 240
Then from his couch he starts; and now his feet
Crush out a livelier fragrance from the flowers
Of lowly thyme, by Nature's skill enwrought
In the wild turf: the lingering dews of morn
Smoke round him, as from hill to hill he hies, 245
His staff protending like a hunter's spear,
Or by its aid leaping from crag to crag,
And o'er the brawling beds of unbridged streams.
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William Wordsworth |
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00)
"No other
contemporary
poet has more independently yoked the dominant thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In 1793 this passage
occupied
the place of the six lines of the final
text (250-255).
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Then
Eurynome
replied,
Oh might our pray'rs prevail, none of them all
Should see bright-charioted Aurora more.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For weight prevents all things should come to pass
Through blows, as 'twere, by some external force;
But that man's mind itself in all it does
Hath not a fixed
necessity
within,
Nor is not, like a conquered thing, compelled
To bear and suffer,--this state comes to man
From that slight swervement of the elements
In no fixed line of space, in no fixed time.
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Lucretius |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine
Elizabethan
translation which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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If to enter life
Needed some courage, 'twere a kind of wages,
As they let sacking
soldiers
take home loot:
But we are shuffled into life like puppets
Emptied out of a showman's bag; and then
Made spenders of the joys current in heaven!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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On the faint wind floated the silky seeds
As the bright scythe swept through the waving grass,
The ouzel-cock
splashed
circles in the reeds
And flecked with silver whorls the forest's glass,
Which scarce had caught again its imagery
Ere from its bed the dusky tench leapt at the dragon-fly.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Vanish in glowing
Flame,
Salamander!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Nice little
thimble!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No brigadier
throughout
the year
So civic as the jay.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Non era
camminata
di palagio
la 'v' eravam, ma natural burella
ch'avea mal suolo e di lume disagio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Mine arms enfold
That, which
unswayed
by me grew up and bloomed
To other worlds:
Mine own, and yet so infinitely far.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out
suddenly
that all his life
he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
Greene's Brigade, though shorn and shattered,
Slain and
bleeding
half their men,
When they heard that Irish slogan,
Turned and charged the foe again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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2 That is, the
extravagance
of Sui Yangdi can been seen in the ornament of the ruins, which serve as evidence of why the Sui fell.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And you climbed yet
further!
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
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Sappho |
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There on a shabby
building
was a sign
"The India Wharf " .
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Sara Teasdale |
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It must be remembered that
'The Prelude' itself was a posthumous publication; and also that the
fragmentary canto of 'The Recluse', entitled "Home at Grasmere"--as well
as the other canto
published
in 1886, and entitled (most prosaically)
"Composed when a probability existed of our being obliged to quit Rydal
Mount as a residence"--were not published by the poet himself.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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A Select
Collection
of Old Plays.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Never the lads wi'
The
bannocks
o' barley.
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Robert Burns |
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Those ends in war the best
contentment
bring,
_Whose peace is made up with a pardoning_.
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Robert Herrick |
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While my beloved, I grant it, deprives me of moments of daylight,
She in the nighttime hours gives
compensation
in full.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This
murtherous
Shaft that's shot,
Hath not yet lighted: and our safest way,
Is to auoid the ayme.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I therefore, neither guest nor
suppliant
heed,
Nor public herald more, but with regret
Of my Ulysses wear my soul away.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"Then captive in an alien house,
Hungering
on exile's bitter bread,--
They happy, they who won the lot
Of sacrifice," she said.
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Christina Rossetti |
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By birth he ranked
With the most noble, but unto the poor
Among mankind he was in service bound,
As by some tie invisible, oaths professed 305
To a
religious
order.
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William Wordsworth |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the Imperial Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven,
opposing
such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When they draw nigh the citadel above,
From the palace they hear a mighty sound;
About that place are seen pagans enough,
Who weep and cry, with grief are waxen wood,
And curse their gods,
Tervagan
and Mahum
And Apolin, from whom no help is come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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A-wei and Han-lang[96] both
followed
in their turn;
Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night did you know them or not?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The dinner was marred by the
sinister
disaster
of Eugene Hugo going mad.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that confiding prodigal,
The
blissful
oriole.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Why be angered if the door
Repulses
fifty suing maids
Who vainly there implore?
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But I, who watch you
tenderly
afar,
With unquiet eyes on your uncertain steps,
As though I were your father, I--O wonder!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Thy father and mother both--'tis strange to tell--
Had failed thee, though for them the deed was well,
The years were ripe, to die and save their son,
The one child of the house: for hope was none,
If thou
shouldst
pass away, of other heirs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The
faithful
witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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--La graisse sous la peau parait en
feuilles
plates;
Et les rondeurs des reins semblent prendre l'essor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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des
Menschen
Herz und Geist!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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From morn till night, from night till startled morn
Peeps blushing on the revel's
laughing
crew,
The song is heard, the rosy garland worn;
Devices quaint, and frolics ever new,
Tread on each other's kibes.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LXXVI
High up the spacious city is place,
With steps, which serve as seats in rising rows;
Which for nought else is used, except the chase,
Tourney, or
wrestling
match, or such-like shows.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You watch me
I cannot tell you
the truth yet
I dare not, too little one,
What has
happened
to you
-
One day I will tell it
to you
- for as a man
I'd not wish you
not to know
your fate
-
or man
dead child
28.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Though
friendly
praise hath but its hour.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He for his birth fair Rome preferr'd not then,
But lowly Bethlehem; thus o'er proudest state
He ever loves
humility
to raise.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Maine knows you,
Has for years and years;
New
Hampshire
knows you,
And Massachusetts
And Vermont.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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>>
Immediatement
sa raison s'en alla.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A single chasm, a gulf of gloomy blue,
Gapes in the centre of the sea--and through
That dark
mysterious
gulf ascending, sound 415
Innumerable streams with roar profound.
| Guess: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Ivi mi parve in una visione
estatica
di subito esser tratto,
e vedere in un tempio piu persone;
e una donna, in su l'entrar, con atto
dolce di madre dicer: <
perche hai tu cosi verso noi fatto?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Of spirit grave yet light,
How fervent fragrances uprise
Pure-born from these most rich and yet most white
Virginities!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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ider wende in
clennesse!
| 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 |
|
The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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[Illustration]
The Queer
Querulous
Quail,
who smoked a Pipe of tobacco on the top of
a Tin Tea-kettle.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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We lay beneath a spreading oak,
Beside a mossy seat;
And from the turf a
fountain
broke
And gurgled at our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Holpe, holpe, yee
seynctes!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Words to the air, and balm to my own heart,
To its old
luxurious
and commanded smart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience,
by William Blake
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Looked at from a point of criticism, tiny puppets they
seem all, as the editor sets up his booth upon my desk and
officiates
as
showman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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His family: a mass of dense
coloured
globes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Where shall I hide my
forehead
and my eyes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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How quickly the heroic mood
Responds
to its own ringing;
The scornful heart, the angry blood
Leap upward, singing!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The
Colonnas
finally returned to their dignities and property, and
afterwards made successful war against the house of their rivals, the
Orsini.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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(GREGORY
suddenly
draws a dagger; all give way
before him; he dashes through the window.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Cretan monster would have
perished
there,
At your hand, despite the toils of his vast lair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Crowded--can we believe,
not in utter disgust,
in
ironical
play--
but the maker of cities grew faint
with the beauty of temple
and space before temple,
arch upon perfect arch,
of pillars and corridors that led out
to strange court-yards and porches
where sun-light stamped
hyacinth-shadows
black on the pavement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
flattened
edge-work, circling round the whole,
Made strong support for coiling snakes that grew
Erect above the concave of the shield:
Loud rang the warrior's voice; inspired for war,
He raves to slay, as doth a Bacchanal,
His very glance a terror!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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LXX
Here, wounded, he
remained
some days before
He could bear arms: but him, in the design
Of seeking out Sir Aquilant once more,
And good Astolpho, left in Palestine,
I quit; they vainly did his path explore,
After Sir Gryphon left the holy shrine,
Through Solyma in every place of note,
And many, from the Holy Land remote.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
The cobbles see this all along the street
Coming--coming--on
countless
feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE WORLD IS NOT ETERNAL
And first,
Since body of earth and water, air's light breath,
And fiery exhalations (of which four
This sum of things is seen to be compact)
So all have birth and perishable frame,
Thus the whole nature of the world itself
Must be
conceived
as perishable too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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_A further
edition_ (_making the
seventh_)
_with some omissions from the issue of
1908_, _but including two new poems_, _was published in September 1909_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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, AND IS
PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF
ILLINOIS
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE
WITH PERMISSION.
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Shakespeare |
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"
inquired
a chorus of voices.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The second and third of these
couplets
were cancelled in the edition of
1815, and the whole passage was withdrawn in 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Its
business
office is located at 809
North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Stephen Crane |
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As soon as I see the
earliest
gray
Of morning glimmer in the east,
I will go over to the priest,
And hear what the good man has to say.
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Longfellow |
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E'en thou wentst forth in poverty and hunger
To set the goodly plant, that from the vine,
It once was, now is grown
unsightly
bramble.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And what good in our lives, strength or
delighted
glee,
Hath God paid to purchase our purity?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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THE PANTHER
His weary glance, from passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed and vacant stare;
It seems to him there are a
thousand
bars
And out beyond those bars the empty air.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet it may chance, erelong, the Vatican,
And other most
selected
parts of Rome,
That were the grave of Peter's soldiery,
Shall be deliver'd from the adult'rous bond.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"--how roared the cannonry,
How rocked the bell-towers, and through thickening spray
Of nosegays, wreaths, and kerchiefs tossed on high,
How marched the civic guard, the people still
Being good at shouts,
especially
the boys!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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All question vain, all chill
foreboding
vain.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Not the cormorant, cradled there on the sea,
Not stones from the walls, or the
rhythmic
beat
Of a trader's oars thrashing the waves below.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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