Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me
languish
into life!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Is it some
hovering
sprite with whistling scream that hurls
Down to the deep from yon old tower a loosened stone?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is not hard to account for elves and fairies; they
represent this light grace, this
ethereal
gentility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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That
is what the lads in the village will
remember
to the last day they live.
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Yeats |
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net
ROBERT HERRICK
THE
HESPERIDES
& NOBLE
NUMBERS: EDITED BY
ALFRED POLLARD
WITH A PREFACE BY
A.
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Robert Herrick |
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The novelist and the physician, who profess to know all things, yet
cannot explain whence comes this sudden and delirious energy to indolent
and voluptuous souls; nor how, incapable of accomplishing the simplest
and most necessary things, they are at some certain moment of time
possessed by a
superabundant
hardihood which enables them to execute the
most absurd and even the most dangerous acts.
| 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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Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty
reckoned
of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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And that
unknowing
what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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He is said to have taken poison in
order to avoid
fighting
against Athens.
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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Over his countenance flitted a shadow like those on the landscape,
Gloom
intermingled
with light; and his voice was subdued with emotion,
Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a pause he proceeded:
"Yonder there, on the hill by the sea, lies buried Rose Standish;
Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed for me by the wayside!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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9 Surely to such as do him fear
Salvation
is at hand
And glory shall ere long appear
To dwell within our Land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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LVII
Alone stood brave Horatius,
But
constant
still in mind;
Thrice thirty thousand foes before,
And the broad flood behind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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When he uttered these words and called
the gods to hear his vows, the
Rutulians
stir one another up to arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
| 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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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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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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If ye behold
Or seek it with a love remiss and lax,
This cornice after just
repenting
lays
Its penal torment on ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And often, lounging with friends in the soft grass
Beside a river of water, underneath
A big tree's branches, merrily they'd refresh
Their frames, with no vast outlay--most of all
If the weather were smiling and the times of the year
Were
painting
the green of the grass around with flowers.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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)
Stars of the night sky,
did you see that phantom fadeout,
did you see those phantom riders,
skeleton riders on skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose leaves red on white-jaw slants,
grinning
along on Pennsylvania Avenue,
the top-sergeants calling roll calls--
did their horses nicker a horse laugh?
| 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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And besides,
If soul
immortal
is, and winds its way
Into the body at the birth of man,
Why can we not remember something, then,
Of life-time spent before?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Swift let us try if
phantoms
of the air,
Or living charms, appear divinely fair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE PASSION OF LOVE
This craving 'tis that's Venus unto us:
From this,
engender
all the lures of love,
From this, O first hath into human hearts
Trickled that drop of joyance which ere long
Is by chill care succeeded.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
| Guess: |
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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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They will know how to keep from singing
notes and from prosaic
lifeless
intonations, and they will always
understand, however far they push their experiments, that poetry and
not music is their object; and they will have by heart, like the Irish
_File_, so many poems and notations that they will never have to bend
their heads over the book to the ruin of dramatic expression and of
that wild air the bard had always about him in my boyish imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In sooth, we all thus err, nor man there be
But in some matter a Suffenus see
Thou canst: his lache
allotted
none shall lack 20
Yet spy we nothing of our back-borne pack.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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you ask--a wily
sneaking
knave,
Who, while his master spends, contrives to save;
Till, in the end, grown rich, the lands he buys,
Which his good lord is forced to sacrifice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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--Nay,
Traveller!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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THE ARREST OF
LIEUTENANT
GOLIGHTLY.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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One way all travel; the dark urn
Shakes each man's lot, that soon or late
Will force him,
hopeless
of return,
On board the exile-ship of Fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The attacking party
carried nothing but swords, and it seemed a long
business
to send for
siege-engines and missiles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
| Guess: |
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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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His war
writings
include _The New Armies in Training, France at
War_, and _Sea Warfare_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They took a plough and plough'd him down,
Put clods upon his head,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John
Barleycorn
was dead.
| 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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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For henceforth, from to-night,
I am wholly gone into the bright
Safety of the beauty of love:
Not only all my waking vigours plied
Under the searching glory of love,
But knowing myself with love all satisfied
Even when my life is hidden in sleep;
As high clouds, to themselves that keep
The moon's white company, are all possest
Silverly with the presence of their guest;
Or as a darken'd room
That hath within it roses, whence the air
And
quietness
are taken everywhere
Deliciously by sweet perfume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Paul
Verlaine
(1844-1896)
Paul Verlaine
'Paul Verlaine'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p248, 1896) Internet Book Archive Images
The piano kissed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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she,
You plainly in her face may read it,
Could lend out of that moment's store
Five years of
happiness
or more,
To any that might need it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
_, 1630:
No coaches, or
carroaches
she doth crave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When from my arms my babe they took,
On me how
strangely
did he look!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thy father's combat {7a} a feud enkindled
when Heatholaf with hand he slew
among the Wylfings; his Weder kin
for horror of
fighting
feared to hold him.
| 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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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
2: [*]
pudentem
p[*]eto_ G [inserendum?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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I saw thee sit there in
disconsolate
sighs,
Where the hall of thy fathers a ruined heap lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
How many
potentates
and private persons have, from attending to
or neglecting these, obtained a better or a worse condition!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
Contributions
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout
joyously
from the deck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
I don't believe in the
existence
of Puritan women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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] What can man's
wisdom
In the
restoring
his bereaved sense?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Their
preparation
is to-day by sea;
We please them not by land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Snakes on the ground were
writhing
about.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
* * * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But though I am the interpreter of the
gods, I must notwithstanding request that
Secundus
may take the lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Ambition, Glory, Love, the common aim,
That some can conquer, and that all would claim, 80
Within his breast appeared no more to strive,
Yet seemed as lately they had been alive;
And some deep feeling it were vain to trace
At moments
lightened
o'er his livid face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
In the real countenance
there are no tears or grievances, but a quizzical,
humorous
expression
which shows, when one has torn the subterfuge away, that here is a
spirit whom life may menace with its contradictions and fatalities, but
never dupe with its circumstance and mystery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
I have not loved the world, nor the world me,--
But let us part fair foes; I do believe,
Though I have found them not, that there may be
Words which are things,--hopes which will not deceive,
And virtues which are merciful, nor weave
Snares for the falling: I would also deem
O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve;
That two, or one, are almost what they seem,--
That goodness is no name, and
happiness
no dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The gleanings of precarious charity
Her
scantiness
of food did scarce supply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The loftiest place is that seat of grace
For which all
worldlings
try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
"
"Oh, that's a meteor sent us, a message dumb, portentous,
An
undeciphered
solemn signal of help or hurt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
"
In dreary, doubtful, waiting hours,
Before the brazen frenzy starts,
The horses show him nobler powers;
O patient eyes,
courageous
hearts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
e erly & late; 495
And tou hast
seuentene
?
| 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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How well I call to mind,
When from those boughs the wind
Shook down upon her bosom flower on flower;
And there she sat, meek-eyed,
In midst of all that pride,
Sprinkled
and blushing through an amorous shower
Some to her hair paid dower,
And seem'd to dress the curls,
Queenlike, with gold and pearls;
Some, snowing, on her drapery stopp'd,
Some on the earth, some on the water dropp'd;
While others, fluttering from above,
Seem'd wheeling round in pomp, and saying, "Here reigns Love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
He paid no
attention
to this, but soon he
heard the vestibule door open.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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False love he makes, slave of a far country,
Now
laughter
and jests turn to misery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting
each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
goddes hous in
Ierusalems
burgh?
| 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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No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of
thralled
discontent,
Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
The foreign words in
_Bēowulf_
(as ceaster-here) are not numerous;
others are (aside from proper names like _Cain, Abel_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The _Curse of Minerva_ is the
complete
edition of 312
lines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For
_Ninsun_
as
mother of Gilgamish see SBP.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Somewhat
as in the Greek
Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave
that falls over in the last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
An Irish critic has told us
to study the stage-management of Antoine, but that is like telling a
good
Catholic
to take his theology from Luther.
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Yeats |
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And those things which I say in consequence
Are rubies
mortised
in a gate of stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And now your orphan parent's call
Sounds your
untimely
funeral ;
Death-trumpets creak in such a note, 415
And 'tis the sourdine in their throat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Left to myself I wander as I will,
And as my fancy leads me, through this house,
Nor could I ask a
dwelling
more complete
Were I indeed the Goddess that he deems me.
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Longfellow |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly
penetrate
her--
she opening to you,
engulfing you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He could not bear it--shut his eyes in vain;
Imagination
gave a dizzier pain.
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Keats |
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"
—The Rochester Herald, Rochester, New York
— The
Literary
Digest, New York Rates, $1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Man's broken Word, and
violated
gods!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When there are no more
memories
of heroes and martyrs,
And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged
from any part of the earth,
Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from
that part of the earth,
And the infidel come into full possession.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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Thou dar'st not tell me that in
earnest!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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That we
perceived
ourselves erst only .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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