till we find where the sly one hides
and bring him forth,
Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the
trestles
of death.
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How all around, it chokes and swells
When we
approach
the things they cherished.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[B]
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their
thoughts
I cannot measure:--
But the least motion which they made, 15
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous bourgmestres vous bateliers
Et vous conseillers de regence
Vous aussi tziganes sans papiers
La vie vous pourrit dans la panse
La croix vous pousse entre les pieds
Le vent du Rhin ulule avec tous les hiboux
Il eteint les cierges que toujours les enfants rallument
Et les feuilles mortes
Viennent couvrir les morts
Des enfants morts parlent parfois avec leur mere
Et des mortes parfois
voudraient
bien revenir
Oh!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What
opulence
the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose farthest of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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LEAVES
ONE by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have
forsaken
me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and delicate red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Who would have then divined that dead would lie
Like swaths of grain beneath the harvest moon
Upon these lands the ancient Belgae held,
From Normandy beyond
renowned
Liege!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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CLEARING
UP AT DAWN
The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped;
The colours of Spring teem on every side.
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Li Po |
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Water is his great
symbol of existence, and he continually
meditates
over its mysterious
source.
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Yeats |
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The invention of artillery by
infernal ingenuity is an old
conception
of the poets.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
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Li Po |
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High o'er a gulfy sea, the Pharian isle
Fronts the deep roar of
disemboguing
Nile:
Her distance from the shore, the course begun
At dawn, and ending with the setting sun,
A galley measures; when the stiffer gales
Rise on the poop, and fully stretch the sails.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Victory, Maids of Argos,
Victory!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Shall I
vouchsafe
your worship a word or two?
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Shakespeare |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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blake-poems |
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When within a thing so sad
Lies, thou wilt house a
stranger?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Yesterday
I went out to see the reddening apples in the garden,
and they faded from my imagination sooner than they would have from
the imagination of that old poet, who made the songs of the seasons
for the Fianna, or out of Chaucer's, that celebrated so many trees.
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Yeats |
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"If I myself upon a looser Creed
Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good deed,
Let this one thing for my
Atonement
plead:
That One for Two I never did misread.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That is, she
inflames
herself and ripens her
passion.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Like Hippocrene it
scatters
light,
Its ebullition foaming white
(Like other things I could relate)
My heart of old would captivate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How fain were they now in
upper air to endure their poverty and [438-472]sore
travail!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And as soon as they
had gone a little way, the wolves, who had been showing
themselves
on
the edge of a neighbouring coppice, came nearer, and the birds wheeled
closer and closer.
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Yeats |
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Cheeks as pale
As these you see, and
trembling
knees that fail
To bear the burden of a heavy heart,--
This weary minstrel-life that once was girt
To climb Aornus, and can scarce avail
To pipe now 'gainst the valley nightingale
A melancholy music,--why advert
To these things?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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We hear the warlike clarions we view the turning spheres *
Yet Thou in
indolence
reposest holding me in bonds {These lines first appear after line 2, but are marked to be moved here.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Unheard Midnight counts out his empty number,
Wakefulness urges you never to close an eye,
Before in the ancient armchair's embrace my
Shade is
illuminated
by the dying embers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The most renowned poems would be ashes,
orations
and plays would be
vacuums.
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| Question: |
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Whitman |
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SOLNESS: If I do, I will talk to Him once again up
there--"Mighty Lord, henceforth I will build nothing
but the
loveliest
thing in the world.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Let's after him,
Whose care is gone before, to bid vs welcome:
It is a
peerelesse
Kinsman.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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This thirst belongs to the
immortality
of Man.
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| Question: |
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Poe - 5 |
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70
Ego vitam agam sub altis
Phrygiae
columinibus,
Vbi cerva silvicultrix, ubi aper nemorivagus?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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--C'est trop petit pour nous,
Nous
creverions
de chaud, nous serions a genoux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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s politically stupid protest was initially
forgiven
on the grounds that one should not stifle protest.
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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His
daughter
is
going to marry a man without an equal in the world; who can achieve
everything, everything, everything.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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coniungebat
Bonnet
33 _reuinciens_ ah: _reuincens_ ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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King Louis XVII--_Dublin
University
Magazine_
The Feast of Freedom--_"Father Prout" (F.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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It is said that by the end of the war he had personally
ministered
to
upwards of 100,000 sick and wounded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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and, while her heart
Struggled with tears nor could its sorrow ease, 535
She left him there; for, clustering round his knees,
With his oak-staff the cottage
children
played;
And soon she reached a spot o'erhung with trees
And banks of ragged earth; beneath the shade
Across the pebbly road a little runnel strayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Be once again the distant light,
Promise of glory not yet known
In full perfection---wasted quite
When on my
imperfection
thrown.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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_
MAGUELONNE
(_fiercely_): You must not kill him!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
sentence
was cut by a roar of laughter from Boulte's lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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For in his thought he visited
The spots in which, ere dead and damned,
He his wayward life had led; _415
Yet knew not whence the
thoughts
were fed
Which thus his fancy crammed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when
strewing
her glorious presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
Roarynge and
rolleynge
on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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What old December's bareness
everywhere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Of base life indeed is the man
Who with joy finds never a place,
Where love is no part of the plan
That drives his heart and his desire;
For all that exists with joy abounds,
Rings out, and with its song resounds:
Park, orchard, meadow, all the choir
Of heath, plain and
woodland
chase.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Then Eno [Ono] a daughter of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven thousand years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into Infinitude & ornamented it with
wondrous
art
{This is where Erdman puts these 2 lines, which appear diagonally on the page in the upper-left corner, near the exta-marginal block of text which is inserted after line 7.
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Blake - Zoas |
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This
haue I thought good to deliuer thee (my dearest Partner of
Greatnesse) that thou might'st not loose the dues of reioycing
by being ignorant of what
Greatnesse
is promis'd thee.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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It is a wonderful tyranny, that life
Has no choice but to be
delighted
love!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The preacher now provides himself with store
Of jests and gibes; and, so there be no lack
Of laughter, while he vents them, his big cowl
Distends, and he has won the meed he sought:
Could but the vulgar catch a glimpse the while
Of that dark bird which nestles in his hood,
They scarce would wait to hear the
blessing
said.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He gave orders for the
imprisonment of
Publilius
Sabinus, the prefect of the Guards, on the
ground of his intimacy with Caecina, and appointed Alfenus Varus[97]
in his place.
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| Question: |
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Tacitus |
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We sat there each with the same desire
And like
thoughts
by each unexpressed:
"Man in the world lodging for a single life-time
Passes suddenly like dust borne on the wind.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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so seldom why
Give me what I can ne'er too much
possess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
chestnut
beard-grass, Indian-grass, or wood-grass, growing here
and there in waste places, but more rare than the former (from two to
four or five feet high), is still handsomer and of more vivid colors
than its congeners, and might well have caught the Indian's eye.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Here oft I made my lover climb to me,
And (what he was to mount) a hempen stair,
When him I to my longing arms would call,
From the
projecting
balcony let fall.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"We rule the hearts of mightiest men--we rule
"With a
despotic
sway all giant minds.
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| Question: |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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'549'
Pope insinuates here that the clergy under William III hated an absolute
monarch so much that they even encouraged their hearers to
question
the
absolute power of God.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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It makes one look old, and it
spoils one's career at
critical
moments.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O
culpable!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They took up a roll and some
Camomile
tea,
And both were as happy as happy could be,
Till Mrs.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Of such skill appliance needs
To
medicine
the wound, that healeth last.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Such reading is the condition precedent to
all true
judgment
of a writer's work.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Moult a Largece pris et los;
Ele a les sages et les fos
Outreement
a son bandon,
Car ele savoit fere biau don;
S'ainsinc fust qu'aucuns la haist,
Si cuit-ge que de ceus feist 1150
Ses amis par son biau servise;
Et por ce ot-ele a devise
L'amor des povres et des riches.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or
Paumanok
sound, claims him.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Verner;
facsimiles
of Lord Byron's handwriting face pp.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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are you the
President?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I was taken
to the fort, which had
remained
whole, and the hussars, my escort,
handed me over to the officer of the guard.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The fire within the heart so burns us up
That we would wander Hell and Heaven through,
Deep in the Unknown seeking
something
_new_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"But facts in proof are manifest," thou sayest,
"That all things grow into the winds of air
And forth from earth are nourished, and unless
The season favour at propitious hour
With rains enough to set the trees a-reel
Under the soak of bulking thunderheads,
And sun, for its share, foster and give heat,
No grains, nor trees, nor
breathing
things can grow.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lucretius |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth creeping imagery of
slighter
trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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Nor need there be for men
Astonishment that yonder sun so small
Can yet send forth so great a light as fills
Oceans and all the lands and sky aflood,
And with its fiery
exhalations
steeps
The world at large.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Here was commons for their hills, where they seek for freedom still,
Though every common's gone and though traps are set to kill
The little homeless miners--O it turns my bosom chill
When I think of old Sneap Green, Puddock's Nook and Hilly Snow,
Where bramble bushes grew and the daisy gemmed in dew
And the hills of silken grass like to cushions to the view,
Where we threw the pismire crumbs when we'd nothing else to do,
All levelled like a desert by the never weary plough,
All
banished
like the sun where that cloud is passing now
And settled here for ever on its brow.
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John Clare |
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sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
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the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In two long memorials entitled "On Stopping the
War," he had criticized the
handling
of a campaign against an
unimportant tribe of Tartars, which he considered had been unduly
prolonged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they
themselves
are immortal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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)
3
Have you thought there could be but a single
supreme?
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Six days' leave and a year
between!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"A man on earth HE
wandered
once,
All meek and undefiled,
And those who loved Him said 'He wept'--
None ever said He smiled;
Yet there might have been a smile unseen,
When He bowed his holy face, I ween,
To bless that happy child.
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et tu non orbum luxti deserta cubile,
sed fratris cari flebile
discidium?
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Five children on the long low
mattress
lie--
A nest of little souls, it heaves with dreams;
In the high chimney the last embers die,
And redden the dark room with crimson gleams.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Phaedra
I've already
prolonged
its guilty thread too far.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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So with a yawn I went my way
To seek the welcome downy,
And slept, and dreamed till break of day
Of
Poltergeist
and Fetch and Fay
And Leprechaun and Brownie!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
set forth in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--I ne'er should see
Hellas again, I leave her here, to be
An
handmaid
in thy house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Title: Essay on Man
Moral Essays and Satires
Author: Alexander Pope
Editor: Henry Morley
Release Date: August 20, 2007 [eBook #2428]
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***START OF THE PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK ESSAY ON MAN***
Transcribed from the 1891 Cassell & Company edition by Les Bowler.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The epitaph too is his own
composition
and is the natural
supplement to this hymn:
JOHANNES DONNE
SAC.
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John Donne |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
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Villon |
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When masons' mystic word an' grip
In storms an'
tempests
raise you up,
Some cock or cat your rage maun stop,
Or, strange to tell!
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Robert Forst |
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Ils tressaillent souvent a la claire voix d'or
Du timbre matinal, qui frappe et frappe encor
Son refrain
metallique
en son globe de verre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And I too gained the lot for which I craved,
And
oftentimes
led out a goodly host,
Yet never brought disaster such as this
Upon the city.
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Aeschylus |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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