The labour we delight in,
Physicks
paine:
This is the Doore
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Please take a look at the important
information
in this header.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"--Project Gutenberg Editor's
replacement
of
original footnote]
Le Directeur
Malheur a la malheureuse Tamise!
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T.S. Eliot |
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"Julian set an
example of light-hearted courage," wrote Lieutenant-Colonel Machlachan,
of the Eighth Service
Battalion
Rifle Brigade, "which is famous all
through the Army in France, and has stood out even above the most
lion-hearted.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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If He
Were not of God, surely he could do
nothing!
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Longfellow |
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Now I know what
silenced
me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The most eminent contemporary poets of Europe have, each in accordance
with his individual temperament, reflected in their work the spiritual
essence of our age, its fears and failures, its hopes and high
achievements: Maeterlinck, with his mood of resignation and his
retirement into a dusky twilight where his shadowy figures move
noiselessly like
phantoms
in fate-laden dimness; Dehmel, the worshipper
of will, with his passion for materiality and the beauty of all things
physical and tangible; Verhaeren, the visionary of a new vitality, who
sees in the toilers of fields and factories the heroic gesture of our
time and who might have written its great epic of industry but for the
overwhelming lyrical mood of his soul.
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Rilke - Poems |
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How quickly the heroic mood
Responds to its own ringing;
The scornful heart, the angry blood
Leap upward,
singing!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I think it did: you had much leisure there,
And, with the things we knew, came quietly flying
Memories
of things you had seen we knew not where.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My sorrows I then might assuage
In the ways of
religion
and truth,
Might learn from the wisdom of age,
And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth.
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Golden Treasury |
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Heyne's first edition came out in 1863, and was
followed
in 1867
and 1873 by a second and a third edition, all three having essentially the
same text.
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Beowulf |
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SHERIDAN'S RIDE
THOMAS
BUCHANAN
READ
[Sidenote: Oct.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Startled
sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows bewilder the Tartar sky.
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Li Po |
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the disciple watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy
faithful
to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou
beauteous
wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Let him be the witness, whose thought is not borne on light wings
thro' the air,
But abideth with knowledge, what thing was wrought by Althea's
despair;
For she marr'd the life-grace of her son, with ill counsel rekindled
the flame
That was quenched as it glowed on the brand, what time from his mother
he came,
With the cry of a new-born child; and the brand from the burning she
won,
For the Fates had
foretold
it coeval, in life and in death, with her
son.
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Aeschylus |
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Does his
murderer
make this his sanctuary?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Great are indeed all these, but thou by far be the greatest,
Never a man, but a great Mentula of
menacing
might.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That the
exquisite
scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and
the cohering is for it;
And all preparation is for it!
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Whitman |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The bold Ascalonite
Fled from his Lion ramp, old
Warriors
turn'd
Thir plated backs under his heel; 140
Or grovling soild thir crested helmets in the dust.
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Milton |
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Be mine the ivy, fair reward,
Which blissful crowns the
immortal
bard;
Be mine amid the breezy grove,
In sacred solitude to rove--
To see the nymphs and satyrs bound,
Light dancing in the mazy round,
While all the tuneful muses join
Their various harmony divine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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:
_aperit_
Housman sed cf.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The winds of heaven[236]
Roar'd high--and headlong by the tempest driven,
In Tagus' breast a gallant navy sought
The shelt'ring port, and glad
assistance
brought.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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With what
enchantment
and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or heedless!
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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e I-wys
In
pilerynage
at Galys,
To bryngen hym to Rome.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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when the
graybeard
loves, he should be spared;
The heart is young--_that_ bleeds unto the last.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'Neath my moon what doest thou,
With a
somewhat
paler brow
Than she giveth to the ocean?
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The future is
sometimes
expressed by willan + inf.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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e more
p{er}fit
iugement.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a
crystalline
delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Touching
those letters, sir,
Your son made mention of--your son, is he not?
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Poe - 5 |
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He prostrated himself on the
cold floor, and remained
motionless
for a long time.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O revered Mother, O Ether
Revolving
common light to all,
You see me, how unjust things I endure!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There seem'd from the
remotest
seat
Of the wide mountain waste
To the soft flower beneath our feet
A magic circle traced
A spirit interfused around,
A thrilling silent life;
To momentary peace it bound
Our mortal nature's strife;--
And still I felt the centre of
The magic circle there
Was one fair Form that fill'd with love
The lifeless atmosphere.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Ye powers who preside o'er the wind, and the tide,
Who marked each element's border;
Who formed this frame with beneficent aim,
Whose sovereign statute is order:--
Within this dear mansion, may wayward Contention
Or withered Envy ne'er enter;
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,
And
brotherly
Love be the centre!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Ces vieillards ont toujours fait tresse avec leurs sieges,
Sentant les soleils vifs percaliser leur peaux,
Ou les yeux a la vitre ou se fanent les neiges,
Tremblant du tremblement
douloureux
des crapauds.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'173-206'
In this section Pope reproves those who are
dissatisfied
with man's
faculties.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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'
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, 'What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Prue, my dearest maid, is sick,
Almost to be lunatic:
AEsculapius!
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I knew no more of want or cold,
Phantasms
both become,
For this new value in the soul,
Supremest earthly sum.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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This
commotion
was
only cured by another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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A PRAYER TO LOVE THAT HE WILL TAKE
VENGEANCE
ON THE SCORNFUL PRIDE OF
LAURA.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain;
Or kindled fire, and round the fire and in
Set
cauldrons
foaming; and a festal din
Filled all the place.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and
questioned
in the concert room.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Note: 'True love' in verse two, is fins amor, noble love, the
troubadour
ideal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Fair fall this hallow'd hour,
Farewell
our England's flower,
God save the Queen!
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Or be aliue againe,
And dare me to the Desart with thy Sword:
If
trembling
I inhabit then, protest mee
The Baby of a Girle.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Women claim she's ugly,
But for her the men go mad:
The
Archbishop
of Toledo
Kneels at her feet to say Mass;
For above her amber nape
Is coiled a large chignon
That, in her room, undone
Yields her body a cape.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Somewhat
as in the Greek
Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave
that falls over in the last.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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)
O
crowding
too close upon me;
I foresee too much--it means more than I thought,
It appears to me I am dying.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Woman is ever a fickle and
changing
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
don't think I had any special
hankering
to write poetry as a
little child, though I was of a very fanciful and dreamy nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For all this came a ruin: side by side
They were enthroned, in the even tide,
Upon a couch, near to a curtaining
Whose airy texture, from a golden string,
Floated into the room, and let appear 20
Unveil'd the summer heaven, blue and clear,
Betwixt two marble shafts:--there they reposed,
Where use had made it sweet, with eyelids closed,
Saving a tythe which love still open kept,
That they might see each other while they almost slept;
When from the slope side of a suburb hill,
Deafening
the swallow's twitter, came a thrill
Of trumpets--Lycius started--the sounds fled,
But left a thought, a buzzing in his head.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"
Fear had
stupified
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XLVIII
A pocket at the ancient's side was dight,
Where he a cruise of
virtuous
liquor wore;
And at those puissant eyes, whence flashed the light
Of the most radiant torch Love ever bore,
Threw from the flask a little drop, of might
To make her sleep: upon the sandy shore
Already the recumbent damsel lay,
The greedy elder's unresisting prey.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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An to one ever accrue any boon he lusted and longed for
Any time after despair,
grateful
it comes to his soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Throw
Physicke
to the Dogs, Ile none of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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yet many will presume:
Whence heavie persecution shall arise 530
On all who in the worship persevere
Of Spirit and Truth; the rest, farr greater part,
Will deem in outward Rites and specious formes
Religion satisfi'd; Truth shall retire
Bestuck with slandrous darts, and works of Faith
Rarely be found: so shall the World goe on,
To good malignant, to bad men benigne,
Under her own waight groaning, till the day
Appeer of respiration to the just,
And
vengeance
to the wicked, at return 540
Of him so lately promis'd to thy aid,
The Womans seed, obscurely then foretold,
Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord,
Last in the Clouds from Heav'n to be reveald
In glory of the Father, to dissolve
Satan with his perverted World, then raise
From the conflagrant mass, purg'd and refin'd,
New Heav'ns, new Earth, Ages of endless date
Founded in righteousness and peace and love,
To bring forth fruits Joy and eternal Bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Death grants ye everything,
But vital sense and
exhalation
hot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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--She ceased, and weeping turned away,
As if because her tale was at an end
She wept;--because she had no more to say
Of that
perpetual
weight which on her spirit lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And as each jarring, monster-mass is past,
Fond
recollect
what once thou wast:
In manner due, beneath this sacred oak,
Hear, Spirit, hear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The captains which were chosen to go out
And treat with
Holofernes
have come back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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As Joan of Arc amid the apple trees
With sacred joy first heard the voices, then
Obeying plunged at Orleans in a field
Of spears and lived her dream and died in fire,
Thou, France, hast heard the voices and hast lived
The dream and known the meaning of the dream,
And read its riddle: how the soul of man
May to one greatest purpose make itself
A lens of clearness, how it loves the cup
Of deepest truth, and how its
bitterest
gall
Turns sweet to soul's surrender.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
22 _Denique
Catullus cum maledicta
minaretur
sic ait: At non effugies meos
iambos
4 _si non omnia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Beneath every spark,
The red,
tyrannous
fire
Mounts up in the dark
Ever redder and higher;
More swiftly than steed
Uncontrolled, see it pass!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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In the
communications
of the Gesellschaft fur Natur und Volkerkunde,
1889, Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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XXI
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered,
Upon my course the track I soon discovered.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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145), 'I know by what spell the Thessalian
sorceress
snatches away the
lunar beam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
And now have I roamed back
Unto the ancient track
Where Io roamed and
pastured
among flowers,
Watched o'er by Argus' eyes,
Through the lush grasses and the meadow bowers.
| Guess: |
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126-132) are written in
evident
imitation
of the Horatian style.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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what had we done
To have such a
seneschal?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Sit thou secure, amidst thy social band;
Greece in our cause shall arm some
powerful
hand.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And she was simple as dowve on tree,
Ful
debonaire
of herte was she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yet to me Love has such honour sent
Since my heart's firmer truer in its ways
Than any other man; and if it seldom says
Who it loves that's for fear of ill intent;
Should her sweet smile, face, eyes fail to tell,
And her fine and noble manners as well,
Her gaiety, and fair speech, miraculous,
Who she is to those who are
connoisseurs!
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Troubador Verse |
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A day or
two after I
received
your letter, my horse came down with me and broke
my right arm.
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Robert Burns |
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His face bespeaks
A deep and simple meekness: and that Soul,
Which with the motion of a virtuous act
Flashes a look of terror upon guilt,
Is, after conflict, quiet as the ocean,
By a
miraculous
finger, stilled at once.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'61'
Explain the
metaphor
in this line.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thine every fancy seems to borrow
A
sunlight
from thy childish years,
Making a golden cloud of sorrow,
A hope-lit rainbow out of tears,--
Thy heart is certain of to-morrow,
Though 'yond to-day it never peers.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Rilke - Poems |
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As for the rest of my fancies and reveries--how I lately met with Miss
Lesley Baillie, the most beautiful, elegant woman in the world--how I
accompanied her and her father's family fifteen miles on their
journey, out of pure devotion, to admire the loveliness of the works
of God, in such an unequalled display of them--how, in galloping home
at night, I made a ballad on her, of which these two stanzas make a
part--
Thou, bonny Lesley, art a queen,
Thy
subjects
we before thee;
Thou, bonny Lesley, art divine,
The hearts o' men adore thee.
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Robert Forst |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Our heroes laugh'd; the treach'ry vile excus'd;
And gave the ring, which much delight diffus'd;
Together with a handsome sum of gold,
Which soon a husband in her train enroll'd,
Who, for a maid, the pretty fair-one took;
And then our heroes wand'ring pranks forsook,
With laurels cover'd, which in future times,
Will make them famous through the Western climes;
More
glorious
since, they only cost, we find,
Those sweet ATTENTIONS pleasing to the MIND.
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La Fontaine |
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Poetic Art
For Charles Morice
Music above everything,
The
Imbalanced
preferred
Vaguer more soluble in air
Nothing weighty, fixed therein.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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