Lady, were this the hour when I might see
You, in your mercy,
granting
me such honour
By simply deigning then to call me lover!
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Troubador Verse |
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Dian's self must feel
Sometimes
these very pangs.
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Keats |
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She started handicapped in the struggle,
for she had ordered Bremmil about just the least little bit in the world
too much; and he was
beginning
to resent it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Lapped him, and his head
Drooped in the bed of slaughter
Low, as one wearied;
Woe for the edged axe,
And woe for the heart of hate,
Houndlike about thy tracks,
O
conqueror
desolate,
From Troy over land and sea,
Till a wife stood waiting thee;
Not with crowns did she stand,
Nor flowers of peace in her hand;
With Aegisthus' dagger drawn
For her hire she strove,
Through shame and through blood alone;
And won her a traitor's love.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Be bold in mischief--dare some mighty crime,
Which dungeons, death, or
banishment
deserves,
For virtue is but drily praised--and starves.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In the long laughter, ceaseless roaming round,
Joy, mirth and glee give out a maelstrom's sound;
And the
astonished
gazer casts his care,
Where ev'ry eyeball glistens in the flare.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
A noticeable feature about this first book, and one which we think is
peculiar to it, is the harsh
treatment
which the eccentricities of the
inhabitants of certain towns appear to have met with at the hands of their
fellow-residents.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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XI
When the Cretan maidens
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar,
Trample the soft
blossoms
of fine grass,
There is mirth among them.
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Sappho |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
I said "_That's very
curious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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454, 522
Tweddell,
_Remains
of the late John_, _iii.
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Byron |
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_ [Arras, name of a town in Artois, famed for
its
manufacture
of the fabric.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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[86] See Dedication to _The Fox_, Second Prologue to _The Silent
Woman_, Induction to
_Bartholomew
Fair_, _Staple of News_
(Second Intermean), _Magnetic Lady_ (Second Intermean).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I hear the drums beat, and the
trumpets
blowing;
I myself move abroad, swift-rising, flying then;
I use the wings of the land-bird, and use the wings of the sea-bird, and
look down as from a height.
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Whitman |
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The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end;
But who can with Fate and quart bumpers
contend!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Five score thousand chevaliers
therefor
weep,
For Rollant's sake pity for Tierri feel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Besides,
Euripides
is very artful and won't leave a
stone unturned to get away with me, whereas Sophocles is as easy-going
with Pluto as he was when on earth.
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Aristophanes |
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The
injustice
of the proceedings
did not much move him; he had seen the strong hand prevail too often in
other places to be squeamish over the moral aspects of right and wrong.
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Kipling - Poems |
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See'st thou those
diamonds
which she wears, I.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Often a hidden god
inhabits
obscure being;
And like an eye, born, covered by its eyelids,
Pure spirit grows beneath the surface of stones!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Shatter the sky with
trumpets
above my grave.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lo viso mio seguiva i suoi sembianti,
e segui fin che 'l mezzo, per lo molto,
li tolse il
trapassar
del piu avanti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ithuriel
and Zephon, with wingd speed
Search through this Garden, leav unsearcht no nook,
But chiefly where those two fair Creatures Lodge, 790
Now laid perhaps asleep secure of harme.
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Milton |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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;
speaking
without judgement or measure.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_ The
Macmillan
Company, New York; and
Macmillan & Co.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"What right," said I, "had the
old
gentleman
to make any other gentleman jump?
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Poe - 5 |
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O old pagodas of my soul, how you
glittered
across green trees!
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Imagists |
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Year by year, in pious patience,
vengeful
Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever;
For nature made her what she is,
And ne'er made sic
anither!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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If they'd take
elsewhere
the honours they send me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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O vague and busy
thoughts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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This dares a seer, but nought the seer prevails,
In beauty's cause illustriously he fails;
Twelve moons the foe the captive youth detains
In painful dungeons, and coercive chains;
The foe at last from durance where he lay,
His heart revering, give him back to day;
Won by prophetic knowledge, to fulfil
The
steadfast
purpose of the Almighty will.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Zourine always filled up my glass,
repeating that I must get
accustomed
to the service.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You built your cities rich
Around each towered hall,--
Without, the statued niche,
Within, the
pictured
wall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Of this long
interval
while I was apart from my love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He was as incapable of
appreciating
the Poet as Lewis XIV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And in thy valleys,
Agiochook!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
One half of Spain he'll render as your fief
The rest Rollanz, his nephew, shall receive,
Proud
parcener
in him you'll have indeed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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suggests
bār-helm, = _boar-helm.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Faith
is the antiseptic of the soul,--it pervades the common people and preserves
them: they never give up believing and
expecting
and trusting.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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320
And whisper one sweet word that I may know
This is this world--sweet dewy
blossom!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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She kept in time without a beat
As true as church-bell ringers,
Unless she tapped time with her feet,
Or squeezed it with her fingers;
Her clear
unstudied
notes were sweet
As many a practised singer's.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The giant Typhon, thus revealed,
A monster loathed of gods eterne
And mortal men--this doom shall earn
A
shattered
skull, before the gate!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Farewell the God calls me away I depart in my sweet bliss
She fled vanishing on the wind And left a dead cold corse
In Los's arms
howlings
began over the body of death {Line written over erased text.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Fitzdottrel
is a 'squire of Norfolk'.
| 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 we consider what this life we lead
Is not, and is; how full of toil and pain,
How blank of rest and of substantial gain,
Beset by hunger earth can never feed,
And
propping
half our hearts upon a reed;
We cease to mourn lost treasures mourned in vain,
Lost treasures we are fain and yet not fain
To fetch back for a solace of our need.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Robert was his
Christian
name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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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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Which sages
venerate
and bards adore,
As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But God was not angry, nor ever confused his tongue,
For not out of selfish nor
impudent
travail was wrung
The song of all men and all things that the all-lover sung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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then swift be heart and brain, to see
God's
chances!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Like a tall tree in the tempest
Bent and lashed the giant bulrush;
And in masses huge and heavy
Crashing fell the fatal Wawbeek;
Till the earth shook with the tumult
And
confusion
of the battle.
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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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The willow trees glisten,
The
sparrows
chirp under the eaves; but the face in my heart
Is a secret of music.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Child:
O father it is alive--it is full of people--it has children,
O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
I hear it--it talks to me--O it is
wonderful!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
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Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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procul igneus horror
thoracum,
gladiosque
tegat uagina minacis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Their graves have voices; if they threw
Dice charged with fates beyond their ken,
Yet to their
instincts
they were true,
And had the genius to be men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Nightingale that in the
branches
sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
The
Harlequin
of Dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
At Russ she was by no means clever
And read our
newspapers
scarce ever,
And in her native language she
Possessed nor ease nor fluency,
So she in French herself expressed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
* * * * *
AN EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT
INTRODUCTION
Next to 'The Rape of the Lock', I think, the 'Epistle to Arbuthnot' is
the most
interesting
and the most important of Pope's poems--the most
important since it shows the master poet of the age employing his
ripened powers in the field most suitable for their display, that of
personal satire, the most interesting, because, unlike his former
satiric poem the 'Dunciad', it is not mere invective, but gives us, as
no other poem of Pope's can be said to do, a portrait of the poet
himself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
"I cannot say, your lordship," replied the Quartermaster, "only his high
mightiness has given orders that your
lordship
be taken to prison, and
that her ladyship be taken before his high mightiness, your lordship.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_Lemster
ore_, Leominster wool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with flowering herbs
bestrewn
the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Wish not to fill the isles with eyes
To fetch thee birds of paradise:
On thine orchard's edge belong
All the brags of plume and song;
Wise Ali's
sunbright
sayings pass
For proverbs in the market-place:
Through mountains bored by regal art,
Toil whistles as he drives his cart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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After
the Macedonian and Asiatic wars, we find a turbulent and servile crowd,
instead of the old
families
and tribes of Roman citizens; instead of
allies, oppressed and plundered provinces; instead of the heroes of the
young Republic, a set of worn-out, lewd, and greedy nobles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
How space quivers
Like an
enormous
kiss
That, wild to be born for no one, can neither
Burst out or be soothed like this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
I muste, I wylle; tys
honnoure
cals awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
234:
At Bread-Street's Mermaid having dined, and merry,
Proposed
to go to Holborn in a wherry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Twas the old vicar's way who should be right,
For the late vicar was his heart's delight,
And while at church he often shakes his head
To think what sermons the old vicar made,
Downright and orthodox that all the land
Who had their ears to hear might understand,
But now such mighty
learning
meets his ears
He thinks it Greek or Latin which he hears,
Yet church receives him every sabbath day
And rain or snow he never keeps away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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--pay more attention, sir,
To a
becoming
carriage--much thou wantest
In dignity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were
swallowed
by the sea;
Her songs died on the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
In our
approach
through the mystic we touch reality most deeply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Close by I
congratulate
the Restoration?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I kneel behind the soldier's trench,
I walk 'mid shambles' smear and stench,
The dead I mourn;
I bear the
stretcher
and I bend
O'er Fritz and Pierre and Jack to mend
What shells have torn.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It was to have been followed by others,
but the publisher unfortunately secured a contract to
monopolize
all the
new novelist's prose fictions for a term of years, and the author revenged
himself by publishing poems and plays alone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Is not yon lingering orange after-glow
That stays to vex the moon more fair than all
Rome's lordliest
pageants!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pope, for example, is
preeminently
the poet of
his time.
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Alexander Pope |
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He has learned much, can
understand
their pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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_Thy graces and good words my
creatures
bee.
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John Donne |
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Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya,
illusion?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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