L'altra prendea, e dinanzi l'apria
fendendo i drappi, e
mostravami
'l ventre;
quel mi sveglio col puzzo che n'uscia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Hodge, in his waggon, marks the wondrous tongue,
And talks with echo as he drives along;
Still cracks his whip, bawls every horse's name,
And echo still as ready bawls the same:
The puzzling mystery he would gladly cheat,
And fain would utter what it can't repeat,
Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf
As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself;
And, quite convinced with the proofs it gives,
The boy drives on and fancies echo lives,
Like some wood-fiend that frights
benighted
men,
The troubling spirit of a robber's den.
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John Clare |
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The next with new surprise my notice drew,
Where'er he pass'd spontaneous
flowerets
grew,
Fit emblems of his style; and close behind
The great Athenian at his lot repined;
Which doom'd him, like a secondary star,
To yield precedence in the wordy war;
Though like the bolts of Jove that shake the spheres,
He lighten'd in their eyes, and thunder'd in their ears.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their
pleasures
in a long immortal dream.
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Keats - Lamia |
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FAUST:
Ist uber
vierzehn
Jahr doch alt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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distribute
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Nightingale that in the
branches
sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It must not be--the people will
perceive
it.
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Byron |
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Who then of the Nymphs had sung,
Or who with flowering herbs
bestrewn
the ground,
And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
intense melancholy which seems to well up, perforce, to the surface of
all the poet's
cheerful
sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to
the soul--while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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(Bēowulf) hrēoh and heoro-grim, 1565; þæt þām gōdan wæs
hrēow on hreðre, (_that came with
violence
upon him, pained his heart_),
2329; hrēo wǣron ȳða, _the waves were angry, the sea stormy_, 548; næs him
hrēoh sefa, _his mind was not cruel_, 2181; dat.
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Beowulf |
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What bad poet did your mothers listen to
That you were born so
crooked?
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Yeats |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing
frightened
glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
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Stephen Crane |
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Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the
Beginning
how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill 10
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
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Milton |
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[Note 5: _Les Aventures du Chevalier de Faublas_, a romance of a
loose
character
by Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then
conquered
indeed my father
rises to address the gods and worship the holy star.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Away the
thought!
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Aeschylus |
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--
The trees have always
scrupulously
obeyed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_
Ah, better at the elm-tree's
sunbrowned
feet
If he had been content to let life fleet
Its wonted way!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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11
_saltumque
recunditorum_ O
12 _amniumque_ Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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e,
To bring but that
concurrence
of my fortune,
To memory, which to day your ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Broachers and all then an the board display'd
The ready meal, before Ulysses laid
With flour imbrown'd; next mingled wine yet new,
And luscious as the bees' nectareous dew:
Then sate, companion of the friendly feast,
With open look; and thus bespoke his guest:
"Take with free welcome what our hands prepare,
Such food as falls to simple servants' share;
The best our lords consume; those
thoughtless
peers,
Rich without bounty, guilty without fears;
Yet sure the gods their impious acts detest,
And honour justice and the righteous breast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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forthwith there rose up round about
A lustre over that already there,
Of equal clearness, like the
brightening
up
Of the horizon.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Procures
she still,
ha?
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Shakespeare |
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Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous
round him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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One of the worst instances is in 'In Memoriam',
where what is appropriate to the simple sentiment finds, as it should
do, corresponding simplicity of expression in the first couplet, to
collapse into the falsetto of strained artificiality in the second:--
To rest beneath the clover sod
That takes the sunshine and the rains,
_Or where the
kneeling
hamlet drains
The chalice of the grapes of God_.
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Tennyson |
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it
cautions
arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt" exclaim!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Cloth of bodkin or tissue must be embroidered; as if no
face were fair that were not powdered or
painted!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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LFS}
All Love is lost Terror
succeeds
& Hatred instead of Love
And stern demands of Right & Duty instead of Liberty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But to our tale: Ae market night,
Tam had got planted unco right,
Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely,
Wi reaming saats, that drank divinely;
And at his elbow, Souter Johnie,
His ancient, trusty,
drougthy
crony:
Tam lo'ed him like a very brither;
They had been fou for weeks thegither.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Such fragrance round my couch it makes,
More rich than are Arabian drugs,
That my soul scents its life and wakes
The body up beneath its
perfumed
rugs.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Twas this that Regulus foresaw,
What time he spurn'd the foul disgrace
Of peace, whose
precedent
would draw
Destruction on an unborn race,
Should aught but death the prisoner's chain
Unrivet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The 'casting'
preceded
and led to the finding, naming the disease,
calling it this or that.
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John Donne |
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"
They are caked with ice from the driving sleet,
And they sling their arms, and they stamp their feet And glory in the pain and the
freezing
sleet,
For they are the soldiers of the Lord!
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You may copy it, give it away
or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this eBook or online at http://www.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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There
certainly
was no lie in them.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He renders all his lore
In numbers wild as dreams,
Modulating all extremes,--
What the spangled meadow saith
To the
children
who have faith;
Only to children children sing,
Only to youth will spring be spring.
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Emerson - Poems |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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You should have come to the cuckoo's calling,
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe
swallows
muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I have thee close, my dear,
No terror can come near;
Only far off the
northern
light shines clear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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That other gallant lord is conqueror
Of conquering Rome, led captive by the fair
Egyptian
queen, with her persuasive art,
Who in his honours claims the greatest part;
For binding the world's victor with her charms,
His trophies are all hers by right of arms.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy
congregated
might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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So your
daughter
says.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Puis quand j'ai ravale mes reves avec soin,
Je me tourne, ayant bu trente ou
quarante
chopes,
Et me recueille pour lacher l'acre besoin.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"Will you not eat
something?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The happy winds their
timbrels
took;
The birds, in docile rows,
Arranged themselves around their prince
(The wind is prince of those).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The standard
Assyrian
texts regard Enkidu as the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Admetus, seeing what way my
fortunes
lie,
I fain would speak with thee before I die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Not without wound
(So I make out, at least, thy
hurrying
words)
Comest thou back to us from conquering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then here
contented
will I lie;
Alone I cannot fear to die.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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' There is another song that ends, 'The Erne shall be
in strong flood, the hills shall be torn down, and the sea shall have
red waves, and blood shall be spilled, and every
mountain
valley and
every moor shall be on high, before you shall perish, my little black
rose.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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O Sylvan,
drowning?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It was in the
Roman summers that Lear first began to exercise the taste for pictorial
wandering which grew into a habit and a passion, to fill vivid and copious
note-books as he went, and to illustrate them by spirited and accurate
drawings; and his first volume of "Illustrated Excursions in Italy,"
published in 1846, is gratefully
dedicated
to his Knowsley patron.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand breakers of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and
overwhelming
all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Threatened with excommunication several times for his dissolute life and
challenges
to Church authority, he was later reconciled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Know
of me then- for now I speak to some purpose- that I know you are
a
gentleman
of good conceit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Eight Middle High German
versions
of this Legend were edited by Mass|mann, Quedlinburg, 1843.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So they, whom hearing he replaced the bow
Where erst it stood, terrified at the sound
Of such loud menaces; on the other side 440
Telemachus
as loud assail'd his ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Near and more near as life's last period draws,
Which oft is hurried on by human woe,
I see the passing hours more swiftly flow,
And all my hopes in
disappointment
close.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
| 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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His course and thine to one conclusion lead,
Of flower so fair though
worthless
here the mead.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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2
Superb-faced
Manhattan!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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By Turkish Moslemite
Impure, why is Byzantium, with the best
And fairest portion of the world,
possest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tel le vieux vagabond, pietinant dans la boue,
Reve, le nez en l'air, de
brillants
paradis;
Son oeil ensorcele decouvre une Capoue
Partout ou la chandelle illumine un taudis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ye wands, ye wreaths that cling around my neck,
Ye showed me prophetess yet scorned of all--
I stamp you into death, or e'er I die--
Down, to
destruction!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Of Pryamus was yeve, at Greek requeste,
A tyme of trewe, and tho they gonnen trete,
Hir
prisoneres
to chaungen, moste and leste,
And for the surplus yeven sommes grete.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Ah,
shuddering
dread doth make my spirit quiver,
And o'er thy fate sits Fear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Was God so
economical?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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* The Duke of York was thought to have an
intrigue
with
Sir John Denham^s lady.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Now while I watch the
dreaming
sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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"Jacques,"
Quoth he, "My son, I would behold this priest
That is not fat, and loves not wine, and fasts,
And stills the folk with waving of his hand,
And threats the knights and
thunders
at the Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
"O
pleasant
light, my confidence and hope,
Conduct us thou," he cried, "on this new way,
Where now I venture, leading to the bourn
We seek.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How can you stay, nor vanish quite
From this bleak spot of thorn,
And birch, and fir, and frozen white
Expanse of the
forlorn?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Bring the rathe
Primrose
that forsaken dies.
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Milton |
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XXXIV
"Returning from those isles, whose eastern side
The billows of the Indian ocean beat,
Where good Rinaldo and more knights beside
With me were pent in dark and hollow seat,
Thence, rescued by
illustrious
Brava's pride,
Whose prowess freed us from that dark retreat,
Westward I fared along the sandy shores,
On which the stormy north his fury pours.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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`But tel me how, thou that woost al this matere,
How I might best
avaylen?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In 1795,
Schiller
undertook
a new periodical, Die Horen.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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2) had so long been lost, when he stands forth as the first vindicator of
condemned
virtue, he seems to venture on something so new, so strange, so bold, that it may well require apology.
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Tacitus |
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These
fencers in
religion
I like not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The tired flocks come in
Whose bleating ceases to repeat,
Whose
wandering
is done.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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HE made the paramour a grave harangue
Don't others give, said he, the
poignant
pang;
But ev'ry one allow to keep his own,
As God and reason oft to man have shown,
And recommended fully to observe;
You from it surely have not cause to swerve;
You cannot plead that you for beauty pine
You've one at home who far surpasses mine;
No longer give yourself such trouble, pray:
You, to my help-mate, too much honour pay;
Such marked attentions she can ne'er require
Let each of us, alone his own admire.
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La Fontaine |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the
collection
of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And
consecrate
it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Any one
charming
thee whom thou couldst fancy to love,
Save and except that host from deadliest site of Pisaurum,
Wight than a statue gilt wanner and yellower-hued,
Whom to thy heart thou takest and whom thou darest before us 5
Choose?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I find flame in the dust, a word once uttered that will stir again,
And a wine-cup
reflecting
Sirius in the water held in my hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There through the dews beside me
Behold a youth that trod,
With
feathered
cap on forehead,
And poised a golden rod.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Kings must not oft be seen by public eyes:
_State at a
distance
adds to dignities_.
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Robert Herrick |
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He spake, nor she was loth, but bedward too
Like him inclined; so then, to bed they went,
And as they lay'd them down, down stream'd the net
Around them, labour
exquisite
of hands
By ingenuity divine inform'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Your wings,
brushing
it, spill never a drop
From the glass I fill, from which my thirst I quench.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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