Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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Non opus arcanos chartis
committere
sensas,
Et vari& licitos condere fraude dolos.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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Your mind is all as
youthful
as your blood.
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Shakespeare |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'
Fie, fie,
Sephina!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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They bring a day with them of many lamps,
And as they move, on the black slabbed waters
Red wounds, and green, and golden, do they shoot
About them, beautiful cruelty of light;
And they throw music over the
sounding
river.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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At the time Suzong was sending out his own
officials
to key positions in the region he controlled.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'
'Indeed I loved you, my chosen friend,
I loved you for life, but life has an end;
Through
sickness
I was ready to tend:
But death mars all, which we cannot mend.
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Christina Rossetti |
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with an hideous trayne,
And in her hand she held a mirrhour bright,
Wherein her face she often vewed fayne,
And in her selfe-lov'd
semblance
tooke delight;
For she was wondrous faire, as any living wight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I am settled and bound up, and being so,
The very effort which it cost me to
Resolve to cleanse this
Commonwealth
with fire,
Now leaves my mind more steady.
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Byron |
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unenvying
of thy boon!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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His
countenance
a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the
furthest
tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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La Fontaine |
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'26 the maze of schools:'
the labyrinth of
conflicting
systems of thought, especially of criticism.
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Alexander Pope |
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Oh, sweating thieves, and hard-boiled scalawags,
That still will boast your pride until the doom,
Smashing every caste rule of the world,
Reaching
at last your Hindu goal to smash
The caste rules of old India, and shout:
"Down with the Brahmins, let the Romany reign.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Leisurely
flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in orchards roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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' The publisher
returned
no answer.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But here are species which
they have not in their catalogue, not to mention the
varieties
which
our crab might yield to cultivation.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Gentle night, do thou
befriend
me,
Downy sleep, the curtain draw;
Spirits kind, again attend me,
Talk of him that's far awa!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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, Oxford,
Clarendon
Press,
1903; (4) a later, yet intermediate, transcript by Mrs.
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Shelley |
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of the spirits rare,
Who, from a course unspotted, pure and high,
Are suddenly
translated
to the sky.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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]
There is a voice, not
understood
by all,
Sent from these desert-caves.
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Shelley |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Journey North 333 Old men, let me make a song for you, I am put to shame by your deep
feelings
in hardship.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert
copyrights
over these portions.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Such themes are always felt by the
Chinese to be in part allegorical, the deserted lady symbolizing the
minister whose
counsels
a wicked monarch will not heed.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XLIX
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call'd to that audit by advis'd respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love,
converted
from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand, against my self uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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Si tibi non cordi fuerant conubia nostra,
Saeva quod horrebas prisci
praecepta
parentis,
At tamen in vostras potuisti ducere sedes, 160
Quae tibi iocundo famularer serva labore,
Candida permulcens liquidis vestigia lymphis
Purpureave tuum consternens veste cubile.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And prayer-book next, much worn though
strongly
bound,
Proves him a churchman orthodox and sound.
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John Clare |
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in my head
Many
thoughts
of trouble come,
Like to flies upon a plum.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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dryhten sīnne
drīorigne
fand, 2790.
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Beowulf |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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One is the understanding of the persons to whom you are
to write; the other is the coherence of your sentence; for men's capacity
to weigh what will be
apprehended
with greatest attention or leisure;
what next regarded and longed for especially, and what last will leave
satisfaction, and (as it were) the sweetest memorial and belief of all
that is passed in his understanding whom you write to.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The "lads" of Ludlow are so human to him, the hawthorn and
broom on the Severn shores are so fragrant with associations, he cannot
help but compose under a kind of imaginative
wizardry
of exultation,
even when the immediate subject is grim or grotesque.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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John Donne |
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And how should I
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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Golden Treasury |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Expect no more
Sanction of warning voice or sign from me,
Free of thy own
arbitrement
to choose,
Discreet, judicious.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Our God is
marching
on.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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437_; _Concerning the
Relations
of
Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal_, ii.
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Byron |
|
To-day, even from the
summit of High Crag, only the head and ears of a pony could be seen as
it passed up the Water Barngates Road; but at the end of last century
many of the roads were only
partially
walled off from the moorlands
they passed over in the Lake Country.
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William Wordsworth |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Can I, said she, the paths of honour quit,
And in my bed a
loathsome
brute permit?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How great my
pleasure
too,
When I can see her face;
I cease to know the place,
Her love-filled eyes in view;
I'm tangled then, and won,
Conquered and so undone,
Can't turn my eyes away,
Nor ever from her stray,
And when I can see her
All is joy for me there.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as
Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect
henceforth
to see
my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's
and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday, and the battle of
Bothwell bridge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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.
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Aeschylus |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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As the manuscript is fast fading, I am glad that the
existence
of the Early
English Text Society has enabled us to secure a wider diffusion of its
contents before the original shall be no longer legible.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now Dick lies long in the churchyard,
And Ned lies long in jail,
And I come home to Ludlow
Amidst the
moonlight
pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A journal or
register
of news started at
Cologne in 1598.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
On dirait qu'ils
penetrent
le verre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My will fulfilled shall be,
For, in daylight or in dark,
My
thunderbolt
has eyes to see
His way home to the mark.
| Guess: |
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Some guide the course of wand'ring orbs on high,
Or roll the planets thro' the
boundless
sky.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dearest of
distillation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_istius_
GORVen (sed _-?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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Longfellow |
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The offence
which the remark has caused is due, no doubt, to
injudicious
use of the
word "hero.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then thus the god: "O
restless
fate of pride,
That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide;
Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr'd,
Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord.
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Iliad - Pope |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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Golden Treasury |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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AT matins they so very often met,
Some awkward
indications
caused regret.
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La Fontaine |
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