NEATH
trembling
tree tops to and fro we wander
Along the beech-grove, nearly to the bower,
And see within the silent meadow yonder,
The almond tree a second time in flower.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And stole from death thy
brother?
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Euripides - Electra |
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In a minute there is time
For
decisions
and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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There were a good many neighbours
gathered
in the house, and some of
them remembered Hanrahan; but some of the little lads that were in the
corners had only heard of him, and they stood up to have a view of him,
and one of them said: 'Is not that Hanrahan that had the school, and
that was brought away by Them?
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Yeats |
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Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of withered oak and
shrouded
fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At Sea
In the pull of the wind I stand, lonely,
On the deck of a ship, rising, falling,
Wild night around me, wild water under me,
Whipped by the storm,
screaming
and calling.
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Sara Teasdale |
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pulcer et urbanae cupiens exercitus umbrae,
assiduus ludis, auidus splendere lauacris
nec soles imbrisue pati
multumque
priori
dispar, sub clipeo Thracum qui ferre pruinas,
dum Stilicho regeret, nudoque hiemare sub axe
sueuerat et duris haurire bipennibus Hebrum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O congenerate hearts,
Octogenarian
Eves o'er whom is stretched
God's awful claw, where will you be to-morrow?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Series
For the
splendour
of the day of happinesses in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All the long time the War has lasted, we have
endured in modest silence all you men did; we never allowed
ourselves
to
open our lips.
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Aristophanes |
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While thus the Spirits of strongest wing enlighten the dark deep
The threads are spun & the cords twisted & drawn out; then the weak
Begin their work; & many a net is netted; many a net
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Spread & many a Spirit caught, innumerable the nets
Innumerable the gins & traps; & many a soothing flute
Is form'd & many a corded lyre,
outspread
over the immense
In cruel delight they trap the listeners, & in cruel delight
Bind them, [together] condensing the strong energies into little compass
Some became seed of every plant that shall be planted; some
The bulbous roots, thrown up together into barns & garners
Then rose the Builders: First the Architect divine his plan
Unfolds, The wondrous scaffold reard all round the infinite
Quadrangular the building rose the heavens squared by a line.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our modern
histories neglect this characteristic feature of ancient days; but the
rude
chronicles
of these ages inform us, that three or four times in
almost every reign was England thus visited.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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VI
My love is lovelier than the sprays
Of
eglantine
above clear waters,
Or whitest lilies that upraise
Their heads in midst of moated waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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his
beauteous
daughters' - these 3 lines appear at the end of page 33 as a separate 3-line stanza after the section ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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]
[Footnote 58: a meteor, from _gron_, a fen, and _fer_, a
corruption
of
fire; that is, a fire exhaled from a fen.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Where
Lusitania
and her Sister meet,
Deem ye what bounds the rival realms divide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
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Imagists |
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Just then, at speed on the Foe,
With her bow all weathered and brown,
The great
Lackawanna
came down,
Full tilt, for another blow;
We were forging ahead,
She reversed--but, for all our pains,
Rammed the old Hartford instead,
Just for'ard the mizzen-chains!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I love the weeds along the fen,
More sweet than garden flowers,
For freedom haunts the humble glen
That blest my
happiest
hours.
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John Clare |
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50
Te suis
tremulus
parens
inuocat, tibi uirgines
zonula soluunt sinus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Little and less he says to them,
So dances his heart in his breast;
Their
tranquil
mien bereaveth him
Of wit, of words, of rest.
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Emerson - Poems |
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what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my
judgment
fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When one of his
followers
asked leave to go and bury his father, 'Let
the dead bury the dead,' was his terrible answer.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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old with young, the
Bactrian
force hath perished at our side!
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Aeschylus |
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Here,
offering
passage to their company,
They find a master, ready to unmoor
For France, and that same day his pinnace climb;
Thence wafted to Marseilles in little time.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXXXV
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
While comments of your praise richly compil'd,
Reserve their character with golden quill,
And
precious
phrase by all the Muses fil'd.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By hunger, that each other Creature tames,
Thou art not to be harm'd, therefore not mov'd;
Thy temperance invincible besides,
For no allurement yields to appetite,
And all thy heart is set on high designs, 410
High actions: but
wherewith
to be atchiev'd?
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Milton |
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HUSBAND
No, no, my dear, he's mad, and I design
The fellow in a
madhouse
to confine.
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La Fontaine |
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--Pauvrets palpitant sous ma levre,
Je baisai
doucement
ses yeux:
--Elle jeta sa tete mievre
En arriere: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Justly the rogue was whipped in Porter's den,
And
Jei*main
straight has leave to come again.
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Marvell - Poems |
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We were five hundred, but with swift support
Grew to three thousand as we reached the port,
So that seeing us
marching
to that stage,
Those most terrified found new courage!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Petrarch
accordingly
put his pen to the subject.
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Petrarch |
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Derivation
of name,
208.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Yet Marvell's
natural
description
is nearer Herrick's in felicity and insight than any
of the poets named above.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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'_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_' _was published
anonymously
under the signature of C.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_
[195] Don Alonzo, king of Spain, apprehensive of the
superior
number of
the Moors, with whom he was at war, demanded assistance from Philip I.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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It occurred to him to try to turn his infant talents to account;
and he painted upon cardboard a couple of birds in the style which the
older among us
remember
as having been called Oriental tinting, took them
to a small shop, and sold them for fourpence.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Orlando, who
remarked
the love exprest,
Needing no more to make the matter clear,
Could not but, by these certain tokens, see
The could no other but Zerbino be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Our
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Modern
morality
consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Note: Ixion was tormented on a wheel in Hades, Tantalus by water and food just out of reach,
Prometheus
by having his liver torn by vultures, Sisyphus by being forced eternally to roll a boulder to the top of a hill and see it roll back again.
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Ronsard |
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--his eyes grew dim
With the
dizzying
whirl,--which way to swim?
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Three bells, each with a
separate
sound
Clang in the valley, wearily tolled.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But the robin might have said,
"To the farthest West he has
followed
the sun,
His life and his empire just begun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But these men begin
From heaven, and from its fires; and first they feign
That fire will turn into the winds of air,
Next, that from air the rain begotten is,
And earth created out of rain, and then
That all, reversely, are returned from earth--
The moisture first, then air
thereafter
heat--
And that these same ne'er cease in interchange,
To go their ways from heaven to earth, from earth
Unto the stars of the aethereal world--
Which in no wise at all the germs can do.
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Lucretius |
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Till others fall where other chieftains lead,
Thy name shall circle round the gaping throng,
And shine in
worthless
lays, the theme of transient song.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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How
admirable
the day!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They say that love is
something
kind,
That I can never see or touch.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest
On the
heavenly
fame.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Whene'er you speak of her in that soft tone
Which Love himself his votaries surely taught,
My ardent passion to such fire is wrought,
That e'en the dead
reviving
warmth might own:
Where'er to me she, dear or kind, was known
There the bright lady is to mind now brought,
In the same bearing which, to waken thought,
Needed no sound but of my sighs alone.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy
portioned
hour of death,
By murdering her .
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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So, when I weary of praising the dawn and the sun-
set,
Let me be no more counted among the immortals; But number me amid the
wearying
ones,
Let me be a man as the herd,
And as the slave that is given in barter.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The bald-head philosopher
Had fix'd his eye, without a twinkle or stir
Full on the alarmed beauty of the bride,
Brow-beating her fair form, and
troubling
her sweet pride.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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What fierce
conflict
I feel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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CVIII
That count Gerins sate on his horse Sorel,
On Passe-Cerf was Gerers there, his friend;
They've loosed their reins,
together
spurred and sped,
And go to strike a pagan Timozel;
One on the shield, on hauberk the other fell;
And their two spears went through the carcass well,
A fallow field amidst they've thrown him dead.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Inside, above the din and fray,
We heard the loud
musicians
play
The 'Treues Liebes Herz' of Strauss.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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That was the place I
encountered
my mistress today with the uncle
Whom she so often deceives, so that she can have me.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet my Hart
Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art
Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer
Reigne in this
Kingdome?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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to
affright
withal
By cursing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
contents
of the third or present volume were made also at different
intervals in the last two years.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Is it a foolish dream, an idle and vague
superstition?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Good
hope was then
entertained
of a peaceful settlement, and Herrick's ode,
enthusiastic as it is, expresses little more than this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"I can't
understand
why my grandmother never gambles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It is
impossible
to pray for
tsar Herod; the Mother of God forbids it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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My books closed again on Paphos' name,
It delights me to choose with solitary genius
A ruin, by foam-flecks in
thousands
blessed
Beneath hyacinth, far off, in days of fame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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She weeps, and says her Henry is depos'd:
He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;
That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;
Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,
Inferreth
arguments of mighty strength,
And in conclusion wins the King from her
With promise of his sister, and what else,
To strengthen and support King Edward's place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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The
pleasures
of those times shall never again be met with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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--The town carries the
appearance
of
rude, decayed grandeur--charmingly rural, retired situation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Listen, dear son--listen, America,
daughter
or son!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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610
Harolde upreer'd hys bylle, and furious sente
A stroke, lyke thondre, at the
Normannes
syde;
Upon the playne the broken brasse besprente
Dyd ne hys bodie from dethe-doeynge hyde;
He tournyd backe, and dyd not there abyde; 615
With straught oute sheelde hee ayenwarde did goe,
Threwe downe the Normannes, did their rankes divide,
To save himselfe lefte them unto the foe;
So olyphauntes, in kingdomme of the sunne,
When once provok'd doth throwe theyr owne troopes runne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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525
He looks, he ponders, looks again;
He sees a motion--hears a groan;
His eyes will burst--his heart will break--
He gives a loud and
frightful
shriek,
And back he falls, [58] as if his life were flown!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,
Though the
earthwork
hid them from us, and the stubborn
walls were dumb:
Here were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,
And their lips were white with terror as they said, THE HOUR
HAS COME!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You say you'd like to hear me
The stirring story tell
Of those who stood the battle
And those who
fighting
fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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in whose hand is fate,
A worthy
champion
for the Grecian state:
This task let Ajax or Tydides prove,
Or he, the king of kings, beloved by Jove.
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Iliad - Pope |
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here's meat for
Christmas
pies!
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Robert Herrick |
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Two
together!
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Whitman |
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[Illustration:
Queeriflora
Babyoides.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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And so many
children
poor?
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blake-poems |
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I'm dead: by death I'll answer her,
And off I'll go: she'll see me gone,
To
wretched
exile, who knows where?
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Troubador Verse |
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ay her flesche folden to home,
1364
Strakande
ful stoutly mony stif mote3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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3 Both Mount
Kongdong
and Qinghai (Kokonor and the surrounding area)�were the territory of the military commissioner of Hexi.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
And
excitedly
tingled his bell.
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Lewis Carroll |
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--
There came
Ahasuerus
conquering
Into my father's land.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Profitless
usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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