And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace
relights
your brow,
Suffices, in so many aspects and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and unvarying friendship.
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For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will
doubtless
ask me,
But I shall never tell!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We
learn from Lucan and from Ammianus Marcellinus that the brave
actions of the ancient Gauls were
commemorated
in the verses of
Bards.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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damna tamen celeres
reparant
caelestia lunae:
nos ubi decidimus
quo pius Aeneas, quo Tullus diues et Ancus,
puluis et umbra sumus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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der Herr ist gar zu gut:
Schmuck und
Geschmeide
sind nicht mein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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That day is not far off; let me but first
Subdue the
insurrection
of the people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
His spear in hand he
brandishes
and wields,
Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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--of a
fricasseed
shadow!
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Poe - 5 |
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Quem colent homines magis
Caelitum?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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enne
worschupeden
heo Alle with o steuene,
Iesu, godus sone of heuene,
and his Modur Marie.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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1050
`For al-though that, for thing shal come, y-wis,
Therfore is it purveyed, certaynly,
Nat that it comth for it purveyed is:
Yet nathelees,
bihoveth
it nedfully,
That thing to come be purveyed, trewely; 1055
Or elles, thinges that purveyed be,
That they bityden by necessitee.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To
Newfangel
ne be ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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e,
A schelde, & a scharp spere,
schinande
bry3t,
Ande o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Doubt, restlessness,
and insecurity are
undermining
society.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It had a hole in the one end
and on each side, and everywhere
overgrown
with grass, but whether it
was only an old cave or a crevice of an old crag he could not tell (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What is't,
Catullus?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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wenn ich wahlen soll, so will ich
Rheinwein
haben.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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That piece of
legislative
pageantry !
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
The peers assent: the goblet Mulius crown'd
With purple juice, and bore in order round:
Each peer
successive
his libation pours
To the blest gods who fill'd the ethereal bowers:
Then swill'd with wine, with noise the crowds obey,
And rushing forth, tumultuous reel away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oceans rough
With tempest, pastoral swards
Displaced
by fiery deserts, mountains ruing
The bolt fallen yesterday,
That shake their piny heads, as who would say
"We are too beautiful for our decay"--
Shall seraphs speak of these things?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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4 How the Central Plain has been cast in
darkness!
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Master, let me take you a
buttonhole
lower.
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Shakespeare |
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Thereover strode
A Wether, fleeced in burning brown,
And largely
loitered
down the Road.
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Sidney Lanier |
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True to
yourself
and sheets, you'll have me swear, I.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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I knew this maid,
But she's in
Paradise!
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
O that
languishing
yawn!
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Lewis Carroll |
|
V
Arrived there, the dore they find fast lockt;
For it was warely watched night and day,
For feare of many foes: but when they knockt,
The Porter opened unto them
streight
way: 40
He was an aged syre, all hory gray,
With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slow,
Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,
Hight Humilta.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It furnishes much comic material, and the
characters
of
Lady Tailbush and Lady Eitherside offer the poet the opportunity for
some of his cleverest touches in characterization and contrast.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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" return'd she tenderly:
"You have
deserted
me--where am I now?
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
Far from the deep
recesses
of the main,
Where aged Ocean holds his watery reign,
The goddess-mother heard.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou callest
someone?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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Sappho |
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, can be guessed to belong to, or be
the
production
of these countries.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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now, my brother, hide thyself no more,
Thou seest how not I alone but all
Gaze, where thou veil'st the
intercepted
sun.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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are
evidently
transcribed from the
same source, but one is not a copy of the other.
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John Donne |
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Then, like to thee, would I in my old age
Have gladly from the noisy world withdrawn,
To vow myself a dedicated monk,
And in the quiet
cloister
end my days.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
| Guess: |
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Imagists |
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"Erect as a sunbeam,
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted
and calm;
In beautiful motion
The thrush plies his wings;
Kind leaves of his covert,
Your silence he sings.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But the woe beneath
Urges my soul with more
exceeding
dread.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
LE REBELLE
Un Ange furieux fond du ciel comme un aigle,
Du mecreant saisit a plein poing les cheveux,
Et dit, le secouant: << Ta
connaitras
la regle!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
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form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They have broacht
The wine that had pleas'd God to
flocking
thirst
Of flies and wasps, to fears and worldly sorrows.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" you reply,
"When, throughout civilization,
Every nation's empery
Is
asserted
by starvation?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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te wynne,
What
syknesse
?
| Guess: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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No savage mountain climbing to the skies
Should stay the godlike course with wild abysses;
And now the sea, with sheltering, warm recesses
Spreads out before the
astonished
eyes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Friendship's full of dregs:
Methinks
false hearts should never have sound legs.
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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Very well, have
yourself
wheeled out here.
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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my good old friend
Bordeaux!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Time flies apace: the silent hours and swift
So urge his journey on,
Short span to me is left
Even to think how quick to death I run;
Scarce, in the orient heaven, yon mountain crest
Smiles in the sun's first ray,
When, in the adverse west,
His long round run, we see his light decay
So small of life the space,
So frail and clogg'd with woe,
To mortal man below,
That, when I find me from that
beauteous
face
Thus torn by fate's decree,
Unable at a wish with her to be,
So poor the profit that old comforts give,
I know not how I brook in such a state to live.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Across two
counties
he can hear,
And catch your words before you speak.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Other than errors resulting from
corruption
of the plates over 20 years,
the following differences are the only changes:
1) The 1898 copy was printed by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company,
New York.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
Answers Duke Neimes: "God grant us his
consent!
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The Count was rash;
Rodrigue
replied though:
Played the brave man's part, and still must do so.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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This is ten
thousand
titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of computer users.
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Whitman |
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In his
Chronological
Table, Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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As thou heard'st,
Two
champions
to the succour of his spouse
He sent, who by their deeds and words might join
Again his scatter'd people.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That this poetry should have been suffered to perish will not
appear strange when we consider how
complete
was the triumph of
the Greek genius over the public mind of Italy.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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But his
intellectual
outlook was low and sordid.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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What a world of
happiness
their harmony foretells!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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'Do you see him, she cried, the old lecher dies;
Through his mouth the frosts of earth take flight;
Bind his lame feet, destroy his
squinting
sight,
He's the god of craters, king of the winter's ice!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The
injuries
that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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, _riches,
treasure
of a castle_ or _city_: gen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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He fled to
Brussels, there to rehabilitate his
dwindling
fortunes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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O 't is old Dame
Jeannette
that kept the hall,
I knew she would die at the autumn fall.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our poet acknowledged that
he owed his life to the
kindness
of those two noblemen.
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Petrarch |
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The stones are crooned to sleep
By the soft sound of rain that slowly dies;
And cradled in the branches, hidden deep
In each bright bud, a
slumbering
silence lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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But first with narrow search I must walk round
This Garden, and no corner leave unspi'd;
A chance but chance may lead where I may meet 530
Some
wandring
Spirit of Heav'n, by Fountain side,
Or in thick shade retir'd, from him to draw
What further would be learnt.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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We're under more
constraint
than ever,
And pay more tax than ever yet.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He offered large discount--he offered a cheque
(Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten:
But the Bandersnatch merely
extended
its neck
And grabbed at the Banker again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
1849
TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)
Of all who hail thy
presence
as the morning--
Of all to whom thine absence is the night--
The blotting utterly from out high heaven
The sacred sun--of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope--for life--ah!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The first of these is the famous
portrait
of Addison as Atticus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be
eligible
as I am?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
The murmuring of bees has ceased;
But murmuring of some
Posterior, prophetic,
Has simultaneous come, --
The lower metres of the year,
When nature's laugh is done, --
The
Revelations
of the book
Whose Genesis is June.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I would fain behold
the gorgeous heirlooms, golden store,
have joy in the jewels and gems, lay down
softlier for sight of this splendid hoard
my life and the
lordship
I long have held.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
-Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
Whatever
will not flower again,
To give him comfort: he and those
Shall bide eternal bedfellows
Where low upon the couch he lies
Whence he never shall arise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And he hath baulked your chase, as stag the hounds;
Yea, lightly
bounding
from the circling toils,
Hath wried his face in scorn, and flieth far.
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Aeschylus |
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My son and
grandson
emulous dispute 600
The prize of glory, and my soul exults.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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could renew againe,
Of endlesse life he might him not deprive, 355
But unto hell did thrust him downe alive,
With flashing
thunderbolt
ywounded sore:
Where long remaining, he did alwaies strive
Himselfe with salves to health for to restore,
And slake the heavenly fire, that raged evermore.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXVIII
Then to her yron wagon she betakes,
And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: 245
Through
mirkesome
aire her readie way she makes.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
The transpositions of stanzas, and their omission from certain editions
and their subsequent re-introduction, in altered form, in later ones,
make it
extremely
difficult to give the textual history of 'Ruth' in
footnotes.
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William Wordsworth |
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