"The best of the batch," said the
Adjutant
to the Colonel.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_He hails Keats and Shelley and some of the poets
and artists who were his contemporaries_, _although his seniors_, _as the
torch-bearers of the
intellectual
life_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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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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And deputy-lieutenants in their own ;
The portly burgess, through the weather hot,
Does for his
corporation
sweat and trot ;
And all with sun and choler come adust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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One is
reluctant
to disregard the verdict of a people upon its own
poets.
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Li Po |
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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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550
So when derne Autumne wyth hys sallowe hande
Tares the green mantle from the lymed trees,
The leaves besprenged on the yellow strande
Flie in whole armies from the blataunte breeze;
Alle the whole fielde a carnage-howse he sees, 555
And sowles
unknelled
hover'd oer the bloude;
From place to place on either hand he slees,
And sweepes alle neere hym lyke a bronded floude;
Dethe honge upon his arme; he sleed so maynt,
'Tis paste the pointel of a man to paynte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" "I dreamed that I was
dead," said the rustic satirist to his superior, "and
condemned
for
the company I kept.
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Robert Burns |
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Thus shal I have unthank on every syde;
That I was born, so
weylaway
the tyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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As good have grown there still a
liveless
Rib.
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Milton |
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131) 'your Spanish
titillation in a glove' is
declared
to be the best perfume.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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During which time her gentle wit she plyes,
To teach them truth, which worshipt her in vaine,
And made her th' Image of
Idolatryes?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely;
The prairie draws me close, as the father, to bosom broad, the son:--
The
Northern
ice and rain, that began me, nourish me to the end;
But the hot sun of the South is to ripen my songs.
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Whitman |
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What god is worthier of solicitation by anxious
amourists?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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It would be
horribly
selfish if it wanted all
the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail
scattered
everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the redoubled roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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Ronsard |
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Giu per lo mondo sanza fine amaro,
e per lo monte del cui bel cacume
li occhi de la mia donna mi levaro,
e poscia per lo ciel, di lume in lume,
ho io appreso quel che s'io ridico,
a molti fia sapor di forte agrume;
e s'io al vero son timido amico,
temo di perder viver tra coloro
che questo tempo
chiameranno
antico>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[I have not hesitated to insert all letters which show what Burns was
musing on as a poet, or
planning
as a man.
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Robert Forst |
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It was a short procession, --
The bobolink was there,
An aged bee
addressed
us,
And then we knelt in prayer.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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--that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a
floating
spirit's.
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Keats |
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'Tis
education
forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Them quick
resentment
stung, but him the most,
Who was the cause of failure; in pursuit
He therefore sped, exclaiming; "Thou art caught.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To blurt all out--
I know that you desire her; without doubt
The flame that rages in my heart warms yours;
To carry out these subtle plans of ours,
We have become as gypsies near this doll,
You as her page--I dotard to control--
Pretended
gallants
changed to lovers now.
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Hugo - Poems |
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
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works
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The sight of him turns the
fortunes
of
the day, and the body of Patroclus is carried off by the Greeks.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then I would mould a world of fire and dew
With no one bitter, grave, or over-wise,
And nothing marred or old to do you wrong;
And crowd the
enraptured
quiet of the sky
With candles burning to your lonely face.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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(RAGNAR _enters with the
wreath_)
Have _you_ brought
the wreath, Ragnar?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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As the Sun with glory and grace
In his face,
Benignantly hot,
Graciously
radiant and keen,
Ready to rise and to run,--
Not without spot,
Not even the Sun.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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From earth they rear him, struggling now with death;
And Nestor's
youngest
stops the vents of breath.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The swans, that with white chests
upheaved
in pride,
Rushing and racing came to meet me at the waterside.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Could
pensioned
Boileau lash in honest strain
Flatterers and bigots even in Louis' reign?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nithsdale
and Edinburgh
LXXIV.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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[451] Meaning 'king's son', and
therefore
portending sovereignty.
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Tacitus |
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Thou for the tsar
Hast drawn the sword, thou art stainless; but I lead you
Against your brothers; I am summoning
Lithuania against Russia; I am showing
To foes the longed-for way to
beauteous
Moscow!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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135
XVI
The knight gan fairely couch his steadie speare,
And fiercely ran at him with rigorous might:
The pointed steele
arriving
rudely theare,
His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight,
But glauncing by forth passed forward right; 140
Yet sore amoved with so puissaunt push,
The wrathfull beast about him turned light,
And him so rudely passing by, did brush
With his long tayle, that horse and man to ground did rush.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But where it fell
The saved will tell
On patriotic day,
Some
epauletted
brother
Gave his breath away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_The
Monument
of a Faire Maiden Lady.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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BY THE ROADSIDE
LAST night I went to a wide place on the
Kiltartan
road to listen to
some Irish songs.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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With serious air indeed,
Long
tortured
by his lay divine,
Triquet arose, and for the bard
The company deep silence guard.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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is
tokenyng
bifalle, so doo?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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m
The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad
wavering
hours are mown Sigheth and dies because the day is sped;
This wind is like her and the listless air Wherewith she goeth by beneath the trees,
The trees that mock her with their scarlet stain.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In my jealous wings
I evermore will hold thee when though goest out or comest in
Tis thou hast darkend all My World O Woman lovely bare
Thus they
contended?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or seedling there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the
wondering
sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I saw her hand; she has a
leathern
hand,
A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think
That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands;
She has a huswife's hand- but that's no matter.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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I woke; it was the
midnight
hour,
The clock was echoing in the tower;
But though my slumber was gone by,
This dream it would not pass away--
It seems to live upon my eye!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Cass,
General,
clearness of his merit,
limited
popularity
at 'Bellers's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And one ling'ring near us, wax'd
So bright, that in my thought: said: "The love,
Which this
betokens
me, admits no doubt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Where to the south the world's broad surface bends,
Lo, Sunda's realm her
spreading
arms extends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then my Joy grew pale and weary because no other heart but mine
held its
loveliness
and no other lips kissed its lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
| Guess: |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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's
powerful
favorite, George Villiers, later Duke of Buckingham.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
| Guess: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Qui desponsa tua firmes conubia flamma,
Quae
pepigere
viri, pepigerunt ante parentes
Nec iunxere prius quam se tuus extulit ardor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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adds 'he', and
possibly
the
pronoun in some form has been dropped, e.
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John Donne |
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For it the nebula cohered to an orb,
The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
Monstrous
sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it
with care.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the
tambourines
repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[Sidenote A: With much mirth and
minstrelsy
they made merry,]
[Sidenote B: until the time came for them to part.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| 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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When they met,
Wordsworth
was
only twenty-one, Beaupuy nearly thirty-five.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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XIX
All
perfection
Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
| 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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Yea, she hath passed hereby and blessed the sheaves And the great garths and stacks and quiet farms, And all the tawny and the crimson leaves,
Yea, she hath passed with poppies in her arms Under the star of dusk through
stealing
mist
_ And blest the earth and gone while no man wist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thou
catamite
Romulus, this thou'lt see and
hear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Wherefore
I hold it enough since given to us and us only
Boon of that day with Stone whiter than wont she denotes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
| 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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I feel the
strength
of my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Brook, from what
mountain
dost thou come,
O my brooklet cool and sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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For
additional
contact information:
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Sam:
Brethren
farewel, your company along
I will not wish, lest it perhaps offend them
To see me girt with Friends; and how the sight
Of me as of a common Enemy,
So dreaded once, may now exasperate them
I know not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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'Tis we and Pericles, who have stretched it by dint
of
squeezing
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
XXXV
No magicke arts hereof had any might,
Nor bloudie wordes of bold
Enchaunters
call;
But all that was not such as seemd in sight,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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at he be
suffisaunt
to hym self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
| 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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XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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She had
expected
to find the young officer there, but
she felt relieved to see that he was not.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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þǣre burnan wælm, _the
bubbling
of
the spring_, 2547.
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Beowulf |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For the rest, Milton is too high, and I am too
low, to render it necessary for me to disavow any rash emulation of his
divine faculty on his own ground; while enough
individuality
will be
granted, I hope, to my poem, to rescue me from that imputation of
plagiarism which should be too servile a thing for every sincere
thinker.
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Her fiercest firebrands Civil Discord wav'd,
Before her troops the lustful mother rav'd;
Lost to
maternal
love, and lost to shame,
Unaw'd she saw Heaven's awful vengeance flame;
The brother's sword the brother's bosom tore,
And sad Guimaria's[202] meadows blush'd with gore;
With Lusian gore the peasant's cot was stain'd,
And kindred blood the sacred shrine profan'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
thoughts
of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
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Longfellow |
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_Both_
mendiciens
(-ence); _see_
6657.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has shuddered with
prophetic
breath.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Our purer essence then will overcome
Thir noxious vapour, or enur'd not feel,
Or chang'd at length, and to the place conformd
In temper and in nature, will receive
Familiar
the fierce heat, and void of pain;
This horror will grow milde, this darkness light, 220
Besides what hope the never-ending flight
Of future days may bring, what chance, what change
Worth waiting, since our present lot appeers
For happy though but ill, for ill not worst,
If we procure not to our selves more woe.
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Milton |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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O to die
advancing
on!
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Whitman |
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