Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying
combinations
touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Darkness arose from her
dissolving
frame,
Which gathering, filled that dome of woven light, _620
Blotting its sphered stars with supernatural night.
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Shelley |
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The truth, I fancy, this: bodies there are
Whose clashings, motions, order, posture, shapes
Produce the fire and which, by order changed,
Do change the nature of the thing produced,
And are thereafter nothing like to fire
Nor whatso else has power to send its bodies
With impact
touching
on the senses' touch.
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Lucretius |
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er nys
som
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I am coming, Valkyr, I am coming, where the channel fog-banks lie;
I can see your signals blinking through the mist of their changing smoke; When I rush with the speed of a
whirlwind
I feel you are riding nigh;
I am counting the days, beloved, the days that I live to die.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And Kenmure's lord's the bravest lord,
That ever
Galloway
saw.
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Robert Burns |
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Shall I forget in peace of
Paradise?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Talk with
prudence
to a beggar
Of 'Potosi' and the mines!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Since with
pleasure
I'm out of tune,
And nothing can I force her to,
For I know that I'll win nothing,
Except by praising, and by loving.
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Troubador Verse |
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It changed its position and colors as
we moved, and was the
brighter
because the sun shone so clearly and
the mist was so thick.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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16
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk,"
published
in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An Anthology of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Touch and waken so, to a far hereafter,
Ebb and flow, the deep, and the dead in their longing:
Till at last, on the
hungering
face of the waters,
There shall be Light.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_
FOURTH OPAL
We were alone: the
perfumed
night,
Moonlighted, like a flower
Grew round us and exhaled delight
To bless that one sweet hour.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And now his life, suspended by her breath,
Ran out impetuously to
hastening
Death.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The "Liber
Epistolarum
sine Titulo" contains, as it is printed
in his works (Basle edit.
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Petrarch |
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83
capable of
salvation
or
1
?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Given this form and this story, the next
question
is: What did Euripides
make of them?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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772) composed a poem on the dawn court gathering in the newly
restored
court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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" It was a
collection of the work of various young poets,
presented
together as a
school.
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Imagists |
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From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf,
From
monument
and urn,
The sad of earth, the glad of heaven,
His tragic fate shall learn;
And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of HALE shall burn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[11]
Going from one another ten thousand "li,"
Each in a
different
corner of the World.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Not so
decrepid
.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Snatch me, ye
whirlwinds!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But on we must, and thither tend,
Where Ancus and rich Tullus blend
Their sacred seed;
Thus has
infernal
Jove decreed;
We must be made,
Ere long a song, ere long a shade.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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No beach nor reef but was with corpses strewn,
And every keel of our
barbarian
host
Hurried to flee, in utter disarray.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The ground looks
like a
platform
before a grocery, where the gossips of the village sit
to crack nuts and less savory jokes.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And thee the province
declares
to be lovely?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Gather ye
rosebuds
while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Keats - Lamia |
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Will those bright eyes
With
gladness
come, which, weeping, made me haste
To succour thee, thou mayst or seat thee down,
Or wander where thou wilt.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Paradiso
?
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Spurreynge
his palfrie oere the watrie plaine.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He said, and fired their
heavenly
breasts with rage.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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He died at an
advanced
age in Montpellier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Victorious
then in every solemn game,
Ordain'd to Amarynces' mighty name;
The brave Epeians gave my glory way,
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Swallows check their winding flight,
And
twittering
on the chimney light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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" A blow from an unthought-of
quarter, one of those
terrible
accidents which peculiarly mark the
hand of Omnipotence, overset your career, and laid all your fancied
honours in the dust.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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"In heaven's name where is Marya
Ivanofna?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith
thought renews her--
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised to abuse her--
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Let the
superstitious
wife
Near the child's heart lay a knife:
Point be up, and haft be down
(While she gossips in the town);
This, 'mongst other mystic charms,
Keeps the sleeping child from harms.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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To mortal combat I defy you both
Singly; or, if you will, I'm nothing loth
With two
together
to contend; choose here
From out the heap what weapon shall appear
Most fit.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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' too,
And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet the sibyl with
Latinate
face still sleeps
Under the arch of Constantine
- And the austere portico nothing disturbs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Experience, this; by man's
oppression
curst,
They seek the second not to lose the first.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Special rules, set forth
below, apply if you wish to copy and
distribute
this eBook
under the "PROJECT GUTENBERG" trademark.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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She had never
really died; she only had a sort of nervous
catalepsy
induced by all the
"suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Das ist noch lange nicht voruber,
Ich kenn es wohl, so klingt das ganze Buch;
Ich habe manche Zeit damit verloren,
Denn ein vollkommner Widerspruch
Bleibt gleich
geheimnisvoll
fur Kluge wie fur Toren.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A noble
picture!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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A smile suffused Jehovah's face;
The
cherubim
withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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*Tis not a freedom that, where all command,
Nor tyranny, where one does them withstand ;
* Marine meteors, which Portuguese
nuiriners
call the
Bodies of the Saints; corpos santos.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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toward us in a bark
Comes on an old man hoary white with eld,
Crying, "Woe to you wicked
spirits!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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R sed uix ab eadem
manu
6 _truf_(_ff_
a)_antem_
Da: _crissantem_ marg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas,
miserable
heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This cherubim sings the praises
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree stiffens in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are
fragrant
at this height.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
yellowhammer
never makes a noise
But flies in silence from the noisy boys;
The boys will come and take them every day,
And still she lays as none were ta'en away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Call hyther brave Coernyke; he, as warde
Of thys mie
Brystowe
castle, wyll doe welle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Thus thou, by means which th'Ancients never took,
A Pandect makest, and
Vniversall
Booke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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slakke {and}
delitable sou{n} of
strenges
how ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Either to please me, or torment ;
For thou alone, to people me,
Art grown a
numerous
colony.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Above, the pilasters are like to bars,
And, through their gaps, the dead look at the stars,
While, till the dawn, around Nitrocis' bones,
Spectres
hold council, crouching on the stones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm
bewitched
by your delicate cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
He can then be restored only by an appeal to
the Highest Honor or
Magnificence
(Prince Arthur) through the good offices
of Truth and Common Sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Again, it was exclusive
not inclusive, since its object was, evidently, not the meritorious if
impossible one of attempting to be a
compendium
of present-day American
verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Am I thus
whitened
by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but withered laurels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Whenn gentle wyndes doe blowe, to
whestlyng
dynne ys broughte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Wife and
children
all are there,
To revive with pleasant looks,
Table ready set, and chair,
Supper hanging on the hooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
There is
still a something in the
distance
which he has been unable to attain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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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.
| 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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Or haue we eaten on the insane Root,
That takes the Reason
Prisoner?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
To smash legends, Eugene Crepet's biographical study, first printed in
1887, has been
republished
with new notes by his son, Jacques Crepet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| 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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When Herod-Henry first
Began to batter at your English Church,
This was the cause, and hence the
judgment
on her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Yet though in light he dwell, no light was this
He showed to thee, but
darkness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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It would seem, from the present passage of Tacitus, that there were some legal forms taken in the case of Silanus, and that Julius
Graecinus
was ordered to be the accuser; and that that noble-minded man, refusing to take part in proceedings so cruel and iniquitous, was himself put to death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Or let those men
confess, that you are not well
affected
to Rome in permitting her to do
things by which she suffers damage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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349:
'Since I
withdrew
unwillingly from France.
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William Wordsworth |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Aricia
Am I to believe a man, prior to his dying breath,
Could
penetrate
to the deep house of the dead?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I
shall trouble your lordship with the
subjoined
copy of them, which, I
am afraid, will be but too convincing a proof how unequal I am to the
task.
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Robert Burns |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of The House of Atreus, by AEschylus
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
whatsoever.
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Aeschylus |
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Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven
Circe with singing changed from human form
The
comrades
of Ulysses, and by song
Is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_ And that
Is more than I can say for Madame Idenstein,
At least in beauty: as for majesty,
She has some of its
properties
which might
Be spared--but never mind!
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Byron |
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The
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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