They have marred
themselves by
imitation
of their inferiors.
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All night the
gay rabble sweep to and fro across the land, invisible to all, unless
perhaps where, in some more than
commonly
'gentle' place--Drumcliff
or Drum-a-hair--the night-capped heads of faery-doctors may be thrust
from their doors to see what mischief the 'gentry' are doing.
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Yeats |
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Our dates are brief, and
therefore
we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old;
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Gulnara,
farewell!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I thought to find the patriots
In whom the stock of freedom roots;
To myself I oft recount
Tales of many a famous mount,--
Wales, Scotland, Uri, Hungary's dells:
Bards, Roys, Scanderbegs and Tells;
And think how Nature in these towers
Uplifted shall condense her powers,
And lifting man to the blue deep
Where stars their perfect courses keep,
Like wise preceptor, lure his eye
To sound the science of the sky,
And carry learning to its height
Of untried power and sane delight:
The Indian cheer, the frosty skies,
Rear purer wits, inventive eyes,--
Eyes that frame cities where none be,
And hands that stablish what these see:
And by the moral of his place
Hint summits of heroic grace;
Man in these crags a fastness find
To fight pollution of the mind;
In the wide thaw and ooze of wrong,
Adhere like this
foundation
strong,
The insanity of towns to stem
With simpleness for stratagem.
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Emerson - Poems |
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360
"You leave youre goode and
lawfulle
kynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curved point,--what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here
contented?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Little {38a} kept back
of the tidings new, but told them all,
the herald that up the
headland
rode.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You think I can't guess what your
business
is?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Not
otherwise
he sacks
Those many-chambered palaces of wax.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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EPITAPH ON THE
COUNTESS
OF PEMBROKE.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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" All that is one of
the
accidental
qualities of Homer.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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my friends, the years flit by
And after them at headlong pace
The evanescent
fashions
fly
In motley and amusing chase.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Au coeur d'un vieux faubourg, labyrinthe fangeux,
Ou l'humanite grouille en ferments orageux,
On voit un
chiffonnier
qui vient, hochant la tete,
Buttant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poete,
Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets,
Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sara Teasdale |
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45
VI
Unto that
doughtie
Conquerour they came,
And him before themselves prostrating low,
Their Lord and Patrone loud did him proclame,
And at his feet their laurell boughes did throw.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Erdman
indicates
that a linking line "must have been dropped in transcribing from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ungrateful
Florence!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Bending forward, he seemed to
threaten
the
king.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dal volto rimovea quell' aere grasso,
menando la
sinistra
innanzi spesso;
e sol di quell' angoscia parea lasso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A
terrific
combat between these
heroes ensues, [10] in which Enkidu conquers, and in a magnanimous
speech he reminds Gilgamish of his higher destiny.
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| Question: |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nemesianus
is
African, and his poems were not written in Rome.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Celui qui veut unir dans un accord mystique
L'ombre avec la chaleur, la nuit avec le jour,
Ne
chauffera
jamais son corps paralytique
A ce rouge soleil que l'on nomme l'amour!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O'er the sea,
And from the
mountains
where I now respire,
Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee,
As, with a sigh, I deem thou mightst have been to me!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perilous
fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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All have not appeared in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp
sorcerers
and obey them.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,
And will not
temporize
with my entreaties;
He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.
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Shakespeare |
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I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I have not quite the
strength
now
To break it to the bee.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
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Archive Foundation and how your efforts and
donations
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Sections 3 and 4 and the Foundation information page at
www.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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stateliest
of our maids!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet do thou regard, with pity 5
For a
nameless
child of passion,
This small unfrequented valley
By the sea, O sea-born mother.
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Sappho |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
THE CUMBERLAND
HENRY
WADSWORTH
LONGFELLOW
March 8, 1862
_The "Cumberland" was sunk by the iron-clad rebel ram "Merrimac,"
going down with her colors flying, and firing even as the water
rose over the gunwale.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Fan was so moved by
their reply that he
exempted
their husbands from national service.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the
president
of language, is called _deorum hominumque interpres_.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--
To which the husband answered:--On my life,
That women friars pay is very strange;
Will you
particulars
with me arrange?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The burled Dacyannes, who were ynne the same,
Fro syde to syde fledde the
pursuyte
of deathe;
The swelleynge fyre yer corrage doe enflame, 710
Theie lepe ynto the sea, & bobblynge yield yer breathe;
Whylest those thatt bee uponne the bloddie playne,
Bee deathe-doomed captyves taene, or yn the battle slayne.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I believe, of all those billions of men and women that filled the unnamed
lands, every one exists this hour, here or elsewhere,
invisible
to
us, in exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and
out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinned, in life.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk,
foredoomed
his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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hic iuueni Ismario ne solum in limine caeli
ex Ariadneis aurea temporibus 60
fixa corona foret, sed nos quoque fulgeremus
deuotae flaui uerticis exuuiae,
uuidulum
a fluctu cedentem ad templa deum me
sidus in antiquis diua nouum posuit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Orpheus
The Death of Orpheus
'The Death of Orpheus'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Vincent Millay and Robert Frost
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
AMERICAN
POETRY, 1922 ***
***** This file should be named 25880-8.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
In a Garden
The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting
with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Where are those bloody banners which of yore
Waved o'er thy sons, victorious to the gale,
And drove at last the
spoilers
to their shore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
James had
appeared
on a gray horse at the head
of the Castilian adventurers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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For a more detailed
description
of this
volume see Winter, pp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow,
And in their
perilous
fall shall thunder, GOD!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na iluGilgamis ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish
id-[ ]na-an(?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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In his epistle to posterity, he
endeavours
to justify
this repugnance by other motives.
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Petrarch |
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You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Small
consolation
then, were Man adjoyn'd:
This wounds me most (what can it less) that Man,
Man fall'n shall be restor'd, I never more.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
If, as seems certain,
_Elinoure and Juga_ was among the pieces sent, it was inevitable
that Gray should recognize lines 22-25 of that poem as a
striking
if
unconscious reminiscence of his own _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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e_ to the _Court_: wherein you craue:
The
iudgement
of the _Ma?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Of hir have I,
withouten
fayle, 1275
Told yow the shap and apparayle
For (as I seide) lo, that was she
That dide me so greet bountee,
>>
La soe merci m'apela
Ains que nule, quant je vins la.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
A HARD TASK AND
THREEFOLD
TITLE TO FAME
How dark my theme, I know within my mind;
Yet hath high hope of praise with thyrsus keen
Smitten my heart and struck into my breast
Sweet passion for the Muses, stung wherewith
In lively thought I traverse pathless haunts
Pierian, untrodden yet by man.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Here's a
knocking
indeede: if a man were
Porter of Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the
Key.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Touch but thy lyre, my Harry, and I hear
From thee some
raptures
of the rare Gotiere;
Then if thy voice commingle with the string,
I hear in thee rare Laniere to sing;
Or curious Wilson: tell me, canst thou be
Less than Apollo, that usurp'st such three?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
LI
Wend where the warrior will, an-end or wide,
Ever with him is that
accursed
Pest:
Nor knows he how from her to be untied,
Albeit his courser plunges without rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It was in truth a
lamentable
hour 1802.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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At Knowsley he became a permanent favorite; and it was there that he
composed in
prolific
succession his charming and wonderful series of
utterly nonsensical rhymes and drawings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries,
"Fools!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I have not followed
original
spacing exactly, except where it genuinely appears to add impact to the verse.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Eufeniens
seide in his mende,
'?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
A village
schoolmaster
was he,
With hair of glittering gray;
As blithe a man as you could see
On a spring holiday.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and Shame shall cling to thee,
And haunt thee like a
feverish
dream!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Why need I sigh far hills to see
If grass is their array,
While here the little paths go through
The
greenest
every day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
_
Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the
withered
wrinkles made in her face by old age,
wept, and wondered why she had twice been carried
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a
contemporary
or nearly
contemporary event.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
And
sometimes
again we catch glimpses of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
It took place at a public examination at
the Lyceum, on which occasion the boy poet
produced
a poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'All
precious
souls are there
Most safe, elect by grace,
All tears are wiped for ever from their face:
Untired in prayer 30
They wait and praise
Hidden for a little space.
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_Evening Primrose_
When once the sun sinks in the west,
And dew-drops pearl the evening's breast;
Almost as pale as moonbeams are,
Or its companionable star,
The evening
primrose
opes anew
Its delicate blossoms to the dew;
And, shunning-hermit of the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the night;
Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
Knows not the beauty he possesses.
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qu'on ne sache plus si c'est
bataille
ou danse!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then
courage!
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Whitman |
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`O sterre, of which I lost have al the light,
With herte soor wel oughte I to bewayle,
That ever derk in torment, night by night, 640
Toward my deeth with wind in stere I sayle;
For which the tenthe night if that I fayle
The gyding of thy bemes brighte an houre,
My ship and me
Caribdis
wole devoure.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Nor smile, nor tear, nor
haughtiest
lord's command,
Avails t' unclasp the cold and closed hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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Had she but stay'd, as I grew changed and old
Her tone had changed, and no distrust had been
To parley with me on my cherish'd ill:
With what frank sighs and fond I then had told
My
lifelong
toils, which now from heaven, I ween,
She sees, and with me sympathises still.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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It is the part of men to fear and tremble
When the most mighty gods by tokens send
Such
dreadful
heralds to astonish us.
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Shakespeare |
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Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
Met in their first fresh upward gaze by love,
Filled with love's happy shame from other eyes,
Dazzled with tenderness and drowned in light
As tho' you looked
unthinking
at the sun,
Oh Litis, that is joy!
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Sara Teasdale |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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'Ye peers (she cried) who press to gain my heart,
Where dead Ulysses claims no more a part,
Yet a short space your rival suit suspend,
Till this
funereal
web my labours end:
Cease, till to good Laertes I bequeath
A task of grief, his ornaments of death:
Lest when the Fates his royal ashes claim,
The Grecian matrons taint my spotless fame;
Should he, long honour'd with supreme command,
Want the last duties of a daughter's hand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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underneath
the dens of Earth
The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad
With wine of cruelty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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