"
Speaking of her brother Christopher, then at Cambridge, Dorothy
Wordsworth wrote thus in 1793:
"He is not so ardent in any of his
pursuits
as William is, but he is
yet particularly attached to the same pursuits which have so
irresistible an influence over William, _and deprive him of the power
of chaining his attention to others discordant to his feelings.
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His
footsteps
echo along the floor
Of a distant passage, and pause awhile;
He is standing by an open door
Looking long, with a sad, sweet smile,
Into the room of his absent son.
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Longfellow |
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They colored the horizon round;
Stars flamed and faded as they bade,
All echoes hearkened for their sound,--
They made the
woodlands
glad or mad.
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Emerson - Poems |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly
illegible
in the manuscript and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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1145-1175)
According to the troubadour Uc de Saint Circ, Bernart was the son of a baker at the castle of
Ventadour
or Ventadorn, in the Correze.
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Troubador Verse |
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In the mean time, they are most welcome to my Ode; only, let them
insert it as a thing they have met with by
accident
and unknown to
me.
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Robert Forst |
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"By him who died on cross,
"With his cruel bow he lay'd full low
"The
harmless
Albatross.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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no prayer, no moving art,
E'er bent that fierce,
inexorable
heart!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Keats |
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the air
Closes upon my accents, as despair
Upon my heart--let death upon
despair!
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Shelley |
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I could stand
Upon thy shores, O Erin, and could count
The billows that, in their
unceasing
swell,
Dash on thy beach, and every wave might seem
An instrument in Time the giant's grasp, _15
To burst the barriers of Eternity.
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Shelley |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"You must know--" said the Judge: but the Snark
exclaimed
"Fudge!
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Lewis Carroll |
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(Vain were engine and wheel,
She was under full steam)--
With the roar of a thunder-stroke
Her two
thousand
tons of oak
Brought up on us, right abeam!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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E'en this air so subtly gloweth,
Guerdoned
by thy sun-gold traces
Canzon: spear
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Some, however, would derive the word from _sans
terre_, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense,
will mean, having no
particular
home, but equally at home everywhere.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ELECTRA,
_daughter
of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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WORLD
BUILDERS
By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden sunlight everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Li Po |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And when he comes home to me at night
He is not cheery, but sits and sighs,
And I see the great tears in his eyes,
And try to be
cheerful
for his sake.
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Longfellow |
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I
composed
these verses while I stayed at Ochtertyre with Sir William
Murray.
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Robert Burns |
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Water dashed on the coals
suddenly
smothers their glow.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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5
I wander through life,
With the
searching
mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover's door.
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Sappho |
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That ev'ry guest might learn to suit his taste,
Behind had Conscience, real or mock'ry, placed;
Conscience
a guide who every evil spies,
But royal nurses early pluck out both his eyes!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Like white water are you who fill the cup of my mouth,
Like a brook of water
thronged
with lilies.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Boris Godunov, by Alexander Pushkin
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sous les
plafonds
duquel tant de pompe avait lui.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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what Thou art,
Surpasses
me to know;
Yet sure I am, that known to Thee
Are all Thy works below.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Here in an aether more clear now a luster
encircles
my forehead.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Les pieces etaient tapissees d'un papier aux
larges rayures rouges et noires,
couleurs
diaboliques, qui
s'accordaient avec les draperies d'un lourd damas.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Why doth my face," said Beatrice, "thus
Enamour thee, as that thou dost not turn
Unto the
beautiful
garden, blossoming
Beneath the rays of Christ?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XVI
Breac and
Landriglier
past on the left hand,
Orlando's vessel skims the Breton shore;
Then shapes her course towards the chalky strand,
Whence England's isle the name of Albion bore:
But the south wind, which had her canvas fanned,
Shifts to north-west, and freshening, blows so sore,
The mariners are fain to strike all sail,
And wear and scud before the boisterous gale.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And then her mouth, more
delicate
5
Than the frail wood-anemone,
Brushes my cheek, and deeper grow
The purple shadows.
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Sappho |
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The poems
contributed
by him to
the volume of 1827, 'Poems by Two Brothers', are not without some slight
promise, but are very far from indicating extraordinary powers.
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Tennyson |
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The Elephant
Two Elephants
'Two Elephants'
Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1594, The Rijksmuseun
I carry
treasure
in my mouth,
As an elephant his ivory.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
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Iliad - Pope |
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PANTHEA:
Look, sister, where a troop of spirits gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring's
delightful
weather, _665
Thronging in the blue air!
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Shelley |
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Now are you old,
blossoming
white and blanched,
Yet by such words you still appear infant.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I leave now, and go too
To unite all our
scattered
votes for you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Upstood Acroneus and Ocyalus,
Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, after whom
Anchialus with Anabeesineus
Arose, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus bold,
Amphialus
and Thoon.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son, tormented by the shirt of Nessus
immolated
himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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Ronsard |
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accipiat
coniunx felici foedere diuam,
dedatur cupido iam dudum nupta marito.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Even this
entertainment
wearies after a time; and all the times are
very, very long.
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Kipling - Poems |
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BAL DES PENDUS
Au gibet noir, manchot aimable,
Dansent, dansent les paladins,
Les maigres paladins du diable,
Les
squelettes
de Saladins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Free us, for without be goodly colours, Green of the wood-moss and flower-colours, And
coolness
beneath the trees.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Pourtant, qui n'a serre dans ses bras un squelette,
Et qui ne s'est nourri des choses du
tombeau?
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the
heedless
air;
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall be your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil--
The ashes of her brave.
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Lo, where the white-maned horses of the surge, 10
Plunging in
thunderous
onset to the shore,
Trample and break and charge along the sand!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate track,
By dark rains havocked and
drenched
black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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In
short, we have now a perfect
plaything
for the summer.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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No, _Child_, in a Carre,
The
charriot
of Triumph, which mo?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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: SONNET
on the tally-board of wasted days
IF write me for They daily
proud idleness, Let high Hell summons me, and I confess,
No overt act the
preferred
charge allays.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Man, like the
generous
vine, supported lives;
The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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How a ring-dove
Let fall a sprig of yew tree in his path;
And how he died: and then, that love doth scathe,
The gentle heart, as
northern
blasts do roses;
And then the ballad of his sad life closes
With sighs, and an alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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So clean forth of thy breast, rackt with
solicitous
care,
Mind fled, sense being reft!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Aeolian harp,
How
strangely
wise thy strain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
A
language
like this must ever be a bar to the progress and
accomplishments of literature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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While yet _610
The fight hung balanced, there arose a storm
Which swept the
phantoms
from among the stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Not this promise of thee had I given to Evander thy sire at my
departure, when he
embraced
me as I went and bade me speed to a wide
empire, and yet warned me in fear that the men were valiant, the people
obstinate in battle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Whilst I, from boyhood up, a
wretched
monk,
Wander from cell to cell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Was the road of late so
toilsome?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Nothing can be better than--
---------------the bards sublime,
Whose distant
footsteps
echo
Down the corridors of Time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
AT midnight, when the spark had left the bed;
A servant, by his orders, drew the thread;
On whom the husband, without fear, laid hold,
And with him enter'd like a soldier bold,
Not then supposing he'd a valet seiz'd;
Well tim'd it prov'd, howe'er;--the lady pleas'd
Her voice to raise, on hearing what was said,
And through the house
confusion
quickly spread.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of
emerald!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
OSWALD No, no, my Friend, you may pursue your business--
'Tis a poor wretch of an unsettled mind,
Who has a trick of
straying
from his keepers;
We must be gentle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Oh, some
scholar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
The robin is the one
That
interrupts
the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind,
Will see the pillars of his palace kiss
E'en at the
whelming
ruin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Oh, when shall Britain,
conscious
of her claim,
Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Joyful are the
thoughts
of home,
Now I'm ready for my chair,
So, till morrow-morning's come,
Bill and mittens, lie ye there!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
When the door had closed,
and the peacock curtain,
glimmering
like many-coloured flame, fell
between us and the world, I felt, in a way I could not understand,
that some singular and unexpected thing was about to happen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Swefte as the roareynge wyndes the gyaunte flies, 75
Stayde the loude wyndes, and shaded reaulmes yn nyghte,
Stepte over cytties, on meint[44] acres lies,
Meeteynge the herehaughtes of morneynge lighte;
Tyll mooveynge to the Weste,
myschaunce
hys gye[45],
He thorowe warriours gratch fayre Elstrid did espie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up
hitherto
and unconscious till this instant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
-- `Lightly I hold your proof of valour here,'
(Those northern monarchs was she wont to tell)
`And if, like sun amid the stars, one peer
Outshines
his fellows, him I honour well:
But therefore hold him not, in fierce alarms,
Of living men the bravest knight at arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XXIX
THE LENT LILY
'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The
primroses
are found.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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is
auenture
forto frayn,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The holy man a knotted
cincture
wore;
But, 'neath his garb:--heart-rotten to the core.
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La Fontaine |
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CANTO 44
ARGUMENT
Rinaldo his sister to the Child hath plight,
And to
Marseilles
is with the warrior gone:
And having crimsoned wide the field in fight,
Therein arrives King Otho's valiant son.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The little pony glad may be,
But he is milder far than she,
You hardly can
perceive
his joy.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e kynges sister sunes, & ful siker kni3tes;
112 [D] Bischop
Bawdewyn
abof bi-gine3 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk
Along the surges creeping up the shore
When tides came in to ease the hungry beach,
And running, running, till the night was black,
Would fall
forespent
upon the chilly sand
And quiver with the winds from off the sea?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Meredith - Poems |
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e
resou{n}s
yknyt by ordre ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Meredith - Poems |
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