Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including
any word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He was, later, revealed--also reviled--to American readers by Henry
James, who
completely
missed his significance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Over their pitiful dust thy blast
Passed in columns of
whirling
sand,
Leapt the desert and swept the strand
Of the cool and quiet sea,
Gathering mighty shapes, and proud
Phantoms of monstrous, wave-born cloud,
And northward drove this panoply
Till the sky seemed charging on the land.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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* * * *
May Almighty God forgive her
ingratitude
and perjury to me, as I from
my very soul forgive her: and may his grace be with her and bless her
in all her future life!
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| Question: |
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Robert Forst |
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"Their friends are waiting,
wondering
how they thrive--
Waiting a word in silence patiently.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For this fierce Holofernes and his power,
This torture poured on the city, is no more
Than a wild gust of wicked heat
breathed
out
Against our God-wrought souls by the world's furnace.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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317_;
referred
to in _E.
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Byron |
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God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Come, gone,--gone forever,--
Gone as an unreturning river,--
Gone as to death the
merriest
liver,--
Gone as the year at the dying fall,--
To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never,--
Gone once for all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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_The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story_
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen black
From the south-west stained its encroaching track,
Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide,
Sought the grey willows by the pasture-side;
And there, while big drops bow the grassy stems,
And bleb the
withering
hay with pearly gems,
Dimple the brook, and patter in the leaves,
The song or tale an hour's restraint relieves.
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John Clare |
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|| _officias_ Oh
15 _hec est hec_ GO
16 _hec_ G || _fac_(_t_ R)_ies_ RVenBCAap
18
_extrema_
(_extremo_ GO, prius R, _extreme/a_ Ven) _iam
ipsam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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ART
Give to barrows, trays and pans
Grace and glimmer of romance;
Bring the moonlight into noon
Hid in
gleaming
piles of stone;
On the city's paved street
Plant gardens lined with lilacs sweet;
Let spouting fountains cool the air,
Singing in the sun-baked square;
Let statue, picture, park and hall,
Ballad, flag and festival,
The past restore, the day adorn,
And make to-morrow a new morn.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"My good fool," said a learned bystander,
"Your
operations
are mad.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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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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| Question: |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead;
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed,
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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As I could not go over to your
part of the country myself, my
intention
was to have taken it with me
to Kendal .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"The furies of thy brother
With me and mine abide,
If one of your
accursed
house
Upon black Auster ride!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In the edition for
1831, however, this poem, its author's longest, was
introduced
by the
following twenty-nine lines, which have been omitted in--all subsequent
collections:
AL AARAAF
Mysterious star!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unlock the
furthest
line
Of guest-chambers; and bid the stewards there
Make ready a full feast; then close with care
The midway doors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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When I awoke,
somewhat
late, on the morrow I saw that the storm was
over.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I am in no hurry for all, or any of
these, but if you
accidentally
meet with them very cheap, get them for
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there;
My trees were full of songs and flowers and fruit,
Their
branches
spread a city to the air,
And mice lodged in their root.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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O lank-eared
Phantoms
of black-weeded pools!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Tyrwhitt
was
Chatterton's first editor and in his edition many of the poems
were printed for the first time.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He cried, "who through the
infernal
shades art led,
Own, if again thou know'st me.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD
BY
SAROJINI NAIDU
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS
DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE
GOLDEN THRESHOLD
London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905
CONTENTS
FOLK SONGS
Palanquin-Bearers
Wandering Singers
Indian Weavers
Coromandel
Fishers
The Snake-Charmer
Corn-Grinders
Village-Song
In Praise of Henna
Harvest Hymn
Indian Love-Song
Cradle-Song
Suttee
SONGS FOR MUSIC
Song of a Dream
Humayun to Zobeida
Autumn Song Alabaster
Ecstasy
To my Fairy Fancies
POEMS
Ode to H.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had
journeyed
long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
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Poe - 5 |
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Last, let us turn to Chamouny that shields [157]
With rocks and gloomy woods [158] her fertile fields: 570
Five streams of ice amid her cots descend,
And with wild flowers and blooming orchards blend;--[Ee]
A scene more fair than what the Grecian feigns
Of purple lights and ever-vernal plains;
Here all the seasons revel hand in hand: 575
'Mid lawns and shades by breezy
rivulets
fanned [159]
[160] They sport beneath that mountain's matchless height [161]
That holds no commerce with the summer night.
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William Wordsworth |
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SCHULER:
Ich bin dabei mit Seel und Leib;
Doch
freilich
wurde mir behagen
Ein wenig Freiheit und Zeitvertreib
An schonen Sommerfeiertagen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is an honorable thought,
And makes one lift one's hat,
As one encountered gentlefolk
Upon a daily street,
That we've immortal place,
Though pyramids decay,
And kingdoms, like the orchard,
Flit
russetly
away.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Hitherward
they came,
Meeting our faces from the middle point,
With us beyond but with a larger stride.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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you are all to me,
I wish for your sake I could be
More
lifesome
and more gay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and
forgotten
it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us,
O God of waters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
You would sacrifice
yourself
in favour of me!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in
Khorassan
in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"
And opening to the dame the thought he brewed,
To her the flying horse
Astolpho
shewed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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sic et tu, rabidi nefas tyranni,
iussus
praecipitem
subire Lethen,
dum pugnas canis arduaque uoce
das solatia grandibus sepulcris,
(o dirum scelus!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The slow
arpeggios
of it, liquid, sibilant,
Thrill and thrill in the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Quivi sospiri, pianti e alti guai
risonavan per l'aere sanza stelle,
per ch'io al
cominciar
ne lagrimai.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When the record was finally exhausted,
he arose,
staggered
backward from the table, and fell-dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Think how they sport with these beloved forms;
And how the clarion-blowing wind unties
Above their heads the tresses of the storms:
Perchance
even now the child, the husband, dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She remembered him well, she said, and had a wish for him; and as to
Mary Gillis, she had some of his songs off by heart, so he need not be
afraid of not getting good treatment, and all the bacachs and poor men
that heard him would give him a share of their own
earnings
for his
stories and his songs while he was with them, and would carry his name
into all the parishes of Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
And this, at least, I dare affirm,
Since genius too has bound and term,
There is no bard in all the choir,
Not Homer's self, the poet sire,
Wise Milton's odes of pensive pleasure,
Or Shakspeare, whom no mind can measure,
Nor Collins' verse of tender pain,
Nor Byron's clarion of disdain,
Scott, the delight of generous boys,
Or Wordsworth, Pan's
recording
voice,--
Not one of all can put in verse,
Or to this presence could rehearse
The sights and voices ravishing
The boy knew on the hills in spring,
When pacing through the oaks he heard
Sharp queries of the sentry-bird,
The heavy grouse's sudden whir,
The rattle of the kingfisher;
Saw bonfires of the harlot flies
In the lowland, when day dies;
Or marked, benighted and forlorn,
The first far signal-fire of morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Se la gente ch'al mondo piu traligna
non fosse stata a Cesare noverca,
ma come madre a suo figlio benigna,
tal fatto e fiorentino e cambia e merca,
che si sarebbe volto a Simifonti,
la dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
sariesi Montemurlo ancor de' Conti;
sarieno i Cerchi nel piovier d'Acone,
e forse in
Valdigrieve
i Buondelmonti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
XVI
Now, from the rock Tarpeian,
Could the wan burghers spy
The line of blazing villages
Red in the
midnight
sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Already with the pangs of a new birth
Strain the hot spheres of his convulsed eyes,
And in his
writhings
awful hues begin
To wander down his sable sheeny sides,
Like light on troubled waters: from within
Anon he rusheth forth with merry din,
And in him light and joy and strength abides;
And from his brows a crown of living light
Looks through the thickstemmed woods by day and night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Ah, woeful one,
with sorrows unending distraught, Erycina sows thorny cares deep in thy
bosom, since that time when Theseus fierce in his vigour set out from the
curved bay of Piraeus, and gained the
Gortynian
roofs of the iniquitous
ruler.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
'T is these that early taint the female soul,
Instruct the eyes of young
Coquettes
to roll,
Teach Infant-cheeks a bidden blush to know,
And little hearts to flutter at a Beau.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
beorhte frætwe, 214, 897;
beorhte randas, 231;
bordwudu
beorhtan, 1244; n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And
crucifixion
known.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they
themselves
are immortal.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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very
pointedly
implicated Mr.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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The 'Essay
on Man' was built up on the precepts of Bolingbroke's philosophy; the
'Imitations of Horace' were undertaken at Bolingbroke's suggestion; and
the whole tone of Pope's political and social satire during the years
from 1731 to 1738 reflects the spirit of that opposition to the
administration of Walpole and to the growing influence of the commercial
class, which was at once
inspired
and directed by Bolingbroke.
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| Question: |
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Alexander Pope |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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She mentioned, and forgot;
Then lightly as a reed
Bent to the water,
shivered
scarce,
Consented, and was dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes
a coverlet,
A coverlet for his contented slumber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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As when high Jove denouncing future woe,
O'er the dark clouds extends his purple bow,
(In sign of tempests from the troubled air,
Or from the rage of man, destructive war,)
The drooping cattle dread the impending skies,
And from his half-till'd field the
labourer
flies:
In such a form the goddess round her drew
A livid cloud, and to the battle flew.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Thou visor'd, vast,
unspeakable
show and lesson!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Lassie, say thou lo'es me;
Or if thou wilt no be my ain,
Say na thou'lt refuse me:
If it winna, canna be,
Thou, for thine may choose me,
Let me, lassie, quickly die,
Trusting
that thou lo'es me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Poe, annoyed at some
misprints
in this issue, shortly
afterwards caused a corrected copy to be inserted in the "Home Journal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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But in Scottish poetry he
achieved
triumphs of
a quite extraordinary kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Since Theocritus, a
perverse
kind of pleasure has often been obtained by
putting some of the peculiarities of epic--peculiarities really required
by a very long poem--into the compass of a very short poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
_
Although
a bastard brother received only a small
portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Pagett's mildest questions on these points, and he
returned
to vague
generalities, leaving the M.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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You may believe me when I say the
father and I were already
prepared
to die the death of martyrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The latter
is a history of the Reformation written from the
Protestant
point of
view, to which Surius' work is a reply.
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It was not frost, for on my flesh
I felt
siroccos
crawl, --
Nor fire, for just my marble feet
Could keep a chancel cool.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Tis not so great, by a long way,
As if you first, with tender twaddle,
And every sort of fiddle-faddle,
Your little doll should mould and knead,
As one in French
romances
may read.
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Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so
unearthly bright,
Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the
trenches
and
gather the heaps,
I dream, I dream, I dream.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But as a summer wave
Serenely for a while
Will lift a crest to the sun,
Then sink again, so he
Back to the bright heavens gave
An answering smile;
Then quietly, having run
His course, bowed down his head,
And sank unmurmuringly,
Sank back into the sea,
The silent, the
unfathomable
sea
Of all the happy dead.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Hast
vanished
in that radiance, clear for thee,
But still for us obscure?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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Two forms are slowly shadowed on my sight--
Two
insulated
phantoms of the brain:
It is not so: I see them full and plain--
An old man, and a female young and fair,
Fresh as a nursing mother, in whose vein
The blood is nectar:--but what doth she there,
With her unmantled neck, and bosom white and bare?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is but thirty dawns and twilights since
He left his
playmates
back of the eclipse,
It cannot be he has so soon forgot.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If you are
redistributing or providing access to a work with the phrase "Project
Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the work, you must comply
either with the
requirements
of paragraphs 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Tu contiens, mer d'ebene, un
eblouissant
reve
De voiles, de rameurs, de flammes et de mats:
Un port retentissant ou mon ame peut boire
A grands flots le parfum, le son et la couleur;
Ou les vaisseaux, glissant dans l'or et dans la moire,
Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire
D'un ciel pur ou fremit l'eternelle chaleur.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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While beneath plunder'd Saints, in
outraged
fanes
Plots Faction, and Revenge the altar stains;
And, contrast sad and wide,
The very bells which sweetly wont to fling
Summons to prayer and praise now Battle's tocsin ring!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'O long ago,' she said, 'betwixt these two
Division
smoulders hidden; 'tis my mother,
Too jealous, often fretful as the wind
Pent in a crevice: much I bear with her:
I never knew my father, but she says
(God help her) she was wedded to a fool;
And still she railed against the state of things.
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Tennyson |
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Unto the hero whose countenance was turned away,
unto
Gilgamish
like a god
he became for him a fellow.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to
impregnable and swarming places,
Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada,
and the rest,
(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)
Of what the feuillage of America is the
preparation
for--and of what
all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the
unnamed lost ever present in my mind;
Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,
Of the present, passing, departing--of the growth of completer men
than any yet,
Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the
Mississippi flows,
Of mighty inland cities yet unsurvey'd and unsuspected,
Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of
inalienable homesteads,
Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and
sweet blood,
Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the
Anahuacs,
Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,)
Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
(O it lurks in me night and day--what is gain after all to savageness
and freedom?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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John Clare |
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The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his
priestly
care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who rescued Una from
Sansloy?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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THE FLOWN SOUL
(FRANCIS HAWTHORNE LATHROP)
FEBRUARY
6, 1881
Come not again!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The poem tells of the troubles of two lovers: Blancheflour, or Blancheflor ('white flower') being a Christian princess
abducted
by Saracens and raised with the pagan prince Flores or Floris or Floire ('belonging to the flower') The Muslim/Christian tale is often set in Andalusia where there is a famous Granadan variant.
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Troubador Verse |
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e
Emperour
he ede,
and tolde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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