The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's
simultaneous
sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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The last day of her stay at Lucknow came, and
Hannasyde
saw her off
at the Railway Station.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee shall home, or food, or pastime yield.
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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I then considered myself amply justified
in resorting to that heroick treatment the felicity of which, as applied
by the great Bentley to Milton, had long ago
enlisted
my admiration.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Arbor ut
indpmitos
ornet vix una labores,
Tempora nee foliis praecingat tota malignis ;
Dum simul implexi, tranquillae ad serta quietis,
Omnigeni coeunt flores, integraque sylva.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And now the
glorious
artist, ere he yet 370
Had reach'd the Lemnian isle, limping, return'd
From his feign'd journey, for his spy the sun
Had told him all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
proceedings of Sin and Death; God
foretels
the final Victory of his Son
over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands
his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements.
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Milton |
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)
ALTER BAUER:
Furwahr, es ist sehr wohl getan,
Dass Ihr am frohen Tag erscheint;
Habt Ihr es vormals doch mit uns
An bosen Tagen gut
gemeint!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Children, ye heard his
promise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I wot my-self as wel as any wight; 220
For I loved oon with al my herte and might
More then my-self, an hundred
thousand
sythe,
And called him my hertes lyf, my knight,
And was al his, as fer as hit was right;
And whan that he was glad, than was I blythe, 225
And his disese was my deeth as swythe;
And he ayein his trouthe me had plight
For ever-more, his lady me to kythe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I looked on the eyes of fair woman too long,
Till silence and shame stole the use of my tongue:
When I tried to speak to her I'd nothing to say,
So I turned myself round and she
wandered
away.
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John Clare |
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[8] The name of the mother of Gilgamish has been
erroneously
read
_ri-mat ilat_Nin-lil, or _Rimat-Belit_, see Dhorme 202, 37; 204,
30, etc.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Many ages, he said, before his time,
there were ballads in praise of
illustrious
men; and these
ballads it was the fashion for the guests at banquets to sing in
turn while the piper played.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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VII
Eternal providence
exceeding
thought, 55
Where none appeares can make herselfe a way:
A wondrous way it for this Lady wrought,
From Lyons clawes to pluck the griped pray.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But while on mortal lips I shape anew
A sigh to mortal issues, verily
Above the
unshaken
stars that see us die,
A vocal pathos rolls; and HE who drew
All life from dust, and for all tasted death,
By death and life and love appealing, saith
_Do you think of me as I think of you?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Enter
MENENIUS
AGRIPPA
SECOND CITIZEN.
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Shakespeare |
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Here of thy mother sweet, where waters flow,
Here of thy
fatherland
we whispered low;
Here, music, praise, and prayer
Filled the glad summer air.
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Hugo - Poems |
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3915
Bothe in cloistre and in abbey
Chastite
is werreyed over-al.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'Divine
Inviters!
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Emerson - Poems |
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But the
fearless
Hiawatha
Cried aloud, and spake in this wise:
"Let me pass my way, Kenabeek,
Let me go upon my journey!
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Longfellow |
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He presently appeared; yet to detail
How Alice stormed, I certainly should fail;
Unless an iron tongue I could obtain:
All Hell was ransacked
epithets
to gain;
And Lucifer and Beelzebub were used:
No mortal ever was so much abused.
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La Fontaine |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Shaking with serious air the head,
In whispers low the
neighbours
said:
'Tis time she to the altar went!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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53) that
Ariovistus
had two wives.
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Tacitus |
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I
encounter
no troubles like those.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Acharnians were throughout the most extreme partisans of the
warlike party during the
Peloponnesian
struggle.
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Aristophanes |
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440
What blazours then, what glorie shall he clayme,
What
doughtie
Homere shall hys praises synge,
That lefte the bosome of so fayre a dame
Uncall'd, unaskt, to serve his lorde the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O
grievous
the tale is,
And grievous their fall,
To the house, to the land,
And to me above all!
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Aeschylus |
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Was hilft's, wenn Ihr ein Ganzes
dargebracht?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch,
But like a
treatment
civil,
So, spite of buffet, prayers, and calls--
Too late her friends to rally--
We, eighty strong, bore her along
Unto the Pirate Galley.
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Hugo - Poems |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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IV
He speaks to the moonlight
concerning
the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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' This exact and thorough scholar then goes on to point out
many false
quantities
and barbarisms.
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James Russell Lowell |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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VALENTIN
(fallt):
O weh!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Petrarch
answered that he had nothing
more to say.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Her innocence, and simple, gentle way,
At length appeared his
frantick
rage to lay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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But by sending one of his sons to each, the equal
treatment of both was maintained; as also the majesty of the supreme
power, which from
distance
ever derived most reverence.
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Tacitus |
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Now, to me the elm-leaves whisper
Mad,
discordant
melodies,
And keen melodies like shadows
Haunt the moaning willow trees,
And the sycamores with laughter
Mock me in the nightly breeze.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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He went to France in November, 1915, and was wounded during the
battle of the Somme in
September
of the following year, but returned to
the front in December.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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SIR CHARLES: Charles, Charles, how thou hast
deceived
me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Les Fleurs du Mal, by Charles Baudelaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Additional
terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Presently, while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with
mingled affection and disgust, he
suddenly
arose, and, in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner, hurried off towards the setting sun,--his steps
supported by two superincumbent confidential Cucumbers, and a large number
of Waterwagtails proceeding in advance of him by three and three in a
row,--till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a
crystal cloud of sudorific sand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We pledge in peace by farm and town
The Queen they served in war,
And fire the beacons up and down
The land they
perished
for.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'167 solemn days':
days of
marriage
or mourning, on which at this time formal calls were
paid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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So there was his cross for
him; and they put it upon his shoulder, for his
crucifixion
was to be
on the top of the hill where the others were.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Nor need there be for men
Astonishment that yonder sun so small
Can yet send forth so great a light as fills
Oceans and all the lands and sky aflood,
And with its fiery
exhalations
steeps
The world at large.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
CLXXI
Then Rollanz feels that he has lost his sight,
Climbs to his feet, uses what
strength
he might;
In all his face the colour is grown white.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And all my
Children?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Here a voice of
lamentation
shall be heard in the street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The poor man weeps--here Gavin sleeps,
Whom canting
wretches
blam'd;
But with such as he, where'er he be,
May I be sav'd or damn'd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Philosophy alone is cold and destructive, but the
pleasures
of
the senses alone are unreal and unsatisfying.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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Royalty payments must be paid
within 60 days
following
each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How beautiful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,
Not lured by any cheat of birth,
But by his clear-grained human worth,
And brave old wisdom of
sincerity!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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hesternas, miserande, dapes
moriturus
inisti
nobiscum, et gratae carpentem munera mensae
errantemque toris mediae plus tempore noctis
uidimus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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APRIL SONG
WILLOW in your April gown
Delicate and gleaming,
Do you mind in years gone by
All my
dreaming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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I scorn to be
A slave to state;
And since I'm free,
I will not wait,
Henceforth
at such a rate,
For needy fate.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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One cry'd God blesse vs, and Amen the other,
As they had seene me with these
Hangmans
hands:
Listning their feare, I could not say Amen,
When they did say God blesse vs
Lady.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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)
WAGNER:
Welch ein Gefuhl musst du, o grosser Mann,
Bei der
Verehrung
dieser Menge haben!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Now such a wind is fresh and sweet to breathe and its gentle murmuring
cures the diseases of men, blows away the stupor of wine, sharpens sight
and hearing and
refreshes
the body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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May a just heaven reward you, as you deserve:
And may your punishment forever serve 1320
To terrify those whose like cowardly address,
Nourishes wretched princes in their weakness,
Urges the
inclination
of their hearts, and then
Dares to smooth the path of crime for them:
Detestable flatterers, the most deadly gift 1325
That celestial anger offers royalty!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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00)
"No other
contemporary
poet has more independently yoked the dominant thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the cause of Right engaged,
Wrongs injurious to redress,
Honour's war we
strongly
waged,
But the Heavens denied success.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"Further still: If God, like Jupiter in the comedy, being roused from
a long sleep, wished to
liberate
the human race from evils, why did
he send only into a corner of the earth this spirit of whom you boast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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She went as quiet as the dew
From a
familiar
flower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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I felt my lover look at her
And then turn
suddenly
to me,--
His eyes were magic to defy
The woman I shall never be.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Shakespeare's last song, the exquisite and magnificent
overture
to "The
Two Noble Kinsmen," is hardly so limpid in its flow, so liquid in its
melody, as the two great songs in "Valentinian": but Herrick, our last
poet of that incomparable age or generation, has matched them again and
again.
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Robert Herrick |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
comparison
is to Suzong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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THE SORCERERS
IN Ireland we hear but little of the darker powers,[D] and come across
any who have seen them even more rarely, for the
imagination
of the
people dwells rather upon the fantastic and capricious, and fantasy
and caprice would lose the freedom which is their breath of life, were
they to unite them either with evil or with good.
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Yeats |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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" KAU}
As[c]ending into her cloudy misty
garments
the blue smoke rolld to revive
Her cold limbs in the absence of her Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"O pleasant light, my
confidence
and hope,
Conduct us thou," he cried, "on this new way,
Where now I venture, leading to the bourn
We seek.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ye old
mesmerizer
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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