He too sat there, with the divining-rod of Quirinus, girt
in the short augural gown, and
carrying
on his left arm the sacred
shield, Picus the tamer of horses; he whom Circe, desperate with amorous
desire, smote with her golden rod and turned by her poisons into a bird
with patches of colour on his wings.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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As I ran through the leaves of my poor little book, to take a fond
author's first tremulous look, it was quite an
excitement
to hunt the
_errata_, sprawled in as birds' tracks are in some kinds of strata (only
these made things crookeder).
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James Russell Lowell |
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Immortality
was close about her; and while never morbid or
melancholy, she lived in its presence.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the
cruellest
month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And
alderlast
of everichoon, POVERT.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[384] For
_cottabos_
see note above, p.
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Aristophanes |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So
perhaps whatever beauty of life still remains to me is
contained
in some
moment of surrender, abasement, and humiliation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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his corpus tremulum
complectens
undique uestis
candida purpurea talos incinxerat ora,
at roseo niueae residebant uertice uittae,
aeternumque manus carpebant rite laborem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the cleverest there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of
delicate
little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Leonor
You wish to remain here in
reverie?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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For passions are
spiritual
rebels, and
raise sedition against the understanding.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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They were sold in the market as dwarf slaves and yearly sent to
Court;
Described
as "an offering of natural products from the land of
Tao-chou.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Can he write a letter
concisely
clear
Without a speck or a smudge or smear or BLOT,
The Akond of Swat?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The
beauties
round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our credulous singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
strength
of his pride arose.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Except my ardent and just esteem for
your sense, taste, and worth, every
sentiment
arising in my breast, as
I put pen to paper to you, is painful.
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Robert Burns |
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O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of
gladness
and so full of pain!
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Longfellow |
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to
affright
withal
By cursing?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The flight of Cranes is most
famously
mentioned in Homer's Iliad.
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Ronsard |
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Where goes the
swineherd
with that ill-look'd guest?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Now adieu my dear -- [Hattie] I'm sure I must tire, _65
For if I do, you may throw it into the fire,
So accept the best love of your cousin and friend,
Which brings this
nonsensical
rhyme to an end.
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Shelley |
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But
good Aeneas seeks the fortress where Apollo sits high enthroned, and the
lone mystery of the awful Sibyl's cavern depth, over whose mind and soul
the prophetic Delian
breathes
high inspiration and reveals futurity.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Swift through the valves the
visionary
fair
Repass'd, and viewless mix'd with common air.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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PORTRAITS
/ VIGNETTES
THE POEMS.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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To save them from the wrath of Gaul's
unsparing
lord.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the
startled
ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
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Poe - 5 |
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Part must be kept wherewith to teend
The Christmas log next year,
And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend
Can do no
mischief
there.
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Robert Herrick |
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A tower stood on the sheer brink, its roof
ascending high into heaven, whence was wont to be seen all Troy and the
Grecian ships and Achaean camp: attacking it with iron round about,
where the joints of the lofty
flooring
yielded, we wrench it from its
deep foundations and shake it free; it gives way, and [466-498]suddenly
falls thundering in ruin, crashing wide over the Grecian ranks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When arriv'd,
Where underneath the gaping arch lets pass
The
scourged
souls: "Pause here," the teacher said,
"And let these others miserable, now
Strike on thy ken, faces not yet beheld,
For that together they with us have walk'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Heaðo-lāfe, 460), a
Wylfingish
warrior.
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Beowulf |
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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.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_Everard Owen_
_Harrow, December, 1915_
THE RETURN
I heard the
rumbling
guns.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Vainly with me to your old power you trust,
While my first love is
shrouded
still in dust.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What is a
Traitor?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There breathe but few whose aspect might defy
The full
encounter
of his searching eye;
He had the skill, when Cunning's gaze would seek[ho]
To probe his heart and watch his changing cheek,
At once the observer's purpose to espy,
And on himself roll back his scrutiny, 220
Lest he to Conrad rather should betray
Some secret thought, than drag that Chief's to day.
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Byron |
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It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the
kindliest
will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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See Introduction to
_Isabella_
and _The Eve of St.
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Keats |
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So late from Heaven--that dew--it fell
(Mid dreams of an unholy night)
Upon me--with the touch of Hell,
While the red flashing of the light
From clouds that hung, like banners, o'er,
Appeared to my half-closing eye
The
pageantry
of monarchy,
And the deep trumpet-thunder's roar
Came hurriedly upon me, telling
Of human battle, where my voice,
My own voice, silly child!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Soliciting
the sum of ten pounds
CCCXLIV.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
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John Clare |
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This second volume, while open to the same
criticism
as to
form with its predecessor, shows also the same shining beauties.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Bring ye the best, that we may set him forth
Before my friend from foreign climes arrived,
With whom ourselves will also feast, who find
The bright-tusk'd
multitude
a painful charge,
While others, at no cost of theirs, consume
Day after day, the profit of our toils.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They spend all
their blessed time in governing it, and you can't lift a spade, nor
chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor
anything
like that, without all the
Government saying, 'Leave it alone, and let us govern.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Wilt thou go forth despite of this true
warning?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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After a long
conference, Gama
abruptly
upbraided him as a spy, and ordered him to be
put to the torture.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Soon, soon shall Conquest's fiery foot intrude,
Blackening
her lovely domes with traces rude.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I know the place where Lewti lies
When silent night has closed her eyes:
It is a breezy jasmine-bower,
The
nightingale
sings o'er her head:
Voice of the Night!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It's past set down before the soul,
And lighted with a match,
Perusal to facilitate
Of its
condensed
despatch.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine Macdonald (London) 1913
Irradiations
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What cloud o'er
Tiridates
lowers,
I care not, I.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Why comes not Death,
Said hee, with one thrice
acceptable
stroke
To end me?
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Milton |
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All
charming
people are spoiled.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty
trenched
gashes on his head;
The least a Death to Nature
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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--ah, no, I beg a
thousand
pardons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
I tasted wheat, -- and hated chaff,
And thanked the ample friend;
Wisdom is more
becoming
viewed
At distance than at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The soldiers surrounded us, and we
followed Iwan Ignatiitch who brought us along in triumph, walking with
a
military
step, with majestic gravity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Tell me too, for I would learn--
Took he
perforce
thy sable bark away,
Or gav'st it to him at his first demand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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From finest
sweetest
place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
Their burrows are usually in the high
banks of the river, with the
entrance
under water, and rising within
to above the level of high water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The manner of the sun to ride the air,
The stars God has
imagined
for the night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
The sad earth gave a blast,
That, lightening, shot forth a
vermilion
flame,
Which all my senses conquer'd quite, and I
Down dropp'd, as one with sudden slumber seiz'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
In many's looks, the false heart's history
Is writ in moods, and frowns, and
wrinkles
strange.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
"We've had such hard, hard times this year
For
goblins!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
`Thow shalt gon over night, and that as blyve,
Un-to
Deiphebus
hous, as thee to pleye,
Thy maladye a-wey the bet to dryve, 1515
For-why thou semest syk, soth for to seye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
"
INTERLUDE
Thus ran the Student's
pleasant
rhyme
Of Eginhard and love and youth;
Some doubted its historic truth,
But while they doubted, ne'ertheless
Saw in it gleams of truthfulness,
And thanked the Monk of Lauresheim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
He called to mind Tattiana's grace,
Pallid and
melancholy
face,
And in a vision, sinless, bright,
His spirit sank with strange delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
To my revenge, and to her
desperate
fears, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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that woe, the blood of many beasts,
And victims
manifold
to many gods,
Alone can cure.
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Aeschylus |
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The Spanish critics,
however, have
discovered
many inconsistencies in it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our auld guidman
delights
to view
His sheep an' kye thrive bonnie, O;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his pleugh,
An' has nae care but Nannie, O.
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Robert Burns |
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What's the
Businesse?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The knight himselfe even
trembled
at his fall,
So huge and horrible a masse it seem'd,
And his deare Ladie, that beheld it all,
Durst not approch for dread, which she misdeem'd;?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Which
distressed
that Old Man of Jamaica.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth
saylande
skyrte3,
[K] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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