My rimes I know unsavory and sowre,
To taste the streames, that, like a golden showre,
Flow from thy
fruitfull
head, of thy Loves praise;
Fitter perhaps to thunder martiall stowre,
When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise:
Yet, till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne,
Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Le dommage materiel ne fut pas
considerable
pour Malassis; l'edition
etait presque epuisee lors de la saisie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And where they went on trade intent
They did what freemen can,
Their dauntless ways did all men praise,
The
merchant
was a man.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He was
not
unnaturally
offended at the picture drawn of him in this poem.
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Alexander Pope |
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Ed elli a me: <
volontier
lo dico;
ma sforzami la tua chiara favella,
che mi fa sovvenir del mondo antico.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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nor work with faction's tools
To charm a lower sphere of
fulminating
fools.
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Tennyson |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Allor venimmo in su l'argine quarto;
volgemmo e
discendemmo
a mano stanca
la giu nel fondo foracchiato e arto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Out on the
pastures
where his horses stray.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
Marineres
all 'gan pull the ropes,
But look at me they n'old:
Thought I, I am as thin as air--
They cannot me behold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"O star," said the tremulous ray,
"Grief and
struggle
I found.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A tear's sudden falling 190
The magic cup shatters,
Breaks the spell of the waters,
And the sand cone once more,
With a
ceaseless
renewing,
Its dance is pursuing
On the silvery floor,
O'er and o'er,
With a noiseless and ceaseless renewing.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pensive here I sat
Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb
Pregnant
by thee, and now excessive grown
Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.
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Milton |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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FAUSTUS: One thing, good servant, let me crave of thee:
Bring that fair Helen, whose admired worth
Made Greece with ten years' war afflict poor Troy;
Whose sweet
embraces
may extinguish clean
Those thoughts that do dissuade me from my vow,
And keep my oath I made to Lucifer.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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You have been misinformed as to my final
dismission
from the Excise; I
am still in the service.
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Robert Burns |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The boddynge flourettes bloshes atte the lyghte; 160
The mees be sprenged wyth the yellowe hue;
Ynn daiseyd mantels ys the mountayne dyghte;
The nesh[43] yonge
coweslepe
bendethe wyth the dewe;
The trees enlefed, yntoe Heavenne straughte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I
observed
that they always removed or settled their hats with both
hands, and wore watches, with short gold chains of a substantial and
ancient pattern.
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Poe - 5 |
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If so, one wonders
what his
headmaster
had to say to the "soft-smooth virgins, for our
chaste disport" by whom he was accompanied.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Es waren
gluckliche
Zeiten!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If you slight human kinship and mortal arms, yet
look for gods
unforgetful
of innocence and guilt.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Such birds they seemed as challenged each desire;
Like spots of azure heaven upon the wing,
Like downy
emeralds
that alight and sing,
Like actual coals on fire,
Like anything they seemed, and everything.
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| Question: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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e
pilegryme
yserued ?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We laughed and paid the forfeit, glad to pay--
Being
recompensed
beyond our sacrifice
With that nor Death nor Time can take away.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I am the fool
of my
feelings
and attachments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Where are your own creations, your service to me having
slackened?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Wilde - Poems |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Der vielen Bilder kunstlich reiche Pracht,
Des
Trinkers
Pflicht, sie reimweis zu erklaren,
Auf einen Zug die Hohlung auszuleeren,
Erinnert mich an manche Jugendnacht.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Fortunate
Ancient, Propertius, for you a slave fetched the girls down
From the Aventine Hill, from Tarpeia's grove.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Here oft I made my lover climb to me,
And (what he was to mount) a hempen stair,
When him I to my longing arms would call,
From the
projecting
balcony let fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Strangely
you murmur below me,
Strange is your half-silent power.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For the command of
politics
and Scots ;
Thence fell to words ; but quarrels to adjourn,
Their friends agreed they should command by turn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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With fiery Vulcan last in battle stands
The sacred flood that rolls on golden sands;
Xanthus his name with those of
heavenly
birth,
But called Scamander by the sons of earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
So it is I,
hands
accursed
-
who bequeathed you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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She was as
heedless
and as gay--
Well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Author thought them
considerable enough to address them to his Prince; whom he paints with
all the great and good qualities of a Monarch, upon whom the Romans
depended for the
Increase
of an Absolute Empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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There's reason, too,
Why clouds make sounds, as through them blow the winds:
We see, borne down the sky, oft shapes of clouds
Rough-edged or
branched
many forky ways;
And 'tis the same, as when the sudden flaws
Of north-west wind through the dense forest blow,
Making the leaves to sough and limbs to crash.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Six books
were
finished
by 1805.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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He is at peace--this wretched man--
At peace, or will be soon:
There is no thing to make him mad,
Nor does Terror walk at noon,
For the
lampless
Earth in which he lies
Has neither Sun nor Moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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With this bent ruler I draw a line from
top to bottom; from one of its points I
describe
a circle with the
compass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
EJC}
At the first Sound the Golden sun arises from the Deep
And shakes his awful hair
The Eccho wakes the moon to unbind her silver locks
The golden sun bears on my song
And nine bright spheres of harmony rise round the fiery King
The joy of woman is the Death of her most best beloved
Who dies for Love of her
In torments of fierce jealousy & pangs of adoration
The Lovers night bears on my song
And the nine Spheres rejoice beneath my
powerful
controll
They sing unceasing to the notes of my immortal hand
The solemn silent moon
Reverberates the living harmony upon my limbs
The birds & beasts rejoice & play
And every one seeks for his mate to prove his inmost joy
Furious & terrible they sport & rend the nether deeps
The deep lifts up his rugged head
And lost in infinite huming wings vanishes with a cry
The fading cry is ever dying
The living voice is ever living in its inmost joy
Arise you little glancing wings & sing your infant joy
Arise & drink your bliss
For every thing that lives is holy for the source of life
Descends to be a weeping babe
For the Earthworm renews the moisture of the sandy plain
Now my left hand I stretch to earth beneath
And strike the terrible string
I wake sweet joy in dens of sorrow & I plant a smile
In forests of affliction
And wake the bubbling springs of life in regions of dark death
O I am weary lay thine hand upon me or I faint
I faint beneath these beams of thine
For thou hast touchd my five senses & they answerd thee
Now I am nothing & I sink
And on the bed of silence sleep till thou awakest me
Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive trance
Los heard delighted reviving he siezd her in his arms delusive hopes
Kindling She led him into Shadows & thence fled outstretchd
Upon the immense like a bright rainbow weeping & smiling & fading
PAGE 35
I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty
I have planted a false oath in the earth, it has brought forth a poison tree
I have chosen the serpent for a councellor & the dog
For a schoolmaster to my children
I have blotted out from light & living the dove & nightingale
And I have caused the earth worm to beg from door to door
I have taught the thief a secret path into the house of the just
I have taught pale artifice to spread his nets upon the morning
My heavens are brass my earth is iron my moon a clod of clay
My sun a pestilence burning at noon & a vapour of death in night
What is the price of Experience do men buy it for a song
Or wisdom for a dance in the street?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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O, 'tis a day for reverence,
E'en my own
birthday
scarce so dear,
For my Maecenas counts from thence
Each added year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen [kai eskanosen en -[h]amen]
[ [What] are the Natures of those Living
Creatures
the Heavenly Father only
[Knoweth] no Individual [Knoweth nor] Can know in all Eternity] *{These lines, included in Erdman's transcription are unmistakably erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A
covering
of white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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But, has he a friend that would dispute my claim
With this my sword which I have girt in place
My
judgement
will I warrant every way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If that low race offend thy power divine
(Weak, daring
creatures!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
And--
"Ah, what a
redoubtable
god!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
XXXVI
When I pass thy door at night
I a benediction breathe:
"Ye who have the sleeping world
In your care,
"Guard the linen sweet and cool, 5
Where a lovely golden head
With its dreams of mortal bliss
Slumbers
now!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Do you hear
the
ironical
echoes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us, Johnny, do,
Where all this long night you have been,
What you have heard, what you have seen: 440
And, Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And, for the love of god, beth not my fo;
Al can I not to yow, my lady dere, 160
Compleyne
aright, for I am yet to lere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The
separation
was a heavy blow to Po Chu-i.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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)
Es war eine Ratt im Kellernest,
Lebte nur von Fett und Butter,
Hatte sich ein
Ranzlein
angemast't,
Als wie der Doktor Luther.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Tocher-gude,
marriage
portion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Fogs of the dreary north remain a more baleful remembrance
Than in the
kitchens
of Rome tribes of assiduous fleas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The ancients were not always right in
hiding--the goddess in a well; witness the light which Bacon has thrown
upon philosophy; witness the principles of our divine faith--that moral
mechanism by which the simplicity of a child may
overbalance
the wisdom
of a man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"
Now we are of late years
beginning
to understand much better what a
Satyr-play was.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
'53 a sconce's height:'
the top of an
ornamental
bracket for holding candles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
'[91]
In only one play do we know that the
principal
characters represent
real people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry
rattling
of a shutter,
That's what I sit up in the dark to say--
To no one any more since Toffile died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
ai
precheden
goddes lawe; from heuen ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
They fawn upon me, all the lusts of the world,
Bewildering my steps with
straining
close,
And breathe their horrible spittle against me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Long years of havock urge their
destined
course,
And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Yet force of wind must not be rashly deemed
As altogether and entirely cold--
That force which is discharged from on high
With such stupendous power; but if 'tis not
Upon its course already kindled with fire,
It yet
arriveth
warmed and mixed with heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
The
sweetest
vintage at last turns sour;
The full moon in the end begins to wane.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And I watch his spears through the dark clash And it fills all my heart with rejoicing
And pries wide my mouth with fast music When I see him so scorn and defy peace,
His lone might 'gainst all
darkness
opposing.
| Guess: |
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In scarfs of gold the priests admire;
The heralds on white steeds;
Armorial
pride decks their attire,
Worn in remembrance of some sire
Famed for heroic deeds.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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_See note_]
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chuseth]
chaseth _P_, _Q_]
[55 Sir; _Ed:_ Sir.
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All his ideas merged into a single
one: how to turn to
advantage
the secret paid for so dearly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But when the south wind stirs the pools
And
struggles
in the lanes,
Her heart misgives her for her vow,
And she pours soft refrains
Into the lap of adamant,
And spices, and the dew,
That stiffens quietly to quartz,
Upon her amber shoe.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They jumped up, and three or four
clattered into the barrack-room only to find Simmons
kneeling
by his
box.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Where are the
candles?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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So, from the pinched soil of a churlish fate,
True hearts compel the sap of sturdier growth,
So between earth and heaven stand simply great,
That these shall seem but their attendants both;
For nature's forces with
obedient
zeal
Wait on the rooted faith and oaken will;
As quickly the pretender's cheat they feel,
And turn mad Pucks to flout and mock him still.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Deep in the liquid regions lies a cave,
Between where Tenedos the surges lave,
And rocky Imbrus breaks the rolling wave:
There the great ruler of the azure round
Stopp'd his swift chariot, and his steeds unbound,
Fed with ambrosial herbage from his hand,
And link'd their fetlocks with a golden band,
Infrangible, immortal: there they stay:
The father of the floods pursues his way:
Where, like a tempest, darkening heaven around,
Or fiery deluge that devours the ground,
The impatient Trojans, in a gloomy throng,
Embattled
roll'd, as Hector rush'd along:
To the loud tumult and the barbarous cry
The heavens re-echo, and the shores reply:
They vow destruction to the Grecian name,
And in their hopes the fleets already flame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Here's a
courtier
and
A woman, the best chamber company.
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Byron |
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A cloudless gale 360
Propitious
blowing from the North, our ship
Ran right before it through the middle sea,
In the offing over Crete; but adverse Jove
Destruction plann'd for them and death the while.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Chanson de Roland |
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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The sound given to the first syllable of _to'wards_, I
may remark,
sustains
the Yankee lengthening of the _o_ in _to_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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