[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, "The
Highland
Watch's
Farewell to Ireland.
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Robert Forst |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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net/2/4/6/8/24689
An
alternative
method of locating eBooks:
http://www.
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Sappho |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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His sister, wife, and children yawned,
With a long, slow, and drear ennui,
All human
patience
far beyond; _715
Their hopes of Heaven each would have pawned,
Anywhere else to be.
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Shelley |
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Oh the toil that knows no
breaking!
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Kipling - Poems |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
The melody went on some moments more
Among the trees the calm moon
glistened
o'er,
Then trembled and was hushed; the voice's thrill
Stopped like alighting birds, and all was still.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Hesitated so
This side the
victory!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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XXV
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt,
inflamed
by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There, when hueless is the west
And the darkness hushes wide,
Where the lad lies down to rest
Stands the
troubled
dream beside.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ramsay's of Auchtertyre as I came up the
country, and am so delighted with him that I shall certainly accept of
his
invitation
to spend a day or two with him as I return.
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Robert Forst |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
intervening
period
was devoted almost entirely to dramas, prose, fiction, essays, and
criticism.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I'd have him say, this
messenger
I send,
That excess of pride works harm on many men.
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Troubador Verse |
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Lucretius |
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Why blush to let our tears
unmeasured
fall
For one so dear?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Is this too little for the
boundless
heart?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Email
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Foundation's web site and
official
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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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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Oenone
You're moved by my
censure?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It is a mere change of
spelling
and has the support
of both _H51_ and _W_.
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John Donne |
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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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LES
METAMORPHOSES
DU VAMPIRE
La femme cependant de sa bouche de fraise,
En se tordant ainsi qu'un serpent sur la braise,
Et petrissant ses seins sur le fer de son busc,
Laissait couler ces mots tout impregnes de musc:
--<< Moi, j'ai la levre humide, et je sais la science
De perdre au fond d'un lit l'antique conscience.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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the marriage hour is nigh,
See from their thrones thy kindred
monarchs
sigh!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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_ The
transference
of the adjective from person
to place helps to give us the mysterious sense of life in inanimate
things.
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Keats |
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VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A fourth now waits: assemble, sons of God,
To speed or to prevent or to suspend,
If, as ye dream, such power be not withheld, _50
The
unaccomplished
destiny.
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Shelley |
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E una melodia dolce correva
per l'aere luminoso; onde buon zelo
mi fe riprender l'ardimento d'Eva,
che la dove ubidia la terra e 'l cielo,
femmina, sola e pur teste formata,
non sofferse di star sotto alcun velo;
sotto 'l qual se divota fosse stata,
avrei quelle
ineffabili
delizie
sentite prima e piu lunga fiata.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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Of all things that life or perhaps my temperament
has given me I prize the gift of
laughter
as beyond price.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
We would prefer to send you this
information
by email.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
>>
Immediatement
sa raison s'en alla.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wilt thou teach us spell-words that protect from all harm,
And
thoughts
of evil banish?
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Sad vigil they kept by that grandmother's chair,
Kind angels hovered o'er them--
And the dead-bell was tolled in the hamlet--and there,
On the
following
eve, knelt that innocent pair,
With the missal-book before them.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the
following
lines LFS}
But the two youthful wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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no vulgar births are owed
To the
prolific
raptures of a god:
Lo!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And sow my
blossoms
o'er!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Guan Zhong
eventually
became Duke Huan?
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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At which the
universal
host up-sent
A shout that tore Hell's conclave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Dehors le mur est plein d'aristoloches
Ou vibrent les
gencives
des lutins.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other ways
including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
I, should unhallowed
Pleasure
woo me now,
Will to the wanton sorc'ress say, "Begone!
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Hugo - Poems |
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So have I seen a rocke o'er others hange, 175
Who
stronglie
plac'd laughde at his slippry state,
But when he falls with heaven-peercynge bange
That he the sleeve unravels all theire fate,
And broken onn the beech thys lesson speak,
The stronge and firme should not defame the weake.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their thinkers their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the
clusters
of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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then we send fresh armies--and fresh again;)
Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud
applause;
Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious,
unconvinced
at last;
Struggling to-day the same--battling the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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shame they embracd not
{This line
penciled
in above the ink line.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The law of debt, framed by creditors, and for
the
protection
of creditors, was the host horrible that has ever
been known among men.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
But here's the
happiest
light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of daffodils!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
DeWitt and
Cromwell
had each a brave soul,
I freely declare it, I am for old Noll ;
Though his goverament did a tyrant resemble,
He made England great, and his enemies
tremble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to AElla_ in his own
handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which
contained
strange
textual variations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
'
A DIVINE IMAGE
Cruelty has a human heart,
And
Jealousy
a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
In 1697, Pierre Bayle
published
at Rotterdam, his "Historical and
Critical Dictionary," in which the lives of men were associated with a
comment that suggested, from the ills of life, the absence of divine care
in the shaping of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
--
That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn
marvellously!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
At once she pitch'd headlong into the bilge
Like a sea-coot, whence heaving her again, 580
The seamen gave her to be fishes' food,
And I
survived
to mourn her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Que nos rideaux fermes nous
separent
du monde,
Et que la lassitude amene le repos!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une chandelle aux doigts,
Descendre
dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
2
'Twas well, O soul--'twas a good preparation you gave me,
Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities,
Something
for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed
inexhaustible?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
_Mai non
vedranno
le mie luci asciutte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Th' Antoniad, the
Egyptian
admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shakespeare |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
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Longfellow |
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HIS plan to execute, the husband went,
And ev'ry
passenger
was thither sent,
Where Damon entertained, with sumptuous fare;
And, at the end, proposed the magick snare:
Said he, my wife played truant to my bed;
Wish you to know if your's be e'er misled?
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La Fontaine |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Thou too, O Bride, whatever dare
Thy groom, of coy rebuff beware,
Lest he to find
elsewhither
fare.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He sends you here his noblest born barun,
Greatest
in wealth, that out of France is come;
From him you'll hear if peace shall be, or none.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The blood burst
from the body, yet the knight never
faltered
nor fell; but boldly he
started forth on stiff shanks and fiercely rushed forward, seized his
head, and lifted it up quickly.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Well I
descried
the whiteness on their heads;
But in their visages the dazzled eye
Was lost, as faculty that by too much
Is overpower'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The insensate fire of love still glowed
Nor
discontinued
to distress
A spirit which for sorrow yearned.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Even those
farthest
regions feel anger,2 by a marriage pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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