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He was a goodly spirit--he who fell:
A wanderer by moss-y-mantled well--
A gazer on the lights that shine above--
A dreamer in the
moonbeam
by his love:
What wonder?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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THE LETTER
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
Like
draggled
fly's legs,
What can you tell of the flaring moon
Through the oak leaves?
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Imagists |
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My heart aches, and a drowsy
numbness
pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,--
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
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Golden Treasury |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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{and}
su{m}tyme
it semed[e] ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and brooding
stillnesses
which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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La Fontaine |
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The sun flicks here and there like a throned tyrant,
Snapping
his whip.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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Were I loveless, from thee gone,
Love is round, beneath, above thee,
God, the
omnipresent
one.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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e
chaunceler
wel loude grad
whan he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man's sire,
The lord and monarch of this land of old,
Held with my sire
Thyestes
deep dispute,
Brother with brother, for the prize of sway,
And drave him from his home to banishment.
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Aeschylus |
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Farewell;
And when you would say
something
that is sad,
Speak how I fell.
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Shakespeare |
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_
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool
September
morn.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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With the
pirouettes
of marionettes,
They tripped on pointed tread:
But with flutes of Fear they filled the ear,
As their grisly masque they led,
And loud they sang, and long they sang,
For they sang to wake the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
When its genius comes to Rousseau, shedding dew with one hand, and
treading out the stars with her feet, for she is also the genius of the
dawn, she brings him a cup full of
oblivion
and love.
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Yeats |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
CCLXII
Charles, hearing how that holy Angel spake,
Had fear of death no longer, nor dismay;
Remembrance
and a fresh vigour he's gained.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Hauksbee
dozed in a chair by the
fire.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I too, following many, and followed by many, inaugurate a Religion--I too
go to the wars;
It may be I am
destined
to utter the loudest cries thereof, the winner's
pealing shouts;
Who knows?
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Whitman |
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Kline (C)
Copyright
2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Villon |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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You define me God with these
trinkets?
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Stephen Crane |
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who
Lately a hundred
thousand
held as nought,
And now, deprived of courage, basely flew,
As ring-doves flutter and as coneys fly,
Who hear some mighty noise resounding nigh.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But he had not yet succeeded in
teaching
them to know
their right hand from their left.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For there, by how much more they call it ours,
So much
propriety
of each in good
Increases more, and heighten'd charity
Wraps that fair cloister in a brighter flame.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I winna blaw about mysel,
As ill I like my fauts to tell;
But friends, an' folk that wish me well,
They
sometimes
roose me;
Tho' I maun own, as mony still
As far abuse me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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HYMNE
A la tres chere, a la tres belle
Qui remplit mon coeur de clarte,
A l'ange, a l'idole immortelle,
Salut en
immortalite!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Now, too: whate'er we see possessing sense
Must yet confessedly be stablished all
From
elements
insensate.
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Lucretius |
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You know well
how great is the difference between two companions lolling in a post
chaise, and two travellers
plodding
slowly along the road, side by side,
each with his little knap-sack of necessaries upon his shoulders.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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Werejeweledtales
An opiate meet to quell the malady Oflifeunlived?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
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Yeats |
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"
With soft halloos of
heavenly
love and pain; --
Shouldst thou, O Spring!
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Sidney Lanier |
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" said he; and
Tomlinson
said, "Ay!
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Kipling - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Howsoever fortune fall, one and
undivided
shall be
our peril, one the escape of us twain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_"
[Most of this sweet
pastoral
is of other days: Burns made several
emendations, and added the concluding verse.
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Robert Forst |
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And universal Pan, 'tis said, was there,
And though none saw him,--through the adamant
Of the deep mountains, through the trackless air, _115
And through those living spirits, like a want,
He passed out of his
everlasting
lair
Where the quick heart of the great world doth pant,
And felt that wondrous lady all alone,--
And she felt him, upon her emerald throne.
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Shelley |
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) whose
writings
have been
accessible to me, and have looked upon the beautiful and majestic
scenery of the earth, as common sources of those elements which it is
the province of the Poet to embody and combine.
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Shelley |
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Meredith - Poems |
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DAMAYANTE TO NALA IN THE HOUR OF EXILE
(A fragment)
Shalt thou be conquered of a human fate
My liege, my lover, whose
imperial
head
Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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When they diverge, the
question
is a more
open one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Young Rhoecus had a
faithful
heart enough,
But one that in the present dwelt too much,
And, taking with blithe welcome whatsoe'er
Chance gave of joy, was wholly bound in that,
Like the contented peasant of a vale,
Deemed it the world, and never looked beyond.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The same historical method seems to
me to solve most of the
difficulties
which have been felt about Admetus's
hospitality.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Were mankind
murderous
or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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There is no stranger poem in
the English language in its
combination
of excellences and faults,
splendid audacities and execrable extravagances.
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John Donne |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Warum machst du
Gemeinschaft
mit uns wenn du sie
nicht durchfuhren kannst?
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
One morning thus, by
Esthwaite
lake,
When life was sweet I knew not why,
To me my good friend Matthew spake,
And thus I made reply.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown,
although
his height be taken.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Which action past over, the Poem hasts
into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen
into Hell describ'd here, not in the Center (for Heaven and Earth may be
suppos'd as yet not made, certainly not yet accurst) but in a place of
utter darknesse, fitliest call'd Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying
on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht, after a certain space
recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity
lay by him; they confer of thir
miserable
fall.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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PAST AND FUTURE
THE NEW HATH COME AND NOW THE OLD RETIRES:
And so the past becomes a mountain-cell,
Where lone, apart, old hermit-memories dwell
In consecrated calm, forgotten yet
Of the keen heart that hastens to forget
Old
longings
in fulfilling new desires.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The heavy darkness which doth tent the sky
Floats
backward
as by a sudden wind:
But I see no light behind,
But I feel the farthest stars are all
Stricken and shaken,
And I know a shadow sad and broad
Doth fall--doth fall
On our vacant thrones in heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"To Sorrow,
I bade good-morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly;
She is so
constant
to me, and so kind: 180
I would deceive her
And so leave her,
But ah!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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At
fourteen
I became your wife;
I was shame-faced and never dared smile.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Peace to the ante-reign
Of Mary Morning,
blissful
mother mild,
Minded of nought but peace, and of a child.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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That such a
view of the matter is entitled to a great deal of weight, and at any rate
to candid consideration and construction, appears to me not to admit of a
doubt: neither is it dubious that the
contrary
view, the only view which a
mealy-mouthed British nineteenth century admits as endurable, amounts to
the condemnation of nearly every great or eminent literary work of past
time, whatever the century it belongs to, the country it comes from, the
department of writing it illustrates, or the degree or sort of merit it
possesses.
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Whitman |
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--Qu'ils sont la, tous,
Collant leurs petits museaux roses
Au grillage,
chantant
des choses,
Entre les trous,
Mais bien bas,--comme une priere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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George's
Cannoneers;
And the "villainous saltpetre"
Rung a fierce, discordant metre
Round their ears;
As the swift
Storm-drift,
With hot
sweeping
anger, came the horse-guards' clangor
On our flanks.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I have found both freedom of
loneliness
and the safety from
being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What couldn't he do to us
standing
here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
It reads: "In the
beginning
was the _thought_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her pleasant days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of
unlovely
eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
i 2212
self by
hu{m}blesse
of axing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands,
The artist and his ape, to teach and tell
How well his connoisseurship understands
The graceful bend, and the
voluptuous
swell:
Let these describe the undescribable:
I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
The unruffled mirror of the loveliest dream
That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All this crowd thou
discernest
is helpless and unsepultured;
Charon is the ferryman; they who ride on the wave found a tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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The fire within the heart so burns us up
That we would wander Hell and Heaven through,
Deep in the Unknown seeking
something
_new_!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made
Taller or
stronger
than the weeds they shade?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
It is an ancyent Marinere,
And he
stoppeth
one of three:
"By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye
"Now wherefore stoppest me?
| Guess: |
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And
wondering
looked at me.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In kurzer Zeit ist
Gretchen
Euer.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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By the city's quadrangular houses--in log huts, camping with lumber-men,
Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
Weeding my onion-patch or hosing rows of carrots and parsnips,
crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the
shallow river,
Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the
buck turns furiously at the hunter,
Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the
otter is feeding on fish,
Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the
beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tall;
Over the growing sugar, over the yellow-flower'd cotton plant, over
the rice in its low moist field,
Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and
slender shoots from the gutters,
Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the
delicate blue-flower flax,
Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with
the rest,
Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low
scragged limbs,
Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,
Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great
goldbug drops through the dark,
Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to
the meadow,
Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous
shuddering of their hides,
Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle
the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
Where trip-hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders,
Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it
myself and looking composedly down,)
Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat
hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,
Where the half-burn'd brig is riding on unknown currents,
Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
Where the dense-starr'd flag is borne at the head of the regiments,
Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,
Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of
base-ball,
At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,
bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the
juice through a straw,
At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;
Where the mocking-bird sounds his
delicious
gurgles, cackles,
screams, weeps,
Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are
scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to
the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles
far and near,
Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived
swan is curving and winding,
Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her
near-human laugh,
Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the
high weeds,
Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with
their heads out,
Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,
Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at
night and feeds upon small crabs,
Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over
the well,
Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,
Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the
office or public hall;
Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with
the new and old,
Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
Pleas'd with the tune of the choir of the whitewash'd church,
Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher,
impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon,
flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds,
or down a lane or along the beach,
My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me
he rides at the drape of the day,)
Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the
moccasin print,
By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,
Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
Walking the old hills of Judaea with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the
diameter of eighty thousand miles,
Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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If Hope me faile, than am I 4435
Ungracious
and unworthy;
In Hope I wol comforted be,
For Love, whan he bitaught hir me,
Seide, that Hope, wher-so I go,
Shulde ay be relees to my wo.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"To save trouble and to
frighten
the others.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And fer with-in the night, with many a tere,
This Troilus gan
hoomward
for to ryde;
For wel he seeth it helpeth nought tabyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Almost a
powdered
footman
Might dare to touch it now!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Dumu-zi_
I take to have been
originally
the name of a prehistoric ruler of
Erech, identified with the primitive deity Abu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"Tell the master that the
visitors
are waiting, and the soup is getting
cold.
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WHILE thus the master
chastisement
had got;
His mule was feeding on the verdant spot.
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La Fontaine |
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And when a dance ended and the
pipers laid down their pipes and lifted their horn noggins, they stood
a little from the others waiting pensively and silently for the dance
to begin again and the fire in their hearts to leap up and to wrap them
anew; and so they danced and danced Pavane and
Saraband
and Gallead and
Morrice through the night long, and many stood still to watch them,
and the peasants came about the door and peered in, as though they
understood that they would gather their children's children about them
long hence, and tell how they had seen Costello dance with Dermott's
daughter Oona, and become by the telling themselves a portion of
ancient romance; but through all the dancing and piping Namara of the
Lake went hither and thither talking loudly and making foolish jokes
that all might seem well with him, and old Dermott of the Sheep grew
redder and redder, and looked oftener and oftener at the doorway to see
if the candles there grew yellow in the dawn.
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A thousand times, sweet warrior, to obtain
Peace with those beauteous eyes I've vainly tried,
Proffering
my heart; but with that lofty pride
To bend your looks so lowly you refrain:
Expects a stranger fair that heart to gain,
In frail, fallacious hopes will she confide:
It never more to me can be allied;
Since what you scorn, dear lady, I disdain.
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Petrarch |
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Look to it, O sweet
Spirits!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Well do I call to mind the very week
When I was first intrusted to the care
Of that sweet Valley; when its paths, its shores,
And brooks [O] were like a dream of novelty
To my half-infant thoughts; that very week, 430
While I was roving up and down alone,
Seeking I knew not what, I chanced to cross
One of those open fields, which, shaped like ears,
Make green peninsulas on Esthwaite's Lake:
Twilight was coming on, yet through the gloom 435
Appeared
distinctly
on the opposite shore
A heap of garments, as if left by one
Who might have there been bathing.
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