So warr'd both armies on the
ensanguined
shore,
While the black vessels smoked with human gore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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--That I at last
Might stamp the image of my glorious dream
Upon the world, even though it be wax
And the fires are
kindling
that must melt it out.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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Critics have
inclined
to take for granted the supposition that an actual
battle was contemplated by Keats, but I do not believe that such was, at
least, his final intention.
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Keats |
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WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience 330
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead
mountain
mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water 350
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It drops as
fiercely
down on us as if
We were to be its prey.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Tout son
dandysme
fut fait de ce splendide isolement.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The principal distinction between the lay of Horatius and the lay
of the Lake Regillus is that the former is meant to be purely
Roman, while the latter, though
national
in its general spirit,
has a slight tincture of Greek learning and of Greek
superstition.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Look now thy fill; I have for thee
Just such a jewel, and will lead thee to her;
And happy, whose good fortune it shall be,
To bear her home, a
prospered
wooer!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"]
[Footnote 47:
Literally
the _raven-stone_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of Blasphemy
scattered
through the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When I first saw the insignia of the
Metropolitan
Commandant,3 the aura over Nanyang was already renewed.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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31
The garden flowers to crown her head, "*>
And for a glass the limpid brook,
Where she may all her
beauties
look,
But, since she would not have them seen,
The wood about her draws a screen.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXV
pared with doubts about the
propriety
of making
the sign of the cross in baptism, or using the ring
in marriage ; and it would have been better for
a man to break half the commands in the deca-
logue, than admit a doubt of the most frivolous
of the church's rites.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Also, when he would taste the spicy wreaths
Of incense, breath'd aloft from sacred hills,
Instead of sweets, his ample palate took
Savour of poisonous brass and metal sick:
And so, when harbour'd in the sleepy west, 190
After the full completion of fair day,--
For rest divine upon exalted couch
And slumber in the arms of melody,
He pac'd away the
pleasant
hours of ease
With stride colossal, on from hall to hall;
While far within each aisle and deep recess,
His winged minions in close clusters stood,
Amaz'd and full of fear; like anxious men
Who on wide plains gather in panting troops,
When earthquakes jar their battlements and towers.
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Keats |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I thee hail
With welcome all unfeigned;
And oft as morning from her lattice peeps
To beckon up the sun, I seek with thee
To drink the dewy breath
Of fields left fragrant then,
In solitudes, where no frequented paths
But what thy own foot makes betray thy home,
Stealing
obtrusive there
To meditate thy end:
By overshadowed ponds, in woody nooks,
With ramping sallows lined, and crowding sedge,
Which woo the winds to play,
And with them dance for joy;
And meadow pools, torn wide by lawless floods,
Where water-lilies spread their oily leaves,
On which, as wont, the fly
Oft battens in the sun;
Where leans the mossy willow half way oer,
On which the shepherd crawls astride to throw
His angle, clear of weeds
That crowd the water's brim;
Or crispy hills, and hollows scant of sward,
Where step by step the patient lonely boy
Hath cut rude flights of stairs
To climb their steepy sides;
Then track along their feet, grown hoarse with noise,
The crawling brook, that ekes its weary speed,
And struggles through the weeds
With faint and sullen brawl.
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John Clare |
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To your palace
seigneurial
when you go,
At Michael's Feast, called in periculo;
My Lord hath said, thither will he follow
Ev'n to your baths, that God for you hath wrought;
There is he fain the Christian faith to know.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Tal mi fec' io, quai son color che stanno,
per non
intender
cio ch'e lor risposto,
quasi scornati, e risponder non sanno.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Just then,
Clarissa
drew with tempting grace
A two-edged weapon from her shining case:
So ladies, in romance, assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight; 110
He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends
The little engine on his fingers' ends;
This just behind Belinda's neck he spread,
As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head.
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Alexander Pope |
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In these the wisest minds, the greatest
poets, and the most inspired
teachers
of modern days have found
justification for the unanimous verdict of antiquity.
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Sappho |
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- Und unter deinem Herzen
Regt sich's nicht quillend schon
Und angstet dich und sich
Mit
ahnungsvoller
Gegenwart?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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His own legions, he knew, had no
experience of civil war, while Vitellius' troops were fresh from
victory: and the defeated party were richer in
grievances
than in
troops.
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Tacitus |
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e
Emperors
bour,
a maiden god with gret honour,
to wedden wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And leaue a blancke to put in your
_Feoffees_
60
One, two, or more, as you ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Oh, sweating thieves, and hard-boiled scalawags,
That still will boast your pride until the doom,
Smashing every caste rule of the world,
Reaching
at last your Hindu goal to smash
The caste rules of old India, and shout:
"Down with the Brahmins, let the Romany reign.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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It would be difficult
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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He "twisted and twirled and harmonized" his bit of ground
"till it appeared two or three sweet little lawns opening and opening
beyond one another, the whole
surrounded
by impenetrable woods.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Poor
thoughtless
wench!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"O even as here thou art, aslumber in death,
So shalt thou slumber down the rest of time,
Released
from every harrying pang.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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* Our Abbess, too, now far in age,
* Doth your
succession
near presage.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered
upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth, 90
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
the Project
Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at
www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The world is round, so travellers tell,
And
straight
though reach the track,
Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,
The way will guide one back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"Swinehood hath no remedy"
Say many men, and hasten by,
Clamping the nose and
blinking
the eye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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on dēop
water aldrum
nēðdon
(_where ye two risked your lives in the deep water_),
510; so, 538.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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20
Quid hunc malum
fovetis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Li Po |
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IO
Dark beyond
guessing
grows thine oracle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy undulation 57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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sib
gemǣnum
(attraction for gemǣne, i.
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Beowulf |
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attribution
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Meredith - Poems |
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I leave it to you, my dear Sir, to
determine
whether the above, or the
old "Thro' the lang muir I have followed my Willie," be the best.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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One who
withheld
so long
All that you yearned to take,
Has made a snare too strong
For Beauty's self to break.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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If curses be the wage of love,
Hide in thy skies, thou
fruitless
Jove,
Not to be named:
It is clear
Why the gods will not appear;
They are ashamed.
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Emerson - Poems |
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say I to myself,
with a tide of good spirits which the magic of that sound, Auld Toon
o' Ayr,
conjured
up, I will sent my last song to Mr.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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neque_ R
5, 8 _seruos_]
_seruus_
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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He drew it from the troubled pool, [10]
And brought it forth into the light: 90
The
Shepherds
met him with his charge,
An unexpected sight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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And raise some special
officers
of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Shalt thou be vanquished, whose imperial feet
Have
shattered
armies and stamped empires dead?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
If you received it
on a
physical
medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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It could only
be handed on by the minstrels themselves; and their
audiences
would not
be likely to listen comfortably to the old piecemeal songs after they
had heard the familiar events fall into the magnificent ordered pomp of
the genuine epic poet.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
[Picture: He sits]
The Third Voice
[Picture: Quick tears were raining down his face]
Not long this
transport
held its place:
Within a little moment's space
Quick tears were raining down his face
His heart stood still, aghast with fear;
A wordless voice, nor far nor near,
He seemed to hear and not to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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--Strange
gallants
should not stay
A woman's goings.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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POEMS:--
A Child's Grave at Florence 3
Catarina to Camoens 12
Life and Love 20
A Denial 22
Proof and Disproof 25
Question and Answer 29
Inclusions 30
Insufficiency 32
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE 33
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS:--
First Part 83
Second Part 134
POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS:--
Napoleon
III.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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--------
Now the Land, with drying tears,
Counts him up his flocks of years,
"See," he says, "my
substance
grows;
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman goes,
Hundred-flocked my Herdsman stands
On the Past's broad meadow-lands,
Come from where ye mildly graze,
Black herds, white herds, nights and days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Tydides, fiercer than his sire,
Pursues you, all aglow;
Him, as the stag forgets to graze for fright,
Seeing the wolf at
distance
in the glade,
And flies, high panting, you shall fly, despite
Boasts to your leman made.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ye princes, keep your realms
And
circumscribed
power,
Not wide as are my dreams,
Nor rich as is this hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Se' tu si tosto di quell' aver sazio
per lo qual non temesti torre a 'nganno
la bella donna, e poi di farne
strazio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly
redoubled
stroakes vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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A
nobleness
to try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of Washington.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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UPON HIMSELF
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love's fire shines
Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines;
And learn'd
musicians
shall, to honour Herrick's
Fame, and his name, both set and sing his lyrics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Drizza la testa, drizza, e vedi a cui
s'aperse a li occhi d'i Teban la terra;
per ch'ei gridavan tutti: "Dove rui,
Anfiarao?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
[346] An Attic town on the east coast, noted for a
magnificent
temple, in
which stood the statue of Artemis, which Orestes and Iphigenia had
brought from the Tauric Chersonese and also for the Brauronia, festivals
that were celebrated every four years in honour of the goddess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
However hugely he extend his bulk--
Who hath for
outspread
limbs not acres nine,
But the whole earth--he shall not able be
To bear eternal pain nor furnish food
From his own frame forever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
The
kingfisher
flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and
we esteem it at best only a curious
philological
fact.
| Guess: |
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The third night, when my own loud scream
Had waked me from the fiendish dream,
O'ercome with sufferings strange and wild,
I wept as I had been a child;
And having thus by tears subdued
My anguish to a milder mood,
Such punishments, I said, were due
To natures deepliest stained with sin:
For aye
entempesting
anew
The unfathomable hell within
The horror of their deeds to view,
To know and loathe, yet wish and do!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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There can be no doubt that the Censors who instituted this august
ceremony acted in concert with the Pontiffs to whom, by the
constitution of Rome, the superintendence of the public worship
belonged; and it is probable that those high religious
functionaries were, as usual, fortunate enough to find in their
books or
traditions
some warrant for the innovation.
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How should they know that Sappho lived and died
Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover,
Never
transfused
and lost in what she loved,
Never so wholly loving nor at peace.
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Nicolas
carefully
annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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"
O wish that's stronger than the stroke
Of yelling wave and
snapping
levin;
"God, lift us o'er the Last Day's smoke,
All white, to Thee and her in Heaven!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The skill with which Tennyson has here given us,
in
quintessence
as it were, Shakespeare's superb creation needs no
commentary, but it is somewhat surprising to find an accurate scholar
like Tennyson guilty of the absurdity of representing Cleopatra as of
gipsy complexion.
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Tennyson |
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I behold
A
prodigy!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one
brimming
cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and sacrificial Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A life of dance and pleasure she has known--
A woman always; in her
jewelled
crown
It is the pearl she loves--not cutting gems,
For these can wound, and mark men's diadems.
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Hugo - Poems |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I dare not terme her fayre,
nor sugred sweet, nor tall, nor louely browne;
suffice it y^t she is
w^{th}out
compare;
but how, I dare not tell lest she should frowne.
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John Donne |
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Next, let the lord and lady here
Enjoy a Christ'ning year by year;
And this good
blessing
back them still,
T' have boys, and girls too, as they will.
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Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his
trembling
sun
In human nature's west!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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So saith the sinking heart; and so again
It shall say till the mighty angel-blast
Is blown, making the sun and moon aghast
And
showering
down the stars like sudden rain.
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Christina Rossetti |
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How has my reason
strayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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You have but
little more to do than throw up your cap for
entertainment
these
American days.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It may only be
used on or associated in any way with an
electronic
work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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May
Prudence
protect her frae evil!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction; once I loved
Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring
Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,
That I with stern
delights
should e'er have been so moved.
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