When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the
implacable
radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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aut ea Torquato quae quondam et consule Cotta
Lydius ediderat
Tyrrhenae
gentis haruspex?
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For as Apollo each eve doth devise
A new appareling for western skies;
So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour
Shed balmy
consciousness
within that bower.
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Keats |
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Low in the sheltered valley stands his cot,
He hears the mountain storm and feels it not;
Winter and spring, toil ceasing ere tis dark,
Rests with the lamb and rises with the lark,
Content his
helpmate
to the day's employ
And care neer comes to steal a single joy.
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John Clare |
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Here, my lord, take the warrant,
And see it duly
executed
forthwith.
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Shelley |
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A pair of
spectacles
ajar just stir --
An almanac's aware.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Underneath
the elms we parted,
By the lowly cottage door;
One brief word alone was uttered
Never on our lips before;
And away I walked forlornly,
Broken-hearted evermore.
| Guess: |
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Poe - 5 |
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the Spirits
Of Luvah & Vala
shudderd
in their Orb: an orb of blood!
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Blake - Zoas |
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An' don't le' 's mutter 'bout the awfle bricks
We'll give 'em, ef we ketch 'em in a fix:
That 'ere's most
frequently
the kin' o' talk
Of critters can't be kicked to toe the chalk;
Your 'You'll see _nex'_ time!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man in a barge,
Whose nose was
exceedingly
large;
But in fishing by night, it supported a light,
Which helped that old man in a barge.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In the
'Acharnians' Theorus is mentioned as an ambassador, who had
returned
from
the King of Persia.
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| Question: |
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Aristophanes |
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raynde]]
221
And droffe ?
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| Question: |
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This is opened by a
charming
young girl, who
throws herself into the jester's arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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To exterminate the
Boeotians
to a man!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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4
THE SALVATION ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Each hath its pang, but feeble
sufferers
groan
With brain-born dreams of evil all their own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What, is there aught
prosperity
for woman
But to be shining in the thought of man?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at ich take god to
witnesse!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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--Some that turn over all books, and are equally searching in all
papers; that write out of what they
presently
find or meet, without
choice.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
I threw a side glance upon these two
confederates
of the usurper.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The writing was yellow and pale manifestly as I
conceive
occasioned by
age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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ENGRAVED BY ANDREW FROM A
PHOTOGRAPH
TAKEN IN
SAN REMO, BY RONCAROLO.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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For we invade them
impiously
for gain;
We devastate them unreligiously,
And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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His outspoken language made him
many enemies, and
disgraceful
reports were purposely spread abroad
concerning him, which resulted in a duel in which he was mortally
wounded by his brother-in-law, George Danthes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
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keeping this work in the same format with its
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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As the punishment of your folly
and
blindness
you shall love me as I truly am.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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On the hair of them all
rests a garland fitly trimmed; each carries two cornel spear-shafts
tipped with steel; some have
polished
quivers on their shoulders; above
their breast and round their neck goes a flexible circlet of twisted
gold.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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XIX
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize;
I barter curl for curl upon that mart,
And from my poet's
forehead
to my heart
Receive this lock which outweighs argosies,--
As purply black, as erst to Pindar's eyes
The dim purpureal tresses gloomed athwart
The nine white Muse-brows.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Red is the fire's common tint;
But when the vivid ore
Has sated flame's conditions,
Its
quivering
substance plays
Without a color but the light
Of unanointed blaze.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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80), ita tamen ut aliquanto
recentius
scriptus fuerit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Till here on the hill, betwixt vill and vill,
He noted a clear straight ray
Stretching
down from the sky to a spot hard by,
Which shone with the light of day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of
Atlantis?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Once she
appeared
to me, too: a dark-skinned girl, tumbling
Over her forehead the hair down in waves heavy and dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The ploughman hears its humming rage begin,
And hies for shelter from his naked toil;
Buttoning
his doublet closer to his chin,
He bends and scampers oer the elting soil,
While clouds above him in wild fury boil,
And winds drive heavily the beating rain;
He turns his back to catch his breath awhile,
Then ekes his speed and faces it again,
To seek the shepherd's hut beside the rushy plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Beautiful
Virgin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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The first of the "Moderns" and the last of the
Romantics
was
the many-sided Charles Baudelaire.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher
to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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In that alone is my joy expressed,
More than if I were the
emperor!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The Lusiad affords many instances which must be highly pleasing to the
Portuguese, but dry to those who are
unacquainted
with their history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Whether that
blessing
[1] be deny'd or giv'n,
Thus far was right, the rest belongs to Heav'n.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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My
ancestor
perished on
the scaffold for conscience sake,[71] my father fell with the martyrs
Volynski and Khuchtchoff,[72] but that a '_boyar_' should forswear his
oath--that he should join with robbers, rascals, convicted felons,
revolted slaves!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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While yet he spake they had arrived before
A pillar'd porch, with lofty portal door,
Where hung a silver lamp, whose
phosphor
glow
Reflected in the slabbed steps below,
Mild as a star in water; for so new,
And so unsullied was the marble hue,
So through the crystal polish, liquid fine,
Ran the dark veins, that none but feet divine
Could e'er have touch'd there.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Arm
yourself
then: Battle you'll have to-day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Dost thou, Hector's Andromache, keep bonds of
marriage
with
Pyrrhus?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"I too may try, and if this arm can wing
The feather'd arrow through the
destined
ring,
Then if no happier night the conquest boast,
I shall not sorrow for a mother lost;
But, bless'd in her, possess those arms alone,
Heir of my father's strength, as well as throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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That not in fancy's maze he wandered long:
But stooped to truth, and moralised his song:
That not for fame, but virtue's better end,
He stood the furious foe, the timid friend,
The damning critic, half approving wit,
The coxcomb hit, or fearing to be hit;
Laughed at the loss of friends he never had,
The dull, the proud, the wicked, and the mad;
The distant threats of vengeance on his head,
The blow unfelt, the tear he never shed;
The tale revived, the lie so oft o'erthrown,
The imputed trash, and dulness not his own;
The morals
blackened
when the writings scape,
The libelled person, and the pictured shape;
Abuse, on all he loved, or loved him, spread,
A friend in exile, or a father, dead;
The whisper, that to greatness still too near,
Perhaps, yet vibrates, on his sovereign's ear:--
Welcome for thee, fair virtue!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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e
Iangland
brid ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And now all the army was advancing on the open plain, rich in horses,
rich in raiment of
broidered
gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was
trickling
through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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The well known note was pleasing to her ear;
Without suspecting treachery was near,
She
followed
to a wood, both deep and large,
In hopes at least she might regain her charge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
) Persepolis: call'd also Takht-i-Jam-shyd--THE THRONE OF
JAMSHYD, "King Splendid," of the
mythical
Peshdadian Dynasty, and
supposed (according to the Shah-nama) to have been founded and built
by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
130
That when the carefull knight gan well avise,
He lightly left the foe, with whom he fought,
And to the beast gan turne his enterprise;
For wondrous anguish in his hart it wrought,
To see his loved Squire into such
thraldome
brought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Long time in silence did their anxious fears
Question that thus it was; long time they lay
Fondling and kissing every doubt away;
Long time ere soft
caressing
sobs began
To mellow into words, and then there ran
Two bubbling springs of talk from their sweet lips.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Gregory
Nazianzen
a Father of the Church, thought it
not unbeseeming the sanctity of his person to write a Tragedy which he
entitl'd, Christ suffering.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am
forbidden
to see.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Pull down some art-offending thing
Of carven stone, and in its stead
Let
splendid
bronze commemorate
These men, the living and the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Of substance true
Your
apprehension
forms its counterfeit,
And in you the ideal shape presenting
Attracts the soul's regard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Torpenhow met Bessie on the
staircase
without a
sign of feeling.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Placing that chair where you used to sit,
I looked at my book:--Three years to-day
Since you laughed in that seat and I heard you say--
"My country is with you, whatever befall:
America--Britain--these two are akin
In courage and honour; they underpin
"The rights of
Mankind!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
also [draca]
fȳrwylmum
fāh, 2672, 2577.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Boldly draw near and rend the gates asunder,
By which each
cowering
mortal gladly steals.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
est nobis
uoluisse
satis; nec munera parua
respueris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Our gratefulness,
O what
emoluments
could it confer
Upon Immortals and upon the Blessed
That they should take a step to manage aught
For sake of us?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Unchildlike
shade!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
While
I regarded the terrific animal, and more especially the appearance
on its breast, with a feeling or horror and awe--with a sentiment of
forthcoming evil, which I found it impossible to quell by any effort of
the reason, I perceived the huge jaws at the
extremity
of the proboscis
suddenly expand themselves, and from them there proceeded a sound so
loud and so expressive of wo, that it struck upon my nerves like a knell
and as the monster disappeared at the foot of the hill, I fell at once,
fainting, to the floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
I begged him to tell me how best I might aid him,
And urgently prayed him
Never to leave me,
whatever
betide;
When I saw he was hurt--
Shot through the hands that were clasped in prayer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The fish were poisoned in the streams; the birds
In the green woods perished; the insect race _3920
Was
withered
up; the scattered flocks and herds
Who had survived the wild beasts' hungry chase
Died moaning, each upon the other's face
In helpless agony gazing; round the City
All night, the lean hyaenas their sad case _3925
Like starving infants wailed; a woeful ditty!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
'Tis
impossible
then to be rid of him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Beheld these things with terror every man,
And many said: "We in the Judgement stand;
The end of time is
presently
at hand.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I am one, my Liege,
Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World
Hath so incens'd, that I am
recklesse
what I doe,
To spight the World
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Lo ceppo di che
nacquero
i Calfucci
era gia grande, e gia eran tratti
a le curule Sizii e Arrigucci.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[To discover the names in this and the
following
poem read the first
letter of the first line in connection with the second letter of the
second line, the third letter of the third line, the fourth of the
fourth and so on to the end.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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VIRGINES
Vt flos in saeptis secretus
nascitur
hortis,
ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro, 40
quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber;
multi illum pueri, multae optauere puellae:
idem cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui,
nulli illum pueri, nullae optauere puellae:
sic uirgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45
cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
nec pueris iucunda manet, nec cara puellis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Nor did my fair one less
distinction
claim;
Slave as she was, my soul adored the dame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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earmran mannan, _a more wretched, more
forsaken
man_,
577.
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Beowulf |
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Threescore
and ten I can remember well,
Within the Volume of which Time, I haue seene
Houres dreadfull, and things strange: but this sore Night
Hath trifled former knowings
Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Bolde as a lyon came Syr CHARLES,
Drawne onne a clothe-layde sledde,
Bye two blacke stedes ynne trappynges white,
Wyth plumes uponne theyre hedde:
Behynde hym fyve-and-twentye moe 285
Of archers stronge and stoute,
Wyth bended bowe echone ynne hande,
Marched ynne goodlie route:
Seincte JAMESES Freers marched next,
Echone hys parte dydd chaunt; 290
Behynde theyre backs syx mynstrelles came,
Who tun'd the strunge bataunt:
Thenne came the maior and eldermenne,
Ynne clothe of
scarlett
deck't;
And theyre attendyng menne echone, 295
Lyke Easterne princes trickt:
And after them, a multitude
Of citizenns dydd thronge;
The wyndowes were alle fulle of heddes,
As hee dydd passe alonge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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How forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild words
forlorn?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I can be as mawkish as I choose
And give my
thoughts
an airing, let them loose
For one last rambling stroll before--Now look!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It is a common supposition that military men, habituated to the unscrupulous and summary processes of camps, where things are carried with a strong hand, are deficient in the address and
subtlety
of genius requisite in civil jurisdiction.
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Tacitus |
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_Knot_,
quaintly
shaped flower-bed.
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Robert Herrick |
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