"--
"Angels,
Archangels
cry
One to other ceaselessly
(I hear them sing)
One 'Holy, Holy, Holy,' to their King.
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Christina Rossetti |
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FROM 'THE BURDEN OF ITYS'
THIS English Thames is holier far than Rome,
Those
harebells
like a sudden flush of sea
Breaking across the woodland, with the foam
Of meadow-sweet and white anemone
To fleck their blue waves,--God is likelier there
Than hidden in that crystal-hearted star the pale monks bear!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Here it is used to
reinforce
the sense of a binding love.
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Troubador Verse |
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Coleridge
uses it in l.
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Keats |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_1612-33_]
[286 Tenarif, _1611_, _1612-25:_ Tenarus _1633-69_
Hill _1611_, _1612-25:_ hill _1633-69_]
[288 there, _1611_, _1612-21:_ there _1625-69_]
[289 strooke _1611_, _1612-25:_ strucke _1633-69_]
[290 to morrow, _1611_, _1612-25:_ to morrow _1633-69_]
[295 Vault _1611_, _1612-25:_ vault _1633-69_]
[298 straight] strait _1611-25_]
[300 pock-holes]
pockholes
_1633-69_]
[301 th'earth?
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John Donne |
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"
"Had I been, as you say, dead," replied the Count, "it is more than
probable that dead, I should still be; for I
perceive
you are yet in the
infancy of Calvanism, and cannot accomplish with it what was a common
thing among us in the old days.
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Poe - 5 |
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38 _Negat se magni facere aliquis
poetarum utrum Caesar ater an albus homo sit, insania; uerte ut
idem Caesar de illo dixerit,
arrogantia
est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our
manifold
gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ALBA
INNOMINATA
From the Provencal.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was
carefully
scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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"
And the
daughter
spoke, and she said: "O hateful woman, selfish
and old!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What fortunate, or what
disastrous
bird
Omen'd my fate?
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Petrarch |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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which no act of fame
E'er taught to shine, or
sanctified
from shame;
What greater bliss attends their close of life?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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in the cross-ways used you not
On grating straw some
miserable
tune
To mangle?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Li Po |
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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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It is a pity to doubt
this green hair legend;
presently
a man of genius will not be able to
enjoy an epileptic fit in peace--as does a banker or a beggar.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Each sore defeat of my defeated life
Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour;
And turned to yearning palsy all my power,
And all my peace to strife,
Self
stabbing
self with keen lack-pity knife.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But suddenly some kindling shock
Struck flashing through the wire: a bird,
Poised on it,
screamed
and flew; the flock
Rose with him; wheeled and whirred.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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CLXVI
With a fresh wind, that in their favour blows,
They loose their hawser at the close of day:
In heaven above the silent goddess shows
Her shining horn, to guide them on their way;
And on the
following
morn before them rose
The pleasant shores that round Girgenti lay.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Volupte, sois
toujours
ma reine!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_ The
Macmillan
Company, New York; and
Macmillan & Co.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ev'n when the wished end's denied,
Yet while the busy means are plied,
They bring their own reward:
Whilst I, a hope-abandon'd wight,
Unfitted with an aim,
Meet ev'ry sad
returning
night,
And joyless morn the same!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"La figure, c'est
l'homme"; there, at any rate, is the
intention
of epic symbolism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For ne'er, O
Liberty!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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onkke3,
[B] "I haf
soiorned
sadly, sele yow bytyde,
& he 3elde hit yow 3are, ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an outtrage
awenture
of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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But this miraculous maiden was too
beautiful
for long life, so she died
soon after I knew her first, and it was I myself who entombed her, upon
a day when spring swung her censer even in the burial-ground.
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| Question: |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I tell you this--When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming shoulders of the Foal
Of Heav'n Parwin and
Mushtari
they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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If this interpretation be correct
the
preterite
_edir_ is established.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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In common
politeness
I--We have got beyond that!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Aiken was consulted, and in
consequence of his advice, the certificate of
marriage
was destroyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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----
From an
anthology
of verse by Jessie B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Like the tolling bell
Of a convent curst;
Like the billowy roar
On a storm-lashed shore,--
Now hushed, but once more
Maddening
to its worst.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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See to it that both act honourably,
Once over, bring the
conqueror
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite
intelligible
to the ordinary reader.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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From the
analogy of similar stories I suspect that Admetus originally did not know
his guest, and received not so much the reward of
exceptional
virtue as
the blessing naturally due to those who entertain angels unawares.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ay for charyte
cherysen
a gest,
2056 & halden honour in her honde, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For
that which happens to the eyes when we behold a body, the same happens to
the memory when we
contemplate
an action.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
[183]
And whose more rife with
merriment
than thine,
Oh Stamboul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Phaedra
Noble, glittering creator of a sad family,
You, whose
daughter
my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Whither he went I may not come, it seems
He is become
estranged
from all the rest,
And all the sea is now his wonder-house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Those grand,
majestic
pines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
It is but
nineteen hundred feet above the village of Princeton, and three
thousand above the level of the sea; but by this slight elevation it
is infinitely removed from the plain, and when we reached it we felt a
sense of remoteness, as if we had
traveled
into distant regions, to
Arabia Petraea, or the farthest East.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women,
Alcmaeon
in Psophis, Telephus and
Alcestis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
* * * *
Like Maia's son he stood,
And shook his plumes, that
heavenly
fragrance fill'd
The circuit wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Day after day, though no one sees,
The lonely place no different seems;
The trees, the stack, still images
Constant
in who can say whose dreams?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
they
Who laugh and name you a Caricature,
They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure,
The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone
That is most dear to me, tall
skeleton!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
It
strongly
advised that the Butcher should be
Conveyed in a separate ship:
But the Bellman declared that would never agree
With the plans he had made for the trip:
[Illustration: "THE BEAVER KEPT LOOKING THE OPPOSITE WAY"]
Navigation was always a difficult art,
Though with only one ship and one bell:
And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
Undertaking another as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
[The charm which
Dumfries
threw over the poet, seems to have dissolved
like a spell, when he sat down in Ellisland: he spoke, for a time,
with little respect of either place or people.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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quotiens uitae custos inuisus amarae
continuit
promptas in mea fata manus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A
princely
lodging.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Again, I've taught thee that the clouds bear off
Much
moisture
too, up-taken from the reaches
Of the mighty main, and sprinkle it about
O'er all the zones, when rain is on the lands
And winds convey the aery racks of vapour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our
faltering
few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
430
His waking a
continual
dread of Death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
This did ye expect,
When in simplicity ye wrote
Your innocent and
charming
note
With so much warmth and intellect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
HOUSE OF VISHNEVETSKY
The PRETENDER and a
CATHOLIC
PRIEST
PRETENDER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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3
_siccine
subrec_(_rep_ OVen Laur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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God Neptune's
palaces!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
With joy
And tidings fraught, to Hell he now return'd,
And at the brink of Chaos, neer the foot
Of this new
wondrous
Pontifice, unhop't
Met who to meet him came, his Ofspring dear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE
POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
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 |
|
What should avail me
the many-twined
bracelets?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
O
helpless
soul of me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
After walking up and down awhile in my
little room, I
suddenly
stopped short before him, and said to him,
angrily--
"It seems that it did not satisfy you that, thanks to you, I've been
wounded and at death's door, but that you must also want to kill my
mother as well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
CVII
He then new counsel took, and 'twas the best,
With other arms the monster to pursue;
And lifting from his shield the
covering
vest,
To dazzle with the light his blasted view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Diaphenia
like the daffadowndilly,
White as the sun, fair as the lily,
Heigh ho, how do I love thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Then to the dance they form the vocal strain,
Till Hesperus leads forth the starry train;
And now he raises, as the daylight fades,
His golden circlet in the deepening shades:
Three vases heap'd with copious fires display
O'er all the palace a fictitious day;
From space to space the torch wide-beaming burns,
And
sprightly
damsels trim the rays by turns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray trickles from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The
threatening
billow on the deep
Obedient lies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
age!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Tho
sodeinly
doun from his hors he sterte, 200
And thorugh his paleys, with a swollen herte,
To chambre he wente; of no-thing took he hede,
Ne noon to him dar speke a word for drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What make you, master,
fumbling
at the oar?
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Emerson - Poems |
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If not, then woe
To the
miscreant!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The pass was steep and rugged,
The wolves they howled and whined;
But he ran like a
whirlwind
up the pass,
And he left the wolves behind.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'
"Thrice in my arms I strove her shade to bind,
Thrice through my arms she slipp'd like empty wind,
Or dreams, the vain
illusions
of the mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How cordial is the
mystery!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Once more, if Nature
Should of a sudden send a voice abroad,
And her own self inveigh against us so:
"Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou indulgest in too sickly
plaints?
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Lucretius |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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