Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
Infinite
and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Why,
beholding
this,
Why with our wail o'er sad mortality
Mourn we for men, mere men, that fade and fall?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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He has
something
else to do than to answer
your questions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Commendo
tibi me ac meos amores,
Aureli.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the
prehistoric
Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the
prehistoric
Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Yet think not,
friendship
only prompts my lays;
I follow Virtue: where she shines, I praise:
Point she to priest or elder, Whig or Tory,
Or round a Quaker's beaver cast a glory.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So by mine inner contemplation long,
By
thoughts
that need no speech nor oath nor song,
My spirit soars above the motley throng
Of days and nights, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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For
southern
wind and east wind meet
Where, girt and crowned by sword and fire,
England with bare and bloody feet
Climbs the steep road of wide empire.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When their
judgments
are firm, and out of
danger, let them read both the old and the new; but no less take heed
that their new flowers and sweetness do not as much corrupt as the
others' dryness and squalor, if they choose not carefully.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
Points to the parents
fondling
o'er their child?
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Robert Burns |
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Find example of
_tmesis_
(separation of prep.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He was a Gentleman, on whom I built
An
absolute
Trust.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Disloyalty
is a better bond for war than it ever proves
in peace.
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Tacitus |
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So hath Trade
withered
up Love's sinewy prime,
Men love not women as in olden time.
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Sidney Lanier |
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50
Them first they bound to mangers, which with oats
And mingled barley they supplied, then thrust
The chariot
sidelong
to the splendid wall.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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repel an impious foe,
Impious and false, a light yet cruel race,
Who laugh away all virtue, mingling mirth
With deeds of murder; and still promising
Freedom,
themselves
too sensual to be free,
Poison life's amities, and cheat the heart
Of faith and quiet hope, and all that soothes
And all that lifts the spirit!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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That
Emperour
canters right haughtily,
His bearded men are with him in the rear;
Over their sarks they have thrown out their beards
Which are as white as driven snows that freeze.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And so, when all the time had failed,
Without
external
sound,
Each bound the other's crucifix,
We gave no other bond.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Those smiles and glances let me see,
That make the miser's
treasure
poor:
How blythely was I bide the stour,
A weary slave frae sun to sun,
Could I the rich reward secure,
The lovely Mary Morison.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--
But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Here and there occur breaks in the story, chiefly
because there are fit
incidents
for song which no poet has fitly
sung as yet.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Innocent
one,
pray thou for me a sinner.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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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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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Prom thousand blossoms came a bubbling
'Mid purple sheen of sorcery,
The song of
countless
warblers singing
Broke through the Spring's first cry of glee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What joy can these
monotonous
days afford
Here in a ward?
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[12] This scene not
improbably
illustrates the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Here hovering ghosts, like fowl, his shade surround,
And clang their pinions with
terrific
sound;
Gloomy as night he stands, in act to throw
The aerial arrow from the twanging bow.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The everlasting ice and snow
Were
loosened
then, but not to flow;--
With a loud crash like solid thunder
The avalanche came, burying under 100
The village; turning life and breath
And rest and joy and plans to death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Like scrolls and rolled-up flags of silk,
He saw the fruits unfold,
And all our
expectations
in one wild-flower-written dream,
Confusion and death sweetness, and a thicket of crab-thorns,
Heart of a hundred midnights, heart of the merciful morns.
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Like scrolls and rolled-up flags of silk,
He saw the fruits unfold,
And all our
expectations
in one wild-flower-written dream,
Confusion and death sweetness, and a thicket of crab-thorns,
Heart of a hundred midnights, heart of the merciful morns.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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850
Blacke hys cryne[101] as the wyntere nyghte,
Whyte hys rode[102] as the sommer snowe,
Rodde hys face as the
mornynge
lyghte,
Cale he lyes ynne the grave belowe;
Mie love ys dedde, 855
Gon to hys deathe-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[e] Cicero is here said to have been a complete master of philosophy,
which,
according
to Quintilian, was divided into three branches,
namely, physics, ethics, and logic.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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850
Blacke hys cryne[101] as the wyntere nyghte,
Whyte hys rode[102] as the sommer snowe,
Rodde hys face as the
mornynge
lyghte,
Cale he lyes ynne the grave belowe;
Mie love ys dedde, 855
Gon to hys deathe-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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While all the forest, witched with
slumberous
moonshine,
Holds up its leaves in happy, happy stillness,
Waiting the dew, with breath and pulse suspended,
I hear afar thy whispering, gleamy islands,
And track thee wakeful still amid the wide-hung silence.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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--bring thoughts and words,
Unrusted
by a tear of yesterday's,
Yet awful by its wrong,--and cut these cords,
And mow this green lush falseness to the roots,
And shut the mouth of hell below the swathe!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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As we wax hot in faction,
In battle we wax cold:
Wherefore
men fight not as they fought
In the brave days of old.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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but my conseil nys nat to
determyne
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Ye pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae
stinking
ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' pray'r,
Gie her a Haggis!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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XLV
The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Are both with thee,
wherever
I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XLV
The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Are both with thee,
wherever
I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise
Brings back the
brightness
in their failing eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[Illustration: "HE HAD WHOLLY
FORGOTTEN
HIS NAME"]
He would answer to "Hi!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Whence, further, first was planted in the gods
The
archetype
for gendering the world
And the fore-notion of what man is like,
So that they knew and pre-conceived with mind
Just what they wished to make?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
r
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It may be wilderness without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday
excludes
the night,
And it is bells within.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A little girl who was at service in the village of Grange, close
under the seaward slopes of Ben Bulben, suddenly
disappeared
one
night about three years ago.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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430
Erie
Ethelbert
then hove, with clinie just,
A launce, that stroke Partaie upon the thighe,
And pinn'd him downe unto the gorie duste;
Cruel, quod he, thou cruellie shalt die.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Give her this letter; for it is a
oman that altogether's acquaintance with
Mistress
Anne
Page; and the letter is to desire and require her to solicit
your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious intentions
concerning
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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-quickly I'll remove the thorn;
When Satan comes, present his highness this,
Which I have here, and say:--You will not miss
To make it flat, and not its curl retain
On which she gave him, what with little pain
She drew from covert of the Cyprian grove,
The fairy labyrinth where
pleasures
rove,
Which formerly a duke so precious thought;
To raise a knightly order thence he sought,
Illustrious institution, noble plan,
More filled with gods and demi-gods than man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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-quickly I'll remove the thorn;
When Satan comes, present his highness this,
Which I have here, and say:--You will not miss
To make it flat, and not its curl retain
On which she gave him, what with little pain
She drew from covert of the Cyprian grove,
The fairy labyrinth where
pleasures
rove,
Which formerly a duke so precious thought;
To raise a knightly order thence he sought,
Illustrious institution, noble plan,
More filled with gods and demi-gods than man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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-quickly I'll remove the thorn;
When Satan comes, present his highness this,
Which I have here, and say:--You will not miss
To make it flat, and not its curl retain
On which she gave him, what with little pain
She drew from covert of the Cyprian grove,
The fairy labyrinth where
pleasures
rove,
Which formerly a duke so precious thought;
To raise a knightly order thence he sought,
Illustrious institution, noble plan,
More filled with gods and demi-gods than man.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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At least, that was what
McGoggin
said;
but I suspect he had misread his primers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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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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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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DANAUS
Look you, not swiftly puts a fleet to sea,
Nor swiftly to its moorings; long it is
Or e'er the saving cables to the shore
Are borne, and long or e'er the
steersmen
cry,
_The good ship swings at anchor--all is well_.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Let war and trade and creeds and song
Blend, ripen race on race,
The
sunburnt
world a man shall breed
Of all the zones and countless days.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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The
Cathedral
is a burning stain on the white, wet night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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21 Returning Home On Foot: A Ballad1 In years of your prime Your Excellency has met with
perilous
times, running the state depends indeed on the qualities of a hero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each
padlocked
door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And wondered why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Highbury
bore me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[7] The standard text of the Assyrian version is by Professor Paul
Haupt, _Das
Babylonische
Nimrodepos_, Leipzig, 1884.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But if thy object Fame's far summits be,
Whose
inclines
many a skeleton o'erlies
That missed both dream and substance, stop and see
How absence wears these cheeks and dims these eyes!
| 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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They say you are twisted by the sea,
you are cut apart
by wave-break upon wave-break,
that you are
misshapen
by the sharp rocks,
broken by the rasp and after-rasp.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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X
MARCH
The sun at noon to higher air,
Unharnessing
the silver Pair
That late before his chariot swam,
Rides on the gold wool of the Ram.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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why melt your voice
In dolorous strains, because the
perjured
fair
Has made a younger choice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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e
972 _wykked_--wyckede
973 _blysses_--blysse
974 _forsake_--forsakyn
_nart_--art
_blysful_--blysseful]
[Headnote:
ADVERSITY
IS BUT TRANSIENT.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
factions
of the great ones call, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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When pain disturbs my peace and rest,
Am I a
hopeless
grief to keep,
When some have slept on torture's breast
And smiled as in the sweetest sleep,
Aye, peace on thorns, in faith forgiven,
And pillowed on the hope of heaven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Night was
beginning
to fall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
]
[Sidenote: Having lost _yesterday_ it does not as yet enjoy
_to-morrow_; and as for _to-day_ it
consists
only in the present
transitory moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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We must
dethrone
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The things Heaven made
Man was meant to use;
A thousand
guilders
scattered to the wind may come back again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then
vanished
to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Untrodden
before, untrodden since:
Tedious land for a social Prince;
Halting, he scanned the outs and ins,
Endless, labyrinthine, grim,
Of the solitude that made him wince,
Laying wait for him.
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Christina Rossetti |
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emendations of
1811-1812, and
marginal
notes of 1816.
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Byron |
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emendations of
1811-1812, and
marginal
notes of 1816.
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Byron |
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III
The road that runs up to
Messines!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Sidenote A: The knight carried neither spear nor shield,]
[Sidenote B: In one hand was a holly bough,]
[Sidenote C: in the other an axe,]
[Sidenote D: the edge of which was as keen as a sharp razor,]
[Sidenote E: and the handle was encased in iron, curiously "graven with
green, in
gracious
works.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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information
page at
www.
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Yeats |
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"Their days dream as a droning stream
Or
moonlight
in a wood.
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Tennyson |
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But nothing
can come into poetry that is not shaped and recognizable; how else but
in
anthropomorphism
could destiny, or (its poetic equivalent) deity,
exist in _Paradise Lost_?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin,
A green-grown pond she just has past,
And from the brink she hurries fast, 295
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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Still as at either end they wheel around,
The master meets them with his goblet crown'd;
The hearty draught rewards, renews their toil,
Then back the turning
ploughshares
cleave the soil:
Behind, the rising earth in ridges roll'd;
And sable look'd, though form'd of molten gold.
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Iliad - Pope |
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His son
Malprimes
is very chivalrous,
He's great and strong;--his ancestors were thus.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In vain: for, instructed in thy artifice, I'll strike
home
beforehand
by irrumating thee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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