Where goes the
swineherd
with that ill-look'd guest?
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Now adieu my dear -- [Hattie] I'm sure I must tire, _65
For if I do, you may throw it into the fire,
So accept the best love of your cousin and friend,
Which brings this
nonsensical
rhyme to an end.
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Shelley |
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But
good Aeneas seeks the fortress where Apollo sits high enthroned, and the
lone mystery of the awful Sibyl's cavern depth, over whose mind and soul
the prophetic Delian
breathes
high inspiration and reveals futurity.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Swift through the valves the
visionary
fair
Repass'd, and viewless mix'd with common air.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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PORTRAITS
/ VIGNETTES
THE POEMS.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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To save them from the wrath of Gaul's
unsparing
lord.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the
startled
ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
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Poe - 5 |
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Part must be kept wherewith to teend
The Christmas log next year,
And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend
Can do no
mischief
there.
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Robert Herrick |
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A tower stood on the sheer brink, its roof
ascending high into heaven, whence was wont to be seen all Troy and the
Grecian ships and Achaean camp: attacking it with iron round about,
where the joints of the lofty
flooring
yielded, we wrench it from its
deep foundations and shake it free; it gives way, and [466-498]suddenly
falls thundering in ruin, crashing wide over the Grecian ranks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When arriv'd,
Where underneath the gaping arch lets pass
The
scourged
souls: "Pause here," the teacher said,
"And let these others miserable, now
Strike on thy ken, faces not yet beheld,
For that together they with us have walk'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The third of the same moon whose former course
Had all but crowned him, on the self-same day
Deposed him gently from his throne of force,
And laid him with the earth's
preceding
clay.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Heaðo-lāfe, 460), a
Wylfingish
warrior.
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Beowulf |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_Everard Owen_
_Harrow, December, 1915_
THE RETURN
I heard the
rumbling
guns.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Vainly with me to your old power you trust,
While my first love is
shrouded
still in dust.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What is a
Traitor?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There breathe but few whose aspect might defy
The full
encounter
of his searching eye;
He had the skill, when Cunning's gaze would seek[ho]
To probe his heart and watch his changing cheek,
At once the observer's purpose to espy,
And on himself roll back his scrutiny, 220
Lest he to Conrad rather should betray
Some secret thought, than drag that Chief's to day.
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Byron |
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It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the
kindliest
will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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See Introduction to
_Isabella_
and _The Eve of St.
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Keats |
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So late from Heaven--that dew--it fell
(Mid dreams of an unholy night)
Upon me--with the touch of Hell,
While the red flashing of the light
From clouds that hung, like banners, o'er,
Appeared to my half-closing eye
The
pageantry
of monarchy,
And the deep trumpet-thunder's roar
Came hurriedly upon me, telling
Of human battle, where my voice,
My own voice, silly child!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A
newspaper
is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
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Stephen Crane |
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Soliciting
the sum of ten pounds
CCCXLIV.
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Robert Burns |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
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John Clare |
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This second volume, while open to the same
criticism
as to
form with its predecessor, shows also the same shining beauties.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
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taxes.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Bring ye the best, that we may set him forth
Before my friend from foreign climes arrived,
With whom ourselves will also feast, who find
The bright-tusk'd
multitude
a painful charge,
While others, at no cost of theirs, consume
Day after day, the profit of our toils.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They spend all
their blessed time in governing it, and you can't lift a spade, nor
chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor
anything
like that, without all the
Government saying, 'Leave it alone, and let us govern.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Wilt thou go forth despite of this true
warning?
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Byron |
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After a long
conference, Gama
abruptly
upbraided him as a spy, and ordered him to be
put to the torture.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Soon, soon shall Conquest's fiery foot intrude,
Blackening
her lovely domes with traces rude.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I know the place where Lewti lies
When silent night has closed her eyes:
It is a breezy jasmine-bower,
The
nightingale
sings o'er her head:
Voice of the Night!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It's past set down before the soul,
And lighted with a match,
Perusal to facilitate
Of its
condensed
despatch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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(London) 1913
Visions of the Evening Erskine Macdonald (London) 1913
Irradiations
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What cloud o'er
Tiridates
lowers,
I care not, I.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Why comes not Death,
Said hee, with one thrice
acceptable
stroke
To end me?
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| Source: |
Milton |
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All
charming
people are spoiled.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty
trenched
gashes on his head;
The least a Death to Nature
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[6] Sign whose
gunufied
form is read _aga_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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--ah, no, I beg a
thousand
pardons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I tasted wheat, -- and hated chaff,
And thanked the ample friend;
Wisdom is more
becoming
viewed
At distance than at hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The soldiers surrounded us, and we
followed Iwan Ignatiitch who brought us along in triumph, walking with
a
military
step, with majestic gravity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Tell me too, for I would learn--
Took he
perforce
thy sable bark away,
Or gav'st it to him at his first demand?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That
phraseless
melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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From finest
sweetest
place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Their burrows are usually in the high
banks of the river, with the
entrance
under water, and rising within
to above the level of high water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The manner of the sun to ride the air,
The stars God has
imagined
for the night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The sad earth gave a blast,
That, lightening, shot forth a
vermilion
flame,
Which all my senses conquer'd quite, and I
Down dropp'd, as one with sudden slumber seiz'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In many's looks, the false heart's history
Is writ in moods, and frowns, and
wrinkles
strange.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"We've had such hard, hard times this year
For
goblins!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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`Thow shalt gon over night, and that as blyve,
Un-to
Deiphebus
hous, as thee to pleye,
Thy maladye a-wey the bet to dryve, 1515
For-why thou semest syk, soth for to seye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
INTERLUDE
Thus ran the Student's
pleasant
rhyme
Of Eginhard and love and youth;
Some doubted its historic truth,
But while they doubted, ne'ertheless
Saw in it gleams of truthfulness,
And thanked the Monk of Lauresheim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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He called to mind Tattiana's grace,
Pallid and
melancholy
face,
And in a vision, sinless, bright,
His spirit sank with strange delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To my revenge, and to her
desperate
fears, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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that woe, the blood of many beasts,
And victims
manifold
to many gods,
Alone can cure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The Spanish critics,
however, have
discovered
many inconsistencies in it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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We bring thee our songs and our
garlands
for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Our auld guidman
delights
to view
His sheep an' kye thrive bonnie, O;
But I'm as blythe that hauds his pleugh,
An' has nae care but Nannie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
What's the
Businesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
LV
The knight himselfe even
trembled
at his fall,
So huge and horrible a masse it seem'd,
And his deare Ladie, that beheld it all,
Durst not approch for dread, which she misdeem'd;?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Which
distressed
that Old Man of Jamaica.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth
saylande
skyrte3,
[K] ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Every traveller I've ever known has complained of poor treatment:
He whom I recommend treatment
delicious
receives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Obscurely sacrificed, his nameless tomb,
Bare of the sculptor's art, the poet's lines,
Summer shall flush with poppy-fields in bloom,
And Autumn yellow with
maturing
vines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Oh that ye had been
rustling
in the sails of Nathos till the
hills of Etha arose; till they arose in their clouds, and saw their
returning chief!
| 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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_--The
commander
of Diu, or Dio, during
this siege, one of the most memorable in the Portuguese history.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
And though respect be a part following this, yet now here,
and still I must remember it, if you write to a man, whose estate and
sense, as senses, you are
familiar
with, you may the bolder (to set a
task to his brain) venture on a knot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When we began to tire of childish play
We seemed still more and more to prize each other:
We talked of
marriage
and our marriage day;
And I in truth did love him like a brother,
For never could I hope to meet with such another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
He ended his life as a monk in the abbey of Dalon, where his presence is
recorded
from 1197 to 1202.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Contact the
Foundation
as set
forth in Section 3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
LI
Is the day long,
O Lesbian maiden,
And the night endless
In thy lone chamber
In
Mitylene?
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He is hailed by the time-crowned brotherhood,
By the
Dauntless
of Marathon,
By Raymond, Godfrey and Lion Heart
Whose dreams he carried on.
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And after
youthful
follies ran,
Though little given to care and thought,
Yet, so it was, a ewe I bought;
And other sheep from her I raised,
As healthy sheep as you might see,
And then I married, and was rich
As I could wish to be;
Of sheep I number'd a full score,
And every year encreas'd my store.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Take hold of
wickedness!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Greetings, in pale libation and madness,
Don't think to some hope of magic corridors I offer
My empty cup, where a monster of gold
suffers!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Qiang Village 329 Going steadily on in my travels, 16 none there is who can live long years.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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It is the
earliest
dated play of
Euripides which has come down to us.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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(The shrug is pure
Hebraic)
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Poi disse a me: <
questi e
Nembrotto
per lo cui mal coto
pur un linguaggio nel mondo non s'usa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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