"
Yet still her heart, which
torments
tear,
Guards fondly hope's uncertain dream.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And now I go--as others already
crucified
have gone.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Of sackcloth was thy wedding garment made:
Thy bridal's fruit is ashes; in the dust
The fair-haired Daughter of the Isles is laid,
The love of
millions!
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the
economy and
disposition
of poems better observed than in Terence; and the
latter, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking
in of sentences, as ours do the forcing in of jests.
| Guess: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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They who are at work abroad are not cold,
but rather it is they who sit
shivering
in houses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His shrapnel helmet set atilt,
His bombing
waistcoat
sagging low,
His rifle slung across his back:
Poised in the very act to throw.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The variation in printed characters between the dominant motif, a secondary one and those adjacent, marks its importance for oral
utterance
and the scale, mid-way, at top or bottom of the page will show how the intonation rises or falls.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Blessed are you whose
worthiness
gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
| Guess: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And, with nor pretext nor occasion,
Its wooing redoubles;
And pounds the ground, and bubbles
In
sputtering
spray,
Flinging itself in a fury
Of flashing white away;
Till the dusty road,
Dank-perfumed, is o'erflowed;
And the grass, and the wide-hung trees,
The vines, the flowers in their beds,--
The virid corn that to the breeze
Rustles along the garden-rows,--
Visibly lift their heads,
And, as the quick shower wilder grows,
Upleap with answering kisses to the rain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Another feature is the
excessive
use of historical allusions.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling
wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A cluttered incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
UPON LOVE:
BY WAY OF
QUESTION
AND ANSWER
I bring ye love.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Blest son of Peleus,
semblance
of the Gods,
At Ilium, far from Argos, fall'n!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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DANSE MACABRE
A ERNEST CHRISTOPHE
Fiere, autant qu'un vivant, de sa noble stature,
Avec son gros bouquet, son mouchoir et ses gants,
Elle a la nonchalance et la desinvolture
D'une
coquette
maigre aux airs extravagants.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wasna I mony a day living here, and what for
shouldna
I ken the road?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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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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' I
wondered
at the words he spake, but I knew that his were
no idle words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It gazed for a
few seconds, fixedly and sorrowfully, with its decaying and lack-lustre
eyes, full into the
countenance
of Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Preserve, preserve the sacred purity
Of innocence and proud shamefacedness;
He, who through passion has been wont to wallow
In vicious
pleasures
in his youthful days,
Becomes in manhood bloodthirsty and surly;
His mind untimely darkens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--what miserable agitation
Seizes this
demigod!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ev'n godly
meetings
o' the saunts,
By thee inspir'd,
When gaping they besiege the tents,
Are doubly fir'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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So, in the man who sings,
All of the voiceless horde
From the cold dawn of things
Have their reward;
All in whose pulses ran
Blood that is his at last,
From the first stooping man
Far in the
winnowed
past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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In three eternal Persons I believe,
Essence threefold and one,
mysterious
league
Of union absolute, which, many a time,
The word of gospel lore upon my mind
Imprints: and from this germ, this firstling spark,
The lively flame dilates, and like heav'n's star
Doth glitter in me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I would have stood,
and watched and watched
and burned,
and when in the night,
from the many hosts, your slaves,
and warriors and serving men
you had turned
to the purple couch and the flame
of the woman, tall like cypress tree
that flames sudden and swift and free
as with crackle of golden resin
and cones and the locks flung free
like the cypress limbs,
bound, caught and shaken and loosed,
bound, caught and riven and bound
and
loosened
again,
as in rain of a kingly storm
or wind full from a desert plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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For not the
whispering
south-wind on its way
So much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about donations to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Ay,
worshipful
sir.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Calais, the wind is come and heaven pales And
trembles
for the love of day to be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tell my friends,
Tell Athens, in the
sequence
of degree
From high to low throughout, that whoso please
To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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So, too, they sought the grottos of the Nymphs--
The woodland haunts discovered as they ranged--
From forth of which they knew that gliding rills
With gush and splash
abounding
laved the rocks,
The dripping rocks, and trickled from above
Over the verdant moss; and here and there
Welled up and burst across the open flats.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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La forma general di paradiso
gia tutta mio sguardo avea compresa,
in nulla parte ancor fermato fiso;
e volgeami con voglia riaccesa
per
domandar
la mia donna di cose
di che la mente mia era sospesa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To me the dialect was native, was
spoken all about me when a boy, at a time when an Irish day-laborer was
as rare as an
American
one now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The castle seemed the very nest and lair
Of animal,
supplied
with plume and quill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Even the little sketch of Sir Plume
is
instinct
with life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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born in happier days;
Immortal heirs of
universal
praise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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He saw them in thir forms of battell rang'd,
How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowie showers against the face
Of thir pursuers, and overcame by flight;
The field all iron cast a gleaming brown,
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn,
Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight;
Chariots or Elephants endorst with Towers
Of Archers, nor of labouring Pioners 330
A multitude with Spades and Axes arm'd
To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill,
Or where plain was raise hill, or over-lay
With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke;
Mules after these, Camels and Dromedaries,
And Waggons fraught with
Utensils
of war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
The neatherd boy that used to tend the cows,
While getting whip-sticks from the dangling boughs
Of osiers
drooping
by the water-side,
Her bonnet floating on the top espied;
He knew it well, and hastened fearful down
To take the terror of his fears to town,--
A melancholy story, far too true;
And soon the village to the pasture flew,
Where, from the deepest hole the pond about,
They dragged poor Jenny's lifeless body out,
And took her home, where scarce an hour gone by
She had been living like to you and I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
_ and a flash
Lightens across the
sunlight
to the elm
Where his mate dangles at her cup of felt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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and forbear,
In my short absence, to
unsluice
a tear;
But yet for love's-sake, let thy lips do this,--
Give my dead picture one engendering kiss;
Work that to life, and let me ever dwell
In thy remembrance, Julia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Dread Sire and
Guardian
of man's race,
To Thee, O Jove, the Fates assign
Our Caesar's charge; his power and place
Be next to Thine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER
DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED
[FROM SCHILLER]
Strongly it bears us along in
swelling
and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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How beautiful to wake at night,
Within the room grown strange, and still, and sweet,
And live a century while in the dark
The dripping wheel of silence slowly turns;
To watch the window open on the night,
A dewy silent deep where nothing stirs,
And, lying thus, to feel dilate within
The press, the conflict, and the heavy pulse
Of incommunicable sad ecstasy,
Growing until the body seems outstretched
In perfect
crucifixion
on the arms
Of a cross pointing from last void to void,
While the heart dies to a mere midway spark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Turning back was vain:
Soon his heavy mane
Bore them to the ground,
Then he stalked around,
Smelling
to his prey;
But their fears allay
When he licks their hands,
And silent by them stands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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All
association
must be quite voluntary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
What would you with the
Princess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
My gentle guide
And all who came with him, so well were pleas'd,
That seem'd naught else might in their
thoughts
have room.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
"
Nay, why external for
internal
given?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Here, various colours in
confusion
lost,
Old Chaos' face and troubled image boast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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From them
I'll form an
honourable
troop.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The son of Philip, when he saw the tomb
Of fierce Achilles, with a sigh, thus said:
"O happy, whose
achievements
erst found room
From that illustrious trumpet to be spread
O'er earth for ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Peaceful
as some immeasurable plain
By the first beams of dawning light impress'd, 1798.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Within a hut of stone
To bask the
centuries
away
Nor once look up for noon?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of withered oak and
shrouded
fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Your whole empire now lies open to him;
There all's allowed him, beneath your sway;
He
triumphs
over me, as the Moors today.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
In one is a lion, which
my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other
is a
songless
sparrow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
[104] This is an
allusion
to some extortion of Cleon's.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Let my
thoughts
rest on your form!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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End of the Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Poems, by Victor Hugo
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
***** This file should be named 8775-8.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me
whispered
low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
Goddwyn, what
thanckes
owre laboures wylle enhepe!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
"That one, who on the ground beneath the rest
Sits lowest, yet his gaze directs aloft,
Us William, that brave Marquis, for whose cause
The deed of Alexandria and his war
Makes
Conferrat
and Canavese weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
In a vision
announced
he to him then
A battle, should be fought against him yet,
Significance of griefs demonstrated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the
secretaries
of Cardinal Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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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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O my deep waters, cataract and flood,
What
wordless
triumph did your voices render
O mountain-summits, where the angels stood
And shook from head and wing thick dews of splendour!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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All this
passionate
bright tender body
Quivers like a leaf the wind has shaken,
Now love wanders through the aisles of springtime.
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Sappho |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_108 boundaries of the
sky]boundary
of the skies cj.
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Shelley |
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The budding groves appear'd as if in haste
To spur the steps of June; as if their shades
Of _various_ green were hindrances that stood
Between them and their object: yet, meanwhile,
There was such deep
contentment
in the air 1800.
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William Wordsworth |
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Still round him clung invisibly a chain
Which galled for ever,
fettering
though unseen,
And heavy though it clanked not; worn with pain,
Which pined although it spoke not, and grew keen,
Entering with every step he took through many a scene.
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Byron |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs,
And bids her beau demand the precious hairs: 40
Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,
With earnest eyes, and round
unthinking
face,
He first the snuff-box opened, then the case,
And thus broke out--"My lord, why, what the devil!
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Alexander Pope |
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Bright; and to the
authorities of Cornell University, for the loan of periodicals
necessary
to
the completeness of the revision.
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Beowulf |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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232
A Wise
prophete
was in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And yit sich sorwe dide I fele,
That al-day I
chaunged
hewe,
Of my woundes fresshe and newe,
As men might see in my visage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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XVII
Lawrence
of vertuous Father vertuous Son,
Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,
Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire
Help wast a sullen day; what may be Won
From the hard Season gaining: time will run
On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire
The frozen earth; and cloth in fresh attire
The Lillie and Rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
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Milton |
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Thus health and strength he to a third age enjoys,
And sees a long
posterity
of boys.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the
wandering
light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared like his father, in white.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Gautier
eloquently describes the meeting of these kindred artistic souls, where
the
beautiful
Jewess, Maryx, who had posed for Ary Scheffer's Mignon
and for Paul Delaroche's La Gloire, met the superb Madame Sabatier, the
only woman that Baudelaire loved, and the original of that extraordinary
group of Clesinger's--the sculptor and son-in-law of George Sand--la
Femme au Serpent, a Salammbo a la mode in marble.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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