Break his bands of sleep asunder,
And rouse him, like a
rattling
peal of thunder.
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Golden Treasury |
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SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Why so glum,
comrade?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Allow him but his
plaything
of a pen,
He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men:
Flight of cashiers, or mobs, he'll never mind;
And knows no losses while the Muse is kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beneath these glimmering arches Jessamine
Walked with her lover long ago; and in
The leaf-dimmed light he questioned, and she spoke;
Then on them both, supreme, love's
radiance
broke.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sire, if
compassion
can sway a king,
I beg you to revoke your harsh ruling;
For what lost me my love, his victory,
I leave him my fortune; if he'll forgo me;
That I may weep in some sacred cloister,
To my last breath, for father and for lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The _facetum ingenium_, as it manifests itself in satire and invective,
does not
properly
here concern us: it belongs to another order of
poetry.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Meissner
was also here; he caught me unawares,
Scribbling to my old mother.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Duelling
beneath
The edict of the king!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But hark, the far
Sicilian
sea
Calls, and a noise of men and ships
That labour sunken to the lips
In bitter billows; forth go we,
Through the long leagues of fiery blue,
With saving; not to souls unshriven;
But whoso in his life hath striven
To love things holy and be true,
Through toil and storm we guard him; we
Save, and he shall not die!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And therefore it was clear that all insolent and obscene
speeches, jests upon the best men, injuries to particular persons,
perverse and sinister sayings (and the rather unexpected) in the old
comedy did move laughter, especially where it did imitate any dishonesty,
and scurrility came forth in the place of wit, which, who understands the
nature and genius of
laughter
cannot but perfectly know.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Be
niggards
of advice on no pretence;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Alexander Pope |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis
Dorset,
'Tis said, my liege, in
Yorkshire
are in arms.
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Shakespeare |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in
proclaiming
her verse the one unmatched exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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c1207)
Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch, watchman there, on the wall,
Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Guillem de Cabestan (1162-1212)
Aissi cum selh que baissa?
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Troubador Verse |
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Mallowe,
fumbling
with the knot of the laces.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'I got your message,' Hanrahan said then; '"he is in the barn with his
three first cousins from Kilchriest," the
messenger
said, "and there
are some of the neighbours with them.
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Yeats |
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_
For, as against a snarling sea one steers,
He battled vainly with the surging years;
While ever
Jessamine
must watch and pine,
Her vision bounded by the bleak sea-line.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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methinks ye measure
Your
movements
to some heavenly tune!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Horses and
horsemen
that make gazers fear
Are only empty armor.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The old man averted his head, and
muttered
between his teeth--
"Branded!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person in pink,
Who called out for
something
to drink;
But they said, "O my daughter, there's nothing but water!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CONTENTS
RICHARD ALDINGTON
Childhood 3
The Poplar 10
Round-Pond 12
Daisy 13
Epigrams
15
The Faun sees Snow for the First Time 16
Lemures 17
H.
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Imagists |
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He scampered to the bushes far away;
The
shepherd
called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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John Clare |
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4 The
pheasant
tail fans were part of the imperial regalia.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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All my doing, all my leaving,
Reaches not to my perceiving;
Lost in
whirling
spheres I rove,
And know only that I love.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And it will soothe me, though of thee I borrow
No help, that thou
compassionate
my sorrow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In doing this I
have been much
assisted
by the study of Mr.
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John Donne |
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22--
_E come a l'orlo de l'acqua d'un fosso
Stan li
ranocchi
pur col muso fuori
Si che celano i piedi, e l'altro grosso.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE latter having well the project weighed,
Now changed his plan, and other schemes surveyed;
Proposed within himself revenge to take,
With less parade:--less noise it then would make,
And better fruit the action would produce,
Than if he were
apparently
profuse.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Nor, if accosted now, in thought engrossed,
Moody, or inly troubled, would he seem
To
traveller
who might talk of any casual theme.
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William Wordsworth |
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She hid the trouble of her breast,
Heaved an
involuntary
sigh
And turned to leave immediately,
But first permission did request
Thither in future to proceed
That certain volumes she might read.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_
SHE APPEARS TO HIM, AND, WITH MORE THAN WONTED AFFECTION,
ENDEAVOURS
TO
CONSOLE HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
Not long thereafter from the city gates
Issued Sir Lancelot riding airily,
Warm with a
gracious
parting from the Queen,
Peace at his heart, and gazing at a star
And marvelling what it was: on whom the boy,
Across the silent seeded meadow-grass
Borne, clashed: and Lancelot, saying, 'What name hast thou
That ridest here so blindly and so hard?
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Tennyson |
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Those who are happy regret the
shortness
of the day;
Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[In whych
man{er}e
q{uo}d I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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still
fluttered
to her view;
And young Camillus pretty well she knew;
Howe'er with such severity he spoke,
That e'en the mildest saint it would provoke;
Yet, in a swain so easy, gentle, kind,
'Twas strange so little lenity to find.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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You are the fools, not I--for I did dwell
With a deep thought, and with a softened eye, 40
On that old Sexton's natural homily,
In which there was
Obscurity
and Fame,--
The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.
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Byron |
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Hymne profond,
delicieux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see
Sections
3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ON A
HENPECKED
COUNTRY SQUIRE.
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Robert Burns |
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But I must shake the
heavenly
dew of rest
From this sweet folded flower, thus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Or will you think, my friend, your
business
done,
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Count was rash;
Rodrigue
replied though:
Played the brave man's part, and still must do so.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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being
included
in the numeration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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OSWALD But why so violent
Against this
venerable
Man?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
Met in their first fresh upward gaze by love,
Filled with love's happy shame from other eyes,
Dazzled with
tenderness
and drowned in light
As tho' you looked unthinking at the sun,
Oh Litis, that is joy!
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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It
consists
not in individual, but in mutual pleasure.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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But from the time when he appeared beneath
The ancient town Olgin with the Lithuanians,
Hardy avenger of his injuries,
Rumour hath held her tongue
concerning
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Doorways are
alternate
Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But while I see that there is
nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is
something
wrong in
what one becomes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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when
rendered
to Rome:[mh]
'Twas thy last sun went down, and the flames of thy fall
Flashed back on the last glance I gave to thy wall.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Or art,
impossible!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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With the
lessening
smoke and thunder,
Our glasses around we aim--
What is that burning yonder?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thy
sensitive
beauty
Is become part of the fleeting
Loveliness, merged in the pathos
Of all things mortal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours,
victories
vast;
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Ah, if we so have striven,
And mutually the grasp have given
Of brotherhood,
To work each other and the whole race good;
What matter if the dream
Come only partly true,
And all the things
accomplished
seem
Feeble and few?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If, at any time, any very long poem
_were
_popular
in reality, which I doubt, it is at least clear that no
very long poem will ever be popular again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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425
But for to tell her
lamentable
cace,?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
But the people
kneeling
before the Bishop's chair
Forget the passing over the cobbles in the square.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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_
THOUGH NOT SECURE AGAINST THE WILES OF LOVE, HE FEELS
STRENGTH
ENOUGH TO
RESIST THEM.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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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.
| 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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Such tortuous
expression
of emotion did not
lead to good poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the
material
to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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now tell me, sweet,
That I may grieve," my sister said;
And stayed a white embroidering hand
And raised a golden head:
Her tresses showed a richer mass,
Her eyes looked softer than my own,
Her figure had a
statelier
height,
Her voice a tenderer tone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Very well; but something very strange has
happened
to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
| 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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I'm not altered by time and place though
Or what fate, advice, good or bad, may yield;
And if I give you the lie in anything
Never let her look on me night or morn,
She's in my heart, day-long and night-long,
Whom I'd not wish to lack (for false is the call)
On those shores where
Alexander
once proved ruthless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
| 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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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nay, these the things that make the world, The pick and spade, the ax, the mill, The furrowed field, the
ploughman
grim, The sons of God that work His will.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They were altogether alive like him that made them in
his image, like people in that
unfallen
country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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OFFICER: I am sorry what this
stoutness
will produce.
| 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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He passes the fountain, the blasted pine-tree--
The
footstep
is lagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes, through the broad belt of light,
Toward the shades of the forest so dreary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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On the other hand, does the master
value himself for the delicacy of his taste, for the foppery of
glittering conceits and tinsel ornament; the youth who has been
educated under him, sets out with the same
artificial
prettiness, the
same foppery of style and manner.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Non est qui
requirat
animam meam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
'207 Cato':
an unmistakable
allusion
to Addison's tragedy in which the famous Roman
appears laying down the law to the remnants of the Senate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
]
[Sidenote F: A servant is
assigned
to him,]
[Sidenote G: and then he takes leave of the ladies,]
[Footnote 1: selly (?
| 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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No
more do the unfinished towers rise, no more do the people
exercise
in
arms, nor work for safety in war on harbour or bastion; the works hang
broken off, vast looming walls and engines towering into the sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Glories of long-held desire, Ideas
Were all exalted in me, to see
The Iris family appear
Rising to this new duty,
But the sister sensible and fond
Carried her look no further
Than a smile, and as if to understand
I
continue
my ancient labour.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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For ne'er, O
Liberty!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O Natio[n]
miserable!
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Ever some tale of awe and woe
Thro' all thy windings manifold
Do we
unriddle
and unfold!
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Aeschylus |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your sleeping boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As
restraint
for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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upsprang
the aboriginal name.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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She wrought this wonder to
bereave you of your wits, hoping to have grieved
Guenever
and
affrighted her to death by means of the man that spoke with his head in
his hand before the high table.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ei
destroien
vnite.
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