Hast long been in the
service?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
spearsman
who brings this
will ask for the gold clasp
you wear under your coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a Periodical so courageous, gracious and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too
contrary
to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And the low waves began to swell;
And the sky
darkened
overhead;
And the moon once looked forth, then fled 130
Behind dark clouds; while here and there
The lightning shone out in the air;
And the approaching thunder rolled
With angry pealings manifold.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Danish men
had sorrow of soul, and for Scyldings all,
for many a hero, 'twas hard to bear,
ill for earls, when Aeschere's head
they found by the flood on the
foreland
there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismegiste
Qui berce
longuement
notre esprit enchante,
Et le riche metal de notre volonte
Est tout vaporise par ce savant chimiste.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And fires, stackt hugely high with timber, shall
With nightlong blaze make
friendly
the dark and cold,
Cheer our bodies, and roast great feasts of flesh,--
Ah, to burn trunks of trees, not bracken and ling!
| 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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I thought that the Yankee, though undisciplined,
had this advantage at least, that he especially is a man who,
everywhere and under all circumstances, is fully resolved to better
his condition essentially, and therefore he could afford to be beaten
at first; while the virtue of the Irishman, and to a great extent the
Englishman, consists in merely
maintaining
his ground or condition.
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| Question: |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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CCXXX
"Fair son Malprimes," then says t'him Baligant,
"Was slain yestreen the good vassal Rollanz,
And Oliver, the proof and valiant,
The dozen peers, whom Charles so cherished, and
Twenty
thousand
more Frankish combatants.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future
thundered
on my past.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In abandoned cities foxes and badgers talk, in deserted
villages
tigers and leopards contend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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J'eusse, si le maitre, donne juste un dessus de panier, quitte
a regretter que le reste dut disparaitre, ou, alors, ajoute ce reste a
la fin du livre, apres la table des matieres et sans table des matieres
quant a ce qui l'eut concerne, sous la rubrique <
l'auteur>>, encore excluant de cette peut-etre trop indulgente deja
hospitalite les tout a fait apocryphes sonnets publies, sous le nom
glorieux et
desormais
sacre, par de spirituels parodistes.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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On earth myself, my heart in Eden dwelt,
Lost in sweet Lethe every other care,
As my live frame I felt
To marble turn, watching that wonder rare;
When old in years, but youthful still in air,
A lady briefly, quietly drew nigh,
And thus beholding me,
With
reverent
aspect and admiring eye,
Kind offer made my counsellor to be:
"My power," she said, "is more than mortals know--
Lighter than air, I, in an instant, make
Their hearts exult or ache,
I loose and bind whate'er is seen below;
Thine eyes, upon that sun, as eagles', bend,
But to my words with willing ears attend.
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Petrarch |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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who shall trace the void,
O'er the dim
fragments
cast a lunar light,
And say, 'Here was, or is,' where all is doubly night?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is scarcely two months
since I came back from the grave: is it worth while to be anything
but
radiantly
glad?
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A
mutilated
stanza or two are to
be found in Herd's collection, but the original song consists of five
or six stanzas, and were their _delicacy_ equal to their _wit_ and
_humour_, they would merit a place in any collection.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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On them I
recognise
the dress
Of my own country.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"--In gentler tone
He said, "Your
longings
in your looks are known;
You wish to learn the names of those behind
Who through the vale in long procession wind:
I grant your prayer, if fate allows a space,"
He said, "their fortunes, as they come, to trace.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
wrinkles
which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And if we're light, we'll soon
surmount
the sphere;
I give thee hearty joy in this thy new career.
| 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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Or a swift meteor, may be,
Across the gloom of heaven would sail
And disappear in space; then she
Would haste in agitation dire
To mutter her
concealed
desire
Ere the bright messenger had set.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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' 140
Tho gan she wondren more than biforn
A
thousand
fold, and doun hir eyen caste;
For never, sith the tyme that she was born,
To knowe thing desired she so faste;
And with a syk she seyde him at the laste, 145
`Now, uncle myn, I nil yow nought displese,
Nor axen more, that may do yow disese.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet
bridegroom
(So may Godhead deign
Help me!
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| Question: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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who knows what
thoughts
these small heads hold?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The dicasts, or jurymen, generally numbered 500; at times it
would call in the
assistance
of one or two other tribunals, and the
number of judges would then rise to 1000 or even 1500.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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My happy father died
When sad
distress
reduced the children's meal:
Thrice happy!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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in yon
brilliant
window-niche
How statue-like I me thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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O dear
delusion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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"
V
Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton trees bow down in a stream of air.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The pass was steep and rugged,
The wolves they howled and whined;
But he ran like a
whirlwind
up the pass,
And he left the wolves behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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High-soaring and intemp'rate in thy speech
How hast thou said,
Telemachus?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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He took a roll of bank-bills from his pocket
and counted out the
required
sum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Every thing does seem to vie
Which should first attract thine eye :
But since none
deserves
that grace,
In this crystal view thy face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it
under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License
included
with this
eBook or online at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Shulde be therfor fallen in despeyr,
Or be
recreaunt
for his owene tene,
Or sleen him-self, al be his lady fayr?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
org
SELECTED
POEMS
OF OSCAR WILDE
INCLUDING
THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL
* * * * *
METHUEN & CO.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Glory and honor and fame; the pomp that a soldier prizes;
The league-long waving line as the
marching
falls and rises;
Rumbling of caissons and guns; the clatter of horses' feet,
And a million awe-struck faces far down the waiting street.
| 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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FIRST GLANCE
A budding mouth and warm blue eyes;
A laughing face; and laughing hair,--
So ruddy was its rise
From off that
forehead
fair;
Frank fervor in whate'er she said,
And a shy grace when she was still;
A bright, elastic tread;
Enthusiastic will;
These wrought the magic of a maid
As sweet and sad as the sun in spring;--
Joyous, yet half-afraid
Her joyousness to sing.
| 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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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
35
Aboute hir herse ther stoden lustily,
Withouten
any wo, as thoughte me,
Bountee parfit, wel armed and richely,
And fresshe Beautee, Lust, and Iolitee,
Assured Maner, Youthe, and Honestee, 40
Wisdom, Estaat, [and] Dreed, and Governaunce,
Confedred bothe by bonde and alliaunce.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The theme appears to be almost an
obsession
with the T'ang and
Sung poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Meantime in
matutinal
dress
And hat surnamed a "Bolivar"(6)
He hies unto the "Boulevard,"
To loiter there in idleness
Until the sleepless Breguet chime(7)
Announcing to him dinner-time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Let your line be the finest adventure
Afloat on the tense dawn wind
That goes
wakening
thyme and mint.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Great black ravens I saw flutt'ring,
Caddows black and sombre gray,
In the
enchanted
coppice strutting
'Mid the adders on the way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the
sunlight
5
Sleeps in the vineyard?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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But when he gained the humid verge of the foam-flecked
shore, and spied the
womanish
Attis near the opal sea, he made a bound: the
witless wretch fled into the wild wold: there throughout the space of her
whole life a bondsmaid did she stay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet his
despondent
ghost couldn't have sought worse revenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
sed habent et numina legem:
seruit et
astrorum
uelox chorus et uaga seruit
luna, nec iniussae totiens redit orbita lucis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ah, but I had given over to despair
The mind in me, I ground the stubborn tribes,
I quarried them like rocks and broke them small
And ground them down to
flinders
and to sands;
But never gleamed the jewel-stone therein,
Naught but the common flint of earth I found.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Pero
scendemmo
a la destra mammella,
e diece passi femmo in su lo stremo,
per ben cessar la rena e la fiammella.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Let the blood of her hundred thousands
Throb in each manly vein;
And the wit of all her wisest
Make
sunshine
in her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The
PRETENDER
and
MARINA advance as the first couple.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
oru his preyer,
Of his
godnesse
ben partener
At ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
" said Pugatchef, without
deigning
to throw me a look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
Come, come to bed: the morning soon will peep;
Pinucio took the hint,
pretended
sleep,
And carried on so artfully the wile,
The husband no suspicion had of guile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime
all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Nevertheless, it is prophecised that they shall wed and found the
famous Este line, who shall rise to become one of the major
families of Medieval and
Renaissance
Italy (it is worth noting
that the Estes where the patrons of both Boiardo and Ariosto).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
What mournful rhymes I wrote and 'rased again,
Spending the
precious
hours of youth in vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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DER HERR:
Du darfst auch da nur frei erscheinen;
Ich habe
deinesgleichen
nie gehasst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
I rejoyce,
I shalle ne see thye dethe;
Moste
willynglie
ynne thye just cause
Doe I resign my brethe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
very
responsive
to the ideal, very
greedy of sensation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
O harder e'en than
toughest
heart of oak,
Deafer than uncharm'd snake to suppliant moans!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
David Williamson's
begetting
the daughter of Lady
Cherrytrees with child, while a party of dragoons were searching her
house to apprehend him for being an adherent to the solemn league and
covenant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field,
Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves 430
New reapt, the other part sheep-walks and foulds;
Ith' midst an Altar as the Land-mark stood
Rustic, of grassie sord; thither anon
A sweatie Reaper from his Tillage brought
First Fruits, the green Eare, and the yellow Sheaf,
Uncull'd, as came to hand; a Shepherd next
More meek came with the Firstlings of his Flock
Choicest
and best; then sacrificing, laid
The Inwards and thir Fat, with Incense strew'd,
On the cleft Wood, and all due Rites perform'd.
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a33e 3our-self be
talenttyf
to take hit to your-seluen,
[C] Whil mony so bolde yow aboute vpon bench sytten,
352 ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In order that the reader may judge fairly of these
fragments
of
the lay of Virginia, he must imagine himself a Plebeian who has
just voted for the reelection of Sextius and Licinius.
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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As the grave Roman retired,
a buffoon, who, from his
constant
drunkenness, was nicknamed the
Pint-pot, came up with gestures of the grossest indecency, and
bespattered the senatorial gown with filth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Faun,
illusion
escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs, contrasts you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And yet give I him respite,
A
twelvemonth
and a day;
Now haste and let see tite (soon)
Dare any here-in ought say.
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End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
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***** This file should be named 2490.
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--A wide stretch of fallow ground
recently
sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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CANTO II
Not with more glories, in th'
etherial
plain,
The Sun first rises o'er the purpled main,
Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams
Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames.
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And well she knew, to herself bitterly smiling,
How the King seated amid his fellow-kings
Devised his grievous rage, feeling himself
Insulted in his dearest mind, his rule
Over the
precious
pleasure of his women
Wounded: how the man's wrath would hiss and swell
Like gross spittle spat into red-hot coals.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Parean l'occhiaie anella sanza gemme:
chi nel viso de li uomini legge 'omo'
ben avria quivi
conosciuta
l'emme.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Darkness, I know,
attendeth
bright,
And light comes not but shadow comes:
And heart must know, if it know thy light,
Thy wild hound Fear, the shadow of love's delight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Hold, and smite me not,
Old
housefolk
of my father!
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Euripides - Electra |
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In hobbling speed he roams the pasture round,
Till hunted Dobbin and the rest are found;
Where some, from frequent meddlings of his whip,
Well know their foe, and often try to slip;
While Dobbin, tamed by age and labour, stands
To meet all trouble from his brutish hands,
And patient goes to gate or knowly brake,
The teasing burden of his foe to take;
Who, soon as mounted, with his switching weals,
Puts Dob's best swiftness in his heavy heels,
The
toltering
bustle of a blundering trot
Which whips and cudgels neer increased a jot,
Though better speed was urged by the clown--
And thus he snorts and jostles to the town.
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John Clare |
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