(82)
[Note 82: Tchatzki, one of the principal
characters
in Griboyedoff's
celebrated comedy "Woe from Wit" (_Gore ot Ouma_).
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You would have thought the very windows spake,
So many greedy looks of young and old
Through
casements
darted their desiring eyes
Upon his visage; and that all the walls
With painted imagery had said at once
'Jesu preserve thee!
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Shakespeare |
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Sappho was at the height
of her career about six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric
poetry was peculiarly
esteemed
and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.
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Sappho |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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unto the mighty
presence
of the shepherd,
unto the place of the .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For some it may radiate from the Shropshire life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic simplicity and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and
landscapes
are presented.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
Stalks Norma
brandishing
the dagger in her hand.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Seest thou that cloud that rides in state,
Part ruby-like, part
candidate?
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Robert Herrick |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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,
_deprived
of, free from_, w.
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Beowulf |
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VIII
On the left side goes Remus,
With wrists and fingers red,
And in his hand a boar-spear,
And on the point a head--
A wrinkled head and aged,
With silver beard and hair,
And holy fillets round it,
Such as the
pontiffs
wear--
The head of ancient Camers,
Who spake the words of doom:
"The children to the Tiber;
The mother to the tomb.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You are at giddy heights twin powers to be
A glory and a force for all that's great--
But 'neath the purple canopy of state,
Th' expanding and
triumphant
arch you prize,
'Neath royal power that sacred veils disguise,
Beneath your crowns of pearls and jewelled stars,
Beneath your exploits terrible and wars,
You, Sigismond, have but a monster been,
And, Ladislaus, you are scoundrel seen.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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VI
He, after some few days, in Natoly
Finds himself, and towards Brusa goes his ways;
Hence wending, on the hither side o' the sea,
Makes Thrace; through Hungary by the Danube lays
His course, and as his horse had wings to flee,
Traverses in less time than twenty days
Both the Moravian and
Bohemian
line;
Threaded Franconia next, and crost the Rhine.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Is't not strange
That thou
shouldst
weep, so gifted?
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Keats |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He writes to one of his Italian friends, "When I left my native
country, I
promised
to return to it in the autumn; but time, place, and
circumstances, often oblige us to change our resolutions.
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Petrarch |
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My name she says, is
Mistress
Jean,
And I follow the Collier Laddie.
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Robert Forst |
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"
Proudly the war bride, ending so,
Sank
breathless
in the dumb white snow.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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III
Doth o'er us pass, when, as th'
expanding
eye
To the loved object-so the tear to the lid
Will start, which lately slept in apathy?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Years of the
unperformed!
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Whitman |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A WOMAN AND HER DEAD HUSBAND
Ah, stern cold man,
How can you lie so
relentless
hard
While I wash you with weeping water!
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Imagists |
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And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it
is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Tell us, how is it that thou mak'st thyself
A wall against the sun, as thou not yet
Into th'
inextricable
toils of death
Hadst enter'd?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Gore, for example, (the author of "Cecil,") a lady who
quotes all tongues from the Chaldaean to Chickasaw, and is helped to her
learning, "as needed," upon a
systematic
plan, by Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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OCEANUS
Yea, I behold,
Prometheus!
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Aeschylus |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A person of some note in the literary
world is of opinion, that _glum_ and _glom_ are modern cant words;
and from this circumstance doubts the
authenticity
of Rowley's
Manuscripts.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Here wait we rather, till
approaching
day
Shall prompt our speed, and point the ready way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Copyright
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Yet, though a dreary strain, to this I cling,
So that it wean me from the weary dream
Of selfish grief or gladness--so it fling
Forgetfulness around me--it shall seem
To me, though to none else, a not
ungrateful
theme.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
But then,
continued
she, we ought to take
An oath, that we will full discov'ry make,
To one another of the various facts,
Without disguising even trifling acts.
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La Fontaine |
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It was a vision that our eyes beheld,
And it hath
vanished
into the unseen.
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Longfellow |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Stephen Crane |
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And malediction, blasphemy and groan,
Ecstasies, cries, Te Deums, and tears of brine,
Are echoes through a thousand
labyrinths
flown;
For mortal hearts an opiate divine;
A shout cried by a thousand sentinels,
An order from a thousand bugles tossed,
A beacon o'er a thousand citadels,
A call to huntsmen in deep woodlands lost.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And all my
Children?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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515
Is it not
sufficient
that you will not hate me?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Though martial songs have banish'd songs of love,
And
nightingales
forsake the village grove, 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The following is the complete poem of
1825, as
published
in 1827.
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William Wordsworth |
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If you listen to him, by
Bacchus!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Des
curiosites
vaguement impudiques
Epouvantent le reve aux chastes bleuites
Qui sont surpris autour des celestes tuniques
Du linge dont Jesus voile ses nudites.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And then each galley on some other's prow
Came
crashing
in.
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Aeschylus |
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The pearly lustre of the moon went out:
The mossy banks and the meandering paths,
The happy flowers and the
repining
trees,
Were seen no more: the very roses' odors
Died in the arms of the adoring airs.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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It is admitted that
the
exercise
of the imagination is the most delightful, but it is
alleged that that of reason is the more useful.
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Yeats |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Harmony]
While thy mild voice fills all these Caverns with sweet harmony
O how thy our Parents sit & weep mourn in their silent secret bowers *
PAGE 1O
But Enitharmon answerd with a
dropping
tear & smiling frowning*
[[Bright]]Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears *
To make us happy how they let them weary their immortal powers *
While we draw in their sweet delights while we return them scorn *
On scorn to feed our discontent; for if we grateful prove
They will withhold sweet love, whose food is thorns & bitter roots.
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Blake - Zoas |
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100
Thither in haste so hot ('tis said) from
allwhere
the Youth-hood
Grecian, fared in hosts forth of their hearths and their homes,
Lest with a stolen punk with fullest of pleasure should Paris
Fairly at leisure and ease sleep in the pacific bed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It came without a
flourish—simply
print ed some very good contributions.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Look now
first on this
overhanging
cliff of stone, where shattered masses lie
strewn, and the mountain dwelling stands desolate, and rocks are rent
away in vast ruin.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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) 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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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Though centuries falter and decline,
Your proven strongholds shall remain
Embodied
memories of your line,
Incarnate legends of your reign.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the darkness up
Wherein I
breathed
you like a smoke or dew.
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Imagists |
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235
Who speketh for me right now in myn
absence?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Where are you going to
carouse?
| 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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Milly has no mother; and sad beyond another
Is she whose blessed mother is
vanished
out of call:
Truly comfort beyond comfort is stored up in a mother
Who bears with all, and hopes through all, and loves us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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--When a
virtuous
man is raised, it brings gladness to his
friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Is it strange
That, placed on a conspicuous throne of thorns,
Grasping an iron sceptre, and immured _90
Within a splendid prison, whose stern bounds
Shut him from all that's good or dear on earth,
His soul asserts not its
humanity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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as men were wont
to demen or speken of complexiou{n}s {and}
attemp{er}aunces
of bodies
(q' non).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er
offended
find a foe?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Because you have
committed
the most dreadful crime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Phantom assigned to this place by his brilliance,
The Swan in his exile is rendered motionless,
Swathed
uselessly
by his cold dream of defiance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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^'
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there :
fTwo paradises are in one,
(To live in
paradise
alone.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I have not
followed
original spacing exactly, except where it genuinely appears to add impact to the verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Li Po |
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That the King
himself, who is no less the spring of that, than he is the
fountain of honour, yet has never used the dubbing or
creating of wits as a flower of his prerogative ; much
less can the ecclesiastical power
confcrrc
it with the
same ease as they do the holy orders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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you are growing old, and still
You
struggle
to look fair;
You drink, and dance, and trill
Your songs to youthful Love, in accents weak
With wine, and age, and passion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How warm they were on such a day:
You almost feel the date,
So short way off it seems; and now,
They 're
centuries
from that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
following
extracts are taken from a copy in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford (vol.
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Byron |
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But
examples of this sort of high churchmanship
were not
infrequent
in the age of Charles II.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Scorn not the sad reverse,
injurious
maid!
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Were it not so, Love could not be at all:
Nought could be, but a yearning to fulfil
Desire of beauty, by vain reaching forth
Of sense to hold and
understand
the vision
Made by impassion'd body,--vision of thee!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The tyrant
surprised
me unarmed, defenceless.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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So drunk, he
disavows
it
With badinage divine;
So dazzling, we mistake him
For an alighting mine.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Sir Henry Savile,
grave, and truly lettered; Sir Edwin Sandys, excellent in both; Lord
Egerton, the Chancellor, a grave and great orator, and best when he was
provoked; but his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor is he
who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which
may be compared or
preferred
either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Love's kingdom hast thou rent,
And made it poor; in narrow grave hast pent
The
blooming
flower of beauty and its light!
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Petrarch |
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--
we saw you hover close,
caress her,
open her pore-cups,
make a cross of her,
quickly
penetrate
her--
she opening to you,
engulfing you,
every limb of her,
bud of her, pore of her?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'Give me,' I
demanded
of
a scholar some time ago, 'give me a definition of poetry.
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Poe - 5 |
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And lest office of host I should be holden to hate,
Learn how in Fortune's deeps I chance myself to be drowned,
Nor fro' the poor rich boons
furthermore
prithee require.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And sometimes again we catch
glimpses
of a lyric strain,
sustained perhaps but for a line or two at a time, and making the
reader regret its sudden cessation.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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(_That I should be
So
avaricious
of his gleaming price!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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