Mercury
On such a morning would have flung himself
From cloud to cloud, and swum with
balanced
wings
To some tall mountain.
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Tennyson |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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'
Therwith
she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I am torn, torn with thy beauty,
O Rose of the
sharpest
thorn !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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10
LXXXIII
In the quiet garden world,
Gold
sunlight
and shadow leaves
Flicker on the wall.
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Sappho |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The city won for Allah from the Giaour,
The Giaour from Othman's race again may wrest;
And the Serai's
impenetrable
tower
Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest;
Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest
The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil,
May wind their path of blood along the West;
But ne'er will Freedom seek this fated soil,
But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The winds grow wearied, warring with the tower,
The noisy North is out of breath, nor power
Has any blast old Corbus to defeat,
It still has
strength
their onslaughts worst to meet.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A furious stream of lightning seems to flow
Like a long snake
uncoiling
its fell ring.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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,
_knightly
dress, armor_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What do you think
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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no: this my Hand will rather
The
multitudinous
Seas incarnardine,
Making the Greene one, Red.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Who,
straight
propitious, in prophetic strain
Will teach you to repass the unmeasured main.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She had gone out into the wet and I could hardly
coax her back to me--even with
biscuits
with sugar on top.
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Kipling - Poems |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Zwar bin ich sehr gewohnt,
inkognito
zu gehn,
Doch lasst am Galatag man seinen Orden sehn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The question therefore concerning the
authenticity
of these Poems must
now be decided by an examination of the fragments upon vellum, which
Mr.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The sounds re-echoed from the roof and walls
As if dead priests were
laughing
in their stalls.
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Longfellow |
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[12]
And
climbing
[13] up the hill--(it was at least
Four [14] roods of sheer ascent) Sir Walter found 50
Three several hoof-marks which the hunted Beast [15]
Had left imprinted on the grassy [16] ground.
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William Wordsworth |
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MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An interloper own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former
husbandmen!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
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Keats - Lamia |
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--
The spirit of man may dwell in God: the world,
From the soft
delicate
floor of grass to those
Rafters of light and hanging cloths of stars,
Is but the honour in God's mind for man,
Wrought into glorious imagination.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Upon the rack,
Bassanio?
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Shakespeare |
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There's
something
wrong with your head.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Our city, torn by faction's throes,
Dacian and Ethiop well-nigh razed,
These with their
dreadful
navy, those
For archer-prowess rather praised.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its culmination on what
might be termed its
monumental
side.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But nature herself,
Mother of things, was the first seed-sower
And primal grafter; since the berries and acorns,
Dropping
from off the trees, would there beneath
Put forth in season swarms of little shoots;
Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting slips
Upon the boughs and setting out in holes
The young shrubs o'er the fields.
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Lucretius |
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REMARKS OF
INCREASE
D.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or
all forehead or
something
horrid.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Is your cause against us
legitimate?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Those who
prepared
them must
have known what they were about.
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John Donne |
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1375) de
amatoriis
poetis loquens
sui temporis Catulli et Properti eos uolumina euoluere autumat (Schwabe,
_Testimon.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Poor poet thou, and
grateful
senate they.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie
And see the
coloured
counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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CLV
Letting the flyers fly, of those who stand
Firm in their place, Rinaldo breaks the array;
Ariodantes
kills on every hand;
Who ranks well nigh Rinaldo on that day.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ay, no doubt
My spirit answered thee so
fiercely
then
Because it felt thee reading me aright,
How a mere bragging was my purity.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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At length slow evening came:
They went with
pitchers
to the reedy brook;
Lizzie most placid in her look,
Laura most like a leaping flame.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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"That comes
afterward, but for the Lord's sake don't
distrack
me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O sight
Of terrour, foul and ugly to behold,
Horrid to think, how
horrible
to feel!
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Milton |
|
They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have forged onwards in reverse,
Searching peaks, ravines and hills,
Like one
tortured
by frost and ice,
Whom the cold torments and stings,
So that no more would song or whistle
Rule me than lawless monks the bristle.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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You will do better to be
searching
out
All sharpen'd steel that may take weapon-use.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_--The island of Bahrein is
situated
in the
Persian Gulf.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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pondera silice_ Bergk
7
_maculas_
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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No
question
but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, 407.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
|
--
Did it in years long
vanished
sweep along,
Full of events, and troubled like the deep?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add
something
more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
The knights are commissioned to champion the
cause of persons in
distress
and redress their wrongs.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1334
EXPLICIT
THE BOKE OF THE DUCHESSE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Digitized by VjOOQIC
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SATIRES
THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND,
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of
land,
As but the oflf-scouring of the British sand,
And so much earth as was contributed'
By English pilots when they heaved the lead,
Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell
Of shipwrecked cockle and the muscle-shell, —
This
indigested
vomit of the sea
Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.
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Marvell - Poems |
|
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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 |
|
]
[Sub-Footnote vii:
"So break those
glittering
shadows, human joys"
(YOUNG).
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Indeed,
Professor
J.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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the shadows of the trees
Now circle wider 'bout their stem,
Like
sentries
that by slow degrees
Perform their rounds, gently protecting them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And in regard to Pope's trick of
taunting
his enemies with
poverty, it must frankly be confessed that he seized upon this charge as
a ready and telling weapon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain--
Unmelting,
uneffaced
the stain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
The TWO
MERCHANTS
enter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The day is broad awake--the first long beam
Of level sun finds Sister Marta's face,
And
trembling
there it lights a timid smile
Upon the lips that say so many prayers,
And have no words for hate and none for love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
"
THREE RECEIPTS FOR
DOMESTIC
COOKERY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Qui des Dieux osera, Lesbos, etre ton juge,
Et condamner ton front pali dans les travaux,
Si ses
balances
d'or n'ont pese le deluge
De larmes qu'a la mer ont verse tes ruisseaux?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
amisso trepidus polo
Titan
excutiet
diem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
He who regards it
directly
and intensely sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
In our
approach
through the mystic we touch reality most deeply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Infanta
No, I merely wish, plagued by suffering,
To
retrieve
my calm, in meditating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
And as the
lengthening
days of summer throve,
She sighed, then withered by the waving rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Nepaul,
From his horse had a
terrible
fall;
But, though split quite in two, with some very strong glue
They mended that man of Nepaul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
with pride so did she swell;
And
thundring
Jove, that high in heaven doth dwell, 95
And wield the world, she claymed for her syre,
Or if that any else did Jove excell:
For to the highest she did still aspyre,
Or if ought higher were then that, did it desyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
No, those are not the words, the
substantial
words are in the ground
and sea,
They are in the air, they are in you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
(surely the Tyrian purple must have
faded by this time), or from
comparatively
trivial articles of
commerce,--chocolate, lemon, coffee, cinnamon, claret?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The _Faerie Queene_ might almost
be called the epic of the English
conquest
of Ireland.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Safe in their ancient crannies, dark and deep,
Let kings and conquerors, saints and soldiers sleep--
Late in the world,--too late perchance for fame,
Just late enough to reap
abundant
blame,--
I choose a novel theme, a bold abuse
Of critic charters, an unlaurelled Muse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Without them Eugene is complete;
And thou, from whom
Tattiana
sweet;
Was drawn, ideal of my lay--
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
In cultural matters he often followed antiquity,10 half of his court were old
Confucian
scholars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious
footstep
here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Act II Scene V (The Infanta, Leonor)
Infanta
In my mind, alas, there's such
inquietude!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ere the steamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry
An
attractive
girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my little Carrie.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Why is the most generous wish to make others blest,
impotent
and
ineffectual--as the idle breeze that crosses the pathless desert!
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Robert Burns |
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"The ultimate end of criticism," said Coleridge, "is much more to establish
the principles of writing than to furnish rules how to pass
judgment
on
what has been written by others.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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231
In
pilerynage
now wil I go,
And half ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,
The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months
and years,
The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with
the well known neighbors and faces,
They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,
The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage
home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the
Hungarian
his way, and the Pole his way,
The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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