That all the revelations wise,
At which the
Brownites
made big eyes,
Might have been given by Jared Keyes,
A natural fool and ninny,
And, last week, didn't Eliab Snooks
Come back with never better looks, 890
As sharp as new-bought mackerel hooks,
And bright as a new pin, eh?
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The
initials
signify "Aerated Bread Company,
Limited.
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270
XXXI
A multitude of babes about her hong,
Playing their sports, that joyd her to behold,
Whom still she fed, whiles they were weake and young,
But thrust them forth still as they wexed old:
And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, 275
Adornd with gemmes and owches
wondrous
faire,
Whose passing price?
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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Ronsard |
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The many heard, and the loud revelry
Grew hush; the stately music no more breathes;
The myrtle sicken'd in a
thousand
wreaths.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Of every lady I
despair!
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Troubador Verse |
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Such mighty woes on
perjured
princes wait;
But thou, alas!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Not long after the death of
the king, the
favourite
Andeyro was stabbed in the palace by the
grandmaster of Avis, and Don Ruy de Pereyra.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'21
coxcombs
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Do not be decoyed
elsewhere!
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Whitman |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long
melodious
moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I shall denounce both your pigs and
yourself
as public enemies.
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Aristophanes |
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)
Slush and sand of the beach
tireless
till daylight wending,
Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,
A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
That savage trinity warily watching.
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fromm my herte flie
childyshe
feere,
Bee alle the manne display'd.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The leaves unhooked
themselves
from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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That pinnace which ye see, my friends, says that it was the speediest of
boats, nor any craft the surface
skimming
but it could gain the lead,
whether the course were gone o'er with plashing oars or bended sail.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Emulously they
surround
Latinus' royal house.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From convents, heiresses are often led
Directly
to the altar to be wed.
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La Fontaine |
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you,
abandoned
quite
Within the rosy sheen.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow
followed
free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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10 Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun (9), Setting Off for a Position as Administrative Assistant in Wuwei The hooves of the dappled gray have
recently
been nailed,5 it has been covered well with a silver saddle.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Blue-gown, the livery of the
licensed
beggar.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman's arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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Stephen Crane |
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Had my lips been smitten into music by the
kisses that but made them bleed,
You had walked with Bice and the angels on
that verdant and
enamelled
mead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And daintie spices fetcht from
furthest
Ynd,?
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'Tis the
chronicle
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`Swich wreche on hem, for
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Ther shal be take, er that we hennes wende,
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Growin' up a man, he
scarcely
met
Other white folks; an' his heart was set
On this red girl.
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman's arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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[Sidenote G: It consisted of all
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I had expected some permanent
alteration--visible
evidence
of the disease that was eating me away.
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Do not seek
to
dissuade
me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
He felt his very
whiskers
glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know.
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Lewis Carroll |
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That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making
lascivious
comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.
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Tu dici: "Io veggio l'acqua, io veggio il foco,
l'aere e la terra e tutte lor misture
venire a corruzione, e durar poco;
e queste cose pur furon creature;
per che, se cio ch'e detto e stato vero,
esser dovrien da
corruzion
sicure".
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lord Aeneas and his chosen
warriors
draw
hither and refresh their weary horses and limbs.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Whose thunder shakes the dark aerial hall:
By none but Dolon shall this prize be borne,
And him alone the
immortal
steeds adorn.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Last on the road the cowboy
careless
swings,
Leading tamed cattle in their tending strings,
With shining tin to keep his dinner warm
Swung at his back, or tucked beneath his arm;
Whose sun-burnt skin, and cheeks chuffed out with fat,
Are dyed as rusty as his napless hat.
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John Clare |
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Arias
I
addressed
him from you, about the insult.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
Marineres
all 'gan pull the ropes,
But look at me they n'old:
Thought I, I am as thin as air--
They cannot me behold.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My word shall give
Whate'er can 'stablish this my
soothfast
tale.
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Aeschylus |
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Can you not hear it
crooning
clear,
As though it understood?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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foster child of the
wondrous
nurse!
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me
whispered
low,
'_That fellow's got to swing_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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felix, cui magna patrem ceruice uehenti
sacra
Mycenaeae
patuit reuerentia flammae!
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| Question: |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LXIII
I Hoed and
trenched
and weeded,
And took the flowers to fair:
I brought them home unheeded;
The hue was not the wear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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associated
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received the work on a
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prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Never again
Cambyses
earth will tread.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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What want these outlaws
conquerors
should have[ij][9.
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Byron |
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XX
"I am in love," her
whispers
tell
The aged woman in her woe:
"My heart's delight, thou art not well.
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But the two most eminent,
as well as fullest, writers on the
transaction
of the Portuguese in the
East, are Manuel de Faria y Sousa, knight of the Order of Christ, and
Hieronimus Osorius, bishop of Sylves.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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s loyalty to friends, but very poorly of his judgment in
political
matters.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The man on whom
Shakespeare
modelled him had been full of
French elegancies, as he knew from Holinshed, and had given life a new
luxury, a new splendour, and been 'too friendly' to his friends, 'too
favorable' to his enemies.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Thou sail'st with others in this Argus here;
Nor wreck or bulging thou hast cause to fear;
But trust to this, my noble passenger;
Who swims with virtue, he shall still be sure
(Ulysses-like) all tempests to endure,
And 'midst a
thousand
gulfs to be secure.
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Robert Herrick |
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what my life's drear reign;
Consumed
beneath my heart's continued pain,
At will she guides me--yet am I the same.
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Petrarch |
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"
XX
While there is many an unpleasant sound, I hate to hear barking
Worse than
anything
else.
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your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The Marriage of Pudens and Claudia_
CLAVDIA, Rufe, meo nubit
Peregrina
Pudenti:
macte esto taedis, o Hymenaee, tuis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In
these dreams which he has told to his mother he
receives
premonition
concerning the advent of the satyr Enkidu, destined to join with him
in the conquest of Elam.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state
applicable
to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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OFFERING
My body glows in every vein and blooms
To fullest flower since I first knew thee,
My walk
unconscious
pride and power assumes;
Who art thou then--thou who awaitest me?
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Rilke - Poems |
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I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with idolatrous paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And
breathing
into those luminous skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
| Guess: |
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
That
remarkable
Man with a nose.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The pasture cows that herded on the moor
Printed their
footsteps
to the very door,
Where little summer flowers with seasons blow
And scarcely gave the eldern leave to grow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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but still as sleep
They secret to their pillows creep,
And whisper oer, in terror's way,
The prayers they dare no louder say;
Then hide their heads beneath the clothes,
And try in vain to seek repose:
While yet, to fancy's
sleepless
eye,
Witches on sheep-trays gallop by,
And fairies, like a rising spark,
Swarm twittering round them in the dark;
Till sleep creeps nigh to ease their cares,
And drops upon them unawares.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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But as it chances, when the hart hath lay'd
Her fawns new-yean'd and sucklings yet, to rest
Within some dreadful lion's gloomy den,
She roams the hills, and in the grassy vales
Feeds heedless, till the lion, to his lair
Return'd, destroys her and her little-ones,
So them thy Sire shall
terribly
destroy.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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About thy face in circles drawing near
My thought floats like a
fluttering
white wing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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He lived to an
advanced
age, but the year of his death
is unknown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It is the Benshie's moan on the storm, _5
Or a
shivering
fiend that thirsting for sin,
Seeks murder and guilt when virtue sleeps,
Winged with the power of some ruthless king,
And sweeps o'er the breast of the prostrate plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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is the spirit and the power,
Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower,
A new Earth and new Heaven,
Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud--
Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the
luminous
cloud--
We in ourselves rejoice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Even the poem in question cannot be
pronounced entirely original, though its
intrinsic
beauty is
unquestionable.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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While yet he spake they had arrived before
A pillar'd porch, with lofty portal door,
Where hung a silver lamp, whose
phosphor
glow
Reflected in the slabbed steps below,
Mild as a star in water; for so new,
And so unsullied was the marble hue,
So through the crystal polish, liquid fine,
Ran the dark veins, that none but feet divine
Could e'er have touch'd there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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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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Villon |
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Lanier's
later teaching, but are offered as examples of his youthful spirit,
his earlier methods and his
instructive
growth.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Every great man nowadays has his
disciples
and it is invariably Judas
who writes the biography.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Songs of a
Strolling
Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops profound and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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.
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Lucretius |
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And yet no warning,
When I
infatuate
went down to be
Procuress of myself to the world's desire,
Did God blaze on my blindness, no rebuke.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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A moment he stood
balancing
with emotion,
And all but lost himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Duckworth
& Co.
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Imagists |
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'
"'Illustrious shade (I cried), of Peleus' fates
No circumstance the voice of Fame relates:
But hear with pleased
attention
the renown,
The wars and wisdom of thy gallant son.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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