In some respects it was stupid, in
some respects it was unjust, but of one thing there can be no doubt--it
had a most
salutary
effect.
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Tennyson |
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And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, when, in June,
Tall
chesnuts
keep away the sun and moon:--
I rush'd into the folly!
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Keats |
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, _throne_,
figuratively
for _rule_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Is it only over you that love has
triumphed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The passage in Mungo Park's
_Journal
of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p.
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Byron |
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His inclinations, however, pointed so
decisively
in the direction of the
finer arts of life that he left the Military Academy after a very short
attendance to devote himself to the study of philosophy and the history
of art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Men died with love on
entering
her room.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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copyright law in
creating
the Project
Gutenberg-tm collection.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And then I knew that Love is worth its pain
And that my heart was richer for his sake,
Since lack of love is
bitterest
of all.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In those brave days our fathers stood firmly side by side;
They faced the Marcian fury; they tamed the Fabian pride:
They drove the
fiercest
Quinctius an outcast forth from Rome;
They sent the haughtiest Claudius with shivered fasces home.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Twixt woe and woe I dwell--
I dare not like a recreant fly,
And leave the league of ships, and fail each true ally;
For
rightfully
they crave, with eager fiery mind,
The virgin's blood, shed forth to lull the adverse wind--
God send the deed be well!
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Aeschylus |
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or if you must offend
Against the precept, ne'er transgress its End;
Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; 165
And have, at least, their
precedent
to plead.
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Alexander Pope |
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Wilbur, through the
medium of a young man at present
domiciled
in my family.
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James Russell Lowell |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more
sensitive
than we
are.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yonder's the
criminal!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In 1824 he once more fell under the
imperial
displeasure.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping
from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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There is none but he,
Whose being I doe feare: and vnder him,
My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said
Mark
Anthonies
was by Caesar.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The King caresses him, and, it is said,
Has
promised
help.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
world of wits, and _gens comme il faut_ which I lately left, and with
whom I never again will
intimately
mix--from that port, Sir, I expect
your Gazette: what _Les beaux esprit_ are saying, what they are doing,
and what they are singing.
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Robert Burns |
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The
description
which you give of the state
of our country during the plague, appeared to me most true and most
pathetic.
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Petrarch |
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Cynthius, pluck ye by the ear,
That ye may good
doctrine
hear;
Play not with the maiden-hair,
For each ringlet there's a snare.
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Robert Herrick |
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THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE NIGHTINGALE
A
CONVERSATION
POEM, WRITTEN IN APRIL 1798
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip
Of sullen light, no obscure trembling hues.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who fears the Parthian or the
Scythian
horde,
Or the rank growth that German forests yield,
While Caesar lives?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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How bless'd,
delicious
Scene!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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She ran to Hector, and with her, tender of heart and hand,
Her son borne in his nurse's arms; when, like a heavenly sign
Compact of many golden stars, the
princely
child did shine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Did you
grate out to the
soldiers
what was given you?
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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But, lady fair,
What if Enipeus please
Your
listless
eye?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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In the social satires of Pope's great admirer,
Byron, we are at no loss to
perceive
the ideal of personal liberty which
the poet opposes to the conventions he tears to shreds.
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Alexander Pope |
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18 _menti_(_ci_ La1)_ens_ OLa1
21 _scis
quecumque
tibi placent al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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--The brief style is that which
expresseth
much in little; the
concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be
understood; the abrupt style, which hath many breaches, and doth not seem
to end, but fall.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the
sparkling
waves in glee:--
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
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Golden Treasury |
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Seu chlamys artifici nimium
succuiTerit
auso,
Sicque imperfectum fugerit impar opus ;
Sive tribus spemat victrix certare Deabus,
Et pretium formse, nee spoiliata, ferat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing,
intricately
drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Now martial law commands us to forbear;
Hereafter
we shall meet in glorious war,
Some future day shall lengthen out the strife,
And let the gods decide of death or life!
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Iliad - Pope |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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The things one feels
absolutely
certain about are never true.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Crag jutting forth to crag, and rocks that seem'd 10
Ever as if just rising from a sleep,
Forehead to forehead held their
monstrous
horns;
And thus in thousand hugest phantasies
Made a fit roofing to this nest of woe.
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Keats |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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THE corn has turned from grey to red,
Since first my spirit
wandered
forth
From the drear cities of the north,
And to Italia's mountains fled.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands
to take them up to town for the
advantage
of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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a8
DOWN AND OUT By
Fullerton
L.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Piso had
conspired
against Nero, A.
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Tacitus |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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International donations are
gratefully
accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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[19] This is to my
knowledge
the first occurence of the infinitive
of this verb, _paheru_, not _paharu_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I
marvelled
at your height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"This child," he says, "had a singular
resemblance to me,
insomuch
that any one who had not seen its mother
would have taken me for its father.
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Petrarch |
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With the error that regards Herrick as a careless singer is closely
twined that which ranks him in the school of that master of elegant
pettiness who has usurped and abused the name Anacreon; as a mere
light-hearted writer of pastorals, a gay and
frivolous
Renaissance
amourist.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Behold, within the leafy shade,
Those bright blue eggs
together
laid!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But on the third of grove and mead
He took no more the slightest heed;
They made him feel inclined to doze;
And the
conviction
soon arose,
Ennui can in the country dwell
Though without palaces and streets,
Cards, balls, routs, poetry or fetes;
On him spleen mounted sentinel
And like his shadow dogged his life,
Or better,--like a faithful wife.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ESTRANGEMENT
The path from me to you that led,
Untrodden long, with grass is grown,
Mute carpet that his lieges spread
Before the Prince Oblivion
When he goes
visiting
the dead.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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The first is raised of men from Butenrot,
The next, after, Micenes, whose heads are gross;
Along their backs, above their spinal bones,
As they were hogs, great
bristles
on them grow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Your
wretched
towns shall be grated
like this cheese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
'75'
With this line Arbuthnot is
supposed
to take up the conversation.
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
|
is rather like Flaxman, lines strait and severe,
And a
colorless
outline, but full, round, and clear;--
To the men he thinks worthy he frankly accords
The design of a white marble statue in words.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Bourdillon
and the _Spectator_:--"The Debt Unpayable.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
It cannot be my spirit,
For that was thine before;
I ceded all of dust I knew, --
What opulence the more
Had I, a humble maiden,
Whose
farthest
of degree
Was that she might,
Some distant heaven,
Dwell timidly with thee!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Keats's
_Hyperion_ is wonderful; but it does not go far enough to let us form
any judgment of it
appropriate
to the present purpose.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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" Lycius blush'd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
With reconciling words and
courteous
mien
Turning into sweet milk the sophist's spleen.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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EASTWARD IN THE "COMMONWEALTH" By Esther Morton Smith
She churns her way down the foaming sound; Her
feathering
paddles dip and shove
And rise again on their endless round
From the nether plunge to the heights above.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I full-grown man, I blooming youth, I stripling, I a boy,
I of
Gymnasium
erst the bloom, I too of oil the pride:
Warm was my threshold, ever stood my gateways opening wide, 65
My house was ever garlanded and hung with flowery freight,
And couch to quit with rising sun, has ever been my fate:
Now must I Cybebe's she-slave, priestess of gods, be hight?
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
I would that I could climb
A
thousand
times by wind-swept stairs like these,
That lead so near to heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope, Edited by
Henry Morley
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
Birds faint in dread:
I shall not lose old strength
In the lone frost's black length:
Strength
long since fled!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
They must not give Valerius
To raven and to kite;
For aye
Valerius
loathed the wrong,
And aye upheld the right:
And for your wives and babies
In the front rank he fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
III
Puis la Vierge n'est plus que la Vierge du livre;
Les mystiques elans se cassent quelquefois,
Et vient la
pauvrete
des images que cuivre
L'ennui, l'enluminure atroce et les vieux bois.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
[59] Athene, the
tutelary
divinity of Athens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Besides, there's naught of which thou canst declare
It lives
disjoined
from body, shut from void--
A kind of third in nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
But to storm, with all the forces I have mentioned, was too risky;
So they hurried off to Richmond for the Government Marines,
Tore them from their weeping matrons, fired their souls with
Bourbon whiskey,
Till they
battered
down Brown's castle with their ladders and
machines;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Received three bayonet stabs, and a cut on his brave old crown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Familiar with the waves and free
As if their own white foam were he,
His heart upon the heart of ocean
Lay learning all its mystic motion,
And
throbbing
to the throbbing sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The
population
of Rome was, from a very early
period, divided into hereditary castes, which, indeed, readily
united to repel foreign enemies, but which regarded each other,
during many years, with bitter animosity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
II
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still
boasting
will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Among the tawny
tasselled
reed
The ducks and ducklings float and feed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
II
Maidens the poets learn from you to tell
How
solitary
and remote you are,
As night is lighted by one high bright star
They draw light from the distance where you dwell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But these pleasures of
childhood
have lost all their zest;
It is warfare and carnage that now I love best:
The sounds that I wish to awaken and hear
Are the cheers raised by courage, the shrieks due to fear;
When the riot of flames, ruin, smoke, steel and blood,
Announces an army rolls along as a flood,
Which I follow, to harry the clamorous ranks,
Sharp-goading the laggards and pressing the flanks,
Till, a thresher 'mid ripest of corn, up I stand
With an oak for a flail in my unflagging hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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XII
Well: Here at morn they'll light on one
Dangling in mockery
Of what he spent his
substance
on
Blindly and uselessly!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere;
Heaven did a
recompense
as largely send:
He gave to Misery all he had, a tear,
He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend.
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Golden Treasury |
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Land of the
hurricane!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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f
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AsS ye go through these palm-trees,
O
Sith
sleepeth
my child here Still ye the branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For
innocent
was the Lord I chanced upon
And clean as mine own heart, King Pheres' son,
Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
warriors
are all dead: they lie on the moor-field.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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Ronsard |
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and wouldn't it be a blessed thing for your
spirrits
if ye
cud lay your two peepers jist, upon Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt,
when he is all riddy drissed for the hopperer, or stipping into the
Brisky for the drive into the Hyde Park.
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Poe - 5 |
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But the grim goddess, seizing from her watch-tower the moment of
mischief, seeks the steep farm-roof and sounds the pastoral war-note
from the ridge, straining the infernal cry on her twisted horn; it
spread
shuddering
over all the woodland, and echoed through the deep
forests: the lake of Trivia heard it afar; Nar river heard it with white
sulphurous water, and the springs of Velinus; and fluttered mothers
clasped their children to their breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Jeanie's first idea was to take the
opportunity
of flight; but her
desire to escape yielded for a moment to apprehension for the poor
insane being, who, she thought, might perish for want of relief.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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