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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning skilfully while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of
romantic
art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the
orchards
--
And they the daffodils!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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E'en chilly Albion admires,
The grand example Europe fires;
America shall clap her hands,
When swiftly o'er the
Atlantic
wave,
Fame sounds the news of how the brave,
In three bright days, have burst their bands!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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LV
"Elbanio's beauty (for so fair to view
Never was any cavalier beside)
So strongly works upon the
youthful
crew,
Which in that council sit the state to guide,
That the opinion of the older few
That like Artemia think, is set aside;
And little lacks but that the assembled race
Absolve Elbanio by especial grace.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime
breathed
the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I should have been too glad, I see,
Too lifted for the scant degree
Of life's
penurious
round;
My little circuit would have shamed
This new circumference, have blamed
The homelier time behind.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Round about a delicate neck curled short little ringlets;
Up from the crown of her head crinkled the
unbraided
hair.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Elle n'a point prevu la
froideur
matinale,
Ni bien ferme le seuil a la bise hivernale?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The observing augur took the prince aside,
Seized by the hand, and thus
prophetic
cried:
"Yon bird, that dexter cuts the aerial road,
Rose ominous, nor flies without a god:
No race but thine shall Ithaca obey,
To thine, for ages, Heaven decrees the sway.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Our
interview
was transient,--
Of me, himself was shy;
And God forbid I look behind
Since that appalling day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He won, I lost her; and my loss
I bore I know not how;
But I do think I suffered then
Less
wretchedness
than now.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If to remember deeds whilome well done be a pleasure
Meet for a man who deems all of his dealings be just,
Nor Holy Faith ever broke nor in
whatever
his compact
Sanction of Gods abused better to swindle mankind,
Much there remains for thee during length of living, Catullus, 5
Out of that Love ingrate further to solace thy soul;
For whatever of good can mortal declare of another
Or can avail he do, such thou hast said and hast done;
While to a thankless mind entrusted all of them perisht.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The impact of a dollar upon the heart
Smiles warm red light,
Sweeping
from the hearth rosily upon the
white table,
With the hanging cool velvet shadows
Moving softly upon the door.
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Stephen Crane |
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unfold
Thy reddening orchards, and thy fields of gold; 705
That thou, the [Ff] slave of slaves, art doom'd to pine,
While no Italian arts their charms combine
To teach the skirt of thy dark cloud to shine;
For thy poor babes that,
hurrying
from the door,
With pale-blue hands, and eyes that fix'd implore, 710
Dead muttering lips, and hair of hungry white,
Besiege the traveller whom they half affright.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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_ere_):
_prupere_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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e
emperoures
bour,
A mayde good, of greth honur,
To wedde wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Worn Dante, I forgive
The
implacable
hates that in thy horrid hells
Or burn or freeze thy fellows, never loosed
By death, nor time, nor love.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He gained
Thirty pitched battles, and took, as legends tell,
Three hundred
standards
from the Infidel;
And from the Moorish King Motril, in war,
Won Antiquera, Suez, and Nijar;
And then died poor.
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Hugo - Poems |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore
the more are they borne wandering on
By blindfold reason.
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Lucretius |
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L'anima gloriosa onde si parla,
tornata ne la carne, in che fu poco,
credette
in lui che potea aiutarla;
e credendo s'accese in tanto foco
di vero amor, ch'a la morte seconda
fu degna di venire a questo gioco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And says
I; "Isn't it the laste little bit of a mistake in the world that ye've
been afther the making, yer
leddyship?
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I did not mind the
pictures
nor the candles,
whether tallow or tin.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Our frigate takes fire,
The other asks if we demand
quarter?
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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and oft, a moment's space,
What time the moon was lost behind a cloud,
Hath heard a pause of silence; till the moon
Emerging, hath
awakened
earth and sky
With one sensation, and those wakeful birds
Have all burst forth in choral minstrelsy,
As if some sudden gale had swept at once
A hundred airy harps!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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[_The
Attendants
depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone, proceeds to enter the
house_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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--2) with verbs of
bringing
and
taking (cf.
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Beowulf |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"I take
possession
of men's minds and deeds.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And I made great
provision
for my journey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus said the Scarlet Whore to her gaOaiit,
Who atrai^t designed his brother to
sapplant
:
Fkrads of ambirioa here his soul possessed,
Ai>d thirst of empire calentared his breast.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the
troubled
soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Such joy he had, their stubborne harts to quell,
And sturdie courage tame with
dreadfull
aw,
That his beheast they feared, as a tyrans law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Land of
Albania!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around,
Nor that Content, surpassing wealth,
The sage in
meditation
found,
And walked with inward glory crown'd--
Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure;
Others I see whom these surround--
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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That race which, strong from Ilion's fires,
Its gods, on Tuscan waters tost,
Its sons, its
venerable
sires,
Bore to Ausonia's citied coast;
That race, like oak by axes shorn
On Algidus with dark leaves rife,
Laughs carnage, havoc, all to scorn,
And draws new spirit from the knife.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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40
Our old
familiars
are not laid,
Though snapt our wands and sunk our books;
They beckon, not to be gainsaid,
Where, round broad meads that mowers wade,
The Charles his steel-blue sickle crooks.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up hitherto and
unconscious
till this instant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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To SEND
DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any particular state
visit http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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māran, 2017; mund-gripe
māran (_a
mightier
hand-grip_), 754; with following gen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Royalty
payments
should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It is clear, however, from a
comparison of
different
copies that as _1633_ passed through the press
this poem underwent considerable correction and alteration; and in
its final printed form there are errors which I have been enabled to
correct from _G_.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Glidden stroked his
whiskers
and drew
up the collar of his shirt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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_The
Vanities
of Life_
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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And the helmet white that his head protected
was
destined
to dare the deeps of the flood,
through wave-whirl win: 'twas wound with chains,
decked with gold, as in days of yore
the weapon-smith worked it wondrously,
with swine-forms set it, that swords nowise,
brandished in battle, could bite that helm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Do you think
She is
bewitched?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING THAT IS, PRINCE HENRY PLANTAGENET, ELDER
all the grief and woe and bitterness, IFAll dolour, ill and every evil chance
That ever came upon this
grieving
world Were set together, they would seem but light
Against the death of the young English King.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
My roses are
battered
into pulp:
And there swells up in me
Sudden desire for something changeless,
Thrusts of sunless rock
Unmelted by hissing wheels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Education is an
admirable
thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Observe the
antithetical
structure of this stanza, both in the
_Stichomuthia_, or balance of line against line, and in the lines
themselves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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]
Brydon's brave ward^10 I well could spy,
Beneath old Scotia's smiling eye:
Who call'd on Fame, low
standing
by,
To hand him on,
Where many a patriot-name on high,
And hero shone.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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compared
with me,
Suffering not doing ill--fate far more mild.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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And now the noble swine-herd bore the bow
Toward Ulysses, but with one voice all 430
The suitors, clamorous,
reproved
the deed,
Of whom a youth, thus, insolent exclaim'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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CHORUS: His
manacles
remark him; there he sits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There, -- sandals for the barefoot;
There, -- gathered from the gales,
Do the blue havens by the hand
Lead the
wandering
sails.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
BOOK VII
Song of the Open Road
1
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading
wherever
I choose.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But 'tis a law they make
That their accord
themselves
should never break.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_140
Ask me not what it is, for there are deeds
Which have no form,
sufferings
which have no tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Indeed, he
condemned
them
for their weight at the very moment that they were filling with awe and
other more noble sentiments.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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to contemn the stranger's
righteous
cause,
And violate all hospitable laws!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
2100
Whan he had doon his wil al-out,
And I had put him out of dout,
Sire,' I seide, 'I have right gret wille
Your lust and
plesaunce
to fulfille.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" My
journal for the last year or two has been
_selenitic_
in this sense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To him it seemed to say, 'Stay near to me,' as to Howard it had
said, 'Go yonder, to those other joys and other
sceneries
I have told
you of.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and
forgotten
it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us,
O God of waters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
5
_Es
inpudicus
et vorax et aleo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Symington,--every one must feel that the editor should have
informed
his
readers 'when' the title was Wordsworth's, and 'when' it was his own
coinage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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But Woman comes to bless
With an immoderateness,
With a divine excess,
Lust of life and yearn of flesh,
Till there seems naught
hindering
our souls:
Else we should crawl along the years
Labour'd with measurable joys
No greater than our life,
Things carefully devised against tears;
And as snails harden their sweat
To brittle safety, a carried shell,
So we might build out of our woe of toil
Serious delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les convives
mastiquaient
a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
The waters boiling and the burning plain;
While clang the giant
steeples
as they reel,
Unprompted, their own tocsin peal.
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for all the gold upon ground I would not go with thee nor bear thee
fellowship
through this wood 'on foot farther.
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O Helen, O infatuate soul,
Who bad'st the tides of battle roll,
Overwhelming
thousands, life on life,
'Neath Ilion's wall!
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1 That is, an old embroidery with a coherent
sequence
of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The flooding of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring
mightily
dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The nations that in fettered darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great
mornings
break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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þā wæs hāten Heort
innanweard
folmum gefrætwod,
993.
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Beowulf |
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men
revealed
visibly?
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--I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, not of
the arts and sciences, but of itself; yet relating to those it is a
pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,
and common confounder of truth, with which a man goes groping in the
dark, no
otherwise
than if he were blind.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My pride, my hope, my shelter, my resource,
When green hoped not to gray to run its course;
She was enthroned Virtue under heaven's dome,
My idol in the shrine of
curtained
home.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But natheles, he gladded him in this;
He thoughte he
misacounted
hadde his day, 1185
And seyde, `I understonde have al a-mis.
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