Ah, if we so have striven,
And
mutually
the grasp have given
Of brotherhood,
To work each other and the whole race good;
What matter if the dream
Come only partly true,
And all the things accomplished seem
Feeble and few?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But _he_ also
underwent
his training
in rhetoric.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Was not Lord Pembroke with
Northumberland?
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Tennyson |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the
nightingale
100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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In
addition Jonson employs one purely conventional attribute belonging to
the
tradition
of the church- and morality-plays.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Yet more there be who doubt his ways not just, 300
As to his own edicts, found contradicting,
Then give the rains to
wandring
thought,
Regardless of his glories diminution;
Till by thir own perplexities involv'd
They ravel more, still less resolv'd,
But never find self-satisfying solution.
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Milton |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well contented with the
spacious
starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
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Sappho |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
That
ecstatic
Young Lady of Wales.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ha, good Father,
Thou seest the Heauens, as
troubled
with mans Act,
Threatens his bloody Stage: byth' Clock 'tis Day,
And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe:
Is't Nights predominance, or the Dayes shame,
That Darknesse does the face of Earth intombe,
When liuing Light should kisse it?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That sword
Shrink into a
sceptre!
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Hugo - Poems |
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8-10, where Zacharias entered the temple to
burn incense, 'and the whole
multitude
of the people were
praying without.
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Tacitus |
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Thou wast a soldier
Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible
Only in strokes; but with thy grim looks and
The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds
Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world
Were
feverous
and did tremble.
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Shakespeare |
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The
allurements
of
speech are also added.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Poetry, in this latter age, hath proved but a mean
mistress
to such as
have wholly addicted themselves to her, or given their names up to her
family.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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40
Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
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Sappho |
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pouere Men, & begged his mete,
His fadres
sergeaunt?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
Their columns drawing nearer,
We felt our patience tire,
When came the voice of Carroll,
Distinct
and measured, "Fire!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
II
But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said,--Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me
listening!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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' Truly God has highly
favoured
us in sending us such a noble
guest as Sir Gawayne" (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If
Rodrigue
duels accepting such conditions,
I have many means to alter their intentions.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Pain or pleasure
transported
her, and the whole of pain or
pleasure might be held in a flower's cup or the imagined frown of
a friend.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them,
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills--
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the
trophies
of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give,
That due of many now is thine alone:
Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,
And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus lies the sea-shell
Under the rustling
twilight
of the sea;
No gods remember it, no understanding
Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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e
Emperours
sai ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Madden suggests blows as the
explanation
of slokes.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Enclosing
"The Gowan"
XVIII.
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Robert Burns |
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But him the Goddess answer'd azure-eyed,
Telemachus!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one
scorching
swallow; dreadful faint I felt and hollow,
Standing there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Thus void of knowing clearly what they did,
They soon were brought to act as they were bid;
Conveyed to places, charming to the eye,
Enchanting gardens 'neath an azure sky,
With twining shrubs,
meandring
walks, and flow'rs,
And num'rous grottos, porticoes and bow'rs.
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La Fontaine |
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quid numerem gentis
Atlanteosque
recessus
oceani?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Like rain it softly falls at that dim hour
When ghostly lanes turn toward the shadowy morn;
When bodies weighed with satiate passion's power
Sad,
disappointed
from each other turn;
When men with quiet hatred burning deep
Together in a common bed must sleep--
Through the gray, phantom shadows of the dawn
Lo!
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Rilke - Poems |
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_
Aenea: _Aeneas_: so
_Anchisa_
in _ii_.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What was Admetus really like, this gallant prince who had won the
affection of such great guests as Apollo and Heracles, and yet went round
asking other people to die for him; who, in particular,
accepted
his
wife's monstrous sacrifice with satisfaction and gratitude?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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All have not
appeared
in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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--
I am too weak to stand; and Death is near,
And a slow darkness
stealing
on my sight.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Imagists |
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The silver cuishes first his thighs infold;
Then o'er his breast was braced the hollow gold;
The brazen sword a various baldric tied,
That, starr'd with gems, hung glittering at his side;
And, like the moon, the broad
refulgent
shield
Blazed with long rays, and gleam'd athwart the field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Thick rolls the mist, that smokes and falls in dew;
The trees and
greenwood
wear the deepest green.
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John Clare |
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The
tapestries
of paradise
So notelessly are made!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'Twas a
mistake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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When Po entered in obedience to the summons, he was so drunk
that the
courtiers
were obliged to dab his face with water.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Since our ftp program has
a bug in it that
scrambles
the date [tried to fix and failed] a
look at the file size will have to do, but we will try to see a
new copy has at least one byte more or less.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[Sidenote: And we have already shown that the perfect
precedes
the
imperfect;]
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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No sound of bruised
breasts!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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A demon constellation shook the Pole Star, the aura of killing lay level over the
imperial
tombs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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The little park was filled with peace,
The walks were
carpeted
with snow,
But every iron gate was locked.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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John's; they were above the
College kitchens; and from the window of his bedroom he could look into
the
antechapel
of Trinity, with its statue of Newton.
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William Wordsworth |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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CASELLA
Test of the poet is
knowledge
of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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Emerson - Poems |
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To hail thee thus, I by my heart am led,
That by my pen thy name renown should know;
No marble can the lasting fame bestow
Like that by poets'
characters
is spread.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To lower, or ease the
bellying
canvas aught
The sailors had no power; nor time had they
To mend that ill, or counsel what was best;
For them too hard the mortal peril prest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thy specious
prologue
means no good, I trow.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave;
All states can reach it, and all heads conceive;
Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell;
There needs but
thinking
right, and meaning well;
And mourn our various portions as we please,
Equal is common sense, and common ease.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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A garden-plot the desert air perfumes, 295
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms,
A zig-zag path from the
domestic
skiff
Threading the painful cragg surmounts the cliff.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As
lingeringly
through the rooms they passed
I saw that she followed alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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It
also
contains
the conclusion of the devil-plot.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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O Latonia, progeny great of
greatest
Jove, whom thy mother bare 'neath
Delian olive,
That thou mightst be Queen of lofty mounts, of foliaged groves, of remote
glens, and of winding streams.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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" He in few
Thus
answering
spake: "Thou deemest thou art still
On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The fact is the
sweetest
dream that labor knows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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London:
Macmillan
and Co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Here a great rumor of
trumpets
and horses, like the noise of a
king with his army, and the robbers shall take flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Let us
challenge
meeting at the water's edge,
while they waver and their feet yet slip as they disembark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He wrote to the Cardinal Colonna as follows:--"I gave you so long an
account of
Capranica
that you may naturally expect a still longer
description of Rome.
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Petrarch |
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Does it still hold on
untired?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Modern Paris is often the
background
of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Who, for my safety, hast not scorn'd, in hell
To leave the traces of thy
footsteps
mark'd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
[67]
What is left but the sighing wind blowing in the tangled
grasses?
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I roam anew,
Scarce
conscious
of my late distress .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But
instead of
obtaining
relief, they meet with affronts only for the injury
done to the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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and quench thy light,
Lest eyes see their own
delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Into the earth for
safekeeping
the servant must bury the story,
Easing in this way the king: earth must conceal the tale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
A
Bachelor
I will, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
How welcome is its
delicate
overture
At evening, when the moist and glowing west
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear,
And best
distinguished
by black, brown, or fair.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I mount no longer when the
trumpets
call;
My battle-harness idles on the wall,
The spider's castle, camping-ground of dust,
Not without dints, and all in front, I trust.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Ne diu taceat procax
Fescennina iocatio,
Nec nuces pueris neget
Desertum domini audiens 125
Concubinus
amorem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Soon he was
swimming
who safe saw in combat
downfall of demons; up-dove through the flood.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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