"`We'll touch at every chimney-top
(An
Elevated
Track, of course),
Then, as we whisk you by, you'll drop
Each package down: just think, the force
"`You'll save, the time!
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Sidney Lanier |
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[59]
Mentioned
by Koeppel, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false
borrowed
face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When you return, you can take authority, 24 one morning
spiraling
upward ninety thousand leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet how they injured the
simplicity
and
unity of the speech!
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Yeats |
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This opinion, in spite of many
testimonies
to the contrary,
could never have been very general.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[Sidenote: But some things under
Providence
are exempt from the
control of Fate; being stably fixed near to the Divinity himself,
and beyond the movement of Destiny.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If we will
believe Tully, it nourisheth and instructeth our youth, delights our age,
adorns our prosperity,
comforts
our adversity, entertains us at home,
keeps us company abroad, travels with us, watches, divides the times of
our earnest and sports, shares in our country recesses and recreations;
insomuch as the wisest and best learned have thought her the absolute
mistress of manners and nearest of kin to virtue.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And I heard the song
Of spheres and spirits rejoicing over me:
One cried: 'Our sister, she hath
suffered
long.
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Christina Rossetti |
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While to the rival train the prince returns,
The martial goddess with impatience burns;
Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size,
With speed divine from street to street she flies,
She bids the
mariners
prepared to stand,
When night descends, embodied on the strand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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MADAM,
I had the very great
pleasure
of dining at Dunlop yesterday.
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Robert Forst |
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The creatures
chuckled
on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Indeed, in those days here and there a man,
More oftener snatched upon, and gulped by fangs,
Afforded the beasts a food that roared alive,
Echoing through groves and hills and forest-trees,
Even as he viewed his living flesh entombed
Within a living grave; whilst those whom flight
Had saved, with bone and body bitten, shrieked,
Pressing their
quivering
palms to loathsome sores,
With horrible voices for eternal death--
Until, forlorn of help, and witless what
Might medicine their wounds, the writhing pangs
Took them from life.
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Lucretius |
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His persistence finally roused an
interest
entirely
strange to her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your
flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feathers
and make them into
arrow-wings!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But now aread, old father, why of late
Didst thou behight me borne of English blood,
Whom all a Faeries sonne doen
nominate?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Whilome upon his banks did legions throng
Of Moor and Knight, in mailed splendour drest;
Here ceased the swift their race, here sunk the strong;
The Paynim turban and the Christian crest
Mixed on the
bleeding
stream, by floating hosts oppressed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Earth was form'd, but in the Womb as yet
Of Waters, Embryon
immature
involv'd,
Appeer'd not: over all the face of Earth
Main Ocean flow'd, not idle, but with warme
Prolific humour soft'ning all her Globe, 280
Fermented the great Mother to conceave,
Satiate with genial moisture, when God said
Be gather'd now ye Waters under Heav'n
Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.
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Milton |
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Meeting you in times past by chance,
Warmth I
imagined
in your glance,
But, knowing not the actual truth,
Restrained the impulses of youth;
Also my wretched liberty
I would not part with finally;
This separated us as well--
Lenski, unhappy victim, fell,
From everything the heart held dear
I then resolved my heart to tear;
Unknown to all, without a tie,
I thought--retirement, liberty,
Will happiness replace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The fraud
celestial
Pallas sees with pain,
Springs to her knight, and gives the scourge again,
And fills his steeds with vigour.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Alas, for their quarrel,
The
brothers
that were!
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Aeschylus |
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50, he uses the
expression,--'which is
authorized
by the folio of 1640.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the
electric
thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Lady Jingly
answered
sadly,
And her tears began to flow,--
"Your proposal comes too late,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less
distance
which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
agitation
of my mind seemed less
hard to bear than the dark melancholy in which I had been previously
plunged.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Tardet
ingenuos
pudor:
* * * *
* * * *
* * * *
* * * *
Quem tamen magis audiens 80
Flet, quod ire necesse est.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Stout though the knight, the lion stronger was,
And tore that brave breast under its cuirass,
Scrunching
that hero, till he sprawled, alas!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Autumns and winters, springs of mire and rain,
Seasons of sleep, I sing your praises loud,
For thus I love to wrap my heart and brain
In some dim tomb beneath a vapoury shroud
In the wide plain where revels the cold wind,
Through long nights when the
weathercock
whirls round,
More free than in warm summer day my mind
Lifts wide her raven pinions from the ground.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He's a Moppsikon
Floppsikon
bear!
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Dreadfully
staring
Through muddy impurity,
As when with the daring
Last look of despairing
Fixed on futurity.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Faint and dim
His spirits seemed to sink in him--
Then, like a dolphin, change and swim
The current: these were poets true,
Who died for Beauty as martyrs do
For Truth--the ends being
scarcely
two.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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But what use is it to affect a proud
display?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And you who know my
suffering
spirit,
Will see me end this thing as I began it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thus to the more worthy part he held,
That, what for hope and
Pandarus
biheste,
His grete wo for-yede he at the leste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
If you meet some
stranger
in the streets and love him or her, why
I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY
WIVES' LAMENT
(_November_ 2, 1899)
I
O IT was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough--
Light in their loving as
soldiers
can be--
First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing them
Now, in far battle, beyond the South Sea!
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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1922
VACHEL LINDSAY
Rhymes to be Traded for Bread
Privately
Printed; 1912
Springfield, Ill.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
Thy age, great Caesar, has restored
To squalid fields the plenteous grain,
Given back to Rome's
almighty
Lord
Our standards, torn from Parthian fane,
Has closed Quirinian Janus' gate,
Wild passion's erring walk controll'd,
Heal'd the foul plague-spot of the state,
And brought again the life of old,
Life, by whose healthful power increased
The glorious name of Latium spread
To where the sun illumes the east
From where he seeks his western bed.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I've
wandered
twenty years, in distant lands,
With sore heart forced to stay:
Why fell the blow Fate only understands!
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of
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it, you can
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written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
Patiently they stayed, thro' trust or doubt,
Till tow'rds
Colorado
he could scout
Some safe track.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oh be their voice obey'd
Some mighty woe
relentless
Heaven forebodes:
Fly these dire regions, and revere the gods!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both;
And when, for instance, I shall speak of soul,
Teaching
the same to be but mortal, think
Thereby I'm speaking also of the mind--
Since both are one, a substance inter-joined.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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After having vied with
returned
favours squandered treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
"At
Saybrook?
| 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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Who hath
displaced
my bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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If I should ever lose thee--
Horrible
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Through green bamboos a deep road ran
Where dark
creepers
brushed our coats as we passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Derriere
les ennuis et les vastes chagrins
Qui chargent de leur poids l'existence brumeuse,
Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse
S'elancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Footnote 1: Marie,
daughter
of King Louis Philippe, afterwards Princess
of Wurtemburg.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The naked Hulk
alongside
came
And the Twain were playing dice;
"The Game is done!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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what defence, if fix'd on him, he spy
The languid sweetness of the
stedfast
eye!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Who of mortals hearing
Doth not quake for awe,
Hearing all that Fate thro' hand of God hath given us
For
ordinance
and law?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The
warriors
rose;
sad, they climbed to the Cliff-of-Eagles,
went, welling with tears, the wonder to view.
| 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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Thou art Lucina, Juno hight
By mothers lien in painful plight,
Thou
puissant
Trivia and the Light 15
Bastard, yclept the Lune.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The year is not given, but I think it must have been 1804, as he says
that "within the last month," he had written, "700 additional lines" of
'The Prelude'; and that poem was
finished
in May 1805.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| 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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I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten
thousand
shields and spears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"
MOODS
Oh that a Song would sing itself to me
Out of the heart of Nature, or the heart
Of man, the child of Nature, not of Art,
Fresh as the morning, salt as the salt sea,
With just enough of
bitterness
to be
A medicine to this sluggish mood, and start
The life-blood in my veins, and so impart
Healing and help in this dull lethargy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Till she retires,
determined
we remain,
And both the prince and augur threat in vain:
His pride of words, and thy wild dream of fate,
Move not the brave, or only move their hate,
Threat on, O prince!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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147 The belief in the existence of men of larger stature in earlier
times, is by no means
confined
to Homer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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" The
head lifted up its eyelids and looked abroad, and thus much spoke with
its mouth as ye may now hear:
"Loke, Gawayne, thou be prompt to go as thou hast promised, and seek
till thou find me
according
to thy promise made in the hearing of these
knights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Alfred de Musset, 1904-7
The New York Public Library: Digital Collections
Song
I said to my heart, my feeble heart:
It's enough surely to love one's
mistress?
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Dear brother Noll, I plead against
thyself!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Saint Mark's great bell at dawn shall find me
wakeful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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A hedge is about it, very tall,
Hazy and cool, and
breathing
sweet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the
energies
of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest possible fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
"
"And all the spirits fleet
Do suffer a sky-change,
More
strangely
than the dew,
To God's own angels new,"
The Grave said to the Rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread
tribunal
of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ye, who would more of Spain and Spaniards know,
Go, read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife:
Whate'er keen Vengeance urged on foreign foe
Can act, is acting there against man's life:
From flashing scimitar to secret knife,
War mouldeth there each weapon to his need--
So may he guard the sister and the wife,
So may he make each curst
oppressor
bleed,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless deed!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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There's my
exchange
[throws down a glove].
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Shakespeare |
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--Il revait la prairie amoureuse, ou des houles
Lumineuses, parfums sains,
pubescences
d'or,
Font leur remuement calme et prennent leur essor!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If nine times you your
bridegroom
kiss,
The tenth you know the parson's is.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
Then a silence
suffuses
the story,
And a softness the teller's eye;
And the children no further question,
And only the waves reply.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
And I must borrow every changing
find
expression
.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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And the conditions force [the water and air]
Deeply to
penetrate
from the open sea,
And to out-blow abroad, and to up-bear
Thereby the flame, and to up-cast from deeps
The boulders, and to rear the clouds of sand.
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Lucretius |
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Surprised at trembling, though it was with cold,
Who ne'er had trembled out of fear, the veterans bold
Marched stern; to grizzled
moustache
hoarfrost clung
'Neath banners that in leaden masses hung.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Fresh as the first beam
glittering
on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies, --
Lest
interview
annul a want
That image satisfies.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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O shield our Caesar as he goes
To furthest Britain, and his band,
Rome's
harvest!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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while others of the human race
Die only once,
appointed
twice to die!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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