"
And forth from the chapel door he went
Into
disgrace
and banishment,
Clothed in a cloak of hodden gray,
And hearing a wallet, and a bell,
Whose sound should be a perpetual knell
To keep all travellers away.
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Longfellow |
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1220-1265)
Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit,
sometimes
Sordell, was born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua.
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Troubador Verse |
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Fain would he flee, his
fastness
seek,
the den of devils: no doings now
such as oft he had done in days of old!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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ilke same
blisfulnesse
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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practically
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[D] O times,
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways 110
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
The
attraction
of a country in romance!
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William Wordsworth |
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting anything in its bite
Unless your
princely
lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Meantime in
matutinal
dress
And hat surnamed a "Bolivar"(6)
He hies unto the "Boulevard,"
To loiter there in idleness
Until the sleepless Breguet chime(7)
Announcing to him dinner-time.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dunstan's
Churchyard
and
the end of Chancery Lane.
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John Donne |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Dee-side
Whose hat was
exceedingly
wide,
But he said, "Do not fail, if it happen to hail,
To come under my hat at Dee-side!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It will force on me the
necessity
of again asserting myself
as an artist, and as soon as I possibly can.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the pleasures of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit
prisoner
to another.
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Ronsard |
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But I more fearfull, or more luckie wight, 265
Dismayd with that
deformed
dismall sight,
Fled fast away, halfe dead with dying feare:?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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*****
With the flung stones and with the
ponderous
heft
Of gnarled branch.
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Lucretius |
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In 1872, his novel of "'93" pleased the general public here, mainly by
the adventures of three charming little children during the
prevalence
of
an internecine war.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Paled, v, 5, fenced off,
inclosed
with a _pale_.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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La cuisine s'ouvrit avec une bouffee
--Et la
servante
vint, je ne sais pas pourquoi,
Fichu moitie defait, malinement coiffee.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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Battle of
Ourique against the Moors; great
slaughter
of the Moors.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And Betty's still at Susan's side:
By this time she's not quite so flurried;
Demure with
porringer
and plate
She sits, as if in Susan's fate
Her life and soul were buried.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Seen at hand, or seen at a distance,
Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
Duly
approach
and pass with their companions, or a companion,
Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of
those who are with them,
From the countenances of children or women, or the manly countenance,
From the open countenances of animals, or from inanimate things,
From the landscape or waters, or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,
From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same
companions.
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Whitman |
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And of the needle-seller's[749] with
Pamphilus?
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Aristophanes |
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God grant him a foul fate
Who repeats men's idle
chatter!
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Troubador Verse |
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_405
I wish the race of cows were
perished!
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Shelley |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A, vel te sic ipse flagitabam,
'Camerium mihi,
pessimae
puellae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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TO HIS
FAITHFUL
FRIEND, M.
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Robert Herrick |
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But, urging converse with the portray'd fair,
Methinks she deigns
attention
to my prayer,
Though wanting to reply the power of voice.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But for us
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Prostrate in love, whom anxious anguish eats,
Whom troubles of any
unappeased
desires
Asunder rip.
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Lucretius |
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I remember well
My games of shovel-board at Bishop's tavern
In the old merry days, and she so gay
With her red paragon bodice and her
ribbons!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the
ploughman
in darkness plough?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--
The People's Law, the bulwark of their reign,
And
vigilant
Liberty, of ancient might,
And Brotherhood, that can alone lead to the loftiest height.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Illustration: "HE SPAKE,
NEGLECTING
SOUND AND SENSE.
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Lewis Carroll |
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{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he
apprehends
wisely.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It is Alsatia's noble Chevalier,
Eviradnus
the brave, that now is here.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Tender Lizzie could not bear
To watch her sister's
cankerous
care,
Yet not to share.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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O sweet Sleep-Angel, throned now
On the round glory of his brow,
Wave thy wing and waft my vow
Breathed
over Baby Charley.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian
courtesan
and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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As Harrington fell, ye
likewise
fell--
At the door of the House wherein ye dwell;
As Harrington came, ye likewise came
And died at the door of your House of Fame.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Canst thou speak peace and
rest to a soul tost on a sea of troubles, without one
friendly
star to
guide her course, and dreading that the next surge may overwhelm her?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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And you must be like waters
underneath
me,
Full of my burning; there's no more for me
Now, but to dwell alone in my still soul's
Hoarding of ecstasies, a great place of lusts
Achieved and shining fixt; for every man
Is mine, and every soil is mine, from here
Round to the furthest cliffs that steadfast are
To keep the hoofs of the sea from murdering
The tilled leagues of the land.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Amidst this wreck, where thou hast made a shrine
And temple more
divinely
desolate,
Among thy mightier offerings here are mine,
Ruins of years--though few, yet full of fate:
If thou hast ever seen me too elate,
Hear me not; but if calmly I have borne
Good, and reserved my pride against the hate
Which shall not whelm me, let me not have worn
This iron in my soul in vain--shall THEY not mourn?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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She is God's bribery to man
That he the world endure,
His wage for
carrying
the weight of being.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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As ouphant faieries, whan the moone sheenes bryghte, 475
In littel circles daunce upon the greene,
All living creatures flie far from their syghte,
Ne by the race of destinie be seen;
For what he be that ouphant
faieries
stryke,
Their soules will wander to Kyng Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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notescatque magis mortuus atque magis,
nec tenuem texens
sublimis
aranea telam
in deserto Alli nomine opus faciat.
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Latin - Catullus |
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|| _crudeles_ Oh || _mentes_ Oh
138
_miserescere_
Calp.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A God hath
counselled
ye.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
_Werner_
of 1815 is the attempt of a highly gifted amateur.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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What is't that moues your
Highnesse?
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Like
Socrates
or Antonine,
Or some auld pagan heathen,
The moral man he does define,
But ne'er a word o' faith in
That's right that day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The winds of heaven[236]
Roar'd high--and
headlong
by the tempest driven,
In Tagus' breast a gallant navy sought
The shelt'ring port, and glad assistance brought.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Talking with our host is next best and
instructive
to talking with
one's self.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Har: I come not Samson, to condole thy chance,
As these perhaps, yet wish it had not been,
Though for no
friendly
intent.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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For the
puruyance
of god
hat yeuen to thinges ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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When they draw nigh the citadel above,
From the palace they hear a mighty sound;
About that place are seen pagans enough,
Who weep and cry, with grief are waxen wood,
And curse their gods,
Tervagan
and Mahum
And Apolin, from whom no help is come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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90
The place, all hushed and silent as it was,
Appeared
unfit for the repose of night,
Defenceless as a wood where tigers roam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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The guards, placed for the
cliain*s
and fleet's
defence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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I shall not want Capital in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond:
We two shall lie together, lapt
In a five per cent
Exchequer
Bond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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_ And I had not
outlived
thee; but pray take
Comfort!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Tibereia
primum
aula tibi uixdum ora noua mutante iuuenta
panditur.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
The whole passage reads not so much like the heated
plea of an
advocate
as the measured summing-up of a judge, and the last
couplet falls on our ears with the inevitability of a final sentence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
_Cesare, poi che 'l
traditor
d' Egitto.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
To enjoy
a thing exclusively is
commonly
to exclude yourself from the true
enjoyment of it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Dolphins, playing in the sea
Hurling his ink at skies above,
Medusas, miserable heads
In your pools, and in your ponds,
The female of the Halcyon,
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
Dove, both love and spirit
In spreading out his fan, this bird,
My poor heart's an owl
Yes, I'll pass fearful shadows
This
cherubim
sings the praises
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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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
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And here, O finer Pallas, long remain, --
Sit on these Maryland hills, and fix thy reign,
And frame a fairer Athens than of yore
In these blest bounds of Baltimore, --
Here, where the climates meet
That each may make the other's lack complete, --
Where Florida's soft Favonian airs beguile
The nipping North, -- where nature's powers smile, --
Where Chesapeake holds frankly forth her hands
Spread wide with invitation to all lands, --
Where now the eager people yearn to find
The
organizing
hand that fast may bind
Loose straws of aimless aspiration fain
In sheaves of serviceable grain, --
Here, old and new in one,
Through nobler cycles round a richer sun
O'er-rule our modern ways,
O blest Minerva of these larger days!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Something
starts the old feud anew; and
the visitors are attacked in their quarters.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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These in a line wide-broke set he, the Mansion surrounding,
So by the soft leaves screened, the porch might
flourish
in verdure.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Winthrop performed
the ceremony on the frozen surface of the streamlet, the farthest limit
of his magistracy; and
thereupon
bestowed the name "Bride Brook," which
it still bears.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Methinks
the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements.
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Shakespeare |
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for when you laid
Foul lips upon the mouth of
sleeping
maid,
You seemed but ghouls that had come furtively
From out the tombs; only a horrid lie
Your human shape; of some strange frightful beast
You have the soul.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to
discover
the Snark.
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Lewis Carroll |
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STIGAND, _created Archbishop of Canterbury by the
Antipope
Benedict_.
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Tennyson |
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