There where the
Texture o'er her sad lips is closely drawn
A
trembling
smile softly begins to dawn .
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Rilke - Poems |
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Not he with a daily kiss onward from
childhood
kissing me,
Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Swinburne;
but one need not accept the story as a fact in order to appreciate the
beauties which
flowered
out from its coloured unreality.
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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The khaki color ran too--it was really shockingly bad
dye--and sections of Golightly were brown, and patches were violet,
and
contours
were ochre, and streaks were ruddy red, and blotches were
nearly white, according to the nature and peculiarities of the dye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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"The sudden
approach
and rapid advance of the Spring," says Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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GROTESQUE
Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me
When I pluck them;
And writhe, and twist,
And
strangle
themselves against my fingers,
So that I can hardly weave the garland
For your hair?
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| Question: |
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Imagists |
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It is a
striking
proof of Milton's
astonishing power, that these, the earliest pure Descriptive Lyrics in
our language, should still remain the best in a style which so many
great poets have since attempted.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The
delights
of love I never may
Enjoy, if not joy of my love afar,
No finer, nobler comes my way,
From any quarter: near or far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
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
MERCHANTABILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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'549'
Pope insinuates here that the clergy under William III hated an absolute
monarch so much that they even encouraged their hearers to
question
the
absolute power of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Poscia ne l'emme del vocabol quinto
rimasero
ordinate; si che Giove
pareva argento li d'oro distinto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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She tolde eek al the
prophesyes
by herte,
And how that sevene kinges, with hir route, 1495
Bisegeden the citee al aboute;
And of the holy serpent, and the welle,
And of the furies, al she gan him telle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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at ne
knowe{n}
it nat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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what Thou art
Surpasses
me to know;
Yet sure I am, that known to Thee
Are all Thy works below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
There he sees Lucifera, the Queen of Pride,
attended
by
her sinful court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Under pretence of
forming an alliance with the Argives, he is
hatching
a plot with the
Lacedaemonians there; and I know why the bellows are blowing and the
metal that is on the anvil; 'tis the question of the prisoners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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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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The very flower of us were they,
The very flower, but
yesterday!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
The Foundation's principal office is in Fairbanks, Alaska, with the
mailing address: PO Box 750175, Fairbanks, AK 99775, but its
volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
This little
volume, which is
throughout
in MarvelFs vein, is
now extremely scarce, is not included in any edi-
Digitized by VjOOQIC
XXXVlll NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Not higher than a two-years' child,
It stands erect this aged thorn;
No leaves it has, no thorny points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A
wretched
thing forlorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
In the description of the giant do the last two lines (viii)
add to or detract from the
impression?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Some of you, by means of drugs, extinguish the newly-formed man within your bowels, and thus commit
parricide
on your offspring before you bring them into the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Now you hear the glory of the king of kings,
That he knows Vashti, that he lives
In this
pleasure
always.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
The Almighty sends the seraph Eloah to comfort Jesus in
Gethsemane by singing a
triumphant
song on His future glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
So Adam; and thus Eve to him replied:
"O glorious trial of
exceeding
love,
Illustrious evidence, example high!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this eBook, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Now, O ye shepherds, strew the ground with leaves,
And o'er the
fountains
draw a shady veil-
So Daphnis to his memory bids be done-
And rear a tomb, and write thereon this verse:
'I, Daphnis in the woods, from hence in fame
Am to the stars exalted, guardian once
Of a fair flock, myself more fair than they.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And there the
mischief
stood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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--
The trees have always
scrupulously
obeyed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
Among the
windings
of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Achilles' light was quench'd at noon;
A long decay
Tithonus
minish'd;
My hours, it may be, yet will run
When yours are finish'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
]
* * * * *
SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE VARIANT
[Sub-Footnote i: Compare in Burger's 'Pfarrer's Tochter', "drei Spannen
lang," and see
Appendix
V.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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--Mais comme il est change, le logis d'autrefois:
Un grand feu petillait, clair, dans la cheminee,
Toute la vieille chambre etait illuminee;
Et les reflets vermeils, sortis du grand foyer,
Sur les meubles vernis
aimaient
a tournoyer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The
moonlight
bay was white all o'er,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
Like as of torches came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Wealth had no power to bribe, nor beauty to charm the oppressor;
But all
perished
alike beneath the scourge of his anger--
Only, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He who hath little shall not lack;
He who hath plenty shall decay:
Our fathers went; we pass away;
Our children follow on our track:
So
generations
fail, and so
They are renewed and come and go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes
outshine
the dying day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
"
I listened to the branchless pole
That held aloft the singing wire;
I heard its muffled music roll,
And stirred with sweet desire:
"O wire more soft than
seasoned
lute,
Hast thou no sunlit word for me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
He
put his horses to a gallop,
continually
looking, however, towards the
east.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Phoebus, God, was all thy mind
Turned unto
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
He faced the problem just as Aeschylus
did, and as
Sophocles
did not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Forget the anguish and the ancient bleedings,
The wounds
engendered
by the thorny rind,
And leaves of arid hours, and empty pleadings,
O'ertrample them and leave them all behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Epigram Addressed To An Artist
Dear _____, I'll gie ye some advice,
You'll tak it no uncivil:
You
shouldna
paint at angels mair,
But try and paint the devil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
The
Princess
sate within the window-seat, _20
And so her face was hid; but on her knee
Her hands were clasped, veined, and pale as snow,
And quivering--young Tasso, too, was there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
In yonder rippling bay, their naval host
Did many a Roman chief and Asian king
To
doubtful
conflict, certain slaughter, bring
Look where the second Caesar's trophies rose,
Now, like the hands that reared them, withering;
Imperial anarchs, doubling human woes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Homer's singularity in this
respect is overwhelming; but it is frequently forgotten, and especially
by those who think to help in the Homeric question by
comparing
him with
other "authentic" epics.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
The sun, as common, went abroad,
The flowers, accustomed, blew,
As if no soul the
solstice
passed
That maketh all things new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
The other
characters
fall easily into their niches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
'221-222'
The power of
instinct
which is barely perceptible in the pig amounts
almost to the power of reason in the elephant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Hast any mortal name,
Fit
appellation
for this dazzling frame?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
CVI
And Oliver has
cantered
through the crush;
Broken his spear, the truncheon still he thrusts;
Going to strike a pagan Malsarun;
Flowers and gold, are on the shield, he cuts,
Out of the head both the two eyes have burst,
And all the brains are fallen in the dust;
He flings him dead, sev'n hundred else amongst.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
THE DARKLING THRUSH
I LEANT upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The
weakening
eye of day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
"
Faces
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that
was but a single
countenance
as if held in a mould.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
When I was well, I wished to live,
For clothes, for warmth, for food, and fire;
But they to me no joy can give,
No
pleasure
now, and no desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
or can introduce
Law and Edict on us, who without law
Erre not, much less for this to be our Lord,
And look for
adoration
to th' abuse
Of those Imperial Titles which assert
Our being ordain'd to govern, not to serve?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
Thus spake he to the abbot
And all the brothers: "My fathers, soon will come
The longed-for day; here shall I stand before you,
Hungering for salvation; Nicodemus,
Thou Sergius, Cyril thou, will all accept
My
spiritual
vow; to you I soon shall come
Accurst in sin, here the clean habit take,
Prostrate, most holy father, at thy feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, is descended
from the ancient family of Chattorajes of Bhramangram, who were
noted throughout Eastern Bengal as patrons of
Sanskrit
learning,
and for their practice of Yoga.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
He was confined at the hospital at Oboukov,
where he spoke to no one, but kept constantly
murmuring
in a monotonous
tone: "The tray, seven, ace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
At noonday tumbled
Leaflets,
changing
with delight upon your lips,
And as you slept there played with you, bunches,
bushes,
Billows of roses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Galba is said to have taken Piso's hand and
addressed
him as 15
follows: 'Were I a private citizen, and were I to adopt you in the
presence of the Priests by the usual formality of a curial
statute,[39] it would be an honour for me to introduce into my family
a descendant of Cnaeus Pompeius and of Marcus Crassus, and for you it
would be a distinction to add to your noble ancestry the glories of
the Sulpician and Lutatian houses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
It is not difficult to trace the process by which the old songs
were
transmuted
into the form which they now wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
That did you, sir, and well I knew at the time
You were wrong, it being not the character
Of the Earl-whom all the world allows to be
A most
hilarious
man.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
My friend, thou art good and
cautious
and wise; nay, thou art
perfect--and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
No Grecian band
Is this to whom I speak, with Eastern robes
And
wrappings
richly dight: no Argive maid,
No woman in all Greece such garb doth wear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Greie as the morne before the ruddie flame 415
Of Phoebus charyotte rollynge thro the skie,
Greie as the steel-horn'd goats Conyan made tame,
So greie appeard her featly sparklyng eye;
Those eyne, that did oft mickle pleased look
On Adhelm
valyaunt
man, the virtues doomsday book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Indeed, I think the reader
will easily excuse me, if I touch very slightly on the poetic manner, in
the common and narrow sense, of the poets whom I shall have to mention;
since these qualities have been so often and
sometimes
so admirably
dealt with.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
We know, indeed, that in
modern times a very similar story
actually
found credence among a
people much more civilized than the Romans of the fifth century
before Christ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
No sound of bruised
breasts!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
]
[Sidenote G: The knight replies that every gift is
worthless
that is not
given willingly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the churchyard rang;
And then
adjusted
his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
As fate would have it, his speech on the Bonapartes induced King Louis
Philippe to allow Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to return, and, there
being no gratitude in politics, the emancipated outlaw rose as a rival
candidate for the Presidency, for which Hugo had
nominated
himself in his
newspaper the _Evenement_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
THE COUNTRYMAN WHO SOUGHT HIS CALF
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost,
And, seeking it, a
neighbouring
forest crossed;
The tallest tree that in the district grew,
He climbed to get a more extensive view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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La Fontaine |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When thus Duke Willyam to a Monke dyd saie,
Prepare
thyselfe
wyth spede, to Harolde haste awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I often sat to wonder
Who might my parents be,
For I knew of
something
under
My simple-seeming state.
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Christina Rossetti |
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At length my malady seem'd ended, when
I to my earthly frame return'd again,
Haply but greater grief therein to feel;
Still
following
my desire with such fond zeal
That once (beneath the proud sun's fiercest blaze,
Returning from the chase, as was my wont)
Naked, where gush'd a font,
My fair and fatal tyrant met my gaze;
I whom nought else could pleasure, paused to look,
While, touch'd with shame as natural as intense,
Herself to hide or punish my offence,
She o'er my face the crystal waters shook
--I still speak true, though truth may seem a lie--
Instantly from my proper person torn,
A solitary stag, I felt me borne
In winged terrors the dark forest through,
As still of my own dogs the rushing storm I flew
My song!
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Petrarch |
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There are
beautiful
beeches down beyond the hill.
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Imagists |
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'
The
_Alcestis_
is a very clear instance of this Pro-satyric class of
play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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, _social
enjoyment
in the hall, hall-joy_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A true country of Cockaigne, I have said; where all is rich, correct and
shining, like a beautiful conscience, or a
splendid
set of silver, or a
medley of jewels.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For where the brass-beaked ships were wont to float,
The weary shepherd pipes his
mournful
note;
And the white sheep are free to come and go
Where Adria's purple waters used to flow.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ay, to you
I doubt not I seem
admirable
now,
Worthy of being sung in loudest praise;
But to myself how seem I?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
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Imagists |
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I swear,
Here at the gate she shall stand
palpable!
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Euripides - Electra |
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