Then the spur
Of the old bards to mighty deeds: his plans
To nurse the golden age 'mong shepherd clans:
That wondrous night: the great Pan-festival: 900
His sister's sorrow; and his
wanderings
all,
Until into the earth's deep maw he rush'd:
Then all its buried magic, till it flush'd
High with excessive love.
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Keats |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the deep nights I dig for you, O
Treasure!
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
daughter
of beauty wip'd her pitying tears with her white veil,
And said, Alas!
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blake-poems |
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Eve had for pupil the
inquiring
snake,
Whose doubts she answered on a great concern;
But he the tables so contrived to turn,
It next was his to give and hers to take;
Till man deemed poison sweet for her sweet sake,
And fired a train by which the world must burn.
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Christina Rossetti |
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when, like spring, that
gracious
mien of thine
Dawns on thy Rome, more gently glides the day,
And suns serener shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"'Twas thus: a smooth-tongued
railroad
man
Comes to my house and talks to me:
`I've got,' says he, `a little plan
That suits this nineteenth century.
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Sidney Lanier |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To engender soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To
vanquish
so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He
preached
upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it proclaimed him a liar, --
The truth never flaunted a sign.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"I determined to prove to
yourself
that, whate'er you might dream or
avow
By illusion, you wanted precisely no more of me than you have now.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And nature forced the men,
Before the woman kind, to work the wool:
For all the male kind far excels in skill,
And
cleverer
is by much--until at last
The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,
And so were eager soon to give them o'er
To women's hands, and in more hardy toil
To harden arms and hands.
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Lucretius |
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His safe conduct home
Shall be the gen'ral care, but mine in Chief,
To whom
dominion
o'er the rest belongs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And either tropic now
'Gan thunder, and both ends of Heaven; the clouds
From many a rift
abortive
poured
Fierce rain with lightning mixed; water with fire
In ruin reconciled.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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")_
Weak is the People--but will grow beyond all other--
Within thy holy arms, thou
fruitful
victor-mother!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Behold
Beatrice
with Dante; Selvaggia, she
Brought her Pistoian Cino; Guitton may be
Offended that he is the latter named:
Behold both Guidos for their learning famed:
Th' honest Bolognian: the Sicilians first
Wrote love in rhymes, but wrote their rhymes the worst.
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Petrarch |
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(Note: Written to Mademoiselle
Roumanille
whom Mallarme knew as a child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When the An Lu-shan
revolution
broke out, he took to living sometimes
at Su-sung, sometimes on Mount K'uang-lu.
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Li Po |
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Allegory
requires
material
ingeniously manipulated and fantastic; what is more
important, it requires material invented by the poet himself.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
Perhaps the most perilous and the most
alluring
venture in the whole field
of poetry is that which Mr.
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Sappho |
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THE TURN
He entered well, by
virtuous
parts,
Got up, and thrived with honest arts;
He purchased friends, and fame, and honours then,
And had his noble name advanced with men:
But weary of that flight,
He stooped in all men's sight
To sordid flatteries, acts of strife,
And sunk in that dead sea of life,
So deep, as he did then death's waters sup,
But that the cork of title buoyed him up.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A haunting music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress
of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXIV
Why is
Tattiana
guiltier deemed?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And I
Have
frightened
you!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He may have
accompanied
Richard I and Aimar V ofLimoges on the Third Crusade.
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Troubador Verse |
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_("O
douleur!
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Hugo - Poems |
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[2] Honor the etext refund and replacement
provisions
of this
"Small Print!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Turkey,
Who wept when the weather was murky;
When the day turned out fine, she ceased to repine,
That
capricious
Young Lady of Turkey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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2 His
excellent
nephew is an extraordinary talent?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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My Lord, I dare to say here that heaven, 615
In this case, wished to make me an
exception!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I see the colour comes[ax] 130
Back to your cheek: Heaven send you
strength
to bear
What more may be imposed!
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Byron |
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Unauthenticated
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Not mother, with her first-born on her knee,
Thrills with
intenser
love than I for thee.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Give me to live yet--yet a little while:
'Tis I who pray for life--I who so late
Demanded
but to die!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Fantasque, un nez
poursuit
Venus au ciel profond.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I care not if the pomps you show
Be what they
soothfast
appear,
Or if yon realms in sunset glow
Be bubbles of the atmosphere.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I will with all
simplicity
relate
What thou hast ask'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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XXVIII
" `In other mode shall I
chastise
the deed,
Than spilling more of thine ill blood.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He wept; and we
With tears prayed God to send His love and peace
Upon his
suffering
and stormy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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My man, from sky to sky's so far,
We never crossed before;
Such leagues apart the world's ends are,
We're like to meet no more;
What
thoughts
at heart have you and I
We cannot stop to tell;
But dead or living, drunk or dry,
Soldier, I wish you well.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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It is thy new-found Lord, and he shall kiss
The yet
unravished
roses of thy mouth,
And I shall weep and worship, as before.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And to whate'er pursuit
A man most clings absorbed, or what the affairs
On which we theretofore have tarried much,
And mind hath
strained
upon the more, we seem
In sleep not rarely to go at the same.
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Lucretius |
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"
Was there no room save only in Benmore
For docket, duftar, and for office drudge,
That you usurp our
smoothest
dancing floor?
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Kipling - Poems |
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What else is the
Palladium
(with Homer) that kept Troy so long
from sacking?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th'
Ingredience
of our Cawdron
All.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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JOCONDE at once replied, with all my heart,
And I a lady know who'll take the part;
She's beautiful;
possesses
store of wit;
And is the wife of one above a cit.
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La Fontaine |
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The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell,
The stiffened air exploring in the dawn,
And making slow acquaintance with the day
Delaying now upon its
heavenward
course,
In wreathed loiterings dallying with itself,
With as uncertain purpose and slow deed
As its half-wakened master by the hearth,
Whose mind still slumbering and sluggish thoughts
Have not yet swept into the onward current
Of the new day;--and now it streams afar,
The while the chopper goes with step direct,
And mind intent to swing the early axe.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_50
Why, if you were a lady, it were fair
The world should know--but, as I am afraid,
The
Quarterly
would bait you if betrayed;
And if, as it will be sport to see them stumble
Over all sorts of scandals.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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I therefore left the spirits heavy laden,
And following, his beloved
footsteps
mark'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Mercifull
Heauen:
What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes:
Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake,
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the
windless
valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!
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Sara Teasdale |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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When I uncovered my eyes, the
apparition
was no
longer apparent.
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Poe - 5 |
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The more I have to thank the poet for the substance and tone of his
letters, and some
particular
expressions in them, the more does it become
incumbent upon me to guard against any misapprehension.
| Guess: |
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Whitman |
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Silent was all in Jezreel and Ur--
The stars were
glittering
in the heaven's dusk meadows.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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, _loan-days,
transitory
days_ (of earthly existence
as contrasted with the heavenly, unending): acc.
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Beowulf |
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Whose
multitudes
are these?
| Guess: |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thou clumsy swine-herd, whither would'st conduct
This morsel-hunting mendicant obscene,
Defiler base of
banquets?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The second Scipio next in line was seen,
And he that seem'd the lure of Egypt's queen;
With many a mighty chief I there beheld,
Whose
valorous
hand the battle's storm repell'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And thus,
Pity tender as tears, I above thee would speak,
Thou woman that
weepest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
XCIV
Add, that he knows Rogero is the peer
Who him for good Frontino now assails;
-- So famous, that no other cavalier
Like him such eminence of glory scales;
-- The man, of whom he gladly would be clear,
By proof, how much in battle he avails:
Yet shuns the combat,
proffered
on his part;
So much his monarch's siege has he at heart.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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`I am myn owene woman, wel at ese, 750
I thank it god, as after myn estat;
Right yong, and stonde unteyd in lusty lese,
With-outen
Ialousye
or swich debat;
Shal noon housbonde seyn to me "Chekmat!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Instruct
thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nor is it only the family of worth that have
reason to complain of thee: the children of folly and vice, though in
common with thee the
offspring
of evil, smart equally under thy rod.
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Robert Forst |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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,
_valiant
in war_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le
brouillard
s'en vont deux silhouettes grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ne leave thie Birtha thos uponne
pretence
of fyghte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_Pien d'
infinita
e nobil maraviglia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Let me go
And set those robes in order which best pleased
Manasses' living eyes; and let me fill
My gown with jewels, such as kindle sight,
And have some stinging
sweetness
in my hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Po
expounded
his theory of poetry in a
letter to Yuan Ch?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yesternight
we had nothing to eat.
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Aristophanes |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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net
Title: Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
An
Alliterative
Romance-Poem (c.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
(Copyright, 1917, by John Masefield)
3
THE CHOICE By John Masefield
The Kings go by with
jewelled
crowns;
Their horses gleam, their banners shake, their spears are many.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It would be difficult
Application
for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and Liberation $1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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VII
--Yet, voices haunting us, daunting us,
taunting
us,
Hint in the night-time when life beats are low
Other and graver things .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I stood within
The
presence
of the Lord Most High,
Sent thither by the sons of earth, to win
Some answer to their cry.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Sing, if you will--but do not speak so loud;
Besides, such things as these," said fair Mahaud,
"In your
condition
are not understood.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It's beautiful eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day
quivering
at noon,
It's the blue disorder of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What reason have they for
treating
us so?
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Aristophanes |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The boaster Paris oft desired the day
With Sparta's king to meet in single fray:
Go now, once more thy rival's rage excite,
Provoke Atrides, and renew the fight:
Yet Helen bids thee stay, lest thou unskill'd
Shouldst
fall an easy conquest on the field.
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Iliad - Pope |
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So he built a new city,
ah can we believe, not ironically
but for new splendour
constructed new people
to lift through slow growth
to a beauty
unrivalled
yet--
and created new cells,
hideous first, hideous now--
spread larve across them,
not honey but seething life.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Luxury, O ebony hall, where to tempt a king
Famous garlands are
writhing
in death,
You are only pride, shadows' lying breath
For the eyes of a recluse dazed by believing.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Cotton Mather,
summoned
as witness.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Why did your impious lips
Dare to blacken his life by
accusing
him?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY VERSE
offers a particularly
remarkable
series of poems for
the year 1917.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Comprends-tu maintenant qu'il ne faut pas offrir
L'holocauste sacre de tes premieres roses
Aux souffles
violents
qui pourraient les fletrir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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