Think of my little
sisters!
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Poe - 5 |
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I want to put
old stories into verse, and if I put them into dramatic verse it will
matter less to me
henceforward
who plays them than what they play, and
how they play.
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Yeats |
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From the steep prow I marked with
quickening
eye
Zakynthos, every olive grove and creek,
Ithaca's cliff, Lycaon's snowy peak,
And all the flower-strewn hills of Arcady.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Or if a Work so infinite he spann'd,
Jealous I was that some less skilful hand
(Such as disquiet always what is well,
And by ill
imitating
would excell)
Might hence presume the whole Creations day
To change in Scenes, and show it in a Play.
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Milton |
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If you
received
this eBook on a physical
medium (such as a disk), you must return it with your request.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ne O si tosto mai ne I si scrisse,
com' el s'accese e arse, e cener tutto
convenne che cascando divenisse;
e poi che fu a terra si distrutto,
la polver si
raccolse
per se stessa
e 'n quel medesmo ritorno di butto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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What the General had said
Strickland
never knew, but Youghal received
Strickland with moderate civility; and Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight
shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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On Chalais'
Vicomtess
I call;
I'd have her give instantly
Her throat and hands to me.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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,
_satiated
with battle, not wishing to fight any more_:
acc.
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Beowulf |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But see, it is Alcmena's son once more,
My lord King, cometh
striding
to thy door.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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better far
In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,
Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;
Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,
Better our dying bodies to obtrude,
Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,
Protract
a curst existence, with the brood
That lap (their very nourishment!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Come, my soul; and since we must end it,
Let us die without
offending
Chimene.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,
Asking, "What Lamp had Destiny to guide
Her little
Children
stumbling in the Dark?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And that furnace-heated breath
Blew into my placid dreams
The heart of fire from whence it came:
Haunt of beauty and of death
Where the forest breaks in flame
Of
flaunting
blossom, where the flood
Of life pulses hot and stark,
Where a wing'd death breeds in mud
And tumult of tree-shadowed streams--
Black waters, desolately hurled
Through the uttermost, lost, dark,
Secret places of the world.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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of
gerǣsan
(omitted from the Gloss.
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Beowulf |
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My Lady at the Hall
Is grander than they all: 60
Hers is the oldest name
In all the neighbourhood;
But the race must die with her
Though she's a lofty dame,
For she's
unmarried
still.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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ATOSSA
Alas for me and for this ruin,
friends!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Neritus, Ithacus, Polyctor, there,
In sculptured stone immortalized their care,
In marble urns received it from above,
And shaded with a green
surrounding
grove;
Where silver alders, in high arches twined,
Drink the cool stream, and tremble to the wind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Wheeling
round
It warbled, and did say: "As are my notes
To thee, who understand'st them not, such is
Th' eternal judgment unto mortal ken.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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See my
cantabile!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ah, happy he who owns that
tenderest
joy,
The heart-love of a child!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Abel was
accepted
as a page,
too, but there was no money awarded the ex-Bonapartist--money being what
the Eaglet at Reichstadt most required for an attempt at his father's
throne--and the poor officer was left in seclusion to write consolingly
about his campaigns and "Defences of Fortified Towns.
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| Source: |
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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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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To me thou seem'st clothed in a holy halo,
My soul beholds thy soul through thy fair body;
E'en when my eyes are shut, I see thee still;
Thou art my daylight, and
sometimes
I wish
That Heaven had made me blind that thou might'st be
The sun that lighted up the world for me.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Is sent to Venice by
Francesco
da Carrara.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"
Soon as had Atys (bastard-she) this lay to comrades sung
The Chorus sudden lulliloos with quivering, quavering tongue,
Again the nimble timbrel groans, the scooped-out cymbals clash,
And up green Ida flits the Choir, with
footsteps
hurrying rash.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Frowde is issuing an edition based upon this, in
which the
spelling
is frankly that of to-day.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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With regard
to the first, I say boldly that the nature of what is understood as a
tale decided that it should be so, it being an
indispensable
law
according to Horace, or rather according to reason and common sense, that
one must conform one's self to the nature of the things about which one
writes.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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(And I Tiresias have
foresuffered
all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Each one
plunders
for himself!
| 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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Oh quanto e corto il dire e come fioco
al mio
concetto!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And so a preacher, in the
invention of matter, election of words,
composition
of gesture, look,
pronunciation, motion, useth all these faculties at once: and if we can
express this variety together, why should not divers studies, at divers
hours, delight, when the variety is able alone to refresh and repair us?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Her cheeks grow rosy, as she
quickens
her sleeve-dancing:
Her brows grow sad, as she slows her song's tune.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Nor hundred-headed Riot here we meet,
With decency and law beneath his feet:
Nor
Insolence
assumes fair Freedom's name;
Like CALEDONIANS, you applaud or blame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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'
THE NUN'S ASPIRATION
The yesterday doth never smile,
The day goes
drudging
through the while,
Yet, in the name of Godhead, I
The morrow front, and can defy;
Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,
Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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»3
GHOSTS
By Samuel Roth
She stood half leaning in the dark doorway, Light
kindling
softly in her anxious eyes:
"I tire," she pleaded, "tire of all that's wise And witty.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down--
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the brambles were always
catching
the hem of my gown.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Ma quel demonio che tenea sermone
col duca mio, si volse tutto presto
e disse: <
Scarmiglione!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Think, when your
castigated
pulse
Gies now and then a wallop!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I'll toast you in my
hindmost
gillie,
Tho' owre the sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The sonnets of Les
Antiquites
provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the viewpoint of the French Renaissance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If then to all men happiness was meant,
God in
externals
could not place content.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Their
powdered
cheeks, lit by the sun,
are mirrored deep in the pool;
Their scented skirts, caught by the wind,
flap high in the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Their waefu' fate what need I tell,
Right to the wrang did yield;
My Donald and his Country fell,
Upon
Culloden
field.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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961 is the only
collection
in which I have
found it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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heaðowylma
bād, lāðan līges (the poet probably means
to indicate by these words that the hall Heorot was destroyed later in a
fight by fire; an occurrence, indeed, about which we know nothing, but
which 1165 and 1166, and again 2068 ff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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LAUGHABLE
LYRICS:
A FRESH BOOK OF NONSENSE POEMS, SONGS, BOTANY, ETC.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Then the
unnerving chill
overspread
her, her neck slackened, her head sank
overpowered by death, and her arms fell, and with a moan the life fled
indignant into the dark.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
Both
messengers
on the terrace dismount.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee
clothing
of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seem
As arguing love of
knowledge
and of power;
Your language proves you still the child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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`Aviseth
yow what folk ben here with-inne, 1730
And in what plyt oon is, god him amende!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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then to thy dear Son,
True God and Very Man,
That my last sigh in peace may, in his arms, be
breathed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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'Twas the day when with Jameson, fierce Berry, and Birney,
Against twenty
thousand
he rallied the field,
Where the red volleys poured, where the clamor rose highest,
Where the dead lay in clumps through the dwarf oak and pine,
Where the aim from the thicket was surest and nighest,--
No charge like Phil Kearny's along the whole line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The rats are
underneath
the piles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Aus dem hohlen finstern Tor
Dringt ein buntes
Gewimmel
hervor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Not once have I thus
Broken accord,
Order ignored,
Unless I'm floored,
Too low to grace
Her lovely body's dwelling place;
So I fear
slanderers
have their say,
Who cause ladies and lovers dismay,
Lower us, and drive all joy away,
And each and every way harm me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Hearts that are
happiest
hold not by it;
Better we let, then, the old view reign;
Since there is peace in it, why decry it?
| 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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Then too we know the varied smells of things
Yet never to our
nostrils
see them come;
With eyes we view not burning heats, nor cold,
Nor are we wont men's voices to behold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And now she's high upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his horse,
Among the fern or in the gorse;
There's neither doctor nor his guide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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A Song of
Eternity
in Time.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Versuch ich wohl, euch diesmal
festzuhalten?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
Great Britain disapproves "the stars;"
Disparagement discreet, --
There 's
something
in their attitude
That taunts her bayonet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Now, when I read, I read not,
For
interrupting
tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father
attempting
an inimical smile,
The solitude shuddered, azure, sterile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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The
struggle
which was beginning, and which many thought would
be brought to a speedy close by the irresistible arms of Great Britain
being added to those of the allies, I was assured in my own mind would
be of long continuance, and productive of distress and misery beyond
all possible calculation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive Catalogue of the Medusae of the
Australian
Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Round brands of the pyre
a wall they built, the
worthiest
ever
that wit could prompt in their wisest men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Oh, that I'll soon disclose;
Since we agree, allow me to propose,
Our mutual wishes we enjoy to-night;
And turn to ridicule that jealous Wight;
In short, reward him for his wily fear,
In
watching
us so very closely here.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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On
inquiry, I found those scraps, four or five in number,
contained
his
poetic feeling on the song of our nightingale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
The Hill of
Posilipo
is situated to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| 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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The tree is
mentioned
in at least three places in the Old Testament,
and its fruit in two or three more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And 'mong the cliffs disclos'd a stately form
In weeds of woe, that frantic beat her breast,
And mix'd her wailings with the raving storm
Wild to my heart the filial pulses glow,
'Twas Caledonia's trophied shield I view'd:
Her form majestic droop'd in pensive woe,
The
lightning
of her eye in tears imbued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
He was a worker whose only desire
was to
penetrate
with all his forces into the humble and the difficult
significance of his tool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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IV
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The
conscience
of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned
campions
and the blood-red poppies
Escape the murmuring and fleeting grain!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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When twilight twinkling o'er the gay bazaars,
Unfurls a sudden canopy of stars,
When lutes are strung and fragrant torches lit
On white roof-terraces where lovers sit
Drinking
together
of life's poignant sweet,
BUY FLOWERS, BUY FLOWERS, floats down the singing street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then how can he
Alter these men from wicked
delight?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The lily's perfume pure, fame's crown of light,
The latest murmur of departing day,
Fond friendship's plaint, that melts at piteous sight,
The mystic farewell of each hour at flight,
The kiss which beauty grants with coy delay,--
The sevenfold scarf that parting storms bestow
As trophy to the proud, triumphant sun;
The thrilling accent of a voice we know,
The love-enthralled maiden's secret vow,
An infant's dream, ere life's first sands be run,--
The chant of distant choirs, the morning's sigh,
Which erst inspired the fabled Memnon's frame,--
The melodies that, hummed, so trembling die,--
The sweetest gems that 'mid thought's
treasures
lie,
Have naught of sweetness that can match HER NAME!
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Hugo - Poems |
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1748 He wat3 in
drowping
depe,
Bot ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The youngest brother ye wad whip
Aff
straught
to hell!
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Robert Burns |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But in a genealogy
recorded by later writers, he is
likewise
the adopted son of
Asterius, as descendant of Dorus, the son of Helen, and is thus
connected with a colony said to have been led into Creta by
Tentamus, or Tectamus, son of Dorus, who is related either to have
crossed over from Thessaly, or to have embarked at Malea after
having led his followers by land into Laconia.
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Iliad - Pope |
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At the same time, while Petrarch is
purer than those classical lovers, he is never so natural as they
sometimes are when their
passages
are least objectionable, and the
sun-bursts of his real, manly, and natural human love seem to me often
to come to us straggling through the clouds of Platonism.
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Petrarch |
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e mere wyf, "3e may not be werned,
1496 [F] 3e ar stif in-noghe to
constrayne
wyth strenk?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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blake-poems |
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ROME
THE VATICAN--SALA DELLE MUSE
(1887)
I SAT in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the
chiselled
shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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