When all their blooms the meadows flaunt
To deck the morning of the year,
Why tinge thy lustres jubilant
With
forecast
or with fear?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the
priestly
care.
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blake-poems |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O, shun the sea, where shine
The thick-sown
Cyclades!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And worse and
hatefuller
our woes on land;
For where we couched, close by the foeman's wall,
The river-plain was ever dank with dews,
Dropped from the sky, exuded from the earth,
A curse that clung unto our sodden garb,
And hair as horrent as a wild beast's fell.
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Aeschylus |
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O, either 'twas some
stranger
passed, and shore
His locks for very ruth before that tomb:
Or, if he found perchance, to seek his home,
Some spy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gaze once more on the fast closed eyes;
Mark once the mouth that never speaks;
Think of the man and his quiet manner:
Weep if you will; then go your way;
But remember his face as it looks to the skies,
And the dumb appeal
wherewith
it seeks
To lead us on, as one should say, "Arise--
Go forth to meet your country's noblest day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Straightway
I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Fair and
unutterably
sad
The world hath sought time out of mind;
The world hath sought and I have sought,--
Ah, empty world and empty I!
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Christina Rossetti |
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--I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With
coldness
still returning.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must,
Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust,
Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink,
To fill the Cup--when
crumbled
into Dust!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That is to say, he does not care so much
what happens, as what the
personages
of the poem think and feel.
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Keats |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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AElla sore wounded ys, yn
bykerous
fraie;
In Wedecester's wallid toune he lyes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Oh sea, look
graciously!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
"Kubla Khan," which was
literally
composed in sleep, comes nearer than any
other existing poem to that ideal of lyric poetry which has only lately
been systematized by theorists like Mallarme.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And there is only
Holofernes
here.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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' He
complained
of cold all the next day, and wore
an upper coat, and in a few days another, and in a fortnight took to
his bed, always saying nothing made him warm; he covered himself with
many blankets, and had a sieve over his face as he lay; and from this
one insane idea he kept his bed above twenty years for fear of the
cold air, till at length he died.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"B-o-o-m" and "B-o-o-m" from afar she hears us, She will pass on our
starboard
bow,
Out of the drifting fog she nears us, With rush of waters she's passing now.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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On her return from the drive, she
hastened
to her chamber to
read the missive, in a state of excitement mingled with fear.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A queen devoid of beauty is not queen,
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien;
God in His harmony has equal ends
For cedar that resists, and reed that bends,
And good it is a woman
sometimes
rules,
Holds in her hand the power, and manners schools,
And laws and mind;--succeeding master proud,
With gentle voice and smile she leads the crowd,
The sombre human troop.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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From Fiffe, great King,
Where the
Norweyan
Banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Quelques jours plus tard, la duchesse
rencontrant
Baudelaire dans le
salon d'une vieille parente a elle, lui demanda si elle n'aurait pas
l'occasion de manger encore des pommes de terre frites.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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These men were brave enough, and true
To the hired soldier's bull-dog creed;
What brought them here they never knew,
They fought as suits the English breed:
They came three
thousand
miles, and died,
To keep the Past upon its throne:
Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,
Their English mother made her moan.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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A hundred little things make likenesses
In
brethren
born, and show the father's blood.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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_
Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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De illis qui upkikitant, dicebam, rumpora tanta,
Letcheris et Floydis
magnisque
Extra ordine Billis;
Est his prisca fides jurare et breakere wordum:
Poppere fellerum a tergo, aut stickere clam bowiknifo,
Haud sane facinus, dignum sed victrice lauro;
Larrupere et nigerum, factum praestantius ullo: 40
Ast chlamydem piciplumatam, Icariam, flito et ineptam,
Yanko gratis induere, illum et valido railo
Insuper acri equitare docere est hospitio uti.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Greece honours not with solemn fasts the dead:
Enough, when death demands the brave, to pay
The tribute of a
melancholy
day.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"
CXLVI
Oliver feels that he to die is bound,
Holds Halteclere, whose steel is rough and brown,
Strikes the
alcaliph
on his helm's golden mount;
Flowers and stones fall clattering to the ground,
Slices his head, to th'small teeth in his mouth;
So brandishes his blade and flings him down;
After he says: "Pagan, accurst be thou!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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_
Of these years I sing,
How they pass through convulsed pains, as through parturitions;
How America illustrates birth,
gigantic
youth, the promise, the sure
fulfilment, despite of people--Illustrates evil as well as good;
How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths,
obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity;
How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the States--or see freedom or
spirituality--or hold any faith in results.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Since the soul touched it, not in vain,
With pathos of
Immortal
gain,
'Tis here her fondest memories stay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I have
forgotten
jou long, long ago,
Like the svteet, silver singing of thin bells
Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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You must
preserve
Wuwei Commandery, 28 and make plans for its enduring benefit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Silent he Urizeneye'd the Prince * {In the gap after this stanza, several
fragments
of erased lines appear:
.
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Blake - Zoas |
|
)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours--as in the All-One's thought lay she--
Till
ripening
years have run.
| 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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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 |
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
650
Wherefore delay,
Young traveller, in such a
mournful
place?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Mourn, sooty coots, and speckled teals;
Ye fisher herons,
watching
eels:
Ye duck and drake, wi' airy wheels
Circling the lake;
Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels,
Rair for his sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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When gods and men I saw in Cupid's chain
Promiscuous led, a long
uncounted
train,
By sad example taught, I learn'd at last
Wisdom's best rule--to profit from the past
Some solace in the numbers too I found,
Of those that mourn'd, like me, the common wound
That Phoebus felt, a mortal beauty's slave,
That urged Leander through the wintry wave;
That jealous Juno with Eliza shared,
Whose more than pious hands the flame prepared;
That mix'd her ashes with her murder'd spouse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
, 483
Berlioz (Hector), Life of, 602
Binns' Life of Abraham Lincoln, 783
Bjornson's Plays, 625, 696
Blackmore's Lorna Doone, 304
" Springhaven, 350
Blackwell's Pioneer Work for Women, 667
Blake's Poems and Prophecies, 792
Boehme's The
Signature
of All Things, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
CEPHISE, the river
Cephissus
in Boeotia whose waters possessed the
power of bleaching the fleece of sheep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
| 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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"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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We must not quit the subject of his wit, with-
out presenting the reader with some few of his
pleasantries : premising that they form but a very
small part of those which we had marked in the
perusal of his works; and that, whatever their
merit, it were easy to find others far
superior
to
them, if we could afford space for long citations.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways
including
including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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For that the pure chaste homes of heroes to visit in person
Oft-tide the Gods, and
themselves
to display where mortals were gathered,
385
Wont were the Heavenlies while none human piety spurned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Yet my Hart
Throbs to know one thing: Tell me, if your Art
Can tell so much: Shall Banquo's issue euer
Reigne in this
Kingdome?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The
trophied
arches, storeyed halls invade
And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Neath great slabs of marble they hid them in vain,
'Gainst this
everliving
fire, God's own flaming rain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Onward a space, what seem'd seven trees of gold,
The
intervening
distance to mine eye
Falsely presented; but when I was come
So near them, that no lineament was lost
Of those, with which a doubtful object, seen
Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense,
Then did the faculty, that ministers
Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold
Distinguish, and it th' singing trace the sound
"Hosanna.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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the other stands bold-faced,
Defiant; for the knight, when he unlaced
His cuirass, had his trusty sword laid down,
And
Sigismond
now grasps it as his own.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
XXIII
As gentle
Shepheard?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
A majesty to try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And feeding high, and living soft,
Grew plump and able-bodied;
Until the grave
churchwarden
doff'd,
The parson smirk'd and nodded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
With joint consent on
helpless
me they flew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
God
Almighty
shall give joy for pain,
Shall comfort him who grieves:
Lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
But, O beloved comrade, ere we part,
Upon my
mournful
eyelids and my brow
Kiss me who hold thine image in my heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
| 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 pewit,
swopping
up and down
And screaming round the passer bye,
Or running oer the herbage brown
With copple crown uplifted high,
Loves in its clumps to make a home
Where danger seldom cares to come.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
245
And
trewelich
it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;
And they that han ben aldermost in wo,
With love han ben conforted most and esed;
And ofte it hath the cruel herte apesed, 250
And worthy folk maad worthier of name,
And causeth most to dreden vyce and shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
" KAU}
For measurd out in orderd spaces the Sons of Urizen
{Lowecase
"sons" mended to "Sons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Man walks in a vain shadow; he
Disquieteth
himself in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
"
I made reply that having already
received
my life at his hands, I
trusted not merely in his good nature but in his help.
| 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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er,
Scatters from her
pictured
urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
I see these locks in silvery slips,
This drooping gait, this altered size:
But Spring-tide blossoms on thy lips,
And tears take
sunshine
from thine eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Of threats of Hell and Hopes of
Paradise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Peace to the
perished!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Et, sur le debut suivant, apres passablement d'autres choses d'autres
gens:
_On dirait des soldats d'Agrippa d'Aubigne
Alignes au cordeau par
Philibert
Delorme.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Wherefore
his ridges are not curls
And ripples of an inland mere?
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Tennyson |
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the Night a silver cup
Fill'd with the wine of anguish waited at the golden feast
But the bright Sun was not as yet; he filling all the expanse
Slept as a bird in the blue shell that soon shall burst away
[] [Los saw the wound of his blow he saw he pitied he wept] *
{This is the line as Erdman gives it, but does not remark that the line is nearly illegible in the
manuscript
and appears to be written in pencil and erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Strangely enough, that very night at the ball, Tomsky had rallied her
about her preference for the young officer, assuring her that he knew
more than she
supposed
he did.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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how _could_ I forget and live--
You and the story of that doleful night
When, Antioch blazing to her topmost towers,
You rushed into the
murderous
flames, returned
Blind as the grave, but, as you oft have told me,
Clasping your infant Daughter to your heart.
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William Wordsworth |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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RIVERS TO THE SEA
But what of her whose heart is
troubled
by it,
The mother who would soothe and set him free,
Fearing the song's storm-shaken ecstasy--
Oh, as the moon that has no power to quiet
The strong wind-driven sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And he has left it
somewhere
buried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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When
he enters he sees someone, whose name is broken away, eating bread
and
drinking
milk, but the beautiful barbarian understands not.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A trick
Of posture in a girl, and see the alms
Of
generous
love man will enrich her with!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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my heart
For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the
hundredth
part
Of what from thee I learn.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Y
[Illustration]
Y was a Youth, who kicked
And
screamed
and cried like mad;
Papa he said, "Your conduct is
Abominably bad!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Ay, a child,--
Who never, praying, wept before:
While, in a mother undefiled,
Prayer goeth on in sleep, as true
And
pauseless
as the pulses do.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Ay, 'tis strong, and it does
indifferent
well in
flame-colour'd stock.
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Shakespeare |
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By a
thousand
broken
paths I twisted and turned from crag to crag.
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Li Po |
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Doe you not hope your
Children
shall be Kings,
When those that gaue the Thane of Cawdor to me,
Promis'd no lesse to them
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The land was scarred with deeds not good,
Like the fretting of worms on
withered
wood.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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