I
entrusted
him to you at a tender age.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Baptized before without the choice,
But this time consciously, of grace
Unto
supremest
name,
Called to my full, the crescent dropped,
Existence's whole arc filled up
With one small diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Than telleth hit that, fro a sterry place,
How African hath him Cartage shewed,
And warned him before of al his grace, 45
And seyde him, what man, lered other lewed,
That loveth comun profit, wel y-thewed,
He shal unto a blisful place wende,
Ther as Ioye is that last
withouten
ende.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the brave city 10
With its
enchantment?
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Sappho |
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Any
alternate
format must include the
full Project Gutenberg-tm License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_Rapido fiume che d'
alpestra
vena.
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Petrarch |
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"
His people
gathered
round the hero, and drew their shining swords.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Is Venus
abhorred
by new-made brides?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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non illi
quisquam
bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis uastabit tertius heres.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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L
When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Jonson not
infrequently
refers to contemporary actors.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Threescore and ten I can
remember
well,
Within the volume of which time I have seen
Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
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Shakespeare |
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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e
p{ro}pre
fortunes of poure feble
folke.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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haesit in amplexu consolatusque
iacentem
est,
cumque meis lacrimis miscuit usque suas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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OSWALD (as if to himself, yet
speaking
aloud)
The truth is hideous, but how stifle it?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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From Bruno's forest screams the frighted jay,
And slow th'
insulted
eagle wheels away.
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William Wordsworth |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted
now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on caparisons of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Not now are we one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor
ten;)
Nor market nor depot are we, nor money-bank in the city;
But these, and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below,
are ours;
And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small;
And the fields they moisten are ours, and the crops, and the fruits are
ours;
Bays and channels, and ships sailing in and out, are ours--and we over all,
Over the area spread below, the three
millions
of square miles--the
capitals,
The thirty-five millions of people--O bard!
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Whitman |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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what crueler light is borne aloft in the
heavens?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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**
Grentler
times for love are meant.
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Marvell - Poems |
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There seemed a cry as of men
massacred!
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Euripides - Electra |
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"In what he
leaves unsaid," wrote Schiller, "I
discover
the master of style.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You had said, the radiant sheen
Of that palace might have been
A young god's fantasy, ere he came
His serious worlds and suns to frame;
Such an
immortal
passion
Quiver'd among the slim hewn stone.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
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Robert Burns |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But even these Cossacks, who
should have been a guarantee for the peace and quiet of the country, had
for some time shown a
dangerous
and unruly spirit towards the Imperial
Government.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
| Guess: |
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Appoloinaire |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I THINK the reader I've already told,
Our husband loved rich
presents
to behold;
Though none he made, yet all he would receive;
Whate'er was offered he would never leave.
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La Fontaine |
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Division
into
Act and Scene referring chiefly to the Stage (to which this work never
was intended) is here omitted.
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Milton |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
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Emerson - Poems |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to
digitize
public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sappho |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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With silence-sandalled Sleep she comes to me,
(But softer-footed, sweeter-browed, than she,)
In motion
gracious
as a seagull's wing,
And all her bright limbs, moving, seem to sing.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Of all
the qualities we assign to the author and
director
of nature, by far
the most enviable is--to be able "to wipe away all tears from all
eyes.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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At last they issued from the world of wood,
And climbed upon a fair and even ridge,
And showed
themselves
against the sky, and sank.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
|
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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[Exeunt
MARMADUKE
and OSWALD.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Pale ashes of the house of
Lancaster!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Myn herte, allas, wol brest a-two,
For
Bialacoil
I wratthed so.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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•
Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Quando scendean nel fior, di banco in banco
porgevan
de la pace e de l'ardore
ch'elli acquistavan ventilando il fianco.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
AS I CAME DOWN IN THE HARBOR By Louis Ginsberg
As I came down in the harbor, I saw ships careening — Tall ships with taut sails, bulging slowly away;
As I came down in the harbor, like far
swallows
flying, Delicate were the sails I saw, poised faint and dim !
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| Question: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He, without a care
For all the
affliction
of Admetus' halls,
Sang on; and, listening, one could hear the thralls
In the long gallery weeping for the dead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Don't think that
Hercules
be still that boy whom Alcmene once bore you;
His adulation of me makes him now god upon earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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perhaps I shall rest in the
graveyard!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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replied in the _United Irishman_
with an
impassioned
letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
It is no matter if I fail: I must
Send the God in me forth, and yield to him
The shaping of
whatever
chance befall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
25
But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Only Hannah the housemaid was busy in clearing the table,
Coming and going, and
hustling
about in closet and chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in
variable
positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
e now
w{i}t{h}
floures {and} now wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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speak again,
"Thy soft
response
renewing--
"What makes that ship drive on so fast?
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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