many a time and oft had Harold loved,
Or dreamed he loved, since rapture is a dream;
But now his wayward bosom was unmoved,
For not yet had he drunk of Lethe's stream:
And lately had he learned with truth to deem
Love has no gift so grateful as his wings:
How fair, how young, how soft soe'er he seem,
Full from the fount of joy's
delicious
springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It is the
exquisites
who are going to rule.
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| Answer: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything
else is still.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Why
standeth
she so still?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Dysplaie
the Englyshe bannorre onn the tente;
Rounde hymm, yee mynstrelles, songs of achments[129] synge;
Yee Herawdes, getherr upp the speeres besprente[130];
To Kynge of Tourney-tylte bee all knees bente.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Or hope to rouse some Coptic dullard, hid
Ages ago, wrapt stiffly, fold on fold,
With
cerements
close, to wither in the cold,
Forever hushed, and sunless pyramid!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Naked and bare the
leafless
trees repose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I shall not bear it: dreamed, it hath made my life
Fail almost, like a storm broken in heaven
By its
internal
fire; and now I feel
Love like a dreadful god coming to do
His pleasure on me, to tear me with his joy
And shred my flesh-wove strength with merciless
Utterance through me of inhuman bliss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
Be lusty, free,
persevere
in thy servyse,
And al is wel, if thou werke in this wyse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
Never didst thou spy
In art or nature aught so passing sweet,
As were the limbs, that in their
beauteous
frame
Enclos'd me, and are scatter'd now in dust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
_--This, and the reason
of the Moor's hate, is
entirely
omitted by Castera.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
And will this divine grace, this supreme perfection depart those for whom life exists only to
discover
and glorify them?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The night
appointed
for the fete had arrived.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
The Theologian shook his head;
"These old Italian tales," he said,
"From the much-praised Decameron down
Through all the rabble of the rest,
Are either trifling, dull, or lewd;
The gossip of a neighborhood
In some remote provincial town,
A scandalous
chronicle
at best!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Alas for him that is gone,
And for thee, O
wandering
one:
That now, methinks, in a land
Of the stranger must toil for hire,
And stand where the poor men stand,
A-cold by another's fire,
O son of the mighty sire:
While I in a beggar's cot
On the wrecked hills, changing not,
Starve in my soul for food;
But our mother lieth wed
In another's arms, and blood
Is about her bed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Present her my most
grateful
acknowledgment in your very best manner
of telling truth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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_
This was the
notable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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And we create, in absence of ourself,
Our Uncle York Lord
Governor
of England;
For he is just, and always lov'd us well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Then
followed
the danger of a
stepmother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
All things are best fullfil'd in thir due time,
And time there is for all things, Truth hath said:
If of my raign
Prophetic
Writ hath told
That it shall never end, so when begin
The Father in his purpose hath decreed,
He in whose hand all times and seasons roul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
"
"And," said the old Storks, "if you find a frog, divide it
carefully
into
seven bits, but on no account quarrel about it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Violet now, in veil on veil of evening
The hills across from
Cromwell
grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as a viol
In the heart of the hollow where the dark pools are;
The primrose has opened her pale yellow flowers
And heaven is lighting star after star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Rilke sees in Rodin the dominant
personification
in our age of the
"power of servitude in all nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
And now the sonne with the blacke cloudes did stryve,
And shettynge on the grounde his glairie raie,
The Abbatte spurrde his steede, and
eftsoones
roadde awaie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
But
mankind appear to me to be
emerging
from their trance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
at nunc aeterna
silentia
Lethes
ille canorus habes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
"
—The
Rochester
Herald, Rochester, New York
— The Literary Digest, New York Rates, $1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Methinks I see from rampired town
Some
battling
tyrant's matron wife,
Some maiden, look in terror down,--
"Ah, my dear lord, untrain'd in war!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
"
Barr-Saggott paid her great attention; and, as I have said, the heart of
her mother was
uplifted
in consequence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Or say, does high
necessity
of state
Inspire some patriot, and demand debate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
I lay in the image of a nine-monthed bonyeen,
By Tubber-vanach cross-roads: Father John
Came, sad and moody,
murmuring
many prayers;
I seemed as though I came from his own sty;
He saw the one brown ear; the breviary dropped;
He ran; I ran, I ran into the quarry;
He fell a score of yards.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
The while the change was easily perceived,
Some months went by, ere I the tales believed;
For there are people nowadays, Lord knows,
Will sooner hatch up lies than mend their clothes;
And when with such-like tattle they begin,
Don't mind whose character they spoil a pin:
But passing
neighbours
often marked them smile,
And watched him take her milkpail oer a stile;
And many a time, as wandering closer by,
From Jenny's bosom met a heavy sigh;
And often marked her, as discoursing deep,
When doubts might rise to give just cause to weep,
Smothering their notice, by a wished disguise
To slive her apron corner to her eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 354 ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
No more my half-dazed fancy there,
Can shape a giant In the air,
No more I see his streaming hair,
The
writhing
portent of his form;-- 90
The pale and quiet moon
Makes her calm forehead bare,
And the last fragments of the storm,
Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,
Silent and few, are drifting over me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Their
Presidents
shall not be their common referee so much as
their poets shall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
[_The_ PEASANT _goes to the_ ARMED
SERVANTS
_at the back, to help them
with the baggage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
PORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
What nudity is beautiful as this
Obedient monster purring at its toil;
These naked iron muscles
dripping
oil
And the sure-fingered rods that never miss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
Already
Caponsacco
had descended
Into the mart from Fesole: and Giuda
And Infangato were good citizens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Here on my breast flows her hair, an
abundance
of curls, while her head rests,
Pressing my arm as it's bent, so as to pillow her neck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
And all the day heaven gathers back her tears
Into her own blue eyes so clear and deep,
And
showering
down the glory of lightsome day,
Smiles on the earth's worn brow to win her if she may.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Ah, many a body thirst had dragged and rolled
Along the
highways
there was lying strewn
Besides Silenus-headed water-fountains,--
The life-breath choked from that too dear desire
Of pleasant waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
And driven the
Hamadryad
from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
O dainty dew, O morning dew
That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you
And the sweet grass and manful oaks
Give lair and rest
To him who
toadwise
sits and croaks
His death-behest?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
]
THE WITCH
[_beginning with great
emphasis
to declaim out of the book_]
Remember then!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
"
A harrier fair ran out of his palace,
Among them all the
greatest
bear assailed
On the green grass, beyond his friends some way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
'
And
hurrying
to the south, he came
To that high hill the herdsmen name
The Hill Seat of Leighin, because
Some god or king had made the laws
That held the land together there,
In old times among the clouds of the air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
With one and twenty sail he
attacked
fifty-four large galleys of
the Moors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
deep gash'd the
enormous
blade,
And for the soul an ample passage made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
,
without
obtaining
letters of naturalization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
With you goes my
handsome
friend,
The gentle, noble, and brave I send;
Into great sorrow I must descend,
Endless longing, and tears so bright.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
If nature can't, then wrath our verse
ensures!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In ev'ry hour that passes, O:
What
signifies
the life o' man,
An' 'twere na for the lasses, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
Now was that people distant far in space
A thousand paces behind ours, as much
As at a throw the nervous arm could fling,
When all drew
backward
on the messy crags
Of the steep bank, and firmly stood unmov'd
As one who walks in doubt might stand to look.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
Give me to live yet--yet a little while:
'Tis I who pray for life--I who so late
Demanded
but to die!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
the
disciple
sank
With anguished cry .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Lofty the chambers one and all,
Silk
tapestry
upon the wall,
Imperial portraits hang around
And stoves of various shapes abound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
He smiles--'tis sorrow's
deadliest
mockery;
He speaks--the cold words flow not from his soul;
He acts like others, drains the genial bowl,-- _15
Yet, yet he longs--although he fears--to die;
He pants to reach what yet he seems to fly,
Dull life's extremest goal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
THE SONG OF THE AIRMAN By Phoebe Hoffman
In the moonless night when the searchlight goes sneaking over the sky, I rise with a whirr of engines from the foam-tracked gloom of the sea, And shoot alone through the
midnight
where each star seems an Argos eye, To fence with Death in the darkness where the swift Valkyrie fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
--
Comes Love, and at once the struggling mutiny
Falls quiet,
unendurably
rebuked:
And the whole strength of life is free to serve
Spirit, under the regency of Love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
" Yea even as Peire Vidal ran as a wolf for her of Penautier
though some say that twas folly or as Garulf
Bisclavret
so ran truly, till the King brought him respite (See 'Lais' Marie de France), so was he ever by the Ash Tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
All our lone journey laughs for joy, the hours
Like honey-bees go home in new-found light
Past the cow pond amazed with
twinkling
flowers
And antique chalk-pit newly delved to white,
Or idle snow-plough nearly hid from sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Yet one could say, "In thine I prize
The
strength
of calm that held in Mary's eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
WATERS OF BABYLON
What presses about us here in the evening
As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky,
And the streets give back the jangle of
meaningless
movement
That is tired of life and almost too tired to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
held up
to ridicule in her "Rule of the
Hermitage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
And while he hears,
I speak this word for omen in his ears:
"Aegisthus dies,
Aegisthus
dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
copyright law (does not
contain a notice
indicating
that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and distributed to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
I shall not want Capital in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond:
We two shall lie together, lapt
In a five per cent
Exchequer
Bond.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Besides, he was a husband, which is worse
With these each sin
receives
a double curse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
when crafty eyes thy reason
With
sorceries
sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's mysterious season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Not the mounds of wheat
That load Sardinian threshing floors;
Not Indian gold or ivory--no,
Nor flocks that o'er
Calabria
stray,
Nor fields that Liris, still and slow,
Is eating, unperceived, away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue
That hint of heaven with odor more than hue, --
If perfect roses, each a holy Grail
Wherefrom the blood of beauty doth exhale
Grave raptures round, -- if leaves of green as new
As those fresh chaplets wove in dawn and dew
By Emily when down the
Athenian
vale
She paced, to do observance to the May,
Nor dreamed of Arcite nor of Palamon, --
If fruits that riped in some more riotous play
Of wind and beam that stirs our temperate sun, --
If these the products be of love and pain,
Oft may I suffer, and you love, again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Bremmil
listened
quietly,
and thanked them for their good offices.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
To music's
sweetest
chords, in loftiest vein,
An angel siren joins the vocal strain;
The silver roofs resound the living song,
The harp and organ's lofty mood prolong
The hallow'd warblings; list'ning Silence rides
The sky, and o'er the bridled winds presides;
In softest murmurs flows the glassy deep,
And each, lull'd in his shade, the bestials sleep.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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They creep along wrapped in their chilly rags,
Beneath the
whipping
of the wicked wind,
They tremble when an omnibus rolls by,
And at their sides, a relic of the past,
A little flower-embroidered satchel hangs.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A little
mysterious
hoeing and manuring was all the
_abracadabra presto-change_ that I used, and lo!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But to Ben
Jonson, whom Herrick
addresses
as his patron saint in song, and ranks
on the highest list of his friends, his obligations are much more
perceptible.
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Robert Herrick |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then one stood at the statue's base, and spoke--
Men needed not to ask what word;
Each in his breast the message heard,
Writ for him by Despair,
That evermore in moving phrase
Breathes from the
Invalides
and Pere Lachaise--
Vainly it seemed, alas!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Eke she defieth threat'ning Adrian shore,
Dare not denay her, insular Cyclades,
And noble Rhodos and
ferocious
Thrace,
Propontis too and blustering Pontic bight.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What are you
ruminating
over now again?
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Aristophanes |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A chamber that is like a reverie; a chamber truly _spiritual_, where the
stagnant
atmosphere
is lightly touched with rose and blue.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
visit to Liswyn took place after the
Wordsworths
had left Alfoxden
never to return.
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William Wordsworth |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those
vehement
stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only yourself can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
MENALCAS
"It
profiteth
me naught, Amyntas mine,
That in your very heart you spurn me not,
If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLX
Now, when Jupiter, fired by his lusts,
Wants to
conceive
the jewels of his eyes,
And with the heat of his burning thighs
Fills Juno's moist womb with his thrusts:
Now, when the sea, or when violent gusts
Of wind grant way to great ships of war,
And when the nightingale, in forest far,
Renews her grievance against Tereus:
Now, when the meadows and when the flowers
With thousands upon thousands of colours
Paint the breast of the earth so bright all round,
Alone and thoughtful among the secret cliffs,
With a silent heart I tell over my regrets,
And through the woods I go, hiding my wound.
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Ronsard |
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as it were that Rome,
Collecting the chief trophies of her line,
Would build up all her triumphs in one dome,
Her
Coliseum
stands; the moonbeams shine
As 'twere its natural torches, for divine
Should be the light which streams here, to illume
This long explored but still exhaustless mine
Of contemplation; and the azure gloom
Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume
CXXIX.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There revenges are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the
bridegroom
all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Lewis Carroll |
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