In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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Little by little, Pluffles fell away from his
old
allegiance
and came over to the enemy, by whom he was made much of.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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,[49] has assembled a
gang of robbers, excited risings in villages on the Yaik, and taken and
oven destroyed several forts, while committing
everywhere
robberies and
murders.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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She
prefaced
half a hint of this
With, "God forbid it should be true!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Twas there within the chimney-seat
He watched me to the clock's slow beat--
Loved me, and learnt to call me sweet,
And
whispered
words to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Hear me, sweet
dreamer!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Dans cette grande plaine ou l'autan froid se joue,
Ou par les longues nuits la
girouette
s'enroue,
Mon ame mieux qu'au temps du tiede renouveau
Ouvrira largement ses ailes de corbeau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Between thirty and forty, one is
distracted
by the Five Lusts;
Between seventy and eighty, one is a prey to a hundred diseases.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
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Troubador Verse |
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Why in that
rawnesse
left you Wife, and Childe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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CLEMENT SCOTT
NERO'S
INCENDIARY
SONG.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The
bodiless
begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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Longfellow |
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The rhyme in this verse, as in one about sixty
lines before, has an
appearance
of affectation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Now let us meet the
Pilgrims
ere the day
Close on the remnant of their weary way; 1827.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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ATHENA
Nay, bow ye to my words, chafe not nor moan:
Ye are not worsted nor disgraced; behold,
With balanced vote the cause had issue fair,
Nor in the end did aught
dishonour
thee.
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Aeschylus |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The blood-red sun bent over me
Your eyes are like the
sea—the
bitter sea!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Fallen so deep,
Against the sides of this prodigious pit
I cry--cry--dashing out the hands of wail
On each side, to meet anguish everywhere,
And to attest it in the ecstasy
And exaltation of a woe sustained
Because
provoked
and chosen.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In that hour
Thou slewest the child, oh why
Not rather slay Calamity,
Breeder of Pain and Doubt,
infernal
Power?
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Sidney Lanier |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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| Answer: |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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King, behold the man
The swiftest and the boldest
In thy kingdom by the sea,
From
mountain
or .
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Tennyson |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Perhaps a native of some distant shore,
The future consort of her bridal hour:
Or rather some descendant of the skies;
Won by her prayer, the aerial bridegroom flies,
Heaven on that hour its choicest
influence
shed,
That gave a foreign spouse to crown her bed!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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There doth my father lie; and there this night
We'll pass the
business
privately and well.
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Shakespeare |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Das
Publikum
wird es Euch doch zerpflucken.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In some
obscure manner, however, savage
existence
has been constantly
interrupted; and it seems as if the long-repressed forces of
individuality then burst out into exaggerated vehemence; for the result
(if it is not slavery) is, that a people passes from its savage to its
heroic age, on its way to some permanence of civilization.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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See, Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is
notwithstanding
up.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Et des iles
Dont les cieux
delirants
sont ouverts au vogueur:
--Est-ce en ces nuits sans fond que tu dors et t'exiles,
Million d'oiseaux d'or, o future Vigueur?
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O City city, I can
sometimes
hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So thou, sweet Rose-bud, young and gay,
Shalt
beauteous
blaze upon the day,
And bless the parent's evening ray
That watch'd thy early morning.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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It founds the homes and decks the days,
And every clamor bright
Is but the gleam concomitant
Of that
waylaying
light.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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) by slight extravagances and forms of words which are
sometimes epic and sometimes over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot,
which had already been treated by the old poet
Phrynichus
in his
_Alcestis_, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric;
and it has one character straight from the Satyr world, the heroic
reveller, Heracles.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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ydalium_ GRVen:
_adalium_
O || _uriosque_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Connected with the castle of the
Viscount
of Limoges, his skill earned him the nickname of Master of the Troubadours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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The
helpless
worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf,
And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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[2] Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to
different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by
imaginary
lines
drawn from rock to rock.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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it went through my flesh as thrilling sound
Must shake a fiddle when the strings are
snatcht!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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That Emperour, with his
blossoming
beard,
Hath vassalage, and very high folly;
Battle to fight, he will not ever flee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--for never sorrow
Shall dawn upon him
desolate!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Luvah breaking in the woes of Vala] {Erdman suggests that 'breaking' is a word from an unrelated layer of ms, and 'woes of Vala' as previously
misrecognised
in Ellis' transcription as 'womb of Vala' EJC}
[But soon ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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This made you dumb; ignorant knowledge of this,
Blind vision of virginity's mightiness,
Did chide the
exclamation
in your hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD
BY
SAROJINI NAIDU
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS
DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE
GOLDEN THRESHOLD
London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905
CONTENTS
FOLK SONGS
Palanquin-Bearers
Wandering
Singers
Indian Weavers
Coromandel Fishers
The Snake-Charmer
Corn-Grinders
Village-Song
In Praise of Henna
Harvest Hymn
Indian Love-Song
Cradle-Song
Suttee
SONGS FOR MUSIC
Song of a Dream
Humayun to Zobeida
Autumn Song Alabaster
Ecstasy
To my Fairy Fancies
POEMS
Ode to H.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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ne sholde
nat
p{er}isshe
vnexcercised i{n} gouernaunce of comune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"--
And the old nurse a brief prayer said
And crossed with
trembling
hand the maid.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And, see, the farm-roof
chimneys
smoke afar,
And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I'll feed thee, O beloved, on milk and wild red honey,
I'll bear thee in a basket of rushes, green and white,
To a palace-bower where golden-vested maidens
Thread with mellow
laughter
the petals of delight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
]
M'Quhae's
pathetic
manly sense,
An' guid M'Math,
Wi' Smith, wha thro' the heart can glance,
May a' pack aff.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations
received
from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Bring forth Men-Children onely:
For thy
vndaunted
Mettle should compose
Nothing but Males.
| Guess: |
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
immutable
calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one mummified winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Lanier's growth in
artistic
form.
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Sidney Lanier |
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_ ELECTRA _enters,
returning
from the
well.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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Ich kenne manchen schonen Platz
Und manchen altvergrabnen Schatz;
Ich muss ein
bisschen
revidieren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Project
Gutenberg
EBook of Lamia, by John Keats
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And I
perchance
am called ungrateful still.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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