I tell you, girl, come embrace;
What reck we of
churchling
and priest
With hands on paunch, and chubby face?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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But these ways
Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;
For
silliest
ignorance on these may light,
Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right;
Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance
The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;
Or crafty malice might pretend this praise,
And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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There is a good deal of
vacillation
in the MSS.
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John Donne |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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345
Even now she decks for me a distant scene,
(For dark and broad the gulf of time between)
Gilding that cottage with her fondest ray,
(Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my way; 350
How fair its lawns and
sheltering
[97] woods appear!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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>>
Deus damoiseles moult mignotes,
Qui estoient en pures cotes,
Et trecies a une tresce,
Faisoient
Deduit par noblesce
Enmi la karole baler;
Mes de ce ne fait a parler
Comme el baloient cointement.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He knew no law, he feared no binding law,
But ground them with inexorable jaw:
The luscious fat distilled upon his chin,
Exuded from his
nostrils
and his eyes, 30
While still like hungry death he fed his maw;
Till every minor crocodile being dead
And buried too, himself gorged to the full,
He slept with breath oppressed and unstrung claw.
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Christina Rossetti |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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cm Street Boston
SELECTED POEMS OF
Gustaf Froeding
The greatest poet of a great poetic literature, adequately
introduced
to English readers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Indeed, I have no faith in the
selected
lists
of pomological gentlemen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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But for us
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Prostrate in love, whom anxious anguish eats,
Whom
troubles
of any unappeased desires
Asunder rip.
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Lucretius |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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There was a little figure plump
For every little knoll,
Busy needles, and spools of thread,
And
trudging
feet from school.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There wait embower'd, while I ascend alone
To great
Alcinous
on his royal throne.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Again,
As all the breathing creatures which take food
Are
outwardly
unlike, and outer cut
And contour of their members bounds them round,
Each differing kind by kind, they thus consist
Of seeds of varying shape.
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Lucretius |
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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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His poor fingers
aimlessly
and awkward Fumbled with the covers, and a look
On his features, fatuous and fervent, Foolish seemed and laughable enough.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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John Donne |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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)
Why we have not
developed
into friends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The moaning wind went
wandering
round
The weeping prison wall:
Till like a wheel of turning steel
We felt the minutes crawl:
O moaning wind!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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net (This file was produced from images
generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Not Phoebus doth the rude Parnassian crag
So ravish, nor Orpheus so entrance the heights
Of Rhodope or Ismarus: for he sang
How through the mighty void the seeds were driven
Of earth, air, ocean, and of liquid fire,
How all that is from these
beginnings
grew,
And the young world itself took solid shape,
Then 'gan its crust to harden, and in the deep
Shut Nereus off, and mould the forms of things
Little by little; and how the earth amazed
Beheld the new sun shining, and the showers
Fall, as the clouds soared higher, what time the woods
'Gan first to rise, and living things to roam
Scattered among the hills that knew them not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But I departed thence, afire, Licinius, with thy wit and
drolleries, so that food was useless to my wretched self; nor could sleep
close mine eyes in quiet, but all o'er the bed in restless fury did I toss,
longing to behold
daylight
that with thee I might speak, and again we might
be together.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant,
Majoresque
cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Quest' inno si
gorgoglian
ne la strozza,
che dir nol posson con parola integra>>.
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the
marriage
of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood,
It fills with alabaster wool
The
wrinkles
of the road.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late, celestial face,
Please God, shall
ascertain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me
standing
there.
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Think you, mid all this mighty sum
"Of things for ever speaking,
"That nothing of itself will come,
"But we must still be
seeking?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Singuliere
fortune ou le but se deplace,
Et, n'etant nulle part, peut etre n'importe ou!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Tennyson |
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e whiche it
comp{re}hendi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I put myself in a regimen of
admiring a fine woman; and in
proportion
to the adorability of her
charms, in proportion are you delighted with my verses.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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Yet now, before our sun grow dark at noon,
Before we come to nought beneath Thy rod,
Before we go down quick into the pit, 80
Remember us for good, O God, our God:--
Thy Name will I remember, praising it,
Though Thou forget me, though Thou hide Thy face,
And blot me from the Book which Thou hast writ;
Thy Name will I remember in my praise
And call to mind Thy
faithfulness
of old,
Though as a weaver Thou cut off my days,
And end me as a tale ends that is told.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Who late and
lingering
seeks thy shrine,
On him but seldom, Power divine,
Thy spirit rests!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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quare cur curis te amplius
excrucies?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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.
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Yeats |
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As they
hastened
onward, Hrothgar's gift
they lauded at length.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I'VE lately certain
information
had,
Your spouse (I scarcely thought the man so bad,)
Has with the lady an appointment made;
At Jack's nice bagnio he will meet the jade.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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th,
For Iesu cristes swete loue; to
susteyne
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He afterwards assumed
Marcus Agrippa into a
fellowship
in it; and, upon his death, Tiberius;
that none might doubt, who was to be his successor.
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Tacitus |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have
wandered
home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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| Question: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Venus, and Phoebus with the
dreadful
bow,
Smile on the slaughter, and enjoy my woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Golden Treasury |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
| Guess: |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 |
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but others move
In
intricate
ways biquadrate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Desire was absent, that provides great deeds
From out the
greatness
of prevenient thought:
And action, action, like a flame that needs
A steady breath and fuel, being caught
Up, like a burning reed from other reeds,
Flashed in the empty and uncertain air,
Then wavered, then went out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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After, this way return not; but the sun
Will show you, that now rises, where to take
The
mountain
in its easiest ascent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
Then me he touch'd, and spake: "Nessus is this,
Who for the fair
Deianira
died,
And wrought himself revenge for his own fate.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No, I call the goddesses to
witness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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My heart burnt within my breast; I felt as if I were her
knight; I thirsted to prove to her that I was worthy of her trust, and I
impatiently
expected
the decisive moment.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your
laughter
at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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{and} wel more
horrible
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Are so
superfluous
cold,
I would as soon attempt to warm
The bosoms where the frost has lain
Ages beneath the mould.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The latter places it in April, 1615, when
Donne was on the eve of taking Orders, and was
approaching
his noble
patronesses for help in clearing himself of debt.
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John Donne |
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But still he holds the wedding-guest--
There was a Ship, quoth he--
"Nay, if thou'st got a
laughsome
tale,
"Marinere!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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From out the Christall palace of her breast,
The clearer soule was call'd to endlesse rest,
(Not by the
thundering
voyce, wherewith God threats,
But, as with crowned Saints in heaven he treats,) 10
And, waited on by Angels, home was brought,
To joy that it through many dangers sought;
The key of mercy gently did unlocke
The doores 'twixt heaven and it, when life did knock.
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John Donne |
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It has been the custom of late to assign to Donne the
authorship of one
charming
lyric in the _Rhapsody_, 'Absence hear thou
my protestation.
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John Donne |
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LXXXI
The remnant of the winter, he with shield
And spear
achieved
things worthy to be shown,
I ween; but these were then so well concealed,
It is no fault of mine they are not blown;
For good Orlando was in fighting field,
Prompter to do, than make his prowess known.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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XXXV
No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver
fountains
mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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You know
well how great is the
difference
between two companions lolling in a
post-chaise, and two travellers plodding slowly along the road, side
by side, each with his little knapsack of necessaries upon his
shoulders.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There was no need for them
to be "long choosing and
beginning
late.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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