Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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blake-poems |
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'Don't suppose I would underrate Cooper's abilities;
If I thought you'd do that, I should feel very ill at ease;
The men who have given to _one_
character
life
And objective existence are not very rife;
You may number them all, both prose-writers and singers,
Without overrunning the bounds of your fingers,
And Natty won't go to oblivion quicker
Than Adams the parson or Primrose the vicar.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-
Owl-downy
nonsense
that the faintest puff
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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DOORYARD ROSES
I HAVE come the
selfsame
path
To the selfsame door,
Years have left the roses there
Burning as before.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And yet not hopeless quite nor
faithless
quite,
Because not loveless; love may toil all night,
But take at morning; wrestle till the break
Of day, but then wield power with God and man:--
So take I heart of grace as best I can,
Ready to spend and be spent for your sake.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No more I say; the belle indeed was fair,
Possessed of youth and all
engaging
air;
Tall, nicely formed; each grace, that hearts could win;
Not much of fat, nor yet appeared too thin.
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La Fontaine |
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Here take my semecope[51], thou arte bare I see;
Tis thyne; the
Seynctes
will give me mie rewarde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
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Stephen Crane |
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The bohemian glass on the
_étagère_
is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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There is a
legend[15] that he was drowned while making a drunken effort to embrace
the
reflection
of the moon in the water.
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Li Po |
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Kneel, Panopeians, to your equal queen,
Safe from the foreign sword, and
barbarous
skene.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Sidenote: Know you not the history of Croesus and of Paulus
AEmilius?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We had now, therefore,
the complete Mummy at our disposal; and to those who are aware how very
rarely the unransacked antique reaches our shores, it will be evident,
at once that we had great reason to
congratulate
ourselves upon our good
fortune.
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Poe - 5 |
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E come a li orbi non approda il sole,
cosi a l'ombre quivi, ond' io parlo ora,
luce del ciel di se largir non vole;
che a tutti un fil di ferro i cigli fora
e cusce si, come a
sparvier
selvaggio
si fa pero che queto non dimora.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The old graves are
ploughed
up into fields,
The pines and cypresses are hewn for timber.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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No poet since Milton has employed what is known as
Onomatopoeia
with so
much effect.
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Tennyson |
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Gone is that King, and the old spear laid low
That
Tantalus
wielded when the world was young.
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Euripides - Electra |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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True; I
remember
now.
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Aristophanes |
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I bid the
strangers
hail!
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Euripides - Electra |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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change
the worm back into his canine form, as he was often pleased in the night
to trot before me, to roll before the feet of the
harmless
wanderer, and,
when he fell, to hang on his shoulders.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The
saviours
come not home to-night:
Themselves they could not save.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And send us prying into the abyss,
To gather what we shall be when the frame
Shall be resolved to something less than this
Its wretched essence; and to dream of fame,
And wipe the dust from off the idle name
We never more shall hear,--but never more,
Oh, happier
thought!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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520
Thence more at ease thir minds and somwhat rais'd
By false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers
Disband, and wandring, each his several way
Pursues, as inclination or sad choice
Leads him perplext, where he may
likeliest
find
Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain
The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.
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Milton |
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"Shut, shut those
juggling
eyes, thou ruthless man!
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Keats - Lamia |
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He ain't at home in Sunday-school,
Nor yet a social tea,
And on the day he gets his pay
He's apt to spend it free;
He ain't no temperance advocate,
He likes to fill the can,
He's kind of rough, and, maybe, tough,
The Regular Army man;
The r'aring, tearing,
Sometimes
swearing,
Regular Army man.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What a pity that
the mere emotions of
gratitude
are so impotent in this world.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[240] This was
necessary
in the absence of Vespasian and Titus.
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Tacitus |
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For he hears the lambs'
innocent
call,
And he hears the ewes' tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one,
settling
a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Oxford, MS 38655-4109
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transfer
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And
wondered
if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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That is why, according to my will,
Castile was ruled these ten years from Seville,
To be nearer them, and be the swifter
To oppose
whatever
threat they offer.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"
"We don't; but you always
understood
me, and there is so much in my work
that you could help me in.
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Kipling - Poems |
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His
breastplate
broad and bright of hues,
woven by hand, should the waters try;
well could it ward the warrior's body
that battle should break on his breast in vain
nor harm his heart by the hand of a foe.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Can it
be Cinesias[680] who has
befouled
you so?
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Aristophanes |
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Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning; there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair
uplifted
from the head
Of some fierce Maenad, ev'n from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height--
The locks of the approaching storm.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Unauthenticated
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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" I am
naturally
anxious
that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate
at all.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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Qui vid' i' gente piu ch'altrove troppa,
e d'una parte e d'altra, con grand' urli,
voltando
pesi per forza di poppa.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then leave the poor
Plebeian
his single tie to life--
The sweet, sweet love of daughter, of sister, and of wife,
The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures,
The kiss, in which he half forgets even such a yoke as yours.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Pandarus, at his brother's
fall, sees how fortune stands, what hap rules the day; and swinging the
gate round on its hinge with all his force, pushes it to with his broad
shoulders, leaving many of his own people shut outside the walls in the
desperate conflict, but
shutting
others in with him as they pour back in
retreat.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned
A novel arrangement of bows:
While the Billiard-marker with
quivering
hand
Was chalking the tip of his nose.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Hier glanzt sie sehr,
Und hier noch mehr:
"Ich bin
lebendig!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The tall hills
Push up their shady groves into the sky,
And fail and cease where the intense light spills
Its parching torrent on the gaunt and dry
Rock of the further mountains, whence the snow
That
softened
their harsh edges long is gone,
And nothing tempers now
The hot flood falling on the barren stone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"
XXXIX
The livid
lightnings
flashed in the clouds;
The leaden thunders crashed.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Vedea Briareo fitto dal telo
celestial
giacer, da l'altra parte,
grave a la terra per lo mortal gelo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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him
tōgēanes
fēng, _caught at
him, grasped at him_, 1543; w.
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Beowulf |
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With visor down scarce
breathing
seemed maintained
Throughout the hall a death-like silence reigned.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The very roughness of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she
intentionally
avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict of her true task,
dalliance
offered in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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* You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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For as to what men sometimes will affirm:
That more than Tartarus (the realm of death)
They fear diseases and a life of shame,
And know the substance of the soul is blood,
Or rather wind (if haply thus their whim),
And so need naught of this our science, then
Thou well may'st note from what's to follow now
That more for glory do they
braggart
forth
Than for belief.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Nothing but what good care
And
medicine
and rest--and you a week,
Can cure me of to go again.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For wite thou wel,
withouten
were, 2740
In thank that thing is taken more,
For which a man hath suffred sore.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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With what
enchantment
and power
Does it not come upon mortals,
Learned or heedless!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But he is a learned poet, and he is a
philosophical poet, and without some attention to the philosophy
and science underlying his
conceits
and his graver thought it is
impossible to understand or appreciate either aright.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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A sort of informal committee--consisting of more than half
the authors here represented--have arranged the book and decided what
should be printed and what omitted, but, as a general rule, the poets
have been allowed
absolute
freedom in this direction, limitations of space
only being imposed upon them.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their banquets been dreaded,
Yelling with
brassiest
voice orders to great and to small.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean,
I wat she is a dainty chucky;
And
cheerlie
blinks the ingle-gleed
Of Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Love 'mid the grass beneath a laurel green--
The plant divine which long my flame has fed,
Whose shade for me less bright than sad is seen--
A cunning net of gold and pearls had spread:
Its bait the seed he sows and reaps, I ween
Bitter and sweet, which I desire, yet dread:
Gentle and soft his call, as ne'er has been
Since first on Adam's eyes the day was shed:
And the bright light which
disenthrones
the sun
Was flashing round, and in her hand, more fair
Than snow or ivory, was the master rope.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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No, I cannot endure a
happiness
that galls me,
Oenone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
| Guess: |
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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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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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[_As the song ceases the doors are thrown open and_ ADMETUS _comes
before them: a great funeral
procession
is seen moving out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And they declare
Terreagles
fair,
For their abode they chuse it;
There's no a heart in a' the land,
But's lighter at the news o't.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
| Guess: |
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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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_Nature's Hymn to the Deity_
All nature owns with one accord
The great and universal Lord:
The sun proclaims him through the day,
The moon when daylight drops away,
The very darkness smiles to wear
The stars that show us God is there,
On
moonlight
seas soft gleams the sky
And "God is with us" waves reply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
may the
whole race of the
Chalybes
perish, and whoever first questing the veins
'neath the earth harassed its hardness, breaking it through with iron.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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denique auarities et honorum caeca cupido,
quae miseros homines cogunt transcendere finis
iuris et interdum socios scelerum atque ministros
noctes atque dies niti praestante labore
ad summas emergere opes, haec uulnera uitae
non minimam partem mortis
formidine
aluntur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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The truth is, I think, that 'The Rape of the Lock'
represents Pope's
attitude
toward the social life of his time in the
period of his brilliant youth.
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The staff I yet remember which upbore
The bending body of my active sire;
His seat beneath the honeyed sycamore
When the bees hummed, and chair by winter fire;
When market-morning came, the neat attire
With which, though bent on haste, myself I deck'd;
My watchful dog, whose starts of furious ire,
When stranger passed, so often I have check'd;
The red-breast known for years, which at my
casement
peck'd.
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God be thanked, I have been
preserved
from the grosser forms
of sin; and I counsel YOU, Mr.
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He comes with evening: all his fleecy flock
Before him march, and pour into the rock:
Not one, or male or female, stayed behind
(So fortune chanced, or so some god designed);
Then heaving high the stone's
unwieldy
weight,
He roll'd it on the cave and closed the gate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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VIII
"While thou art mine, my little Love, 85
This cannot be a
sorrowful
grove;
Contentment, hope, and mother's glee, [13]
I seem to find them all in thee: [14]
Here's grass to play with, here are flowers;
I'll call thee by my darling's name; 90
Thou hast, I think, a look of ours,
Thy features seem to me the same;
His little sister thou shalt be;
And, when once more my home I see,
I'll tell him many tales of Thee.
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And didst thou bear,
Bear in thy bitter pain,
To life, thy
murderer?
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At fall of
eventide
he went
To drink beside the river-head;
A waiting hunter threw his dart,
And struck my lover through the heart.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The Muses made
Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains
Call me a poet, but I believe them not:
For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet
Or Cinna deem I, but account myself
A cackling goose among
melodious
swans.
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I would that thine were like to be more mild _485
For both our
wretched
sakes.
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_The Poetry Review_:--"The
Messines
Road," by Captain J.
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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!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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it is not lessened; but thy mind,
Expanded
by the genius of the spot,
Has grown colossal, and can only find
A fit abode wherein appear enshrined
Thy hopes of immortality; and thou
Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined,
See thy God face to face, as thou dost now
His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
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They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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