Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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As respects the
settlement
of the Mason and Slidell question, Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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There's
naething
like the honest nappy;
Whare'll ye e'er see men sae happy,
Or women sonsie, saft an' sappy,
'Tween morn and morn,
As them wha like to taste the drappie,
In glass or horn?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Me there emerging, the huge waves had dash'd
Full on the land, where, incommodious most,
The shore
presented
only roughest rocks,
But, leaving it, I swam the Deep again,
Till now, at last, a river's gentle stream
Receiv'd me, by no rocks deform'd, and where
No violent winds the shelter'd bank annoy'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I seek my lord who has
forgotten
me.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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on one person.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse
Is the
initiate
feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
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Rilke - Poems |
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He used to
relate how his heart
fluttered
when he first walked into the parlour
of the towers of Stair, to hear the lady's opinion of some of his
songs.
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Robert Forst |
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_ How he stands,
That
phantasm
of a man--who is not _thou_!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Yet
sometimes
even in a dark day I have
thought them as bright as I ever saw them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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In the meantime with shaking bodies and infirm gesture the Parcae began to
intone their
veridical
chant.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[Illustration]
When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights;
When the angry
breakers
roar
As they beat on the rocky shore;
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore,--
Then, through the vast and gloomy dark
There moves what seems a fiery spark,--
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night,--
A Meteor strange and bright:
Hither and thither the vision strays,
A single lurid light.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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May one not speed her but in phrase
askance?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The
fact is, that perseverance is one thing and genius quite another--nor
can all the Quarterlies in
Christendom
confound them.
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Poe - 5 |
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)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the memories that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine
fashion)
Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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All morning I heard him fret:
"Oh, when will she come,
Fleurette?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In his "Idylls from
the King" are found the
loftiest
and proudest deeds of English history
and even in the retelling of these in prose the high spirit that is an
inspiration to the noblest deeds cannot fail to be preserved.
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Tennyson |
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One stands by me and blows a blast apace
On his great
flashing
trumpet and the sound
Shrieks through the vast black solitude around
Through which, as through a wild mad dream we race.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Her wing shall the eagle flap
O'er the falsehearted;
His warm blood the wolf shall lap
Ere life be parted:
Shame and
dishonour
sit
By his grave ever;
Blessing shall hallow it
Never, O never!
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Golden Treasury |
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Les roses des roseaux des longtemps
devorees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We must all die, and not the old alone;
The young have no
exemption
from that doom.
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Longfellow |
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'
My Freend hath seid to me so wel,
That he me esid hath somdel, 3390
And eek
allegged
of my torment;
For through him had I hardement
Agayn to Daunger for to go,
To preve if I might meke him so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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How clearly he
remembered
his first meeting with Mary.
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Yeats |
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I had no cause to be awake,
My best was gone to sleep,
And morn a new
politeness
took,
And failed to wake them up,
But called the others clear,
And passed their curtains by.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But to win
A
princess!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Love, hast thou forgotten
The red spears of the dawn, The
pennants
of the morning?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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]
[Footnote T: The goddess of Reason,
enthroned
in Paris, November 10th,
1793.
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William Wordsworth |
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Tacitus |
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The slope was
lightened
by her eyes
Like summer lightning fair,
Like rising of the haloed moon 170
Lightened her glimmering hair,
While her face lightened like the sun
Whose dawn is rosy white.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Manners and modes of speech, again, have changed; and much that was
admissible
centuries
since, or at least sought admission, has now, by
a law against which protest is idle, lapsed into the indecorous.
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Robert Herrick |
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Your fingers lack
The human power your
shocking
deeds to track.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The world were blest did bliss on them depend,
Ah, that "the
friendly
e'er should want a friend!
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Robert Burns |
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_365_, 503
Medici,
Giovanni
de', _ii.
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Byron |
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I saw the Commandant wounded in the head, and hard pressed by
a little band of robbers
clamouring
for the keys.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But
Naegling
{34e} was shivered,
broken in battle was Beowulf's sword,
old and gray.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For godlike Hercules these deeds were done,
Nor seem'd the vengeance worthy such a son:
When, by thy wiles induced, fierce Boreas toss'd
The shipwreck'd hero on the Coan coast,
Him through a
thousand
forms of death I bore,
And sent to Argos, and his native shore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If the Bard was weather-wise, who made
The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,
This night, so
tranquil
now, will not go hence
Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade
Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes,
Or the dull sobbing drafty that moans and rakes
Upon the strings of this AEolian lute,
Which better far were mute.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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She
accomplisshed
al my wil,
That now me greveth wondir il.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Under
these
circumstances
a wise man will look with great suspicion on
the legend which has come down to us.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The
stranger
paused, and, for a moment, seemed
lost in thought; then, with every mark of agitation, pursued rapidly
a route which brought us to the verge of the city, amid regions very
different from those we had hitherto traversed.
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Poe - 5 |
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310
Do gently murder half my soul, and I
Shall feel the other half so
utterly!
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Keats |
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Robinson from this year's
_Miscellany_ is a source of regret not only to all the
contributors
but
to the poet himself.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the Classical Roman world as seen from the
viewpoint
of the French Renaissance.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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There are many
chimaeras
that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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On the black promontory's
windless
head,
The last awake, the fireflies rise and fall
And tangle up their dithering skeins of light.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" And then he wolfish howled,
And hurled off towards the
snarling
and the baying.
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Then the
henchman
-- he that smote Hamish -- would tremble and lag;
"Strike, hard!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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3 The far west suffers the worst wounds, 20 linked
mountains
darken beacon fires night and day.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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for
themselves
and for you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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In the winter, warmth
stands for all virtue, and we resort in thought to a
trickling
rill,
with its bare stones shining in the sun, and to warm springs in the
woods, with as much eagerness as rabbits and robins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter's sleety dribble,
An'
cranreuch
cauld!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Dunlop with what pangs of heart he was
compelled
to take shelter in a
corner, lest the rattling equipage of some gaping blockhead should
mangle him in the mire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Edward Dickinson, was the
leading lawyer of Amherst, and was
treasurer
of the well-known
college there situated.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CANTO II
Not with more glories, in th'
etherial
plain,
The Sun first rises o'er the purpled main,
Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams
Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
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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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The clod, who, on the tree had mounted high,
And heard at ease the
conversation
nigh,
Now cried:--Good man!
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
)
From the
almighty
Lord of Heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Never thy veil, in sun or in the shade,
Lady, a moment I have seen
Quitted, since of my heart the queen
Mine eyes
confessing
thee my heart betray'd
While my enamour'd thoughts I kept conceal'd.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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After a time Hsiang-ju
became famous as a poet, but his
character
was marred by love of money.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Oh friend
Whom most I love, son of
Arcesias!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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The nations that in
fettered
darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great mornings break .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But I ne enforce me nat
now to
shewe{n}
it ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Of her bold
contempt
of danger
Greene and Lee's Brigades could tell,
Every one knew "Captain Molly,"
And the army loved her well.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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All tongues, all carrols dyd unto hym synge,
Wondryng
at one soe wyse, and yet soe yinge.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And how can I respond when you're
accused?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Our hearts are warm and cheery,
like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half
concealed, but from whose
chimneys
the smoke cheerfully ascends.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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is ilk sweuene--
Ich take to
witnesse
god of heuene-- 36
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But it is not anticipated, nor is it possible, that all
readers shall think the line
accurately
drawn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Des Menschen
Tatigkeit
kann allzu leicht erschlaffen,
er liebt sich bald die unbedingte Ruh;
Drum geb ich gern ihm den Gesellen zu,
Der reizt und wirkt und muss als Teufel schaffen.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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nine-and-forty,' they seem to sing,
'We saw you a little
toddling
thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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She gives, and while they
wondering
eat
The tear-steeped bread by love supplied,
She stretches round them in the street
Her arm that passers push aside.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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230
Low barks the fox; by Havoc rouz'd the bear,
Quits, growling, the white bones that strew his lair;
The dry leaves stir as with the serpent's walk,
And, far beneath, Banditti voices talk;
Behind her hill the Moon, all crimson, rides, 235
And his red eyes the slinking Water hides;
Then all is hush'd; the bushes rustle near,
And with strange tinglings sings her
fainting
ear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
= Gifford quotes from the _Two Noble
Kinsmen_:
How
modestly
she blows and paints the sun
With her chaste blushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
]
[Sidenote E: Adam, Solomon, Samson, and David were
beguiled
by women.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high
Dunsmane
Hill
Shall come against him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
You must
be
bewitched
to suffer this plague to belch forth insults against us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Isis was the Egyptian mother goddess (Cybele was her
equivalent
in Asia Minor): consort of Osiris she bore the child Horus-Harpocrates, the new sun (De Nerval's image here for the Christ-Child).
| Guess: |
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But though no hand unsanctioned dares
Unveil the
mysteries
of her grace,
Time lifts the curtain unawares,
And Sorrow looks into her face .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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why are these awful
warriors
here?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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And one, sure enough,
tramples
up to the door,
And who but young Robin his sen?
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John Clare |
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Lo, the ship, at this opportunity, slipped slyly,
Making cunning
noiseless
travel down the ways.
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Stephen Crane |
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Tho' whiles ye
moistify
your leather,
Till whare ye sit, on craps o' heather
Ye tine your dam;
Freedom and whiskey gang thegither!
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Robert Burns |
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An arm of reef half locks it in, and holds
The bottom of the bay deep strewn with seaweed,
A barn full of the harvesting of storms;
And at full tide, the little
hampered
waves
Lift up the litter, so that, against the light,
The yellow kelp and bracken of the sea,
Held up in ridges of green water, show
Like moss in agates.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And those bright
fireflies
wafting in between
And over the swaying cornstalks, just above
All their dark-feathered helmets, like little green
Stars come low and wandering here for love
Of this dark earth, and wandering all serene--!
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Imagists |
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