When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Then shouted loud the Latines;
And with one rush they bore
The
struggling
Romans backward
Three lances' length and more:
And up they took proud Tarquin,
And laid him on a shield,
And four strong yeomen bare him,
Still senseless, from the field.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Pug's
intelligence is so much below par that he suffers as largely on account
of his
clumsiness
as on account of his viciousness, while remaining
absolutely without influence upon the course of the action.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ronsard |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then, onward
pressing
fast
Through the forest rude and vast,
Hunger-wasted, fever-parch'd,
Many bitter days she marched
With bleeding feet that spurned the flinty pain;
One thought always throbbing through her brain:
"They shall never say, 'He was afraid,'--
They shall never cry, 'The coward stayed!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A few years later
his own cemetery was invaded and the world was put into
possession
of
the Baudelaire legend; that legend of the atrabilious, irritable poet,
dandy, maniac, his hair dyed green, spouting blasphemies; that grim,
despairing image of a diabolic, a libertine, saint, and drunkard.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"This last, sprung from the noblest and the best,
Betrayed
his plighted troth, and sold his guest!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Why so
obstinate
in this matter?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Longueuil
(Que.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the
stricken
eagle soar!
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Poe - 5 |
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4 On the five plains the forts will lie empty, 12 the wind-blown billows will
dissipate
on the eight rivers.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Fair Sylves' lawns the Moorish peasant plough'd,
Her
vineyards
cultur'd, and her valleys sow'd;
But Lisbon's monarch reap'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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"[8] No doubt also many of the
Quatrains
in the
Teheran, as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; such Rubaiyat being
the common form of Epigram in Persia.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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, _to do
something
in return, to repay, to reward, to
pay_: inf.
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Beowulf |
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1782
Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
Though fickle Fortune has
deceived
me,
She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill;
Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me,
Yet I bear a heart shall support me still.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1911
* * * * *
RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
BRUNSWICK
STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.
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Lewis Carroll |
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e deuyne
substaunce
so ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Witchcraft
was of course not without
its opponents, but these were for the most part obscure men and of
little personal influence.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I shall lack that forever though,
So no wonder at my hunger now;
For never did
Christian
lady seem
Fairer - nor would God wish her to -
Nor Jewess nor Saracen below.
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Troubador Verse |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the
conquest
of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF
REPLACEMENT
OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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Lewis Carroll |
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[Note 41:
Hippolyte
Bogdanovitch--b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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* * * * *
It was a dream, the glade is tenantless,
No soft Ionian laughter moves the air,
The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness,
And from the copse left desolate and bare
Fled is young Bacchus with his revelry,
Yet still from Nuneham wood there comes that thrilling melody
So sad, that one might think a human heart
Brake in each separate note, a quality
Which music sometimes has, being the Art
Which is most nigh to tears and memory;
Poor
mourning
Philomel, what dost thou fear?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
forgotten
by those who wish
to make exceptions to these laws.
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Alexander Pope |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_
MY DEAR CUNNINGHAM,
I received yours here this moment, and am indeed highly
flattered
with
the approbation of the literary circle you mention; a literary circle
inferior to none in the two kingdoms.
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Robert Burns |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse
distills
your truth.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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IX
Argonauts without a ship,
Who on foot the
mountain
traverse,
And instead of golden fleeces
Only look to win a bear-skin
Ah, we are but sorry devils!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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) such a prize
Never belittle nor despise; 25
Hundred
sesterces
seek no more
With wonted prayer--enow's thy store!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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,
_Selections
from the Poetry of Lord Byron_, _iv.
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Byron |
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There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer,
marvelling
why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Fanshaw's
translation
and
the original both prove this:
----_their tongue
Which she thinks Latin, with small dross among.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And when the lark, 'tween light and dark,
Blythe waukens by the daisy's side,
And mounts and sings on
flittering
wings,
A woe-worn ghaist I hameward glide.
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Robert Forst |
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The subject is ostensibly concrete; but France in her
agonies and triumphs has been
personified
into a superb symbol of
Meredith's own reading of human fate.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"At Naishapur thus lived and died Omar Khayyam, 'busied,' adds the
Vizier, 'in winning knowledge of every kind, and especially in
Astronomy, wherein he
attained
to a very high pre-eminence.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'Tis
twilight
time of good and ill, 1807.
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William Wordsworth |
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By it there stood the stoups and jars;
dishes lay there, and dear-decked swords
eaten with rust, as, on earth's lap resting,
a
thousand
winters they waited there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poesies completes, by Arthur Rimbaud
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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`Ne Iompre eek no
discordaunt
thing y-fere,
As thus, to usen termes of phisyk;
In loves termes, hold of thy matere
The forme alwey, and do that it be lyk; 1040
For if a peyntour wolde peynte a pyk
With asses feet, and hede it as an ape,
It cordeth nought; so nere it but a Iape.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Of
waistcoats
Harry has no lack,
Good duffle grey, and flannel fine;
He has a blanket on his back,
And coats enough to smother nine.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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ys
leathall
warre so deare?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[Sidenote: This cause is more efficacious and powerful to see and
to know things, than that cause which receives the characters
impressed
like servile matter.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Than thus to love and live with thee, thou beautiful
delight!
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John Clare |
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at he shoulde gone
In to hys chaumbur to hys fere,
And
cowmfort
her in hys manere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"Do you know
I have some very
beautiful
poems floating in the air," she wrote
to me in 1904; "and if the gods are kind I shall cast my soul
like a net and capture them, this year.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now, when the flame they watch not towers
About the soil they trod,
Lads, we'll
remember
friends of ours
Who shared the work with God.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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450
Fair morning yet betides thee Son of God,
After a dismal night; I heard the rack
As Earth and Skie would mingle; but my self
Was distant; and these flaws, though mortals fear them
As
dangerous
to the pillard frame of Heaven,
Or to the Earths dark basis underneath,
Are to the main as inconsiderable,
And harmless, if not wholsom, as a sneeze
To mans less universe, and soon are gone;
Yet as being oft times noxious where they light 460
On man, beast, plant, wastful and turbulent,
Like turbulencies in the affairs of men,
Over whose heads they rore, and seem to point,
They oft fore-signifie and threaten ill:
This Tempest at this Desert most was bent;
Of men at thee, for only thou here dwell'st.
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Milton |
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Oft as she vomited the deluge forth,
Like water cauldron'd o'er a furious fire
The
whirling
Deep all murmur'd, and the spray 280
On both those rocky summits fell in show'rs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So that many characters which passed as heroic,
or at least presentable, in the kindly
remoteness
of legend, reveal some
strange weakness when brought suddenly into the light.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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now tak kepe every man,
And
herkeneth
which a reson I shal bringe;
My wit is sharp, I love no taryinge; 565
I seye, I rede him, though he were my brother,
But she wol love him, lat him love another!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Le piante erano a tutti accese intrambe;
per che si forte guizzavan le giunte,
che
spezzate
averien ritorte e strambe.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"
--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through
attenuated
tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the following lines LFS}
But the two
youthful
wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ahead lay the Tennessee,
On our starboard bow he lay,
With his mail-clad
consorts
three,
(The rest had run up the Bay)--
There he was, belching flame from his bow,
And the steam from his throat's abyss
Was a Dragon's maddened hiss--
In sooth a most cursed craft!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
VIII
"Can you be cruel enough to sadden me thus with
reproaches?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Fortunately for us, however, two small but
incomparable
odes and a few
scintillating fragments have survived, quoted and handed down in the
eulogies of critics and expositors.
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Sappho |
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Many a time ere now
The sons have for the sire's
transgression
wail'd;
Nor let him trust the fond belief, that heav'n
Will truck its armour for his lilied shield.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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_--stringing
The same words still on notes he went in search
So high for, you concluded the upspringing
Of such a nimble bird to sky from perch
Must leave the whole bush in a tremble green,
And that the heart of Italy must beat,
While such a voice had leave to rise serene
'Twixt church and palace of a Florence street:
A little child, too, who not long had been
By mother's finger
steadied
on his feet,
And still _O bella liberta_ he sang.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A silver bow, with green silk strung,
Down from her comely
shoulders
hung:
And as she stood, the wanton air
Dangled the ringlets of her hair.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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--The princes applaud with a furious joy:
And the king seized a
flambeau
with zeal to destroy;
Thais led the way,
To light him to his prey,
And like another Helen, fired another Troy!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Another of the Dunlops
served with
distinction
in India, where he rose to the rank of
General.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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"]
THE
EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_The Wood-cutter's Night Song_
Welcome, red and roundy sun,
Dropping
lowly in the west;
Now my hard day's work is done,
I'm as happy as the best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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The increate
perpetual
thirst, that draws
Toward the realm of God's own form, bore us
Swift almost as the heaven ye behold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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what eyes hath love put in my head
Which have no correspondence with true sight:
Or if they have, where is my judgment fled
That
censures
falsely what they see aright?
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Golden Treasury |
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2
Thee nor carketh [2] care nor slander;
Nothing but the small cold worm
Fretteth
thine enshrouded form.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Self-love still stronger, as its objects nigh;
Reason's at distance, and in prospect lie:
That sees
immediate
good by present sense;
Reason, the future and the consequence.
| Guess: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Elle giacean per terra tutte quante,
fuor d'una ch'a seder si levo, ratto
ch'ella ci vide
passarsi
davante.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Who will twine
The hasty wreath from myrtle-tree
Or
parsley?
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Pennant:
Come up here, bard, bard,
Come up here, soul, soul,
Come up here, dear little child,
To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the
measureless
light.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Meantime Minerva, from the
fraudful
horse,
Back to the court of Priam bent your course.
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"_
["This composition," says Burns in his "Common-place Book," "was the
first of my performances, and done at an early period in life, when my
heart glowed with honest, warm simplicity;
unacquainted
and
uncorrupted with the ways of a wicked world.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thy God in vain shall call thee if by my strong power
I can infuse my dear revenge into his glowing breast
Then
jealousy
shall shadow all his mountains & Ahania
Curse thee thou plague of woful Los & seek revenge on thee
So saying in deep sobs he languishd till dead he also fell
Night passd & Enitharmon eer the dawn returnd in bliss
She sang Oer Los reviving him to Life his groans were terrible
But thus she sang.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Lighting but to consume,
The roar of the fierce flames drowned even the shouts and shrieks;
Reddening
each roof, like some day-dawn of bloody doom,
Seemed they in joyous flight to dance about their wrecks.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What secret
Gives wisdom to her
purpose?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"It's
excessively
awkward to mention it now--
As I think I've already remarked.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Sweet song--
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
We cannot fathom his mysterious head,
Through the veiled eyes no
flickering
ray is sent:
But from his torso gleaming light is shed
As from a candelabrum; inward bent
His glance there glows and lingers.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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What soft,
cherubic
creatures
These gentlewomen are!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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--I can toy with his axe;
As I sit on the hill my feet swing in the flax,
And my knee caps the boulders and
troubles
the trees.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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440
What blazours then, what glorie shall he clayme,
What
doughtie
Homere shall hys praises synge,
That lefte the bosome of so fayre a dame
Uncall'd, unaskt, to serve his lorde the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Since ancient days, an
uninhabited
realm, 36 in this present age, pikes and lances are brandished.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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where lies a marble tomb
And two old pines their branches spread--
"_Vladimir Lenski lies beneath,
Who early died a gallant death_,"
Thereon the passing traveller read:
"_The date, his
fleeting
years how long--
Repose in peace, thou child of song_.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Virgil, by
dismissing
Eneas through the ivory
gate of Elysium, has hinted that all his pictures of a future state were
merely dreams, and has thus destroyed the highest merit of the
compliment to his patron Augustus.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But merit always has enemies: Pacheco was accused and brought to
Lisbon in irons, where he remained for a
considerable
time chained in a
dungeon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll
something
large and round
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found
He came to ask what he had found
That was so large and smooth and round.
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Golden Treasury |
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While, thus,
commodities
on various coasts
Gath'ring I roam'd, another, by the arts
Of his pernicious spouse aided, of life
Bereav'd my brother privily, and when least
He fear'd to lose it.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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