Et tout en
promenant
son petit doigt tremblant
Sur sa joue, un velours de peche rose et blanc,
En faisant, de sa levre enfantine, une moue,
Elle arrangeait les plats, pres de moi, pour m'aiser;
--Puis, comme ca,--bien sur pour avoir un baiser,--
Tout bas: <
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'What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest
The wreath to mighty poets only due,
Even whilst like a
forgotten
moon thou wanest?
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Shelley |
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Happy, ye sons of busy life,
Who, equal to the
bustling
strife,
No other view regard!
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Robert Burns |
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Of spirit grave yet light,
How fervent
fragrances
uprise
Pure-born from these most rich and yet most white
Virginities!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Donations
are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
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Sara Teasdale |
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My soul
Shrieking
Is jolted
forwards
by a long hot bar--
Into direct distances.
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Imagists |
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And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with Nature's tear-drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if aught
inanimate
e'er grieves,
Over the unreturniug brave,--alas!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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8 An Account of My
Concerns
Last year Tong Pass was broken, I have long been cut off from wife and children.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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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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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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III
The October night comes down;
returning
as before
Except for a slight sensation of being ill at ease
I mount the stairs and turn the handle of the door
And feel as if I had mounted on my hands and knees.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Only one of the yellow-nosed Apes was on the spot, and he was
fast asleep; yet the four travellers and the Quangle-Wangle and Pussy were
so terrified by the violence and sanguinary sound of his snoring, that they
merely took a small cupful of the jam, and
returned
to re-embark in their
boat without delay.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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buries his face in the side of the bed while
AYAH bends over bed from
opposite
side and feels Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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By grief enfeebled was I turned adrift,
Helpless
as sailor cast on desart rock;
Nor morsel to my mouth that day did lift,
Nor dared my hand at any door to knock.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I shall be well content if on my
conscience
_80
There rest no heavier sin than what they suffer
From the devices of my love--a net
From which he shall escape not.
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Shelley |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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And makes a
_Mungril_
breed, Father.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Don't cross the bridge till you come to it,
Is a proverb old, and of
excellent
wit.
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Longfellow |
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10
Have the laden
galleons
been sighted
Stoutly labouring up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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Is it such great
misfortune
to cease to be?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,
Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife,
The morn the marshalling in arms,--the day
Battle's
magnificently
stern array!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,
Nor hold the sceptre in his
childish
fist,
Nor wear the diadem upon his head,
Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.
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Shakespeare |
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"
What bearing may we assume the
foregoing
couplet to have
upon Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Humility and modest awe themselves
Betray me, serving often for a cloak
To a more subtle selfishness; that now 245
Locks every function up in blank reserve,
Now dupes me,
trusting
to an anxious eye
That with intrusive restlessness beats off
Simplicity and self-presented truth.
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William Wordsworth |
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The injured husband answers groan for groan,
And young
Hermione
with piteous moan
Orestes calls; while Laodamia near
Bewails her valiant consort's fate severe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the
changeling
Hope
In the cave of black Despair:
He only looked upon the sun,
And drank the morning air.
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Wilde - Poems |
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, _having a
gleaming
blade_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
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Li Po |
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When gods and men I saw in Cupid's chain
Promiscuous led, a long
uncounted
train,
By sad example taught, I learn'd at last
Wisdom's best rule--to profit from the past
Some solace in the numbers too I found,
Of those that mourn'd, like me, the common wound
That Phoebus felt, a mortal beauty's slave,
That urged Leander through the wintry wave;
That jealous Juno with Eliza shared,
Whose more than pious hands the flame prepared;
That mix'd her ashes with her murder'd spouse.
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Petrarch |
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--Enough: but say he wronged thee; slew
By craft thy child:--what wrong had I done, what
The babe
Orestes?
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Yonder ragged cliff
Has
thousand
faces in a thousand hours.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pour engloutir mes sanglots apaises
Rien ne me vaut l'abime de ta couche;
L'oubli
puissant
habite sur ta bouche,
Et le Lethe coule dans tes baisers.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
"I
perceive
that," said Mr.
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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How bright shine the cutlasses of the
foremost
troops!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I have
forgotten
her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet still thou haunt'st me; and though well I see,
She is not thou, and only thou art she,
Still, still as though some dear
_embodied_
Good,
Some _living_ Love before my eyes there stood
With answering look a ready ear to lend,
I mourn to thee and say--"Ah!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[558] Phrynichus, a disciple of Thespis, improved the
dramatic
art, when
still no more than a child; it was he who first introduced female
characters upon the stage and made use of the iambic of six feet in
tragedies.
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Aristophanes |
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His
lordship
is unwell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Respect an active spirit in the creature:
Each flower is a soul open to Nature;
In metal a mystery of love is sleeping;
'All is
sentient!
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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loudly and
musically
call me by my
nighest name!
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| Question: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Lord Advocate
He clenched his pamphlet in his fist,
He quoted and he hinted,
Till, in a declamation-mist,
His
argument
he tint it:
He gaped for't, he graped for't,
He fand it was awa, man;
But what his common sense came short,
He eked out wi' law, man.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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A crowd of people, among them
Artemidorus
and the Soothsayer.
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Shakespeare |
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As I held out my arms 1495
The gods
impatiently
hastened to do him harm?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The dogs were
handsomely
provided for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
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T.S. Eliot |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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nam tum Helenae raptu primores Argiuorum
coeperat ad sese Troia ciere uiros,
Troia (nefas) commune sepulcrum Asiae Europaeque,
Troia uirum et uirtutum omnium acerba cinis, 90
qualiter et nostro letum
miserabile
fratri
attulit.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Or is the state
popular?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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What the father was I look for in the son;
My daughter may love him,
pleasing
me for one.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
Nazarenes
are dogs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Ah, well-a-day
Rest your old bones, ye
wrinkled
crones!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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O
Bethlehem
palm-trees That move to the anger
Of winds in their fury,
Tempestuous voices, Make ye no clamour,
Run ye less swiftly,
Sith sleepeth the child here Still ye your branches.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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proposes
_quiet sea_ as trans, of sioleða bigong, and compares
Goth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
An old man's love
Who casts no second line, is hard to cure;
His
jealousy
is like his love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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There is no copy at the India
House, none at the
Bibliotheque
Nationale of Paris.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Now let us meet the
Pilgrims
ere the day
Close on the remnant of their weary way; 1827.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
High above a
glittering
calm
Of sea and sky and kingly sun,
She shines and smiles, and waves a palm --
And now we wish -- Thy will be done!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And forever it shall haunt you
With its mystic,
changing
ray:
Its light shall live when we lie dead,
With hearts at the heart of day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"Yes" I whispered "this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright
splendor
what common guise.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"Why," said another, "Some there are who tell
Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell
The
luckless
Pots he marr'd in making--Pish!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I say, if I loved Jean, I'ld do without
All these vile pleasures of the flesh, your mind
Seems running on for ever: I would think
A thought that was always tasting them would make
The fire a foul thing in me, as the flame
Of burning wood, which has a rare sweet smell,
Is turned to bitter stink when it
scorches
flesh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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About
midnight
we were suddenly roused by the
roar of a lion close to our tents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
A
calculation
of the time showed that the
prodigy's appearance and disappearance coincided with the beginning of
the battle[328] and Otho's death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Why, how intolerable an ass is he
Whom Silliness'
sweetheart
drives so, by the ear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
But Jerry Blazes had not the
faintest
intention of passing a dangerous
murderer.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The steel-clad
champion
death drops all around
As glaciers water.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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About this time Petrarch received news of the death of Azzo Correggio,
one of his dearest friends, whose widow and
children
wrote to him on
this occasion, the latter telling him that they regarded him as a
father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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That narrative
poetry may find its minstrels again, and lyrical poetry adequate
singers, and dramatic poetry
adequate
players, he must spend much of
his time with these three lost arts, and the more technical is his
interest the better.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed,
A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed,
And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear,
I known it is _the Future_--God's
Justicer
is here!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a
radiance
so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I'm liable to be ordered off
anywhere
at a minute's notice if a
war breaks out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The one
affrights
you,
The other makes you proud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
Se devant li tout vuit j'apper,
Et par moy ne puis
eschapper
80
Que ma faute ne compere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_
[264] The fair Inez was crowned Queen of
Portugal
after her interment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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She knows how it
comforts
me,
To sing, and praise one so worthy,
I'm hers, the more painfully
She exalts or abases me,
I can't prevent it, truly,
Far from her I'd not wish to be,
Though living death is my fee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
"
Queen Gulnaar's
daughter
two spring times old,
In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
In the 1633 edition the last
five lines of this stanza have no
stronger
stop than a comma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Straightway
I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
Daffodil
bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing
atmosphere
display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the elemental worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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XIV
Can't you hear voices, beloved, out on the Via
Flamina?
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in vain,
To teach their limbs along the burning road
A few short steps to totter with their load,
Shakes her numb arm that
slumbers
with its weight,
And eyes through tears the mountain's shadeless height;
And bids her soldier come her woes to share,
Asleep on Bunker's [iv] charnel hill afar;
For hope's deserted well why wistful look?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Ho, if anywhere
The light of life smite on Orestes' eyes,
Let him,
returning
by some guardian fate,
Hew down with force her paramour and her!
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Aeschylus |
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But
helpless
Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Nor, if they me as fickle shall arraign,
Care I, so good from
fickleness
ensue;
Though I am lighter than a leaf be said,
So I be forced not with that Greek no wed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Where are thy
comrades?
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Aeschylus |
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My species are dwindling,
My forests grow barren,
My
popinjays
fail from their tappings,
My larks from their strain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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