365
Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit,
_Sappho_ can tell you how this man was bit;
This dreaded Sat'rist
_Dennis_
will confess
Foe to his pride, but friend to his distress:
So humble, he has knock'd at _Tibbald's_ door, 370
Has drunk with _Cibber_, nay has rhym'd for _Moore_.
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Alexander Pope |
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Stretched
on the floor, here beside you and me.
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T.S. Eliot |
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quid precor
infelix?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Jellyfish
Medusae
'Medusae'
Descriptive
Catalogue
of the Medusae of the Australian Seas, Lendenfeld, R.
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Appoloinaire |
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Foundation
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501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
state of
Mississippi
and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Tennyson |
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Canto XXV
Al fine de le sue parole il ladro
le mani alzo con amendue le fiche,
gridando: <
squadro!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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XXXIV
He read as vainly as before,
perusing Gibbon and Rousseau,
Manzoni, Herder and Chamfort,(85)
Madame de Stael, Bichat, Tissot:
He read the unbelieving Bayle,
Also the works of Fontenelle,
Some Russian authors he perused--
Nought in the universe refused:
Nor almanacs nor newspapers,
Which lessons unto us repeat,
Wherein I castigation get;
And where a madrigal occurs
Writ in my honour now and then--
_E sempre bene_,
gentlemen!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--
Soon shall the sanguine torrent spread so wide,
That all shall know
Achilles
swells the tide.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The mother dreads you for her son,
The thrifty sire, the new-wed bride,
Lest, lured by you, her
precious
one
Should leave her side.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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:
_ferri
frangere_
Dap et Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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So, in this narrow wooden house's bound,
Stride through the whole creation's round,
And with
considerate
swiftness wander
From heaven, through this world, to the world down yonder.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Peace be to France, if France in peace permit
Our just and lineal
entrance
to our own!
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Shakespeare |
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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Ronsard |
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There, two gleaming rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so
uniformly
on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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Ronsard |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_nostris_
om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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700
>>
Tant estoit cil chans dous et biaus,
Qu'il ne sombloit pas chans d'oisiaus,
Ains le peust l'en aesmer
A chant de
seraines
de mer,
Qui par lor vois, qu'eles ont saines
Et series, ont non seraines.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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līce gelenge (_an heir
belonging
to one's body_), 2733.
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Beowulf |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui sifflotait mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le
printemps
viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--
To eat
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea,
than he is of the
fruition
of his love, and of all perfection and beauty.
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Whitman |
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XLVI
And the great Lord of Luna
Fell at that deadly stroke,
As falls on Mount Alvernus
A thunder smitten oak:
Far o'er the
crashing
forest
The giant arms lie spread;
And the pale augurs, muttering low,
Gaze on the blasted head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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We were not long enough on
the river to realize that it had length; we got only the
impression
of
its breadth, as if we had passed over a lake a mile or two in breadth
and several miles long, though we might thus have slept through a
European kingdom.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Then prove on me thy
faulchion
and thine arm,
And prove if one can smite, the other harm.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made
Taller or
stronger
than the weeds they shade?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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A
miserable
race!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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[15] The
variants
have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS
I have been ill so long that I do not count the days;
At the
southern
window, evening--and again evening.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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And ye shall succor men;
'Tis
nobleness
to serve;
Help them who cannot help again:
Beware from right to swerve.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Down the
slippery
slopes of Myrtle,
Where the early pumpkins blow,
To the calm and silent sea
Fled the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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To what
distraction
did love not drive my mother!
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And soon from loaded trees in noiseless woods
The snows slip thudding down,
Scattering in their trail
Bright icy sparkles through the
glittering
air;
And the fir-branches, patiently bent so long,
Sigh as they lift themselves to rights again.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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e dynt with [t]o 3elde
2224 With a
borelych
bytte, bende by ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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These
accidents
are deep;
It was the good God's will.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Have tidings reach'd him of our host's return,
Which here he would
divulge?
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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O day
remembered
yet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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"
La Figlia Che Piange
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair--
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise--
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive
resentment
in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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too late repents me,
That I did fall
To love at all,
Since love so much
contents
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O the
bleeding
drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What new life-power it gives me, canst thou guess--
This conversation with the
wilderness?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I tell thee, friend, a speculating churl
Is like a beast, some evil spirit chases
Along a barren heath in one
perpetual
whirl,
While round about lie fair, green pasturing places.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Unheard, unseen, three years her arts prevail;
The fourth, her maid reveal'd the amazing tale,
And show'd as unperceived we took our stand,
The
backward
labours of her faithless hand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Lest there grow
From thee the
avenger?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The child
inclined
his ear,
And then grew weary and gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How bold the flight of Passion's
wandering
wing,
How swift the step of Reason's firmer tread,
How calm and sweet the victories of life, _60
How terrorless the triumph of the grave!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Kline (C) Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Villon |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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[43] The
necessaries
of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But where then did you get these pretty
chattels?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Hope comes to kindle wrath; they hurl their
missiles
strongly; even
as under black clouds cranes from the Strymon utter their signal notes
and sail clamouring across the sky, and noisily stream down the gale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Habt Ihr so
mancherlei?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'
'I graunte it you,' quod she; and right anoon 645
This formel egle spak in this degree,
Almighty
quene, unto this yeer be doon
I aske respit for to avysen me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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But the rest
are hardly well-drawn, or, at least,
pleasingly
portrayed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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With emulation's noblest fires I glow,
And soon that reptile race that boast below
Bright Fame's conducting lamp, that seems to vie
With my incessant
journeys
round the sky,
And gains, or seems to gain, increasing light,
Yet shall its glories sink in gradual night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license, especially
commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Sweet and most
gracious
treasure,
May He who formed you in measure
Grant joy desired, now, in excess!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
" He froze me with a sneer,
"A light
eruption
on the firmament.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
' Who can keep always to
the little pathway between speech and silence, where one meets none
but discreet
revelations?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Fendent le lac aux eaux
rougies!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the
Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a
gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental
court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he
was
disgraced
and fell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The thridde, ferthe, fifte, sixte day 1205
After tho dayes ten, of which I tolde,
Bitwixen hope and drede his herte lay,
Yet som-what
trustinge
on hir hestes olde.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
THE trial o'er, a gallows treble-faced,
Was, for their swinging, in the market placed,
ONE of the three harangued the mob around,
(His speech was for the others also found)
Then, 'bout their necks the halters being tied,
Repentant and
confessed
the culprits died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Few roods of ground the piles we raise
Will leave to plough; ponds wider spread
Than Lucrine lake will meet the gaze
On every side; the plane unwed
Will top the elm; the violet-bed,
The myrtle, each
delicious
sweet,
On olive-grounds their scent will shed,
Where once were fruit-trees yielding meat;
Thick bays will screen the midday range
Of fiercest suns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him
of
wandering
death-sprite.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
_
Years of the
unperformed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Facts, centuries before,
He
traverses
familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The sable presbyters approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching
piaculative pence.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
And Hegel mocked, "A very
pleasant
whim.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There seemed not a holy thing in hail,
Nor shape of light or love,
From the Abbey north of
Blackmore
Vale
To the Abbey south thereof.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then
murmured
Florian gazing after her,
'An open-hearted maiden, true and pure.
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Tennyson |
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My thoughts are with the Dead; with them
I live in long-past years,
Their virtues love, their faults condemn,
Partake their hopes and fears,
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction
with an humble mind.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ah, quietly the shingle waits the tides
Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me
Love brought no peace, nor
darkness
any rest.
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Sara Teasdale |
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He
traveling
with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A solemn sacrifice,
performed
in state,
You drink by measure, and to minutes eat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
happiness
of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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er nis no
discorde
to [tho] verray 4612
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:
Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,
What
acceptable
audit canst thou leave?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XXIX
" 'Twas thus with the male sex at enmity,
Some years the lonely women lived forlorn:
Then found that hurtful to
themselves
would be
The scheme, save changed; for if from them were born
None to perpetuate their empery,
The idle law would soon be held in scorn,
And fail together with the fruitful reign,
Which they had hoped eternal should remain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The poet inserts a
digression
relating
that accident, with all its particulars.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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380
Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round,
Whereon for different cause the Tempter set
Our second Adam in the Wilderness,
To shew him all Earths
Kingdomes
and thir Glory.
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Milton |
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"By day, if he should be alone--
At home or on a walk--
You merely give a hollow groan,
To
indicate
the kind of tone
In which you mean to talk.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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216 [E] & al
bigrauen
with grene, in gracios[1] werkes;
A lace lapped aboute, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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