By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And
straightway
round him gathered
A pale and trembling crowd,
And when they knew him, cries of rage
Brake forth, and wailing loud:
And women rent their tresses
For their great prince's fall;
And old men girt on their old swords,
And went to man the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy
darkness
grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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ELECTRA (_trying to mask her excitement and resist the
contagion
of his_).
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Euripides - Electra |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
listener
remained perfectly mute.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So all my spirit fills
With
pleasure
infinite,
And all the feathered wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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WIND FLOWERS
IMPRESSION DU MATIN
THE Thames nocturne of blue and gold
Changed to a Harmony in grey:
A barge with ochre-coloured hay
Dropt from the wharf: and chill and cold
The yellow fog came
creeping
down
The bridges, till the houses' walls
Seemed changed to shadows and St.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They brought a bier, and hung it with many a cypress crown,
And gently they
uplifted
her, and gently laid her down.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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59
While all the morning quire does sing,
And Manna falls and roses spring,
And, at thy feet, the wooing doves
Sit
perfecting
their harmless loves.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Towards a neighbouring vale, whence came the sound,
This his Bayardo, that his hackney spurred;
And viewed, between two grisly
ruffians
there,
A girl, who seemed at distance passing fair.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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II
The rounded world is fair to see,
Nine times folded in mystery:
Though baffled seers cannot impart
The secret of its
laboring
heart,
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"
exclaimed
Lisa, drying her eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" retorted the lady,
flushing
up to her eyes.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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He has learned much, can
understand
their pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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If I then to the worst that can be hast,
Why move thy feet so slow to what is best,
Happiest
both to thy self and all the world,
That thou who worthiest art should'st be thir King?
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Milton |
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at 3e prece to, ful
perelous
is halden;
[D] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Surely joy is the
condition
of life.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
invisible
worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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this strange man has left me
Troubled
with wilder fancies, than the moon
Breeds in the love-sick maid who gazes at it,
Till lost in inward vision, with wet eye
She gazes idly!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Before him flaming his enormous shield,
Like the broad sun,
illumined
all the field;
His nodding helm emits a streamy ray;
His piercing eyes through all the battle stray,
And, while beneath his targe he flash'd along,
Shot terrors round, that wither'd e'en the strong.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Nearer they come--Eugene
appears!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Methinks
I hear in accents low,
The sportive kind reply:
Poor moralist!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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In those who yonder lodge, the English see
Camped eastward; and now
westward
turn your eye,
Where you shall thirty thousand Scots, a crew
Led by their monarch's son, Zerbino, view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Tharmas groand among his Clouds
Weeping, and then bending from his Clouds he stoopd his holy
innocent
head*
{innocent replaces holy LFS} And stretching out his holy hand in the vast Deep sublime
Turnd round the circle of Destiny with tears & bitter sighs
And said.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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She hath called me from mine old ways, She hath hushed my rancour of council, Bidding me praise
Naught but the wind that
flutters
in the leaves.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Rome and Italy were scoured for
dainties
to
tickle his palate: from shore to shore the high roads rang with the
traffic.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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they are on us, close
without!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Tes yeux,
illumines
ainsi que des boutiques
Ou des ifs flamboyants dans les fetes publiques,
Usent insolemment d'un pouvoir emprunte,
Sans connaitre jamais la loi de leur beaute.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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--as I walked the woods at dusk, I heard your
long-stretched sighs, up above, so mournful;
I heard the perfect Italian tenor, singing at the opera--I heard the
soprano in the midst of the
quartette
singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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She came towards the bed, and the
knight laid himself down quickly,
pretending
to be asleep.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXIII
When the hyppogryph above the island hung,
And had approached so nigh that
landscape
fair,
That, if his rider from the saddle sprung,
He might the leap with little danger dare,
Rogero lit the grass and flowers among,
But held him, lest he should remount the air:
And to a myrtle, nigh the rolling brine,
Made fast, between a bay-tree and a pine.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Free
subjects
of the kindliest of all thrones,
Headlong they plunge their doubts among old rags and bones.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e seler of
Iuppiter
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Vedi la
compagnia
che la circonda:
li altri dopo 'l grifon sen vanno suso
con piu dolce canzone e piu profonda>>.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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, First Version,
_Poetical
Works_, 1901, iv.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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But then strange gleams shot through the grey-deep
eyes
As though he saw beyond and saw not me, And when he moved to speak it
troubled
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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A hen
I keep, which
creeking
day by day,
Tells when
She goes her long white egg to lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
ATOSSA
Yea, hark to Susa's mourning cry for
warriors
laid low!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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] Gunga Dass took a malicious pleasure in emphasizing
this point and in
watching
me wince.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Ye mustering
thunders
from above,
Your willing victim see;
But spare and pardon my fause Love,
His wrangs to Heaven and me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The young lambs ran a pretty race;
The morning sun shone bright and warm;
"Kilve," said I, "was a
pleasant
place,
"And so is Liswyn farm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is the giants, nowadays, that have
the science and the intelligence, while the chivalrous Don
Quixotes
of
Conservatism still cumber themselves with the clumsy armor of a bygone
age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise
guardians
of the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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With you I shared Philippi's rout,
Unseemly parted from my shield,
When Valour fell, and warriors stout
Were tumbled on the inglorious field:
But I was saved by Mercury,
Wrapp'd in thick mist, yet trembling sore,
While you to that
tempestuous
sea
Were swept by battle's tide once more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For we are right, but these
gluttons
are wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Copyright
infringement liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Nature herself her shape admires;
The Gods are wounded in her sight;
And Love forsakes his
heavenly
fires
And at her eyes his brand doth light:
Heigh ho, would she were mine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)--
Or
flourished
and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way its waters went.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Ils
ecoutent
le bon pain cuire
Le boulanger au gras sourire
Chante un vieil air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[That Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath is in the Midrash Yalqut (a legendary
Commentary
on the Old Testament, called Yalqut) to the book Jonah, quoted from the Talmud of Jerusalem.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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your good fortune will be
threefold
as great as your evil
fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Her shape arises,
She less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever;
The gross and soiled she moves among do not make her gross and soiled;
She knows the thoughts as she passes--nothing is concealed from her;
She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor;
She is the best beloved--it is without exception--she has no reason to
fear, and she does not fear;
Oaths, quarrels,
hiccupped
songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as
she passes;
She is silent--she is possessed of herself--they do not offend her;
She receives them as the laws of nature receive them--she is strong,
She too is a law of nature--there is no law stronger than she is.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But this alchemy is, you
know, only the
material
counterpart of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The Butcher
beginning
to sob.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Those things alone
Are to be fear'd, whence evil may proceed,
None else, for none are
terrible
beside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Biglow's poems not
elsewhere
printed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Thus
rendering
thanks that he is lowly bred,
Because from such none look for valorous deeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Vacant and giddy, all agog for wonder,
As to a masquerade they wing their way;
The ladies give themselves and all their
precious
plunder
And without wages help us play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
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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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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" KAU}
As[c]ending into her cloudy misty
garments
the blue smoke rolld to revive
Her cold limbs in the absence of her Lord.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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CALIFORNIA
CITY LANDSCAPE
On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept
Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand;
Of her own past,
impassioned
nympholept!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
Wretched
young fellow, be gone and obey me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was
erewhile
unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and youthful year.
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Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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The
commonest
thing is delightful if one only hides
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Autograph supplies title, On the Religious
Memory of
Catherine
Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased
16 Decemb.
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Milton |
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She now replies, and now doth mute appear,
Like one whose tottering mind regains its power;
I speak my heart: "Thou must this cheat resign;
The thirteen hundred, eight and
fortieth
year,
The sixth of April's suns, his first bright hour,
Thou know'st that soul celestial fled its shrine!
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Petrarch |
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Literary
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Botte I toe warr mie doeynges moste atturne,
To cheere the
Sabbataneres
to deere dede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and
flame;
Gun to gun he had
battered
the fort for an hour,
Now was the time for a charge to end the game.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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