Habitavi
cum
habitantibus Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.
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XXIV
If that blind fury that
engenders
wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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My sire, the hero with the smile so soft,
And a tall trooper, his companion oft,
Whom he loved greatly for his courage high
And
strength
and stature, as the night drew nigh
Rode out together.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Aid for them each woman prayed for them,
Treading
back slowly the track of their march.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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the storm of wings
Bears far the fiery fear,
Till scarce the breeze now brings
Dim
murmurings
to the ear;
Like locusts' humming hail,
Or thrash of tiny flail
Plied by the fitful gale
On some old roof-tree sere.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Project of 20% of the
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using the method you
already use to calculate your applicable taxes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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here is the wisdom
Alembicked out of dust, or out of nothing;
Choose now the weightiest word, most golden page,
Most
somberly
musicked line; hold up these lanterns,--
These paltry lanterns, wisdoms, philosophies,--
Above your eyes, against this wall of darkness;
And you'll see--what?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Shall Trade aye salve his conscience-aches
With jibes at Chivalry's old
mistakes
--
The wars that o'erhot knighthood makes
For Christ's and ladies' sakes,
Fair Lady?
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Sidney Lanier |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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200
Anon, appears a brave, a gorgeous show
Of horsemen-shadows moving to and fro; [60]
At intervals
imperial
banners stream, [61]
And now the van reflects the solar beam; [62]
The rear through iron brown betrays a sullen gleam.
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William Wordsworth |
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Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Into their woof, their lives;
The rug of an honest bear
Under the feet of a cryptic slave
Who speaks always of baubles,
Forgetting state, multitude, work, and state,
Champing
and mouthing of hats,
Making ratful squeak of hats,
Hats.
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Stephen Crane |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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Villon |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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La spera ottava vi
dimostra
molti
lumi, li quali e nel quale e nel quanto
notar si posson di diversi volti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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Robert Forst |
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As I have been all along a miserable dupe to love, and have
been led into a thousand weaknesses and follies by it, for that reason
I put the more
confidence
in my critical skill, in distinguishing
foppery and conceit from real passion and nature.
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Robert Forst |
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,
_prerogatives
based upon land-possessions, right to
possess land_, hence _real estate_ itself: gen.
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Beowulf |
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" men shall ask,
When the world is old, and time
Has
accomplished
without haste
The strange destiny of men.
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Sappho |
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Death takes us by surprise,
And stays our hurrying feet;
The great design
unfinished
lies,
Our lives are incomplete.
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Longfellow |
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Bold and accursed are they who all this while
Have strove to isle this monarch from this isle,
And to improve
themselves
by false pretence.
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Marvell - Poems |
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, nullo spatio relicto
1
_metula_
O: _M.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The popular and active
Tribune, Caius Licinius, proposed the three
memorable
laws which
are called by his name, and which were intended to redress the
three great evils of which the Plebeians complained.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O Memory cast down thy
wreathed
shell!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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COMEDIE EN TROIS BAISERS
Elle etait fort deshabillee,
Et de grands arbres indiscrets
Aux vitres
penchaient
leur feuillee
Malinement, tout pres, tout pres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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_First
published
in_ 1869.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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ye have already learn'd
That hist'ry, thou and thy
illustrious
spouse;
I told it yesterday, and hate a tale 530
Once amply told, then, needless, traced again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He sits down with his holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath
his foot.
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blake-poems |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Yet his
despondent
ghost couldn't have sought worse revenge.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Boundlesse intemperance
In Nature is a Tyranny: It hath beene
Th'
vntimely
emptying of the happy Throne,
And fall of many Kings.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sail swiftly through your amber vault,
An
animated
law, a presence to exalt.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Let both unite with well-consenting mind,
So shall
authority
with strength be join'd.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Sick is the land to th' heart; and doth endure
More
dangerous
faintings by her desperate cure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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or sprung of the
needs of the less
developed
society of special ranks?
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Whitman |
|
II
I've seen people put
A
chrysalis
in a match-box,
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
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Imagists |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous
reconforte!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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To know just how he
suffered
would be dear;
To know if any human eyes were near
To whom he could intrust his wavering gaze,
Until it settled firm on Paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The azure vault in silver
shimmers
soft,
A dewy breeze with fragrance soars aloft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
org (Images generously made
available by the Internet Archive)
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
The analogy, which this fable bore to the sedition of the Roman
people, was
understood
and felt.
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Tacitus |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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77
Imitation from
Tibullus
p.
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Byron |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--may never tongue
pronounce
thee more!
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| Question: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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and Latona and the tones of the Asiatic lyre, which wed so
well with the dances of the
Phrygian
Graces.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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They were all
glittering
with rich robes and
arms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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| Question: |
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
Waggoner passes the Swan,
'And now the
conqueror
essays
The long ascent of Dunmail-raise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Likewise, thou canst ne'er
Believe the sacred seats of gods are here
In any regions of this mundane world;
Indeed, the nature of the gods, so subtle,
So far removed from these our senses, scarce
Is seen even by
intelligence
of mind.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Pan first with wax taught reed with reed to join;
For sheep alike and
shepherd
Pan hath care.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Whoever dies
somewhere
in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
| Guess: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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Whitman |
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The dates given after the poems are
Dykes Campbell's;
occasionally
I have corrected the date given in the text
of his edition by his own correction in the notes.
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I have broken away from the
thousand
ties of life:
But this infirmity still remains behind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[185] Come, Trochilus, do
us the
kindness
to call your master.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
Mandassero
a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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XL
Great joy was made that day of young and old,
And solemne feast
proclaimd
throughout the land,
That their exceeding merth may not be told:
Suffice it heare by signes to understand 355
The usuall joyes at knitting of loves band.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Walpurgis
is the female saint
who converted the Saxons to Christianity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Life is a scavenger's pit--I escape--
I only,
rejecting
it,
lying here on this couch.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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associated
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Are they panic-struck and
helpless?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
_100
A man who thus twice
crucifies
his God
May well .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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too divine
To be
breathed
near, and so forth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Per morder quella, in pena e in disio
cinquemilia
anni e piu l'anima prima
bramo colui che 'l morso in se punio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
IMPROMPTU
My mind is a puddle in the street
reflecting
green Sirius;
In thick dark groves trees huddle lifting their branches like
beckoning hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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We are young and eager and yet we are mateless and unvisited, and
though we lie in
unbroken
half embrace, we are uncomforted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There is not a bird but
delights
in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my thatched cottage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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There he sees Lucifera, the Queen of Pride,
attended
by
her sinful court.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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But thou
sincere!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Six of these, beginning with |
| "On a Palmetto", were unrevised
pencillings
of late date, |
| excepting the lines of 1866 to J.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Our
household
is but small, I own,
And yet needs care, if truth were known.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thro' faded groves Maria sang,
Hersel' in beauty's bloom the while;
And aye the wild-wood ehoes rang,
Fareweel the braes o'
Ballochmyle!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Lucretius |
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[Sidenote A: On
Christmas
morn,]
[Sidenote B: joy reigns in every dwelling in the world.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I beg you tell the Great River | whose stream flows to the East
That
thoughts
of you will cling to my heart | when _he_ has ceased
to flow.
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Li Po |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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" "Yes," adjoined Arnaud, "for that wish should be that I
ever had
remained
unborn.
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Byron |
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Then,
hurrying
to the voice of
the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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