He was picked
up, and, at the same moment,
Lisaveta
was carried out in a faint.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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at it be
wrecchednesse
to wilne to don yuel[;] ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A
thousand
masses I hear and offer,
Burn oil, wax candles in my hand,
So that success God might ensure,
For striving alone won't climb her stair.
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Troubador Verse |
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This
describes
nearly enough what we
saw.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His turban has fallen from his forehead,
To assist him the
bystanders
started--
His mouth foams, his face blackens horrid--
See the Renegade's soul has departed.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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0 toi, que la nuit rend si belle,
Qu'il m'est doux, penche vers tes seins,
D'ecouter la plainte eternelle
Qui
sanglote
dans les bassins!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
F3.
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Imagists |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Preposterous
is that order, when we run
To ask our wages ere our work be done.
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Robert Herrick |
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My lands are sold, my father's house is gone;
I'll hire another's; is not that my own,
And yours, my
friends?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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At Siena I was tabled in the House of one Alberto Scipioni, an
old Roman Courtier in
dangerous
times, having bin Steward to
the Duca di Pagliano, who with all his Family were strangled
save this onely man that escap'd by foresight of the Tempest:
With him I had often much chat of those affairs; Into which he
took pleasure to look back from his Native Harbour: and at my
departure toward Rome (which had been the center of his
experience) I had wonn confidence enough to beg his advice,
how I might carry my self securely there, without offence of
mine own conscience.
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Milton |
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ALCHIMIE
DE LA DOULEUR
L'un t'eclaire avec son ardeur
L'autre en toi met son deuil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_poppied_, because of the sleep-giving
property
of the
poppy-heads.
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Keats |
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For he was at the same time making preparations
for an
invasion
of the adjacent province of Africa[127] by land and
sea.
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Tacitus |
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Lost arts, one
sorrowfully
added to list of.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If e'er he bore the sword to
strengthen
ill,
Or, having power to wrong, betray'd the will,
On me, on me your kindled wrath assuage,
And bid the voice of lawless riot rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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O voices
strangely
speaking,
Voices of man and woman, voices of bells,
Diversely making comment on our time
Which flows and bears us with it into dusk,
Repeat the things you say!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lo, he
all the fiercer was poising another weapon high by his ear; while they
hesitate, the spear went
whizzing
through both Tagus' temples, and
pierced and stuck fast in the warm brain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[610] An
allusion
to the tragedy by Euripides called 'Palamedes,' which
belonged to the tetralogy of the Troades, and was produced in 414 B.
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Aristophanes |
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Form
contracted
with the negative: prs.
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Beowulf |
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He leaves the anchor
fastened
in his tongue,
And grasps the rope which from the anchor hung.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
]
That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:
A
heavenly
spirit guards her ways,
From whom she stole that mixture rare.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had
importuned
to see!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ere yet that last strain dying awed the air,
With
steadfast
eye I viewed thee in the choir
Of ever-enduring men.
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Coleridge - Poems |
|
Around it boys and unwedded girls chant
hymns and
joyfully
lay their hand on the rope.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O all the kings, my men,
Shall fear this
terrible
happiness of mine!
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
UXOR
PAUPERIS
IBYCI.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And in the moment after, wild Limours,
Borne on a black horse, like a thunder-cloud
Whose skirts are
loosened
by the breaking storm,
Half ridden off with by the thing he rode,
And all in passion uttering a dry shriek,
Dashed down on Geraint, who closed with him, and bore
Down by the length of lance and arm beyond
The crupper, and so left him stunned or dead,
And overthrew the next that followed him,
And blindly rushed on all the rout behind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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And what
shoulder
and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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that didst arise
But to be
overcast!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And at thy coming some
immortal
star,
Bearded with flame, blazed in the Eastern skies,
And waked the shepherds on thine island-home.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
BUBBLES
You had best be very
cautious
how
you say, I love you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
560
Ulysses, at that sound, for trial sake
Of his good host, if putting off his cloak
He would accommodate him, or require
That service for him at some other hand,
Addressing
thus the family, began.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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KINGS IN LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like
mountains
rising in the evening light.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
_ And do you
hesitate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS
Preface to the Kilmarnock Edition of 1786
Dedication to the
Edinburgh
Edition of 1787
* * * * *
POEMS.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The debtor was imprisoned, not in a public jail
under the care of impartial public functionaries, but in a
private workhouse
belonging
to the creditor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I shall therefore now unfold at once the motives of my silence then,
and the rules which for the future I am
determined
to observe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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All of us know that lance, and well may speak
Whereby Our Lord was wounded on the Tree:
Charles, by God's grace,
possessed
its point of steel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Here first gave he response to me
soliciting
favor:
"Feed as before your heifers, ye boys, and yoke up your bullocks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Canto XXII
Oppresso
di stupore, a la mia guida
mi volsi, come parvol che ricorre
sempre cola dove piu si confida;
e quella, come madre che soccorre
subito al figlio palido e anelo
con la sua voce, che 'l suol ben disporre,
mi disse: <
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The Count, at this, glanced
downward
to the straps of his pantaloons,
and then taking hold of the end of one of his coat-tails, held it up
close to his eyes for some minutes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"--Forgive me, Jupiter, is not
Rome's
Capitoline
Hill second Olympus to you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
The Word[3] divine that lives and works for aye,
Fold you in
boundless
love's embrace alluring,
And what in floating vision glides away,
That seize ye and make fast with thoughts enduring.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
Upon his dateless fame
Our periods may lie,
As stars that drop anonymous
From an
abundant
sky.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
MAD JUDY
WHEN the hamlet hailed a birth
Judy used to cry:
When she heard our
christening
mirth
She would kneel and sigh.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
Earth of the
vitreous
pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
LXII
Play up, play up thy silver flute;
The
crickets
all are brave;
Glad is the red autumnal earth
And the blue sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
What
beauties
doth Lisboa first unfold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
erpe_;
_Porcelletto
marino_;
Oyles of _Lenti?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Sheridan
hastened
to the
front, rallied his men, and won a complete victory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Yea, the lines hast thou laid unto me
in
pleasant
places, And the beauty of this thy Venice
hast thou shown unto me Until is its loveliness become unto me
a thing of tears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And I wonder how they should have been
together!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
net (This book was
produced
from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
project.
| 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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Love blooms in her, but 'tis his home most pure;
Her daily virtues blend with native grace;
Her noiseless
movements
speak, though she is mute:
Such power her eyes, they can the day obscure,
Illume the night,--the honey's sweetness chase,
And wake its stream, where gall doth oft pollute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
_ Take this line word by word, and see how
many
different
ideas go to create the incomparably ghostly effect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
the Sire of heaven on high,
By whose fierce bolts the clouds are riven,
To-day through an
unclouded
sky
His thundering steeds and car has driven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
If I have wander'd in those paths
Of life I ought to shun,
As something, loudly, in my breast,
Remonstrates I have done;
Thou know'st that Thou hast formed me
With
passions
wild and strong;
And list'ning to their witching voice
Has often led me wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
As for the subject,
Euripides
received
it from Phrynichus, and doubtless from other sources.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Judith, shall we not thus together make
Death admirable, yea, and triumph through
The gates of anguish with a prouder song
Than ever lifted a king's heart, who rode
Back from his war, with nations whipt before him,
Into
trumpeting
Nineveh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
)
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of
them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has
gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen
anywhere
at any
time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I
believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
O race born unto
trouble!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
felices
utrosque
uocant, sed in agmine plures
inuidere uiro.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
Children parting from fathers and mothers;
husbands
parting from
wives.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you;
There is no virtue, no beauty, in man or woman, but as good is in you;
No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you;
No
pleasure
waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
130
From that day forth I lov'd that face divine;
From that day forth I cast in
carefull
mind
To seeke her out with labour, and long tyne,
And never vowd to rest till her I find,
Nine monethes I seeke in vain, yet ni'll that vow unbind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
LADY:
If I be sure I am not
dreaming
now, _125
I should not doubt to say it was a dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
The wind and I, we both were there,
But neither long abode;
Now through the
friendless
world we fare
And sigh upon the road.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Lilly's
_History_
and a diary from 1564 to 1602,
with an account of Forman's early life, published by Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
Piangera
Feltro ancora la difalta
de l'empio suo pastor, che sara sconcia
si, che per simil non s'entro in malta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
" And the
Gizbarim
pulled away, while
their burden swung heavily upward through the still increasing mist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
See them,
sounding
the flood that floats them on,
Moving their sides like human forms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Thus am I with desyr and reson twight;
Desyr for to
destourben
hir me redeth,
And reson nil not, so myn herte dredeth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
sad France is grown a cave for sleeping,
Which a worse night than
Midnight
holds in keeping,
Thou sleepest sottish--lost to life and fame--
While the stars stare on thee, and pale for shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
His
sensibility
was strong, his passions full to
overflowing, and he loved, nay, adored, whatever was gentle and
beautiful.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Viriatus, by this treaty,
completed
the glorious design he had always in
view, which was to erect a kingdom in the vast country he had conquered
from the republic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
The lady sprang up suddenly,
The lovely lady,
Christabel!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
an I
m{er}ueile
me gretly
q{uo}d I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves
in all the world.
| Guess: |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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will be renamed.
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Alexander Pope |
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THE
WANDRING
WOOD, i.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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At last I saw the shadowed bars,
Like a lattice wrought in lead,
Move right across the whitewashed wall
That faced my three-plank bed,
And I knew that
somewhere
in the world
God's dreadful dawn was red.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Valour hath saved alive fierce lion-breeds
And many another
terrorizing
race,
Cunning the foxes, flight the antlered stags.
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Lucretius |
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"
Such wits and
beauties
are not praised for nought,
For both the beauty and the wit are bought.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Despite being
fragments
the pieces communicate some part of the loss suffered, and the thoughts engendered, by the child's death, and therefore any child's death, any such tragedy.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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SONG AT SANTA CRUZ
Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis:
Meeting lips and twining fingers
In the mild
Atlantis
springtime?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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