Here's what the
hypocrite
said: "Trust me just once more, this time.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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A DREAM
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass
methought
I lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Meanwhile, tsarevich,
Hide in thy soul the seed of heavenly blessing;
Religious
duty bids us oft dissemble
Before the blabbing world; the people judge
Thy words, thy deeds; God only sees thy motives.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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The grim
Troy spoils gleam round her throne, and by each hand
Queens of the East, my father's prisoners, stand,
A cloud of Orient webs and
tangling
gold.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Lives there a man beneath the
spacious
skies
Who sacred honours to the bard denies?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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ter si resurgat murus aeneus
auctore Phoebo, ter pereat meis
excisus Argiuis, ter uxor
capta uirum
puerosque
ploret.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--
Thus the
tradition
of the gusty deep.
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Keats |
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Supine he tumbles on the crimson sands,
Before his
helpless
friends, and native bands,
And spreads for aid his unavailing hands.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_"
[Composed in honour of Miss Margaret Chalmers,
afterwards
Mrs.
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Robert Burns |
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This is a crucial set of revisions,
reflecting
some ambiguity about the relation between "shadow" and "spectre".
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Blake - Zoas |
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All the barbarous
nations of Africa and America agree in placing their heaven in beautiful
islands, at an immense
distance
over the ocean.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ours too the glance none saw beside;
The smile none else might understand;
The
whispered
thought of hearts allied,[x]
The pressure of the thrilling hand;
The kiss, so guiltless and refined,
That Love each warmer wish forbore;
Those eyes proclaimed so pure a mind,
Ev'n Passion blushed to plead for more.
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Byron |
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So deep and large her bounties are,
That one broad, long
midsummer
day
Shall to the planet overpay
The ravage of a year of war.
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Emerson - Poems |
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As thy day grows warm and high,
Life's
meridian
flaming nigh,
Dost thou spurn the humble vale?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
steeples
swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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On such a dawn, or such a dawn,
Would anybody sigh
That such a little figure
Too sound asleep did lie
For chanticleer to wake it, --
Or
stirring
house below,
Or giddy bird in orchard,
Or early task to do?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Enter
GOVERNOR
ENDICOTT with his halberdiers.
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Longfellow |
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Your sister's hand in marriage have I ta'en;
And I've a son, there is no
prettier
swain:
Baldwin, men say he shews the knightly strain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from
flowerlet
unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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This is the reward for my
excessive
care:
I search for my self: and yet find no one there.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Compared
with yours, oh, daughter
Of King Solomon the grand,
What are round ebon bosoms,
High brows from Hellas' strand?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XXXV
Arrived there, the little house they fill,
Ne looke for entertainement, where none was:
Rest is their feast, and all things at their will:
The noblest mind the best
contentment
has.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands
of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
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blake-poems |
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The thing that made me more and more afraid
Was that we'd ground it sharp and hadn't known,
And now were only wasting
precious
blade.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'
Withouten wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my
sentence!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_Charles Hamilton Sorley_
_May, 1915_
THE VOLUNTEER
Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
Toiling at ledgers in a city grey,
Thinking that so his days would drift away
With no lance broken in life's tournament:
Yet ever 'twixt the books and his bright eyes
The gleaming eagles of the legions came,
And horsemen, charging under phantom skies,
Went
thundering
past beneath the oriflamme.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
) Our
lecturer
tells us,
however, that he knows certain Chinese poets.
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Li Po |
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at
p{er}fecc{i}ou{n}
is don awey.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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which are the poetry of heaven,
If in your bright leaves we would read the fate
Of men and empires,--'tis to be forgiven,
That in our aspirations to be great,
Our
destinies
o'erleap their mortal state,
And claim a kindred with you; for ye are
A beauty and a mystery, and create
In us such love and reverence from afar,
That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Long Susan lay deep lost in thought,
And many
dreadful
fears beset her,
Both for her messenger and nurse;
And as her mind grew worse and worse,
Her body it grew better.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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: _erocitatis_ O:
_crocitatis_
GDAC:
_crocitatis al.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Despite the same exile that will separate them, 1255
They swear a
thousand
times nothing will part them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless rise above, Fluids
intangible
that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high risen base Some overflowing river is run mad;
In us alone the element of calm !
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
There is
poetry in her, because poetry comes unconsciously out of deep feeling, but
there is no
artistic
eloquence.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Kate has reported Marlow's
bashfulness
to Hardcastle, who has told
another tale.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Unlydgefulle traytoure, wylt thou nowe
rebelle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I've seen none so noble, of such beauty,
Or so fine, who grants me such bounty,
For so worthy a friend she does appear,
And if I'd her naked at last beside me,
I'd be more than the lord of Excideuil,
Who
maintains
his worth where others fail,
For none but Geoffrey could so prevail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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All else is still;
Yet the stars are listening,
And low o'er the wooded hill
Hangs, upon
listless
wing
Outspread, a shape of damp, blue cloud,
Watching, like a bird of evil
That knows nor mercy nor reprieval,
The slow and silent death of the pallid moon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Sea-winds, blown from east and west,
Blown from the Eastern Sea, and blown from the Western Sea, till there on
the
prairies
meeting:
These, and with these, and the breath of my chant,
I perfume the grave of him I love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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LXVII
At the first city, whither he was brought
(Because to go
concealed
he had good care),
He a new helmet donned; but took no thought
What was the head-piece he designed to bear.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting
light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The
Daughter
of the Commandant, by Alexksandr
Sergeevich Pushkin, Translated by Mrs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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My rimes I know unsavory and sowre,
To taste the streames, that, like a golden showre,
Flow from thy fruitfull head, of thy Loves praise;
Fitter perhaps to thunder
martiall
stowre,
When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise:
Yet, till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne,
Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
He answers him: "Ay, Sire, for here is plenty
Silver and gold on hundred camels seven,
And twenty men, the
gentlest
under heaven.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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' He even
insisted
that 'colouring does
not depend upon where the colours are put, but upon where the light
and dark are put, and all depends upon the form or outline'--meaning,
I suppose, that a colour gets its brilliance or its depth from being
in light or in shadow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Ovidii Nasonis carmen heroicum macaronicum perplexametrum, inter
Getas getico moro compostum, denuo per medium ardentispiritualem
adjuvante mensa
diabolice
obsessa, recuperatum, curaque Jo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Friend, servant, child: just this
My standing at the Hall;
The other
servants
call me "Miss,"
My Lady calls me "Margaret,"
With her clear voice musical.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Only a still place
and perhaps some outer horror
some hideousness to stamp beauty,
a mark--no
changing
it now--
on our hearts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then, as we came, the crowd dividing clove
An advent to the throne: and therebeside,
Half-naked as if caught at once from bed
And tumbled on the purple footcloth, lay
The lily-shining child; and on the left,
Bowed on her palms and folded up from wrong,
Her round white
shoulder
shaken with her sobs,
Melissa knelt; but Lady Blanche erect
Stood up and spake, an affluent orator.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Oh, no, I am
perfectly
well,
Only a little tired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yes, Love, at that
propitious
time
When hope was in its bloomy prime,
And when I vainly fancied nigh
The meed of all my constancy;
Then sudden she, of whom I sought
Compassion, from my sight was caught.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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270
When Edelward perceevd Erle Cuthbert die,
On Hubert
strongest
of the Normanne crewe,
As wolfs when hungred on the cattel flie,
So Edelward amaine upon him flewe.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Si mi
spronaron
le parole sue,
ch'i' mi sforzai carpando appresso lui,
tanto che 'l cinghio sotto i pie mi fue.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ay, Regulus and the
Scaurian
name,
And Paullus, who at Cannae gave
His glorious soul, fair record claim,
For all were brave.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only about 4% of the present number of
computer
users.
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Coleridge - Poems |
|
In 2001, the Project
Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
]
[Sidenote: If, therefore, a thing be so to happen that the event
of it is neither
necessary
nor certain, how can any one foresee
what is to happen?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'99'
Pope's old enemy, Dennis, objected to the
impropriety
of Belinda's
filling the sky with exulting shouts, and some modern critics have been
foolish enough to echo his objection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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First in rank, and
before them all, amid prosperous cheers, comes out Hippocoon son of
Hyrtacus; and
Mnestheus
follows on him, but now conqueror in the ship
race, Mnestheus with his chaplet of green olive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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And
straight
again they mounted,
And rode to Vesta's door;
Then, like a blast, away they passed,
And no man saw them more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
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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Thus did Evangeline wait at her father's door, as the sunset
Threw the long shadows of trees o'er the broad
ambrosial
meadows.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And thus it was that ether, fraught with fire,
First broke away from out the earthen parts,
Athrough the innumerable pores of earth,
And raised itself aloft, and with itself
Bore lightly off the many starry fires;
And not far otherwise we often see
*****
And the still lakes and the
perennial
streams
Exhale a mist, and even as earth herself
Is seen at times to smoke, when first at dawn
The light of the sun, the many-rayed, begins
To redden into gold, over the grass
Begemmed with dew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Where the night-wind, like a lover, leans above
His jasmine-gardens and sirisha-bowers;
And on ripe boughs of many-coloured fruits
Bright parrots cluster like
vermilion
flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And O it is delicious, when the day
In winter's loaded garment keenly blows
And turns her back on sudden falling snows,
To go where gravel
pathways
creep between
Arches of evergreen that scarce let through
A single feather of the driving storm;
And in the bitterest day that ever blew
The walk will find some places still and warm
Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm
To little birds that flirt and start away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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thou vessel purposeless, unmeant,
Yet drone-hive strange of phantom
purposes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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I have seen several literary men; one of them wished to know if he
could get to Russia by land (he seemed to have an idea that Russia was
an island); I have disputed generously enough with the editor of a
review, who to each objection replied: "We take the part of respectable
people," which implies that every other paper but his own is edited by a
knave; I have saluted some twenty people, fifteen of them unknown to me;
and shaken hands with a like number, without having taken the
precaution of first buying gloves; I have been driven to kill time,
during a shower, with a mountebank, who wanted me to design for her a
costume as Venusta; I have made my bow to a theatre manager, who said:
"You will do well, perhaps, to interview Z; he is the heaviest,
foolishest, and most
celebrated
of all my authors; with him perhaps you
will be able to come to something.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
'
And I saw long ships, with their
smokestacks
leaning
In the white scud and the white foam and the smoky swift spray!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
'Where Elde abit, I wol thee telle
Shortly, and no whyle dwelle, 4990
For thider
bihoveth
thee to go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
"
"Surely," replied this other;
"His
grandfathers
beat them many times.
| Guess: |
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The scholar's knife cuts best at its first use
And my dreams hurried on to the
completion
of my plan.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But to make an
unyielding
courage bend,
To make that unfeeling heart of his feel pain, 450
To fetter a captive astonished by his chains,
Fighting the yoke, that delights him so, in vain:
That's what I wish, that is what excites me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Putnam's Sons 1911
Rivers to the Sea The Macmillan Company 1915
Love Songs The Macmillan Company 1917
Flame and Shadow The Macmillan Company 1920
LOUIS UNTERMEYER
The Younger Quire Moods
Publishing
Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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`Thow shalt gon over night, and that as blyve,
Un-to
Deiphebus
hous, as thee to pleye,
Thy maladye a-wey the bet to dryve, 1515
For-why thou semest syk, soth for to seye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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He stared in the rudest way, and just when I thought he had seen the
elastic, he said, 'There's
something
very taking about that face.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Achilles
pursues him
thrice round the walls of Troy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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She did so, but 'tis
doubtful
how and whence
Came, and who were her subtle servitors.
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Keats - Lamia |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Beware thy mother's
vengeful
hounds from hell.
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Aeschylus |
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Aeneas,
wrathful
at their mad
onslaught, rushes on them, towering high with levelled spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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and, in thy scale of sense,
Weight thy Opinion against Providence;
Call
imperfection
what thou fancy'st such, 115
Say, here he gives too little, there too much:
Destroy all Creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, If Man's unhappy, God's unjust;
If Man alone engross not Heav'n's high care,
Alone made perfect here, immortal there: 120
Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod,
Re-judge his justice, be the God of God.
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Alexander Pope |
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Had not Almi^tj
Providence
drawn near.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Secundus
desired to be heard: I am aware, he said, that Aper may
refuse me as an umpire.
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Tacitus |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the
Colchian
shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Wounded
Man_.
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Byron |
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LXXXI
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although
in me each part will be forgotten.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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