Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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So
freehanded
and so gay!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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For we must be
crucified
by larger
and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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4015
Thou dost gret foly for to leve
Bialacoil
here-in, to calle
The yonder man to shenden us alle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Coloured
like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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No, bydde the leathal[83] mere[84]
Upriste[85] withe hiltrene[86] wyndes & cause unkend[87],
Beheste[88] it to be lete[89]; so twylle appeare, 60
Eere Harolde hyde hys name, his
contries
frende.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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O heaven, that in thy airy courts confined
That purest spirit, when from earth she fled,
And sought the mansions of the
righteous
dead;
How envious, thus to leave my panting soul behind!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
When I must skulk into a corner, lest the
rattling
equipage of some
gaping blockhead should mangle me in the mire, I am tempted to
exclaim--"What merits has he had, or what demerit have I had, in some
state of pre-existence, that he is ushered into this state of being
with the sceptre of rule, and the key of riches in his puny fist, and
I am kicked into the world, the sport of folly, or the victim of
pride?
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Robert Burns |
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I ask not the
pleasure
that riches supply,
My sabre shall win what the feeble must buy:
Shall win the young bride with her long flowing hair,
And many a maid from her mother shall tear.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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you too I heard,
murmuring
low, through one of the
wrists around my head;
Heard the pulse of you, when all was still, ringing little bells last night
under my ear.
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Whitman |
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Old Past let go, and drop i' the sea
Till
fathomless
waters cover thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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His horse he's spurred, the clear blood issued;
He's
gallopped
on, over a ditch he's leapt,
Full fifty feet a man might mark its breadth.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering
Chaplain
robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the Governor all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Attonitusque
legis terrai, frugiferai.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Mark how, possess'd, his
lashless
eyelids stretch
Around his demon eyes!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Are you
hankering
after a nunnery?
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Troubador Verse |
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If I lay here dead
XXIV Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
XXV A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
XXVI I lived with visions for my company
XXVII My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
XXVIII My letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island;
Connecticut
takes you from a river to the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To what kingdom he
belonged
knew none
there, nor knew they from whence he had come.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Can strangers safely in the court reside,
'Midst the swell'd
insolence
of lust and pride?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Forth they fared by the footpaths thence,
merry at heart the
highways
measured,
well-known roads.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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]
Once I lov'd a bonie lass,
Ay, and I love her still;
And whilst that virtue warms my breast,
I'll love my
handsome
Nell.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He that denies himself shall gain the more
From
bounteous
Heaven.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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* You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
including
any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Since imperial tax revenues from the lower Yangzi could no longer be sent up the Grand Canal to the Yellow River, the route up the Han River through
Hanzhong
was essential.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's
sweetest
air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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(1)=to present an intelligible significance otherwise than by
writing--as 'rebus'd shields' do (un-write);
or (2) = to
misrepresent
(un-right).
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array
the flagons and
engarland
the wine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It's as if I began to build in the ocean depths
A
thousand
tombs: to vanish still virgin there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The dew is bright upon the hill,
And bright the
blossoms
overhead,
But ah!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A
mysterious
figure mentioned in the poems is the "High Priest of
Pei-hai" [in Shantung], from whom the poet received a diploma of Taoist
proficiency in A.
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Li Po |
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TVT TT-J i
Drink we the lusty robbers twain,
Black is the pitch o' their wedding dress, Lips shrunk back for the wind's caress
As lips shrink back when we feel the strain Of love that loveth in hell's disdeign
And sense the teeth through the lips that press 'Gainst our lips for the soul's distress
That
striveth
to ours across the pain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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With legs and arms a limpid treacherous swimmer
With endless leaps,
disowning
the sickness
Hamlet!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or
hypertext
form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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ECLOGUE II
ALEXIS
The
shepherd
Corydon with love was fired
For fair Alexis, his own master's joy:
No room for hope had he, yet, none the less,
The thick-leaved shadowy-soaring beech-tree grove
Still would he haunt, and there alone, as thus,
To woods and hills pour forth his artless strains.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Some new thing touched our spirits with distant delight,
Half-seen, half-noticed, as we
loitered
down,
Talking in whispers, to the little town,
Down from the narrow hill
--Talking in whispers, for the air so still
Imposed its stillness on our lips, and made
A quiet equal with the equal shade
That filled the slanting walk.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
560
When all had worshipp'd, and the broken cakes
Sprinkled, then godlike
Thrasymedes
drew
Close to the ox, and smote him.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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was
hastily brought from a room_), 1311; siððan Hāma æt-wæg tō þǣre byrhtan
byrig
Brōsinga
mene (_since H.
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Beowulf |
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We boldly landed on the hostile place,
And sack'd the city, and destroy'd the race,
Their wives made captive, their
possessions
shared,
And every soldier found a like reward
I then advised to fly; not so the rest,
Who stay'd to revel, and prolong the feast:
The fatted sheep and sable bulls they slay,
And bowls flow round, and riot wastes the day.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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King and friend,
wherefore
are you not here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Where are thy
thoughts?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Give me food for Minnehaha--
For my dying
Minnehaha!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
"
Few, I think, will care to make
Journeys
with me any more
As they used to do of yore.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free
Ye publish
yourselves
to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
Aghast they see the living lightnings play,
And turn their
eyeballs
from the flashing ray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
AN hour had passed when Cleon came anew;
The jewels at him in a moment flew;
And scarcely Mistress Alice could refrain,
From
wreaking
further vengeance on the swain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
Would ye not break out in weeping and confess
yourselves
too weak?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Canst thou be thus
incredulous?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
_"
[My late
excellent
friend, John Galt, informed me that the Eliza of
this song was his relative, and that her name was Elizabeth Barbour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
In
temporal
sense: mid ǣr-dæge (_at dawn_), 126.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Three times
circling
beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory, beauteous above all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
To skies that knit their
heartstrings
right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The saviours come not home to-night:
Themselves they could not save.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And
wouldest
thou make me then a recreande?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Condensed mythological
references
abound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Oh dear, night and day
the
experiments
are going on, and every man who brings a new
prescription is welcome as a brother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Where is my little
Princess?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
LXIII
On the other side, where'er the foe is seen
To
threaten
stroke in vain, or make good,
He seems an Alpine wind, two hills between,
That in the month of March shakes leafy wood;
Which to the ground now bends the forest green.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
e desordene
coueitise
of men ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
) I can tell you that the
Szechwan
Road as
described in the poem that Mr.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
William Dean Howells and the _North
American
Review_:--"The
Passengers of a Retarded Submersible.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
XII
Well: Here at morn they'll light on one
Dangling in mockery
Of what he spent his substance on
Blindly and
uselessly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
What is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year
or seventy or eighty years, to wisdom spaced out by ages, and coming back
at a certain time with strong
reinforcements
and rich presents and the
clear faces of wedding-guests as far as you can look in every direction
running gaily toward you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
]
43 (return)
[ This decoration at first denoted the valor, afterwards the nobility, of the bearer; and in process of time gave origin to the
armorial
ensigns so famous in the ages of chivalry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
"
This word was the last which the wise old man
harbored in heart ere hot death-waves
of
balefire
he chose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Surrender is a sort unknown
On this superior soil;
Defeat, an outgrown anguish,
Remembered as the mile
Our panting ankle barely gained
When night devoured the road;
But we stood
whispering
in the house,
And all we said was "Saved"!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
_71 God]Law
editions
1839 only.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Like rock or stone, it is o'ergrown
With lichens to the very top,
And hung with heavy tufts of moss,
A melancholy crop:
Up from the earth these mosses creep,
And this poor thorn they clasp it round
So close, you'd say that they were bent
With plain and
manifest
intent,
To drag it to the ground;
And all had joined in one endeavour
To bury this poor thorn for ever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
What was his
furthest
mind, of home, or God,
Or what the distant say
At news that he ceased human nature
On such a day?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Altho' thro' foreign climes I range,
I know her heart will never change,
For her bosom burns with honour's glow,
My faithful
Highland
lassie, O.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
What
dignified
attendants,
What service when we pause!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
After the dinner at the Longmores, she went on to the dance--a little
late--and
encountered
Bremmil with Mrs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
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 Po |
|
when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
No
invitation
could be more acceptable
to our poet: they set out at the end of March, 1330.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
And the wise
and
virtuous
will never think anything belongs to themselves that is
written, but rejoice that the good are warned not to be such; and the ill
to leave to be such.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
To fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day:
Down by the river of Adona her soft voice is heard;
And thus her gentle
lamentation
falls like morning dew.
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blake-poems |
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I have therefore
supplied titles of my own to such pieces as bear none in the original
edition:
wherever
a real title appears in that edition, I have retained it.
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Whitman |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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--Enough: but say he wronged thee; slew
By craft thy child:--what wrong had I done, what
The babe
Orestes?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Lear - Nonsense |
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At mating time the hippo's voice
Betrays
inflexions
hoarse and odd,
But every week we hear rejoice
The Church, at being one with God.
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T.S. Eliot |
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