Alle
blessynges
showre on gentle AElla's hedde!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Quorum post abitum princeps e vertice Pelei
Advenit Chiron portans silvestria dona:
Nam quoscumque ferunt campi, quos Thessala magnis 280
Montibus ora creat, quos propter
fluminis
undas
Aura parit flores tepidi fecunda Favoni,
Hos indistinctis plexos tulit ipse corollis,
Quo permulsa domus iocundo risit odore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The mayor, who has been heard, before he came upon
the stage,
muttering
_'Chief Poet,' 'Ireland,' etc.
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Yeats |
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"Now try your hand, ere Fancy
Have lost its present glow--"
"And then," his grandson added,
"We'll publish it, you know:
Green cloth--gold-lettered at the back--
In
duodecimo!
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Lewis Carroll |
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{4b} Beowulf's helmet has several boar-images on it; he is the "man
of war"; and the boar-helmet guards him as typical
representative
of
the marching party as a whole.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
etext or this "small print!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried
centuries
of pomp and power!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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From every wight as fer as is the cloude
He was, so wel
dissimulen
he coude.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They raised her up, they bore the trembling girl
On to the altar--hither led not now
With solemn rites and hymeneal choir,
But sinless woman, sinfully foredone,
A parent felled her on her bridal day,
Making his child a sacrificial beast
To give the ships auspicious winds for Troy:
Such are the crimes to which
Religion
leads.
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Lucretius |
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"
'282 Our proper bliss:'
our
happiness
as men.
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Alexander Pope |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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How boats can over bridges sail,
And fishes to the stables scale ;
How salmons
trespassing
are found.
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Marvell - Poems |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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All mangled now, where shells have burst,
And lead and steel have done their worst;
The tender tissues
ploughed
away,
The years' slow processes effaced:
The Mother of us all--disgraced.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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neque_ R
5, 8 _seruos_]
_seruus_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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In no wise daunted by this rebuff, he found the
opportunity
to send
her another note in a few days.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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O toi, qui de la Mort, ta vieille et forte amante,
Engendras
l'Esperance,--une folle charmante!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ay, we are fooled
Sometimes with heady
tampering
thoughts, that come
To bother our submission, I confess.
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And
Beatrice
wore
The gown that Dante deified.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Is there a horn we should not blow as proudly
For the meanest of us all, who creeps his days,
Guarding
his heart from blows, to die obscurely?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Rilke - Poems |
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His was the troubled life,
The
conflict
and the pain,
The grief, the bitterness of strife,
The honor without stain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Let us commemorate her then
ourselves
in festival private
(Two constitute a whole tribe, when they are two in love).
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
es me{n} redden ywouen in
swiche a
gregkysche
.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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the sphered sun had climbed
The sea; my heart was sick with hope, before
The
printless
air felt thy belated plumes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
(So Pallas order'd, Pallas to their eyes
The mist objected, and
condensed
the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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"--he turned toward the Infantry Mess and shook his rifle--"you
think
yourself
the devil of a man--but I tell you that if you put your
ugly old carcass outside o' that door, I'll make you the poorest-lookin'
man in the army.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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He saw, therefore, with
satisfaction
that there was no
power in Italy to protract hostilities by strengthening the coalition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
|
Knopf 1920
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The
Little Review, and Art and Letters.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
Foundation
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
501(c)(3) educational corporation
organized
under the laws of the
state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
Revenue Service.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Nor gave the Commons leave to say their
prayei-s,
But like his prisoners to the bar them led,
Where mute they stand to hear their
sentence
read :
Trembling with joy and fear, Hyde them pro-
rogues,
And had almost mistook, and called them rogues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
When Alexander at the famous tomb
Of fierce Achilles stood, the
ambitious
sigh
Burst from his bosom--"Fortunate!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,--
A
creature
might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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whatever title suit thee,
Auld Hornie, Satan, Kick, or Clootie,
Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie,
Closed under hatches,
Spairges
about the brunstane cootie,
To scaud poor wretches!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
"
{6d}
Personification
of Battle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
One might not know that souls had place
Were't not for the
wrinkles
in life's face.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
A prince to be pitied is before your eyes,
A
memorable
example of reckless pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
In 1870 Brinsley Nicholson
quoted this letter in _Notes and
Queries_
(4th S.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting
despondently at area gates.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Io non posso negar quel che tu chiedi;
in giu son messo tanto perch' io fui
ladro a la sagrestia d'i belli arredi,
e
falsamente
gia fu apposto altrui.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
And why on
horseback
have you set 10
Him whom you love, your Idiot Boy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
it might have sought a brighter goal,
In flying
troublous
thoughts, and winning peace;
O Father!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
From this period dates
the small poem _Evening_, which seems to have been
sketched
by a
Japanese painter, so clear and colourful is its texture, so precious and
precise are its outlines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
'
'I grieve not that ripe
knowledge
takes away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
(76)
[Note 76: One of the obscure
satirical
allusions contained in this
poem.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
For truth and
goodness
are plain and open; but imposture is
ever ashamed of the light.
| 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 |
|
--
Wilt thou destroy, in one wild shock of shame,
Thy whole high heaving
firmamental
frame,
Or patiently adjust, amend, and heal?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
THE LAMB
Little Lamb, who make thee
Dost thou know who made thee,
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, wolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales
rejoice?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
I love these tall red turrets;
These
standards
brave unrolled;
And, like an infant's playthings,
These houses decked with gold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
The _touloup_, which had already become
somewhat
too small for
me, was really too tight for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
'108 thy ruling Star':
the star that
controls
thy destinies, a reference to the old belief in
astrology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
For we by
rightfull
doom remediles
Were lost in death, till he that dwelt above
High thron'd in secret bliss, for us frail dust
Emptied his glory, ev'n to nakednes; 20
And that great Cov'nant which we still transgress
Intirely satisfi'd,
And the full wrath beside
Of vengeful Justice bore for our excess,
And seals obedience first with wounding smart
This day, but O ere long
Huge pangs and strong
Will pierce more neer his heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
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 |
|
For forty years, he
produced
and
distributed Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
SILENUS:
Be silent, sons; command the slaves to drive
The
gathered
flocks into the rock-roofed cave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
[57] 215
On as we journey, in clear view displayed,
The still vale lengthens underneath its shade
Of low-hung vapour: on the
freshened
mead
The green light sparkles;--the dim bowers recede.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The coming of the
first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of
pope; the first red leaf
hurrying
through "the altered air," an
epoch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
But see, it is Alcmena's son once more,
My lord King, cometh
striding
to thy door.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
First march'd Menestheus, of
celestial
birth,
Derived from thee, whose waters wash the earth,
Divine Sperchius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
I did hear
The
galloping
of horse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
So they crossed to the other border, and again they formed in order;
And the boats came back for soldiers, came for soldiers,
soldiers still:
The time seemed
everlasting
to us women faint and fasting,--
At last they're moving, marching, marching proudly up the hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
With the latter poem _1633_ resumes the songs and (with the exception
of _The Undertaking_) follows the order in _Lec_ to _The Dampe_, with
which the series in the
manuscripts
closes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
VARLAAM,
wandering
friar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
not from one any sooner than
another!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Stood Venus smiling, and her boy
With
unstrung
bow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
The history of Portugal, as a naval and
commercial
power, begins with
the designs of Prince Henry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Thou
canst set brothers once united in armed conflict, and
overturn
families
with hatreds; thou canst launch into houses thy whips and deadly brands;
thine are a thousand names, a thousand devices of injury.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
_Mephistopheles_ [_takes the
gimlet_]
(_to Frosch_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Haste, gentle Juga, tryppe ytte oere the meade, 40
To knowe, or wheder we muste waile agayne,
Or wythe oure fallen
knyghtes
be menged onne the plain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
For ere his wickedness
pretended
love,
Jane, I'll be bound, was spotless as the dove,
And's good a servant, still old folks allow,
As ever scoured a pail or milked a cow;
And ere he led her into ruin's way,
As gay and buxom as a summer's day:
The birds that ranted in the hedge-row boughs,
As night and morning we have sought our cows,
With yokes and buckets as she bounced along,
Were often deafed to silence with her song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
reads cerwen, a word
conceived
by B.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The waves in easy motion went rolling on their way,
English colours were a-flying where the British
squadron
lay.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
John Clare |
|
I wish to see once more those old familiar faces,
whose names I do not know, which for me represent the Middlesex
country, and come as near being
indigenous
to the soil as a white man
can; the men who are not above their business, whose coats are not too
black, whose shoes do not shine very much, who never wear gloves to
conceal their hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
An
elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading
a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Whatever dress
Of thought you take to royalize your nature,--
Gorgeous shawls of kingship, a world's fear,
Or ample weavings of imagination,
Or the spun light of wisdom,--like a gust
Of flame, that weather of impersonal thought
You strut beneath, that hanging storm of Love,
Strikes down a terrible swift dazzling finger,
Sight of some woman, on your
clothèd
hearts,
And plucks the winding folly off, and leaves
Bare nature there.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
'Tis certain: thou hast lost a
faithful
wife.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
When up and down my fancy thus was driven,
And I with these untoward
thoughts
had striven, 1807.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Additional terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the
copyright
holder found at the beginning of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
A favourite herald in his train I knew,
His visage solemn, sad of sable hue:
Short woolly curls o'erfleeced his bending head,
O'er which a promontory
shoulder
spread;
Eurybates; in whose large soul alone
Ulysses view'd an image of his own.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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His cottage is a humble place of rest
With one spare room to welcome every guest,
And that tall poplar
pointing
to the sky
His own hand planted when an idle boy,
It shades his chimney while the singing wind
Hums songs of shelter to his happy mind.
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John Clare |
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If you
received
it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second opportunity to
receive it electronically.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
I heard nae mair, for Chanticleer
Shook off the
pouthery
snaw,
And hail'd the morning with a cheer,
A cottage-rousing craw.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Even
here it is only gentle and shy at first like the
stirring
of a breath of
wind over a quiet sea; and gentle beings make this first gesture,
children and young women at play, singing, dancing or at prayer.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
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liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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VI
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such
quantity
of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I would straightaway become a
dependent
of Liu Biao, but I suspect he would grow sick of Mi Heng.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The wind rose instantly, blew out
The fire of the
nocturnal
lights;
A trouble fell upon the sprites;
Oneguine lightning glances shot;
Furious he from the table rose;
All arise.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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