Two swimmers
wrestled
on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Samuel Champlain actually
discovered
and paddled up the lake in
July, 1609, eleven years before the settlement of Plymouth,
accompanying a war-party of the Canadian Indians against the
Iroquois.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hee in Celestial Panoplie all armd 760
Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought,
Ascended, at his right hand Victorie
Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside him hung his Bow
And Quiver with three-bolted Thunder stor'd,
And from about him fierce Effusion rowld
Of smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire;
Attended
with ten thousand thousand Saints,
He onward came, farr off his coming shon,
And twentie thousand (I thir number heard)
Chariots of God, half on each hand were seen: 770
Hee on the wings of Cherub rode sublime
On the Crystallin Skie, in Saphir Thron'd.
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Milton |
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GEISTER:
Schwindet, ihr dunkeln
Wolbungen
droben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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How many bullets
bearest?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
uncommonly
deep snow has made him think
Of his old song, _The Wild Colonial Boy_,
He always used to sing along the tote-road.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sounds not the clang of
conflict
on the heath?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If the time
becomes
slothful
and heavy, he knows how to arouse it: he can make every
word he speaks draw blood.
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Whitman |
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Ah why refuse the
blameless
bliss?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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blake-poems |
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Where love begins, there dead thy first desire:
_A spark
neglected
makes a mighty fire_.
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Robert Herrick |
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" I said,
"Be the year-bloom that
breathed
thee ever red,
Nor wither, yellow, down among the dead.
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Sidney Lanier |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Lewis Carroll |
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My frivolous muse has now opened
--Cupid, the scamp--opens lips
hitherto
sealed so well.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I see a man,
striding
along apace, with knitted brows; he seems
to us the bearer of terrible tidings.
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Aristophanes |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Robert Forst |
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All
creatures
that have reason
doubt.
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Yeats |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Rather onto our heels by horrible deeds the Erinyes
We would allure, even Zeus'
punishment
sooner we'd dare--
Under that rock, or bound to a tumbling wheel we'd endure it--
Than we'd withdraw our hearts from the delights of her cult.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Is there a Parson, much bemus'd in beer, 15
A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer,
A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a Stanza, when he should
_engross_?
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Alexander Pope |
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Thy Ioye shal double, withoute gesse,
Whan thou
thenkist
on hir semlinesse,
Or of hir laughing, or of hir chere,
That to thee made thy lady dere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And you climbed yet
further!
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| Question: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The water flows, the wind in passing by
In murmuring tones takes up the
questioning
cry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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"
With _Das Buch der Bilder_ the dream is ended, the veil of mist is
lifted and before us are
revealed
pictures and images that rise before
our eyes in clear colourful contours.
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Rilke - Poems |
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with whom I
traverse
earth,
Invisible but gazing, as I glow
Mixed with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crushed feelings' dearth.
| Guess: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Alchemically
she is De Nerval's feminine principle to be fused with the masculine.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Marriage
rings are not of this stuffe; 5
Oh, why should ought lesse precious, or lesse tough
Figure our loves?
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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The things that have been and shall be no more,
The things that are, and that hereafter shall he,
The things that might have been, and yet were not,
The fading twilight of great joys departed,
The
daybreak
of great truths as yet unrisen,
The intuition and the expectation
Of something, which, when come, is not the same,
But only like its forecast in men's dreams,
The longing, the delay, and the delight,
Sweeter for the delay; youth, hope, love, death,
And disappointment which is also death,
All these make up the sum of human life;
A dream within a dream, a wind at night
Howling across the desert in despair,
Seeking for something lost it cannot find.
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Longfellow |
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Perchance this sleep that
shutteth
out the dreary
Earth-sounds and motions, opens on Thy soul
High dreams on fire with God;
High songs that make the pathways where they roll
More bright than stars do theirs; and visions new
Of Thine eternal Nature's old abode.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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And then to dwell in
sovereign
barns,
And dream the days away, --
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee,
As giving it a hope that there
It could not
withered
be.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Roar now above my decaying flesh, you winds,
Whirl out your earth-scents over this body, tell me
Of ferns and stagnant pools, wild roses,
hillsides!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
He gathered all the younger Knights of the Round Table
together
and
started away with them down the hilly streets of Camelot, and at the
gateway turned sharply North.
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Tennyson |
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--La dedans sont des filles, infames
Parce que,--vous saviez que c'est faible, les femmes,
Messeigneurs de la cour,--que ca veut
toujours
bien,
Vous avez crache sur l'ame, comme rien!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Henceforward shalt thou see such
officers!
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Longfellow |
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* * * * *
"My friends with rude
ungentle
words
They scoff and bid me fly to thee!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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This object swives
girls enow, and fancies himself a
handsome
fellow, and is not condemned to
the mill as an ass?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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For though thou view'st some beasts to be more rare,
And mark'st in them a less prolific stock,
Yet in another region, in lands remote,
That kind abounding may make up the count;
Even as we mark among the four-foot kind
Snake-handed elephants, whose
thousands
wall
With ivory ramparts India about,
That her interiors cannot entered be--
So big her count of brutes of which we see
Such few examples.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
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"Suffer without regret," they seem to cry,
"Though dark your suffering is, it may be music,
Waves of blue heat that wash
midsummer
sky;
Sea-violins that play along the sands.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
|
Jonson's influence is
especially
marked in
_The Court Beggar_.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He later changed his mind and
incorporated
it into the text.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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The other
characters
fall easily into their niches.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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As
children
bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their nightgowns on.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
This I whispered, and an echo
murmured
back the word, "Lenore!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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There, from the fields where wild
Maeander
flows,
High Mycale, and Latmos' shady brows,
And proud Miletus, came the Carian throngs,
With mingled clamours and with barbarous tongues.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Myne herte aloon is to her go,
And I abyde al sole in wo,
Departed
fro myn owne thought, 2425
And with myne eyen see right nought.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And you, of my victories,
glorious
instrument,
But a wintry body's useless ornament,
Blade, once feared, yet, facing this offence
Serving for decoration, not defence,
Go: leave now the very least of men,
Pass into better hands, take my revenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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We followed the thirty-six bends of the
twisting
waters, and all along
the streams a thousand different flowers were in bloom.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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"
XCVI
As a good hawk, who duck or woodcock shy,
Partridge or pigeon, or such other prey,
Seeing towards her from a
distance
fly,
Raises her head, and shows her blithe and gay;
So Mandricardo, in security
Of crushing Rodomont in that affray,
Gladly his courser seized, bestrode the seat,
Reined him, and in the stirrups fixt his feet.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Still, as the fray grew louder,
Boldly they worked and well;
Steadily
came the powder,
Steadily came the shell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For I have seen
The thorn frown rudely all the winter long
And after bear the rose upon its top;
And bark, that all the way across the sea
Ran
straight
and speedy, perish at the last,
E'en in the haven's mouth seeing one steal,
Another brine, his offering to the priest,
Let not Dame Birtha and Sir Martin thence
Into heav'n's counsels deem that they can pry:
For one of these may rise, the other fall.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And yet _Injun_ is one of those
depravations
which the taste challenges
peremptorily, though it have the authority of Charles Cotton--who rhymes
'_Indies_' with '_cringes_'--and four English lexicographers, beginning
with Dr.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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I'd have been before her with that course,
Love would have swiftly
inspired
the thought.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such was she--not from
faculties
more strong
Than others have, but from the times, perhaps,
And spot in which she lived, and through a grace 290
Of modest meekness, simple-mindedness,
A heart that found benignity and hope,
Being itself benign.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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MARMADUKE
Beloved!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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No glass renders a man's form
or
likeness
so true as his speech.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some 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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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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--Bienheureux celui-la qui peut avec amour
Saluer son coucher plus
glorieux
qu'un reve!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Can I cease to languish,
While my darling Fair
Is on the couch of
anguish?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Soon from the fount, with each a
brimming
urn
(Eumaeus in their train), the maids return.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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First twas a hum, but now it loudly squalls;
And then the
pattering
rain begins to fall,
And it is hushed--the fern leaves scarcely shake,
The tottergrass it scarcely stirs at all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Nor on the mingling of the living seeds
Would space be needed for the growth of things
Were life an increment of nothing: then
The tiny babe forthwith would walk a man,
And from the turf would leap a
branching
tree--
Wonders unheard of; for, by Nature, each
Slowly increases from its lawful seed,
And through that increase shall conserve its kind.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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FOOTNOTES:
[32] So the
Scholium
interprets in this place, the word ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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And I
Have
frightened
you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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et uos, qui sero lapsum reuocatis, amici,
quaerite non sani
pectoris
auxilia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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For--saving where the grey rocks strike
Their
javelins
up the azure,
Or where deep fissures miser-like
Hoard up some fountain treasure,
(And e'en in them, stoop down and hear,
Leaf sounds with water in your ear,--)
VI.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"Madonna, leave me not all alone,
To die
forgotten
and live forlorn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And every day for seven moons I
proclaimed
my Joy from the
house-top--and yet no one heeded me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And now, led
smoothly
o'er the furrow'd tide,
Right to the isle of joy the vessels glide:
The bay they enter, where on ev'ry hand,
Around them clasps the flower-enamell'd land;
A safe retreat, where not a blast may shake
Its flutt'ring pinions o'er the stilly lake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Holiness
is not the
price of entering into heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The water is ever fresh and newe 1560
That welmeth up with wawes brighte
The
mountance
of two finger highte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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(I see one
building
the house that serves him a few years, or
seventy or eighty years at most,
I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
"I have no friends," said Lamia," no, not one;
My
presence
in wide Corinth hardly known:
My parents' bones are in their dusty urns
Sepulchred, where no kindled incense burns,
Seeing all their luckless race are dead, save me,
And I neglect the holy rite for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Time, the prime
minister
of Death!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Men
thronged
the inns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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She speaks without
observing
the_
PEASANT'S _presence_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pity mourns in plaintive tone
The lovely
starling
dead and gone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Phrynichus is as bold as a cock and
terrifies
his rivals.
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Aristophanes |
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Liberes, ils sont comme des chiens:
On les
insulte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Thus-, by irrevocable sentence cast,
Mat only master of these revels passed,
And
straight
he vanished in a cloud of pitch,
Such as unto the sabbath bears the witch.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
feasting
day
Shall surely come; now I must needs away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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560
XXXVI
The incense trembled as it upward sent
Its slow,
uncertain
thread of wandering blue,
As't were the only living element
In all the church, so deep the stillness grew;
It seemed one might have heard it, as it went,
Give out an audible rustle, curling through
The midnight silence of that awestruck air,
More hushed than death, though so much life was there.
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James Russell Lowell |
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I no longer love Rodrigue the gentleman;
No my love names him to another plan;
If I love, I love he who wrought fine things,
The
valorous
Cid who has mastered kings.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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