For us the travail and the heat,
The broken secrets of our pride,
The strenuous lessons of defeat,
The flower deferred, the fruit denied;
But not the peace,
supremely
won,
Lord Buddha, of thy Lotus-throne.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How
silently!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_210
A power from the unknown God,
A
Promethean
conqueror, came;
Like a triumphal path he trod
The thorns of death and shame.
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Shelley |
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THE murmur of a bee
A witchcraft
yieldeth
me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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ORPHEUS
Orpheus he went, as poets tell,
To fetch
Eurydice
from hell;
And had her, but it was upon
This short, but strict condition;
Backward he should not look, while he
Led her through hell's obscurity.
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Robert Herrick |
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[64] It would appear that his lordship is sent to us
by the
Generals
in Orenburg.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_
Sur la place taillee en mesquines pelouses,
Square ou tout est correct, les arbres et les fleurs,
Tous les
bourgeois
poussifs qu'etranglent les chaleurs
Portent, les jeudis soirs, leurs betises jalouses.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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George (Caroline Rosalie
Adelaide
St.
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Byron |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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T.S. Eliot |
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green tables are brought forth,
And testy
gamesters
do engage
In boston and the game of age,
Ombre, and whist all others worth:
A strong resemblance these possess--
All sons of mental weariness.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
So cried I, bitterly
thrusting
pity aside,
Closing my lids to sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I can be as mawkish as I choose
And give my
thoughts
an airing, let them loose
For one last rambling stroll before--Now look!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Piteous she look'd on dead and
senseless
things,
Asking for her lost Basil amorously; 490
And with melodious chuckle in the strings
Of her lorn voice, she oftentimes would cry
After the Pilgrim in his wanderings,
To ask him where her Basil was; and why
'Twas hid from her: "For cruel 'tis," said she,
"To steal my Basil-pot away from me.
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Keats |
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All ye friends,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Small thought was there of life's distress;
For sure she deem'd no mist of earth could dull
Those spirit-thrilling eyes so keen and beautiful:
Sure she was nigher to heaven's spheres,
Listening
the lordly music flowing from
The illimitable years.
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Tennyson |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sous les
plafonds
duquel tant de pompe avait lui.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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'575'
Things that men really do not know must be brought forward modestly as
if they had only been
forgotten
for a time.
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Alexander Pope |
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The story of _Isabella_ he took from Boccaccio, an Italian writer of the
fourteenth century, whose _Decameron_, a
collection
of one hundred
stories, has been a store-house of plots for English writers.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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What Donne
expresses
is a form
of the doctrine of conditional immortality.
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John Donne |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Such passing splendour and such
glorious
light
Shot from those walls, beyond all usage bright.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not so sicke my Lord,
As she is
troubled
with thicke-comming Fancies
That keepe her from her rest
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Wharton, in whose
altogether
admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most apposite of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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org
Title:
American
Poetry, 1922
A Miscellany
Author: Edna St.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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If I consent, 'tis wrongfully I mourn:
Thus on a stormy sea my bark is borne
By adverse winds, and with rough tempest tost;
Thus unenlightened, lost in error's maze,
My blind opinion ever dubious strays;
I'm froze by summer,
scorched
by winter's frost.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Each year to ancient
friendships
adds a ring,
As to an oak, and precious more and more,
Without deservingness or help of ours,
They grow, and, silent, wider spread, each year,
Their unbought ring of shelter or of shade,
Sacred to me the lichens on the bark,
Which Nature's milliners would scrape away; 170
Most dear and sacred every withered limb!
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Opera
naturale
e ch'uom favella;
ma cosi o cosi, natura lascia
poi fare a voi secondo che v'abbella.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
)
MARGARETE
(sich auf dem Lager verbergend):
Weh!
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from
Paradise
so long?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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'
And
therwithal
he heng a-doun the heed,
And fil on knees, and sorwfully he sighte; 1080
What mighte he seyn?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And as he stood in the street
of Erech of the wide places,
the people assembled
disputing round about him:--
"How is he become like
Gilgamish
suddenly?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
A word may be
allowed here on the famous
correction
among the Errata prefixed to the
first edition: 'Lib.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"
"No doubt," said I, "they settled who
Was fittest to be sent
Yet still to choose a brat like you,
To haunt a man of forty-two,
Was no great
compliment!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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For me, to lawless love no longer led,
I scorn the coward, and detest his bed;
Else should I merit
everlasting
shame,
And keen reproach, from every Phrygian dame:
Ill suits it now the joys of love to know,
Too deep my anguish, and too wild my woe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Caecina, while he
sustained
the fight, had his
horse shot, and having fallen was nigh taken; but the first legion
saved him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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"
Next with both spurs he's gored his horse's flanks,
And
Tencendor
has made four bounds thereat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Brave vassals they, who brought those hosts to fight,
Never have they
forgotten
their ensigns;
That admiral still "Preciuse" doth cry,
Charles "Monjoie," renowned word of pride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
1180-1210)
Sols sui qui sai lo
sobrafan
que?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
DEMOGORGON:
These are the
immortal
Hours, _140
Of whom thou didst demand.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Betrayed
you has he that to guard you ought;
Mad is the King who left you in this post.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
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!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I only remembered confusedly
the
occurrences
of the past evening.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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But I, who watch you
tenderly
afar,
With unquiet eyes on your uncertain steps,
As though I were your father, I--O wonder!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Yet there was not a breath of wind: she banish'd
These
phantoms
with a nod.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Keats |
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exquisite dancers in gray
twilight!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
But,
regardless
of your previous ruling,
Can you endure to see such a wedding?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then, over all the earth she runs,
And seeks, in the cold mists of life,
Those poor
forsaken
little ones
Who droop and weary in the strife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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How they will tell the shipwreck
When winter shakes the door,
Till the
children
ask, "But the forty?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
II
O pale
Ophelia!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
Standest alone--with nothing like to thee--
Worthiest of God, the holy and the true,
Since Zion's desolation, when that he
Forsook his former city, what could be,
Of earthly structures, in his honour piled,
Of a
sublimer
aspect?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
The red-coats fire, the
homespuns
fall:
The homespuns' anxious voices call,
`Brother, art hurt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
So
threaten
not, thou, with thy bloody spears,
Else thy sublime ears shall hear curses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
No words can tell in what
celestial
hour
God made your soul and gave it mortal birth,
Nor in the disarray of all the stars
Is any place so sweet that such a flower
Might linger there until thro' heaven's bars,
It heard God's voice that bade it down to earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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haec circum sedes late contexta locauit,
uestibulum
ut molli uelatum fronde uireret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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"
Who
shrieked
"We'll wait no longer, John!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
She said, and sought th'
Olympian
heights sublime.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
My soul
possesses
more fire than you have ashes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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gif thos the howres do comme alonge,
Gif thos wee flie in chase of farther woe,
Oure fote wylle fayle,
albeytte
wee bee stronge,
Ne wylle oure pace swefte as oure danger goe.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I have
forgiven
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
These
ministers
in that same cedar sweet
Where thou art laid will lay me, feet to feet,
And head to head, oh, not in death from thee
Divided, who alone art true to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your
sickness
is your soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" My day of youth went yesterday;
My hair no longer bounds to my foot's glee,
Nor plant I it from rose- or myrtle-tree,
As girls do, any more: it only may
Now shade on two pale cheeks the mark of tears,
Taught
drooping
from the head that hangs aside
Through sorrow's trick.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If she's to press in comfort a lover against that soft bosom,
Doesn't he want her to be free from all
brooches
and chains?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Margaret
glitters
and
glitters and glitters, but she is not of my kind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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To
which, though I returned somewhat for the present, which rather
manifested a will in me than gave any just
resolution
to the thing
propounded, I have upon better cogitation called those aids about me,
both of mind and memory, which shall venture my thoughts clearer, if not
fuller, to your lordship's demand.
| 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 |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A
cluttered
incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
He has
yielded!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
for it
is a ful holy
man{er}e
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
I seem to see them in battle-line--
Heroes with hearts of gold,
But of their victory a sign
The Fates withhold;
And the hours too tardy-footed pass,
The
voiceless
hush grows dense
'Mid the imaginings, alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
With Charlemagne I soon will have thee friends;
To
Guenelun
such justice shall be dealt
Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
What
sickness
shall I say has lighted on thee,
So that thou canst not come?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
: spatium tituli in O
1
_bellicon
iei_ O
4 _uirginem o hymenee_ 5 _Hymen o hymenee hymen_ codd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2 November 1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O
solitary
captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
I thee implore
Let not thy foe have triumph in my fall;
Remember
that our sin made God himself,
To free us from its chain,
Within thy virgin womb our image on Him take!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Dindorf)
and the result ascribed to
them.
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Golden Treasury |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are
particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Stephen Crane |
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you whose laughters strawberry-crammed
Are mingling with a flock of docile lambs
Everywhere grazing vows
bleating
joy the while,
Name me.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Que ce sont bien intrigues de genies
Cette depense et ces
desordres
vains!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the
floating
fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the terrible death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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SCENT OF IRISES
A faint,
sickening
scent of irises
Persists all morning.
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Imagists |
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I it is, Prince, I whose expert assistance 655
Would have taught you the
windings
of the Labyrinth.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
The sun had now, with radiant brow, climb'd his meridian throne,
Yet still mine eye
untiringly
gazed on that lovely one.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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January
discovered
seated by the
fire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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