It
may have been partly on her account that Pope pitched upon
Twickenham
as
his abiding place.
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Alexander Pope |
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Why do you look at me so
fixedly?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A moment their guns have glowed
Sun-smitten: then out of sight
They
suddenly
sink,
Like men who touch a new grave's brink!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Commonwealth does through their cen-
tres all
Draw the circumference of the public wall ;
The
crossest
spirits liere do take their part,
Fastening the coiitignation which they thwart :
And they who.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Farther back in the midst of the household goods and the wagons,
Like to a gypsy camp, or a leaguer after a battle,
All escape cut off by the sea, and the sentinels near them,
Lay encamped for the night the
houseless
Acadian farmers.
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Longfellow |
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The family of Petrarch was
originally
of Florence, where his ancestors
held employments of trust and honour.
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Petrarch |
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"
* * * * *
Yet what are all such
gaieties
to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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Lewis Carroll |
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To avenge;
retaliate
for.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CHORUS
Nay, the law is sternly set--
Blood-drops shed upon the ground
Plead for other bloodshed yet;
Loud the call of death doth sound,
Calling guilt of olden time,
A Fury,
crowning
crime with crime.
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Aeschylus |
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I THINK the reader I've already told,
Our husband loved rich
presents
to behold;
Though none he made, yet all he would receive;
Whate'er was offered he would never leave.
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La Fontaine |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"The usual
duration
of man's life, in
my time, was about eight hundred years.
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Poe - 5 |
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a Chinese
Princess
named Hsi-chun was sent, for
political reasons, to be the wife of a central Asian nomad king, K'un
Mo, king of the Wu-sun.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A rabble however, of his own
followers and desperate debtors, took arms and were making to the forest
of Arden, when the legions sent from both armies by
Visellius
and Caius
Silius, through different routes to intercept them, marred their march:
and Julius Indus, one of the same country with Florus, at enmity with
him, and therefore more eager to engage him, was despatched forward with
a chosen band, and broke the ill-appointed multitude.
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Tacitus |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Cried Maclean: "Now a ten-tined buck in the sight of the wife and the child
I had killed if the
gluttonous
kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Tomsky lit his pipe, took a few
whiffs, then continued:
"The next evening,
grandmother
appeared at Versailles at the Queen's
gaming-table.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Pushkin himself beheld him
When first he reached the court, and through the ranks
Of Lithuanian
gentlemen
went straight
Into the secret chamber of the king.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The beasts in cages much more loyal are,
Restlessly
pacing, pacing to and fro,
Dreaming of countries beckoning from afar,
Lands where they roamed in days of long ago.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Stairs were then let down, whether to dare
The Fiend by easie ascent, or aggravate
His sad
exclusion
from the dores of Bliss.
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Milton |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and
knowledge
that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Yet by the
conquest
of two kings grown great,
He on the peace extends a warlike power,
And Israel, silent, saw him rase the tower.
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Marvell - Poems |
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nous secouerons toute la nuit les sistres
La voix ligure etait-ce donc un talisman
Et si tu n'es pas de droite tu es sinistre
Comme une tache grise ou le pressentiment
Puisque l'absolu choit la chute est une preuve
Qui double devient triple avant d'avoir ete
Nous avouerons que les grossesses nous emeuvent
Les ventres pourront seuls nier l'aseite
Vois les vases sont pleins d'humides fleurs morales
Va-t'en mais denude puisque tout est a nous
Ouis du choeur des vents les cadences plagales
Et prends l'arc pour tuer l'unicorne ou le gnou
L'ombre equivoque et tendre est le deuil de ta chair
Et sombre elle est humaine et puis la notre aussi
Va-t'en le crepuscule a des lueurs legeres
Et puis aucun de nous ne
croirait
tes recits
Il brillait et attirait comme la pantaure
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
Et les femmes la nuit feignant d'etre des taures
L'eussent aime comme on l'aima puisqu'en effet
Il etait pale il etait beau comme un roi ladre
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Au lieu du roseau triste et du funebre faix
Que n'alla-t-il vivre a la cour du roi D'Edesse
Maigre et magique il eut scrute le firmament
Pale et magique il eut aime des poetesses
Juste et magique il eut epargne les demons
Va-t'en errer credule et roux avec ton ombre
Soit!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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e wlonkest wedes he warp on hym-seluen;
His cote, wyth be
conysaunce
of ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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erre not that so shall end
The strife which thou call'st evil, but wee style
The strife of Glorie: which we mean to win, 290
Or turn this Heav'n it self into the Hell
Thou fablest, here however to dwell free,
If not to reign: mean while thy utmost force,
And join him nam'd
Almightie
to thy aid,
I flie not, but have sought thee farr and nigh.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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They shall be
speaking
for ever,
The people shall hear them for ever.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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He
complains
in it of "mischievous people, who opened
packets to read the letters contained in them, and copied what they
pleased.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo,
guardians
of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was
transparent
as a needle
Was it cooing about something else?
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| Question: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_
Some
innocent
wayfarer?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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yet, faithless to your kind,
Rather like noxious insects you are used
To
puncture
life's fair fruit, beneath the rind
Laying your creed-eggs, whence in time there spring
Consumers new to eat and buzz and sting.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a
replacement
copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Above, how high,
progressive
life may go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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So spake th' Eternal Father, and fulfilld
All Justice: nor delaid the winged Saint
After his charge receivd, but from among
Thousand Celestial Ardors, where he stood
Vaild with his
gorgeous
wings, up springing light 250
Flew through the midst of Heav'n; th' angelic Quires
On each hand parting, to his speed gave way
Through all th' Empyreal road; till at the Gate
Of Heav'n arriv'd, the gate self-opend wide
On golden Hinges turning, as by work
Divine the sov'ran Architect had fram'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
In how many ways
That
unfeeling
man evaded what I had to say!
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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CCV
When the
Emperour
went seeking his nephew,
He found the grass, and every flower that bloomed,
Turned scarlat, with our barons' blood imbrued;
Pity he felt, he could but weep for rue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Can we think a few old cells
were left--we are left--
grains of honey,
old dust of stray pollen
dull on our torn wings,
we are left to recall the old
streets?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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CHORUS
Woman, what deadly birth,
What venomed essence of the earth
Or dark
distilment
of the wave,
To thee such passion gave,
Nerving thine hand
To set upon thy brow this burning crown,
The curses of thy land?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot
Of
Kaikobad
and Kaikhosru forgot:
Let Rustum lay about him as he will,
Or Hatim Tai cry Supper--heed them not.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He cut such a ridi-
culous figure, that, says the author, even the
King and his
courtiers
could not help laughing
at him.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Ein wahres
Hexenelement!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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the theme
surmounts
the loftiest strains.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem)
as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they
would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely
changed points of view;
To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my
lovers, my dear friends,
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me
by the hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason
hold not,
surround
us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I
require nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity
beyond the grave,
But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Virgynne
and hallie Seyncte, who sitte yn gloure[52], 90
Or give the mittee[53] will, or give the gode man power.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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His fellow mark'd an opposite intent,
Bearing a sword, whose
glitterance
and keen edge,
E'en as I view'd it with the flood between,
Appall'd me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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46:
Purest lips, soft banks of blisses,
Self alone
deserving
kisses.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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wir
schlupfen
da hinein.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Gradasso struck with greater might and main,
But well nigh all his strokes were spent in air;
Of, if he sometimes smote, he smote on part,
Where
Durindana
wrought less harm than smart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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(The lengthened shadow of a man
Is history, said Emerson
Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney
straddled
in the sun).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
And next to the invention of speaking itself, the
most important invention for the poet has been the invention of writing
and reading; for this has added
immensely
to the scope of his mastery
over words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Cette mutilation de sa pensee par autorite de justice
avait eu pour resultat de rendre les directeurs de
journaux
et de
revues tres mefiants a son egard, lorsqu'il leur presentait quelques
pages de prose ou des poesies nouvelles; sa situation pecuniaire s'en
ressentit.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The
watchers
of men's birth?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
What
deepening
twilight-scum floating atop of the waters,
Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
Good is this life
That my delight sustains
Though he who knows strife
May otherwise complain
I know no gain
In
changing
of my life
All free of pain,
By my faith's, my share of strife.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want
children?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Farm hands from the terraces of the blest
Danced on the mists with their ladies fine;
And Johnny
Appleseed
laughed with his dreams,
And swam once more the ice-cold streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Sudds launders bands in piss, and
starches
them
Both with her husband's and her own tough fleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
"
"Yea, Lord, I hear his carol's wordless voice;
And well may he rejoice
Who hath not heard of death's
discordant
noise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
A
reference
to this coin is made in _Drunken Barnaby's Journal_
in the _Oxoniana_ (quoted by Gifford) and in Sir Henry Wotton's
Letters (p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
"
"A truth of such
undoubted
weight,"
He urged, "and so extreme in date,
It were superfluous to state.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
Where'er they spy the flame they roam,
And think rich stores to rifle,
Here such as I are quite at home,
For
_Zweifel_
rhymes with _Teufel_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Already when the
dreadful
rock he threw,
Old Ocean shook, and back his surges flew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
In every sphere of life form is the
beginning
of things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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to your deeps descend;
Haste, and our father's sacred seat attend;
I go to find the
architect
divine,
Where vast Olympus' starry summits shine:
So tell our hoary sire"--This charge she gave:
The sea-green sisters plunge beneath the wave:
Thetis once more ascends the bless'd abodes,
And treads the brazen threshold of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
William Davies writes to me,
"I spent a week there (the Swan Inn) early in the fifties, and well
remember the sign over the door distinguishable from afar: the inn,
little more than a cottage (the only one), with clean well-sanded
floor, and rush-bottomed chairs: the landlady, good old soul, one day
afraid of burdening me with some old coppers, insisted on retaining
them till I should return from an uphill walk, when they were duly
tendered
to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Moronto fu mio frate ed Eliseo;
mia donna venne a me di val di Pado,
e quindi il
sopranome
tuo si feo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
If an
individual
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A youth should not be made to hate
study before he know the causes to love it, or taste the bitterness
before the sweet; but called on and allured,
entreated
and praised--yea,
when he deserves it not.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My pleasaunce was an
undulating
green,
Stately with trees whose shadows slept below,
With glimpses of smooth garden-beds between
Like flame or sky or snow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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680
Whence and what art thou, execrable shape,
That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance
Thy
miscreated
Front athwart my way
To yonder Gates?
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Milton |
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XIX
Why did you fail to appear at the cot in the
vineyard
today, Love?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He became a full Lieutenant in July, but was
invalided
home after
about six weeks.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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e
sorweful
fortune ne co{n}fou{n}de ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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[This letter, Robert Chambers says,
concluded
with requesting Miss
Alexander to allow the poet to print the song which it enclosed, in a
second edition of his Poems.
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Robert Burns |
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Gold I've seen, and
turquoise
I've kicked out
of the cliffs, and there's garnets in the sands of the river, and here's
a chunk of amber that a man brought me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Why, from what whim of yours,
Do you leave the field open to your
accusers?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Canto XXIII
Mentre che li occhi per la fronda verde
ficcava io si come far suole
chi dietro a li uccellin sua vita perde,
lo piu che padre mi dicea: <
vienne oramai, che 'l tempo che n'e imposto
piu
utilmente
compartir si vuole>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Riches and Poverty, long or short life,
By the Maker of Things are
portioned
and disposed.
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Li Po |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Blut ist ein ganz
besondrer
Saft.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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[6] From this prose composition, contrary to
what has been my rule with any of the poems, it has
appeared
to me
permissible to omit two or three short phrases which would have shocked
ordinary readers, and the retention of which, had I held it obligatory,
would have entailed the exclusion of the preface itself as a whole.
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Whitman |
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Out
of Satan's colossal figure, the single urgency of inspiration, which
this dualistic consciousness of existence makes,
radiates
through all
the regions of Milton's vast and rigorous imagination.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[191] He had been a rival
candidate
for adoption by Galba.
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Tacitus |
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"
How fair her glorious features shine,
Whereon the hand of God hath set
An angel's attributes divine,
With all a woman's
sweetness
met.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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At last he comes to the notice of Gilgamish himself, who is
shocked by the newly
acquired
manner of Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of
Dalmatic
field
By Triumph crown'd with deathless bay.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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25-6, given also in Morris and Skeat's
Speci|mens
of Early English, 1298-1393, p.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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--pay more attention, sir,
To a
becoming
carriage--much thou wantest
In dignity.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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