But the bones didn't try
The door; they halted
helpless
on the landing,
Waiting for things to happen in their favor.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Hast thou a
crucifix
fit for this thing?
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Poe - 5 |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Non est qui
requirat
animam meam.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Perchance
she cannot meet him.
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Shakespeare |
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[13] Here this late text includes both variants
_pasaru_
and
_zakaru_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He said he knew me in my
swaddling
bands,
Had often danced me in his careful hands.
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Marvell - Poems |
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more
horrible
than that
Is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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To him who
speaketh
words as fair as these, Say that I also know the "Yearly Slain.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Thus
speaketh
one Ferdinand in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Poe - 5 |
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How a
stranger
watched his face
In the Esthonian market-place,
Scanned his features one by one,
Saying, "We should know each other;
I am Sigurd, Astrid's brother,
Thou art Olaf, Astrid's son!
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Longfellow |
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Here is no sap for seed,
No ferment for your need--
Ungrateful
ground!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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To create new rhythms--as the
expression
of new moods--and not to copy
old rhythms, which merely echo old moods.
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Imagists |
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xlv
even without any
acknowledgment
on his own
part, that Swift studied and profited by the prose
of Marvell.
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Marvell - Poems |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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have their colours caught:
There are some
feelings
Time cannot benumb,
Nor torture shake, or mine would now be cold and dumb.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form,
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any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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If I meet him again----
GASSE:
Saverny!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I think that
Macaulay
says that great
flights of imagination are peculiar to the early periods of a nation's
civilization, and that story-telling reaches its highest form as an art
before printing has been much in vogue.
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Li Po |
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walze die teuflischen Augen
ingrimmend
im Kopf herum!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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There are long
passages
now
before us of the most despicable trash, with no merit whatever
beyond that of their antiquity.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
The
whispered
"No"--how little meant!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
It had chosen the very same place:
Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,
The disgust that
appeared
in his face.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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We consider Bibles and
religions
divine--I do not say they are not divine;
I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still;
It is not they who give the life--it is you who give the life;
Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they
are shed out of you.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Among some ancient ballads thrust,
He found them in an almanac,
And the
sagacious
Triquet back
To light had brought them from their dust,
Whilst he "belle Nina" had the face
By "belle Tattiana" to replace.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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]
The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks,
Old towers gleam white in the ray,
And already the glory so
joyously
seeks
The lark that's saluting the day.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Obverse III 28-32
describes
Enkidu the slayer of lions and
panthers.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Falls there are a drug, and we became quite
dissipated
in respect to
them.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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p_ G) OG:
_seniore
copto_ ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Apollinax visited the United States
His
laughter
tinkled among the teacups.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Poets and
musicians
fight their battles best in the region of the
ideal.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Was willst du so
vergebens
lodern?
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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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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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"
"I'll show the way,"
Blackmouth says; an' leads toward dawn of day,
Till they come straight out beside the brink
Of a precipice that seems to sink
Into
everlasting
gulfs below.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY"
BRET HAUTE
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
_Early in the war was
organized
the U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Man has lost his soul, and vainly seeks
antiseptic
salt.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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* * * * *
Are cottages of mud and stone,
By valley wood and glen,
And their calm dwellers little known
Men, and but common men,
That drive afield with carts and
ploughs?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I will with truth resolve thee; and if here
Within thy cottage sitting, we had wine
And food for many a day, and business none
But to regale at ease while others toiled,
I could exhaust the year complete, my woes 240
Rehearsing, nor, at last,
rehearse
entire
My sorrows by the will of heav'n sustained.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
Sprinkled
with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce
profaned
- by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Two
thousand
years--much has gone by forever,
Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men--
But here on the beaches that time passes over
The heart aches now as then.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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urely, _Loue_ hath none: nor _Beauty_ any;
Nor
_Nature_
violenced, in both the?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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,
_gleaming
like metal_: acc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In a few weeks he had turned the life into
a series of vivid dramatic pictures, which so
engrossed
him that he
"forgot Homer, Shakespeare, and everything.
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| Question: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The long
diphthongs
(ēo,
ēa, etc.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT
SOMEWHILE
AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Tapestries
were hung on
the walls, and willing hands prepared the banquet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Earth - gap gaping and
never to be filled
- but by sky
-
indifferent
earth
grave
not flowers
wreaths, our
joys and our life
48.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I have no earthly spot where I can live,
I have no love, I have no
household
fane,
And all the things to which myself I give
Impoverish me with richness they attain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Lawrence
being
here two miles wide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
shutters
were drawn and the undertaker wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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No, ever to behold your face,
To follow you in every place,
Your smiling lips, your beaming eyes,
To watch with lovers' ecstasies,
Long listen, comprehend the whole
Of your perfections in my soul,
Before you agonized to die--
This, this were true
felicity!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With nostrums vain of boasted powers,
That, ta'en, a worse disorder leave;
An asp hid in a group of flowers,
That bites and stings when few perceive;
Thou mock-truce to the
troubled
mind,
Leading it more in sorrow's way,
Freedom, that leaves us more confined,
I bid thee hence away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Farther, you know that the report of certain
political
opinions
being mine, has already once before brought me to
the brink of destruction.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Mere trifles these; you need not heed 'em,
If he, on his part, not o'er-nice,
Winked at, in you, an
occasional
freedom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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contact links and up to date contact information can be found at the
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| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I have drawn my blade where the
lightnings
meet But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Quintilian says, he
possessed
a poetic genius, but so warm and
vehement, that, even in an advanced age, his spirit was not under the
control of sober judgement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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_28 in Trelawny manuscript; on 1834,
editions
1839,
_43 When 1839, 2nd edition; Whence 1834, 1839, 1st edition.
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Shelley |
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And if he spoke, what name was best,
What first,
What one broke off with
At the
drowsiest?
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Better by far their heads be shorn away,
Than that
ourselves
lose this clear land of Spain,
Than that ourselves do suffer grief and pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Though of both leaf and flower bereft, 45
Some
ornaments
to me are left--
Rich store of scarlet hips is mine,
With which I, in my humble way,
Would deck you many a winter day, [5]
A happy Eglantine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Rapidly then renewed heat overcomes those
lowering
vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more powerful gleams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It is very much more
difficult
to talk about a thing than to do it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XII
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence {12a}
suffer that slaughterous
stranger
to live,
useless deeming his days and years
to men on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely
suffering thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Prece qua fatigent
Doctior coetus minus
audientes
Carmina coelos ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
|
The city gate
They pass'd, and onward, tower'd in
sumptuous
state,
Before them now the sacred temple rose;
The portals wide the sculptur'd shrines disclose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
ou hat3 dalt
disserued
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger
resembling
you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We, heroes all, our wounds disdain;
Dismounted
now, our horses slain,
Yet we advance--more courage show,
Though stricken, seek to overthrow
The victor-knights who tread in mud
The writhing slaves who bite the heel,
While on caparisons of steel
The maces thunder--cudgels thud!
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Hugo - Poems |
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We part--but by these
precious
drops,
That fill thy lovely eyes,
No other light shall guide my steps,
Till thy bright beams arise!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I shut the doors and barred the windows
And left the
motherless
children.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What han thise loveres thee agilt,
Dispitous
day?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Crucified
I cried to men, "I would be
crucified!
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`And over al this I pray yow,' quod she tho,
`Myn owene hertes
soothfast
suffisaunce, 1640
Sin I am thyn al hool, with-outen mo,
That whyl that I am absent, no plesaunce
Of othere do me fro your remembraunce.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Fur-ahin, the
hindmost
plough-horse in the furrow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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GOETZ: You
threaten?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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As melts the iceberg in the seas,
As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze,
As snow-banks thaw in April's beam,
The solid
kingdoms
like a dream
Resist in vain his motive strain,
They totter now and float amain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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