(14)
The years of a
lifetime
do not reach a hundred.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Doubtless to-night thou'lt see him, leading his pack,
And with his jaws
savagely
tampering
With our earth-builded safety.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Her body was never
without suffering, or her heart without conflict; but neither the
body's
weakness
nor the heart's violence could disturb that fixed
contemplation, as of Buddha on his lotus-throne.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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TO THE RIGHT
HONOURABLE
PHILIP, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY.
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Robert Herrick |
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We shall send to fetch you in fifteen years
And give you a place in the
Courtyard
of Immortality.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_A18_, _N_, _TCC_, _TCD_]
[2
_Worthies_]
_worthies_ _1633_]
[3 And yet] Yet _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_]
[7-8 art .
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John Donne |
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Between the blossoms red and white,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Rien n'egale en longueur les boiteuses journees,
Quand sous les lourds flocons des
neigeuses
annees
L'ennui, fruit de la morne incuriosite,
Prend les proportions de l'immortalite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nought is there for man too high;
Our impious folly e'en would climb the sky,
Braves the dweller on the steep,
Nor lets the bolts of heavenly
vengeance
sleep.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Chimene
And Rodrigue's arm
performed
these miracles?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands
encounter
no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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here in German regions
Our
enterprise
may hope success?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Here the
tableaus
of life, and here the groupings of death;
Here, do you know this?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The
generous
deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading,
No braver battle was won;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue;
Under the garlands, the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
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copyright in the collection of Project
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But the dignity
which this gives to his poem has already been
observed
in the preface.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Infants, the
children
of the Spring!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Who would have then divined that dead would lie
Like swaths of grain beneath the harvest moon
Upon these lands the ancient Belgae held,
From
Normandy
beyond renowned Liege!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet by nature, he insists, he is of an easy
temper, more readily
deceived
than angered, and in a long catalogue of
instances he illustrates his own patience and good nature (ll.
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Alexander Pope |
|
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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Though not
strictly
a troubadour text, it is a first example of a form, the alba, adopted later.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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What cheers ascend from horde on
ravenous
horde!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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LXIV
"Or true or false Geneura's tale of shame;
If she her lover blessed I little heed:
For this my praise the lady well might claim,
If
manifest
were not that gentle deed.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The
bohemian
glass on the _étagère_ is no longer there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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GD}
Astonishd sat her Sisters of Beulah to see her soft affections
To Enion & her children & they ponderd these things wondring
And they Alternate kept watch over the Youthful terrors
They saw not yet the Hand Divine for it was not yet reveald
But they went on in Silent Hope & Feminine repose
But Los & Enitharmon
delighted
in the Moony spaces of Eno *
Nine Times they livd among the forests, feeding on sweet fruits
And nine bright Spaces wanderd weaving mazes of delight
Snaring the wild Goats for their milk they eat the flesh of Lambs
A male & female naked & ruddy as the pride of summer
Alternate Love & Hate his breast; hers Scorn & Jealousy
In embryon passions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Io vidi una di lor trarresi avante
per
abbracciarmi
con si grande affetto,
che mosse me a far lo somigliante.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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O by what Name, for thou above all these,
Above mankinde, or aught then
mankinde
higher,
Surpassest farr my naming, how may I
Adore thee, Author of this Universe, 360
And all this good to man, for whose well being
So amply, and with hands so liberal
Thou hast provided all things: but with mee
I see not who partakes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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"
XI
And now hath every city
Sent up her tale of men;
The foot are fourscore thousand,
The horse are
thousands
ten.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
--
'For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree;
For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,
And cold mushrooms;
For wine we follow Bacchus through the earth;
Great God of
breathless
cups and chirping mirth!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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1475
And Troilus, of whom ye nil han routhe,
Shal
causeles
so sterven in his trouthe!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And God, like a father, rejoicing to see
His
children
as pleasant and happy as he,
Would have no more quarrel with the Devil or the barrel,
But kiss him, and give him both drink and apparel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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We here have found
hosts to our heart: thou hast
harbored
us well.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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ETEOCLES
Now, if ye hear the bruit of death or wounds,
Give not
yourselves
o'ermuch to shriek and scream,
For Ares ravens upon human flesh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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But
although
Hop-Frog, through the distortion of his legs, could
move only with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor, the
prodigious muscular power which nature seemed to have bestowed upon his
arms, by way of compensation for deficiency in the lower limbs, enabled
him to perform many feats of wonderful dexterity, where trees or ropes
were in question, or any thing else to climb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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_
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool
September
morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But when I saw how each sad soul did greet
My gaze with no sign of defiant frown,
How from tired eyes looked spirits broken down,
How each face showed the pale flag of defeat,
And doubt, despair, and disillusionment,
And how were
grievous
wounds on many a head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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-'tis four, or I mistake;
Let's count them well:-The GARD'NER first, we'll name;
Then comes the ABBESS, whose declining frame
Required
a youth, her malady to cure
A story thought, perhaps, not over pure;
And, as to SISTER JANE, who'd got a brat,
I cannot fancy we should alter that.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Winters that
withered
all the green
Have froze the beating heart.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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"These fields"--an unknown voice beyond the wall
Murmurs--"were once the
province
of the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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It is
quite the most
engrossing
one in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
He
begins: "Rodin was
solitary
before fame came to him, and afterward he
became perhaps still more solitary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
THE happy Damon clearly seems to me,
As poor a thing as any we shall see;
His
confidence
would soon have spoiled the whole,
To leave a belle like this without control!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
I can't support myself: my
strength
has left me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Marks,
notations
and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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And when therein
The seeds of water so many in many ways
Have come together,
augmented
from all sides,
The close-jammed clouds then struggle to discharge
Their rain-storms for a two-fold reason: lo,
The wind's force crowds them, and the very excess
Of storm-clouds (massed in a vaster throng)
Giveth an urge and pressure from above
And makes the rains out-pour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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_Flandrekins_, foreign generals,
soldiers
of Flanders.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
During all Pope's lifetime they were a sect at once
feared, hated, and
oppressed
by the severest laws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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We have been boys together--schoolfellows--
And now are friends--yet shall not be so long--
For in the eternal city thou shalt do me
A kind and gentle office, and a Power--
A Power august,
benignant
and supreme--
Shall then absolve thee of all further duties
Unto thy friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fixed on me their stony eyes,
That in the Moon did glitter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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"
---Thomas Wentworth Higginson
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
As is well documented, Emily Dickinson's poems were edited in these
early
editions
by her friends, better to fit the conventions of the
times.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
LXV
"Barred every comfort labour could procure,
Suffering what no endurance could assuage,
I was
compelled
to seek my father's door,
Though loth to be a burthen on his age.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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If virtuous love doth merit recompense--
If pity still maintain its wonted sway--
I that reward shall win, for bright as day
To earth and Laura
breathes
my faith's incense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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O
HYPOCRITES!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"
The monarch spoke; and straight a murmur rose,
Loud as the surges when the tempest blows,
That dash'd on broken rocks
tumultuous
roar,
And foam and thunder on the stony shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Is't not a pity that this empty mind,
This tramp, this actor out of work, this droll,
Because he knows how to assume a role
Should dream that eagles and insects, streams and woods,
Stand still to hear him chaunt his
dolorous
moods?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
If our imagination can carve no bas-relief
From hostile soil and cloud, O grief,
With which to deck Poe's dazzling sepulchre,
Let your granite at least mark a boundary forever,
Calm block fallen here from some dark disaster,
To dark flights of
Blasphemy
scattered through the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
)
Dealings
with Lithuania?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
_
They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
They roused him with mustard and cress--
They roused him with jam and
judicious
advice--
They set him conundrums to guess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Nor less the eternal poles
Of tendency
distribute
souls.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Harde as the iron were the menne of mighte, 205
Ne neede of slughornes to enrowse theyr minde;
Eche shootynge spere yreaden for the fyghte,
More feerce than
fallynge
rocks, more swefte than wynd;
With solemne step, by ecchoe made more dyre,
One single boddie all theie marchd, theyr eyen on fyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
He's growing
generous
in his old age.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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O Women, let your voices from this fray
Flash me a fiery signal, where I sit,
The sword across my knees,
expecting
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Speaking
to clouds and playing with the wind,
With joy he sings the sad Way of the Rood;
His shadowing pilgrim spirit weeps behind
To see him gay as birds are in the wood.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
who can curiously behold
The
smoothness
and the sheen of beauty's cheek,
Nor feel the heart can never all grow old?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
That is absolutely true,
although
your tongue is very vile.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
3 The far west suffers the worst wounds, 20 linked
mountains
darken beacon fires night and day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
you are growing old, and still
You struggle to look fair;
You drink, and dance, and trill
Your songs to
youthful
Love, in accents weak
With wine, and age, and passion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
Doth he give
Thy tomb good
tendance?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
O decus eximium magnis
virtutibus
augens,
Emathiae tutamen opis, clarissime nato,
Accipe, quod laeta tibi pandunt luce sorores, 325
Veridicum oraclum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And before the holiness
Of the shadow of thy
handmaid
Have I hidden mine eyes, O God of waters.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The
laughter
and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and sorrowful things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
There are open hours
When the God's will sallies free,
And the dull idiot might see
The flowing fortunes of a
thousand
years;--
Sudden, at unawares,
Self-moved, fly-to the doors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
If he sleep, we sleep,
Dropping
the eyelid over the eyes.
| Guess: |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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"One of the
Egyptian
_what?
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Poe - 5 |
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[Footnote 119: Morehead,
Minister
of Urr.
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A land of chasm and rent, a land
Of rugged blackness on either hand:
If water
trickled
its track was tanned
With an edge of rust to the chink; 130
If one stamped on stone or on sand
It returned a clink.
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_ I have ventured here
to restore, from _Q_ and its
duplicate
among the Dyce MSS.
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This, and what need full else
That call's vpon vs, by the Grace of Grace,
We will
performe
in measure, time, and place:
So thankes to all at once, and to each one,
Whom we inuite, to see vs Crown'd at Scone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I shall not live to fight the battle for you,
I am a man
disgraced
in every way;
This order takes from me my self-respect
And the respect of others.
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Longfellow |
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We are crowned with a vain conquest; he has mustered
Again his
scattered
forces, and anew
Threatens us from the ramparts of Putivl.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Poured our young martyrs their high-hearted blood
That we might trample to
congenial
mud 170
The soil with such a legacy sublimed?
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James Russell Lowell |
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