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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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An equal mind, when storms o'ercloud,
Maintain, nor 'neath a
brighter
sky
Let pleasure make your heart too proud,
O Dellius, Dellius!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And
cracking
frieze and rotten metope
Express, as though they were an open tome
Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome;
"Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'tis my
sweetest
No-brains: mine!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose
from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and
he would set out, in
conscious
determination, on an epic poem.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The
prescient
poet projects himself centuries ahead, and judges
performer or performance after the changes of time.
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Whitman |
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que n'ai-je mis bas tout un noeud de viperes,
Plutot que de nourrir cette
derision!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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What
signifies
his barren shine,
Of moral powers an' reason?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And seest thou not, or hearest, how they're wont
In little time to perish, and how fail
The life-stores in those folk whom mighty power
Of grim necessity
confineth
there
In such a task?
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Lucretius |
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It dawns in Asia,
tombstones
show
And Shropshire names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She is
contemporary
with the other persons, but I have no strict warrant for dragging her name into this particular affair.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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For when the soul and frame
together
are sunk
In slumber, no one then demands his self
Or being.
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Lucretius |
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He made this
somewhat
ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the troubadour era.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting
despondently at area gates.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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_ If all these things were members of felicity, they
would differ one from another, for it is the
property
of diverse
parts to compose one body.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in
patterns
on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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O City city, I can
sometimes
hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And gently,
Unbroken when the sky fills with storm,
Jealous to add who knows what spaces
To simple day the day so true in feeling,
Does it not seem, Mery, that each year,
Where spontaneous grace relights your brow,
Suffices, in so many aspects and for me,
Like a lone fan with which a room's surprised,
To refresh with as little pain as is needed here
All our inborn and
unvarying
friendship.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Among the blind the one-eyed
blinkard
reigns.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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A
composite
text, made up from two or more editions, would be
inadmissible.
| Guess: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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ay helden to home, for hit wat3 nie3 ny3t,
Strakande
ful stoutly in hor store horne3;
1924 [B] ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Let us next obtain some idea of what this most
remarkable
poet--the founder
of _American_ poetry rightly to be so called, and the most sonorous poetic
voice of the tangibilities of actual and prospective democracy--is in his
proper life and person.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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enne such a
glauerande
glam of gedered rachche3
Ros, ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have
vanished
one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They had paid a
thousand
men,
Yet they formed and came again,
For they heard the silver bugles sounding challenge to their pride,
And they rode with swords agleam
For the glory of a dream,
And they stormed up to the cannon's mouth and withered there, and
died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Come view all the sooner tomorrow
That which, for centuries now, gods have let you enjoy:
Italy's
shoreline
so long overgrown with moist reeds, elevations
Somberly rising to shades cast by the bushes and trees.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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By the more height of thy sweet stature grown,
Twice-eyed with thy gray vision set in mine,
I ken far lands to
wifeless
men unknown,
I compass stars for one-sexed eyes too fine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Leoite, parentes,
vanissime
horainum ordo,
Figuli fllioruin, substructores hominum,
Fartores opum, longi speratores^
£t nostro, si fas, sapite infortunio.
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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]
Mysterious
God,
If she had never lived I had not done it!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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_Winter Walk_
The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the
leafless
shrubs all brown and grey,
And smiles at winter be it eer so keen
With all the leafy luxury of May.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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the dome--the vast and
wondrous
dome,
To which Diana's marvel was a cell--
Christ's mighty shrine above his martyr's tomb!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And hurrying, stumbling through the street
Came the
hurrying
stumbling feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To keep the city's peace, that is the task
Entrusted
to us twain, but you forsooth
Have little need to watch; Moscow is empty;
The people to the Monastery have flocked
After the patriarch.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
And thus the words were spoken,
And this the plighted vow,
And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Behold the golden token
That
_proves_
me happy now!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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When the Jews prosper, ye claim kindred with them;
When the Jews suffer, ye are Medes and Persians:
I know that in the days of Alexander
Ye claimed exemption from the annual tribute
In the
Sabbatic
Year, because, ye said,
Your fields had not been planted in that year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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My
gentleness
with scorn you cursed:
You knew not what I gave.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD
Youth of
delight!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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So he waxes in wealth, nowise can harm him
illness or age; no evil cares
shadow his spirit; no sword-hate threatens
from ever an enemy: all the world
wends at his will, no worse he knoweth,
till all within him obstinate pride
waxes and wakes while the warden slumbers,
the spirit's sentry; sleep is too fast
which masters his might, and the murderer nears,
stealthily
shooting
the shafts from his bow!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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But art not thou thyself giddy with the
fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling
me of the
fashion?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Because I gave
Honour to mortals, I have yoked my soul
To this
compelling
fate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Does find the hollow oak to speak,
That for his
building
he designs,
And through the tainted side he mines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Strange armed men beside the dwelling there
Lie
ambushed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which
prisoners
call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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To
reverse that process, to transform some
portions
of early Roman
history back into the poetry out of which they were made, is the
object of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Elle endort les plus cruels maux
Et
contient
toutes les extases;
Pour dire les plus longues phrases,
Elle n'a pas besoin de mots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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dead even
then;
Months, years, an echoing,
garnished
house-but dead, dead, dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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TRIBOULET
(_still more startled_): What do you want?
| Guess: |
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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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Do you know that feverish malady that seizes hold of us in our cold
miseries; that
nostalgia
of a land unknown; that anguish of curiosity?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Unauthenticated
Download
Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 342 ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Someone had
literally
run to earth
In an old cellar hole in a by-road
The origin of all the family there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The sun arose while we proceeded, and, when we
had once again reached that most thronged mart of the populous town, the
street of the D----- Hotel, it presented an appearance of human bustle
and activity scarcely
inferior
to what I had seen on the evening before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and
resinous
logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with ceaseless smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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And what are we to make of
ourselves
here,
When in the joy of us you think the world
No more than your spirits crying out for joy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I laughed and said I could not;--set you down,
Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown
Of bright hair
gladdening
me as you raced by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Here on your heart my heart now understands; Home have I come at last from alien lands— A pilgrim through the
darkness
to your eyes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
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 |
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But for because he hath not woo'd me yet;
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute my palm,
But for my hand, as
unattempted
yet,
Like a poor beggar raileth on the rich.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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He was twenty years old and
suffered
from
aspirations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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o lutum, lupanar,
aut si
perditius
potes quid esse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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" Now had we come
Where, crossing the next pier, the straighten'd path
Bestrides its
shoulders
to another arch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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No longer walk, thou lovely maid;
Alas, thou hast no more a
brother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Answerde
of this ech worse of hem than other,
And Poliphete they gonnen thus to warien,
`An-honged be swich oon, were he my brother; 1620
And so he shal, for it ne may not varien.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Therefore you are to examine the
clearest
passages of your understanding,
and through them to convey the sweetest and most significant words you
can devise, that you may the easier teach them the readiest way to
another man's apprehension, and open their meaning fully, roundly, and
distinctly, so as the reader may not think a second view cast away upon
your letter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And there
Beauty and
splendor
bloomed untouched.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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As in
_Lycidas_
Milton apologizes for the introduction of
his attack on the Church, so Keats apologizes for the introduction of
this outburst of indignation against cruel and dishonourable dealers,
which he feels is unsuited to the tender and pitiful story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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The wery hunter, slepinge in his bed,
To wode ayein his minde goth anoon; 100
The Iuge dremeth how his plees ben sped;
The carter dremeth how his cartes goon;
The riche, of gold; the knight fight with his foon,
The seke met he
drinketh
of the tonne;
The lover met he hath his lady wonne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
net/
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
Vassilissa Igorofna, whom the sound of the bullets had
somewhat
subdued,
glanced towards the steppe, where a great stir was visible in the crowd,
and said to her husband--
"Ivan Kouzmitch, life and death are in God's hands; bless Masha.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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FAUST:
Darf ich Euch nicht
geleiten?
| Guess: |
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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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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
| 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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Then the hero, given up to the most lively despair,
prepares to fight; he receives from a divinity new armour, is
reconciled with his general and, thirsting for glory and revenge,
enacts prodigies of valour, recovers the victory, slays the enemy's
chief, honours his friend with superb funeral rites, and
exercises
a
cruel vengeance on the body of his destroyer; but finally appeased
by the tears and prayers of the father of the slain warrior,
restores to the old man the corpse of his son, which he buries with
due solemnities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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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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"
[This
sarcastic
sally was written on the admission of Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly Landscape with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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(_Taking the_ LITTLE GIRL
_to her_) What good
And gentle care will guide thy
maidenhood?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What a
wildness
of speech!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And in your kind
yourselves
prefer.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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86-88;
4 of ELISHA, his
purifying
a well with salt, 214-225 (2 Kings ii.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Can it be that the morn shall fulfil
My dream, and
refashion
our clay
As the poet may fashion his rhyme?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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TWO reasons, good or bad, the father led
To fly the world:--all intercourse to dread
Since fate had torn his lovely spouse from hence;
Misanthropy
and fear o'ercame each sense;
Of the world grown tired, he hated all around:--
Too oft in solitude is sorrow found.
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La Fontaine |
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As I look up
the main street, they appear like painted screens
standing
before the
houses; yet many are green.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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curant_ extant apud
Hieremiam
Iudicem de
Montagnone p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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