Those violet-gleaming butterflies that take
Yon creamy lily for their pavilion
Are monsignores, and where the rushes shake
A lazy pike lies basking in the sun,
His eyes half shut,--he is some mitred old
Bishop in
_partibus_!
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Wilde - Poems |
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e
p{r}inciples
{and} eueryche by hym self.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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600
That ye may live, which will be many dayes,
Both in one Faith
unanimous
though sad,
With cause for evils past, yet much more cheer'd
With meditation on the happie end.
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Milton |
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The birth of
learning
and commerce may be different, but their
growth is mutual and dependent upon each other.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Is not the slaying of the monster Time the most
ordinary and legitimate
occupation
of man?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be
somewhat
true?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'bible, ance his father's pride:
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with
judicious
care;
And "Let us worship God!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The injured husband answers groan for groan,
And young
Hermione
with piteous moan
Orestes calls; while Laodamia near
Bewails her valiant consort's fate severe.
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Petrarch |
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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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Mallarme - Poems |
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These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full flaumond of fyre with
fnastyng
of logh.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Tell her this
"And more,--
"That the king of the seas
"Weeps too, old,
helpless
man.
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Stephen Crane |
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CXX
That you were once unkind
befriends
me now,
And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I know not when this hope
enthralled
me first,
But from my boyhood up I loved to hear
The tall pine-forests of the Apennine
Murmur their hoary legends of the sea,
Which hearing, I in vision clear beheld
The sudden dark of tropic night shut down 170
O'er the huge whisper of great watery wastes,
The while a pair of herons trailingly
Flapped inland, where some league-wide river hurled
The yellow spoil of unconjectured realms
Far through a gulf's green silence, never scarred,
By any but the Northwind's hurrying keels.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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CCXXI
The sixth column is mustered of Bretons;
Thirty thousand
chevaliers
therein come;
These canter in the manner of barons,
Upright their spears, their ensigns fastened on.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And when at Eve the
unpitying
sun
Smiled grimly on the solemn fun,
"Alack," he sighed, "what _have_ I done?
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Lewis Carroll |
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Thycke as the ante-flyes ynne a sommer's none, 560
Seemynge
as tho' theie stynge as persante too.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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she is fairest in her features wild,
Where nothing
polished
dares pollute her path:
To me by day or night she ever smiled,
Though I have marked her when none other hath,
And sought her more and more, and loved her best in wrath.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But when Aurora,
daughter
of the dawn,
Look'd rosy from the East, yoking the steeds,
They in their sumptuous chariot sat again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He
exercised
a cunning influence over our
poet, and detained him.
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Petrarch |
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'T is more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed;
Restrain
his fury, than provoke his speed; 85
The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse,
Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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FAUST:
Siehst du den
schwarzen
Hund durch Saat und Stoppel streifen?
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Away with you and all your
withered
flowers,
I have a flower in my soul no one can take!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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In the second edition (1674) the
Argument, with the necessary adjustment to the division made in Books
vii and x, was
distributed
through the several books of the poem, as it
is here printed.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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When I
'Heard locked beneath me of that
horrible
tower _30
The outlet; then into their eyes alone
I looked to read myself,' without a sign
Or word.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some
tumultuos
sea--
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storms--but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o're that one bright island smile.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Perchance
as torches which must ready bee,
Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with mee,
Thou cam'st to kindle, goest to come; Then I
Will dreame that hope againe, but else would die.
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John Donne |
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followed
closely by the hunter, know
Their fell pursuer covers nought beside.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Mississippi,
discovery
of the, 90;
extent of the, 93;
a panorama of the, 224.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No living man,
or lief or loath, from your labor dire
could you dissuade, from
swimming
the main.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Spray
I knew you thought of me all night,
I knew, though you were far away;
I felt your love blow over me
As if a dark wind-riven sea
Drenched me with
quivering
spray.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But still the hope
Experience
taught to live,
Equal to judge--you're candid to forgive.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Along the bleak Dead River's banks
They forced amain their frozen way;
But ever from the
thinning
ranks
Shapes of ice would reel and fall,
Human shapes, whose dying prayer
Floated, a mute white mist, in air;
The crowding snow their pall.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Shame of this secret so weighs, Midas
unburdens
his heart.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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.
| 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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His black matted head on his shoulder is bent,
And deep is the sigh of his breath,
And with stedfast
dejection
his eyes are intent
On the fetters that link him to death.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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`And thenk what wo ther hath bitid er this,
For makinge of avantes, as men rede;
And what mischaunce in this world yet ther is, 290
Fro day to day, right for that wikked dede;
For which these wyse clerkes that ben dede
Han ever yet
proverbed
to us yonge,
That "Firste vertu is to kepe tonge.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"My
Madeline!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Could we live it over again,
Were it worth the pain,
Could the
passionate
past that is fled
Call back its dead!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
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: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thou
Tyndarid
woman!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
I hear the sounds of the
different
missiles, the short t-h-t!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And voices, tuned her
peerless
form to praise,
Suffer a solemn pause with mute amaze.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And thus she sette hir woful herte a-fyre 720
Through
remembraunce
of that she gan desyre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
That dark,
mysterious
name of horrid sound?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Now, lament
That second woe, upon the first
imposed!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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I can recall, nay, they are present still,
Parts of myself, the perfume of my mind,
Days that seem farther off than Homer's now
Ere yet the child had
loudened
to the boy,
And I, recluse from playmates, found perforce
Companionship in things that not denied
Nor granted wholly; as is Nature's wont, 20
Who, safe in uncontaminate reserve,
Lets us mistake our longing for her love,
And mocks with various echo of ourselves.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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They were written, for the most part,
in very unsuccessful
imitation
of MarvelFs style
of banter, and are now wholly forgotten.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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And I have found both freedom of loneliness and the safety from
being understood, for those who
understand
us enslave something in
us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
For forty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And in two
Rubaiyat
of
Mons.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
Francois and Margot and thee and me:
1 Certain gibbeted corpses used to be coated with tar as a pre- servative ; thus one
scarecrow
served as warning for considerable time.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I
mplacable
eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Torpenhow took it and departed without a word, while Dick
walked round and round the spellbound captive, giving him such advice as
he
conceived
best for the welfare of his soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Our
antiquaries
abandon time for distance; our very fops
glance from the binding to the bottom of the title-page, where the
mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so
many letters of recommendation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Are you content to be our general-
To make a virtue of necessity,
And live as we do in this
wilderness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN
PARAGRAPH
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in
paragraph
1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Ou serez-vous demain, Eves octogenaires,
Sur qui pese la griffe
effroyable
de Dieu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
MENALCAS
"It
profiteth
me naught, Amyntas mine,
That in your very heart you spurn me not,
If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Such the arcane chose for confidant,
The great twin reed we play under the azure ceiling,
That turning towards itself the cheek's quivering,
Dreams, in a long solo, so we might amuse
The beauties round about by false notes that confuse
Between itself and our
credulous
singing;
And create as far as love can, modulating,
The vanishing, from the common dream of pure flank
Or back followed by my shuttered glances,
Of a sonorous, empty and monotonous line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I imagined that the government vessels at the
wharves were laden with
rottenstone
and oxalic acid,--that is what the
first ship from England in the spring comes freighted with,--and the
hands of the Colonial legislature are cased in wash-leather.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
, editor of the
National
Anti-Slavery Standard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Land where the Spirits of June-Heat
From out their forest-maze
Stray forth at eve with loitering feet,
And fervent hymns upraise
In bland accord and passion sweet
Along the Southern ways: --
"O Darkness, tawny Twin whose Twin hath ceased,
Thou Odor from the day-flower's crushing born,
Thou visible Sigh out of the mournful East,
That cannot see her lord again till morn:
O Leaves, with hollow palms uplifted high
To catch the stars' most sacred rain of light:
O pallid Lily-petals fain to die
Soul-stung by subtle passion of the night:
O short-breath'd Winds beneath the gracious moon
Running mild errands for mild violets,
Or carrying sighs from the red lips of June
What wavering way the odor-current sets:
O Stars wreathed vinewise round yon heavenly dells,
Or thrust from out the sky in curving sprays,
Or whorled, or looped with pendent flower-bells,
Or bramble-tangled in a brilliant maze,
Or lying like young lilies in a lake
About the great white Lily of the moon,
Or drifting white from where in heaven shake
Star-portraitures of apple trees in June,
Or lapp'd as leaves of a great rose of stars,
Or shyly clambering up cloud-lattices,
Or
trampled
pale in the red path of Mars,
Or trim-set quaint in gardeners'-fantasies:
O long June Night-sounds crooned among the leaves;
O whispered confidence of Dark and Green;
O murmurs in old moss about old eaves;
O tinklings floating over water-sheen.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for, I
protest, the
schoolmaster
is exceeding fantastical; too too vain,
too too vain; but we will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la
guerra.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth
and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Beginning with the Vernal Equinox, it must be
remembered; and (howsoever the old Solar Year is practically
superseded by the clumsy Lunar Year that dates from the Mohammedan
Hijra) still commemorated by a Festival that is said to have been
appointed by the very Jamshyd whom Omar so often talks of, and whose
yearly
Calendar
he helped to rectify.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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]
[Sidenote: Dionysius of Sicily, conscious of this condition,
exhibited
the fears and cares of royalty by the terror of a naked
sword hanging over the head of his friend and flatterer Damocles.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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About the hour,
As I believe, when Venus from the east
First lighten'd on the mountain, she whose orb
Seems always glowing with the fire of love,
A lady young and beautiful, I dream'd,
Was passing o'er a lea; and, as she came,
Methought I saw her ever and anon
Bending to cull the flowers; and thus she sang:
"Know ye, whoever of my name would ask,
That I am Leah: for my brow to weave
A garland, these fair hands
unwearied
ply.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
|
It is the conformity of life,
of the
conditions
and the fate of the land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Chaque ilot signale par l'homme de vigie
Est un
Eldorado
promis par le Destin;
L'Imagination qui dresse son orgie
Ne trouve qu'un recit aux clartes du matin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I mean this
with respect to a certain passion _dont j'ai eu l'honneur d'etre un
miserable esclave_: as for friendship, you and Charlotte have given me
pleasure,
permanent
pleasure, "which the world cannot give, nor take
away," I hope; and which will outlast the heavens and the earth.
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Robert Forst |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Cæterum
nitor, et summa in excolendis operibus manus,
magis videri potest temporibus, quam ipsis defuisse.
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Tacitus |
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His
suspicions
of the evening before were quite gone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway,
Or did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe,
And vantage; or that with both he labour'd
In his
Countreyes
wracke, I know not:
But Treasons Capitall, confess'd, and prou'd,
Haue ouerthrowne him
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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No pain now was mine, but a wish that I spoke,--
A mastering wish to serve this man
Who had
ventured
through hell my doom to revoke,
As only the truest of comrades can.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We feel the great
elemental
nature of the Titans in
these powerful similes.
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Keats |
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Ic
gefremman
sceal
"eorlīc ellen, oððe ende-dæg
"on þisse meodu-healle mīnne gebīdan.
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Beowulf |
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ou
merciable
to widewe; & to faderles childe.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
Gives them the keys of Sarraguce her gates;
Both
messengers
their leave of him do take,
Upon that word bow down, and turn away.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Say, virgins, seated round the throne divine,
All-knowing
goddesses!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How shall his rashness stand the dire alarms,
If heaven's
omnipotence
descend in arms?
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Iliad - Pope |
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Keats |
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It cannot be by an entire
accident
that these poems thus recur in
manuscripts which have so far as we can see no common origin.
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John Donne |
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