)
Good even, my good
brother!
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Tennyson |
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He is eager to do his
opponent the amplest justice, and to put the
fairest construction on his conduct He is fearful
only lest their private quarrel should be of the
slighest
detriment
to the public service.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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--Enough: but say he wronged thee; slew
By craft thy child:--what wrong had I done, what
The babe
Orestes?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I do not think
we have a right to
withhold
from the world a word or
a thought any more than a deed which might help a
single soul.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Nay, rather it is the quietness of power,
That knows there is no
turbulence
in life
Dare the least questioning hindrance set against
The onward of its going,--therefore quiet,
All gentle.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks
I might recover by-and-bye!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically
ANYTHING
with public domain eBooks.
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Sara Teasdale |
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punishment {Erdman does not provide this line of
inserted
and struck text, but it appears to be the same text as Blake inserts below.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Tempo vegg' io, non molto dopo ancoi,
che tragge un altro Carlo fuor di Francia,
per far
conoscer
meglio e se e ' suoi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Wee now being in this faire course, some sixtie leagues onwards our
journey with our whole Fleet together, there suddenly arose a fierce
and tempestuous storme full in our teethe, continuing for foure dayes
with so great violence, as that now
everyone
was inforced rather to
looke to his own safetie, and with a low saile to serve the Seas,
then to beate it up against the stormy windes to keep together, or to
follow the directions for the places of meeting.
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John Donne |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But idol-films do tend,
As once sent forth, in straight
directions
all;
Wherefore one can inside a wall see naught,
Yet catch the voices from beyond the same.
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Lucretius |
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And this soon brought a confession, that he was a
Polish Jew by birth, and was sent to examine the strength of the fleet
by Zabajo, who was
mustering
all his power to attack the Portuguese.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
frontless
cynic next in rank I saw,
Sworn foe to decency and nature's modest law.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Most go in and shut their doors, thinking that
bleak and colorless
November
has already come, when some of the most
brilliant and memorable colors are not yet lit.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_ [Used with
ellipsis
of _go_, etc.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I cannot think, why such a
glorious
wealth
As this of love on our hearts should be spent.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So they began to sing, voice
answering
voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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org/fundraising/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Stephen Crane |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair,
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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No longer the flowers are gay,
The
springtime
hath lost its caress,
Alone I will dream to-day,
Weep in the silent recess.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Though stern I
sometimes
be,
To thee, thou know'st, I was not so.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Tasting, art thou,
What the Assyrians may have forced on me,
Ere thou hast well
swallowed
thy new freedom?
| 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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but you must
persuade
your God
To have me as well the greatest king beneath you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O passion
powerful!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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And since I am so loyal to you, lady,
That Love grants me no power to love elsewhere,
But lets me pay court to one, maybe,
Who might remove the heavy grief I bear;
So when I think of you to whom joy bows,
All other love's
forgotten
and displaced:
With her my heart holds dearest, there it stays.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
{28a} Beowulf gives his uncle the king not mere gossip of his
journey, but a
statesmanlike
forecast of the outcome of certain
policies at the Danish court.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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If there come truth from them,
As vpon thee Macbeth, their Speeches shine,
Why by the
verities
on thee made good,
May they not be my Oracles as well,
And set me vp in hope.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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What brings you here to court so
hastily?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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As long as drama
was full of
poetical
beauty, full of description, full of philosophy,
as long as its words were the very vesture of sorrow and laughter,
the players understood that their art was essentially conventional,
artificial, ceremonious.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Earth, hide him,
thine
offspring!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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pouere Men, & begged his mete,
His fadres
sergeaunt?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Leary
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ALABASTER
Like this alabaster box whose art
Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
Carven with
delicate
dreams and wrought
With many a subtle and exquisite thought.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Let it touch Woman and flesh becomes
Finer and more thrilled
Than air
contrived
in tune,
Lighter round the soul
Than flame is round burning.
| 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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And thou whose wounds are never healed,
Whose weary race is never won,
O Cromwell's
England!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Note: This poem is a
consequence
of the two previous poems.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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org
Title: The Queen Of Spades
1901
Author:
Alexander
Sergeievitch Poushkin
Translator: H.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The azure vault in silver shimmers soft,
A dewy breeze with
fragrance
soars aloft.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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One day--oh, bitter
thought!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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For, as we are commonly used to call the
infinite mixed multitude of growing trees a wood, so the ancients gave
the name of Sylvae--Timber Trees--to books of theirs in which small works of
various and diverse matter were
promiscuously
brought together.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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When the seven young Storks set out, they walked or flew for fourteen weeks
in a
straight
line, and for six weeks more in a crooked one; and after that
they ran as hard as they could for one hundred and eight miles; and after
that they stood still, and made a himmeltanious chatter-clatter-blattery
noise with their bills.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Where is your
Husband?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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The new "Mystery" was
revised by Gifford and printed, but
withheld
from month to month, till,
at length, "the fire kindled," and, on the last day of October, 1821,
Byron instructed John Hunt to "obtain from Mr.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are
everywhere
you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Greece is no
lightsome
land of social mirth;
But he whom Sadness sootheth may abide,
And scarce regret the region of his birth,
When wandering slow by Delphi's sacred side,
Or gazing o'er the plains where Greek and Persian died.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hervor aus deinem alten Futterale,
An die ich viele Jahre nicht
gedacht!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
Ghastly, with starting eyes,
The King without a cry or
struggle
dies.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Luxury, O ebony hall, where to tempt a king
Famous garlands are
writhing
in death,
You are only pride, shadows' lying breath
For the eyes of a recluse dazed by believing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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THE
LOVELINESS
OF LOVE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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My
thoughts
crawled each after each,
Crawling at night each after each on the same nerve,
An unbroken ring of thoughts too sore for speech.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But
apparently
it told how
Admetus, King of Pherae in Thessaly, received from Apollo a special
privilege which the God had obtained, in true Satyric style, by making the
Three Fates drunk and cajoling them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Unworthy
of women are men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whensoe'er
Our
wanderer
comes again!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Mac
was his
favourite
toast.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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45
VI
And be it so--for to the chill night shower
And the sharp wind his head he oft hath bared;
A Sailor he, who many a wretched hour
Hath told; for, landing after labour hard,
Full long [1] endured in hope of just reward, 50
He to an armed fleet was forced away
By seamen, who perhaps themselves had shared
Like fate; was hurried off, a
helpless
prey,
'Gainst all that in _his_ heart, or theirs perhaps, said nay.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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As I went down the water side,
None but my foe to be my guide,
None but my foe to be my guide,
On fair
Kirconnell
lea;
I lighted down my sword to draw,
I hacked him in pieces sma',
I hacked him in pieces sma',
For her sake that died for me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
In the Highlands of Scotland may
still be gleaned some relics of the old songs about
Cuthullin
and
Fingal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Chor: In seeking just
occasion
to provoke
The Philistine, thy Countries Enemy,
Thou never wast remiss, I hear thee witness:
Yet Israel still serves with all his Sons.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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To
Charlotte
Cushman.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Open the old cigar-box--let me
consider
anew--
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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||
_palmisepto_
(_-seto_ BLa1 ?
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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The dogs were
handsomely
provided for,
But shortly afterwards the parrot died too.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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A moment we saw her turret,
A little heel she gave,
And a thin white spray went o'er her,
Like the crest of a
breaking
wave--
In that great iron coffin,
The channel for their grave,
The fort their monument,
(Seen afar in the offing,)
Ten fathom deep lie Craven,
And the bravest of our brave.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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satis o nimiumque priores
despexisse
procos.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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: |
Robert Burns |
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An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
It
descended
tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
I fancy it will keep the
Blastoderm
quiet, though.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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I love my own fond lover,
Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus:
For him I'd die twice over,
Would Fate but spare the sweet
survivor
thus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Past through the most
glorious
corn-country I ever saw, till I reach
Dunbar, a neat little town.
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was, and is, a man of great
learning
and
sharpness of wit as any man.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Gutenberg
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Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
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generations.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the
lightning
and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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"
XXII
But she, her sister never heeding,
With book in hand reclined in bed,
Page after page
continued
reading,
But no reply unto her made.
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nor from Each other avert their eyes
Eternity appeard above them as One Man infolded
In Luvah robes of blood & bearing all his afflictions
As the sun shines down on the misty earth Such was the Vision
But purple night and crimson morning & [the] golden day descending
Thro' the clear changing atmosphere display'd green fields among
The varying clouds, like paradises stretch'd in the expanse
With towns & villages and temples, tents sheep-folds and pastures
Where dwell the children of the
elemental
worlds in harmony,
[But monstrous delusion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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"Deathless the Creed
Here
substanced!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sweet friend, for me now go to the window
And gaze on the stars from earth below
And see how I am your true
messenger!
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My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I'm feeling for the air;
A dim
capacity
for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.
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Sin is the cause of death; and sin's alone
The cause of God's predestination:
And from God's prescience of man's sin doth flow
Our
destination
to eternal woe.
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ne meahte wǣfre mōd
forhabban in hreðre, _the
expiring
life could not hold itself back in the
breast_, 1152; ne mihte þā for-habban, _could not restrain himself_, 2610.
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"
"And may that be, if
different
estates
Grow not of different duties in your life?
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THE SONNETS
by William Shakespeare
I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where
abundance
lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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