--Je suis un cimetiere abhorre de la lune,
Ou comme des remords se trainent de longs vers
Qui s'acharnent
toujours
sur mes morts les plus chers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Not
marketing
this time, but we'll go into the Parks if
you like.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,
And Freedom find no
champion
and no child
Such as Columbia saw arise when she
Sprung forth a Pallas, armed and undefiled?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Of
Guenelun
the King for news is fain,
And for tribute from the great land of Spain.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" And, all the time, her subtle criticism is alert, and
this woman of the East marvels at the women of the West, "the
beautiful worldly women of the West," whom she sees walking in the
Cascine, "taking the air so consciously attractive in their brilliant
toilettes, in the brilliant
coquetry
of their manner!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Cloth of bodkin or tissue must be embroidered; as if no
face were fair that were not
powdered
or painted!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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uch a one Sir, I will leaue you 10
To your _God
fathers_
in Law.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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ou hast
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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Escaping their
vigilance
for a moment, he
leapt into a river and was drowned.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_ibsi_,
liturgical
expression, 120, 5.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
following
excerpt from H.
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Byron |
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Joyous notes, a
sounding
harpsichord's intrusion.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hubur,
mythical
river, 197, 42.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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et
quoscumque
meo fecisti nomine uersus,
ure mihi: laudes desine habere meas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--Sleep at Morpeth, a
pleasant
enough
little town, and on next day to Newcastle.
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Up from the South came a great wave of sorrow
That drowned our hearthstones, splashed with blood our
sills;
To-day, that spared, made
terrible
To-morrow
With thick presentiment of coming ills.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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From what book, moral or even
pious, will the susceptible young mind receive impressions more
congenial to humanity and kindness, generosity and benevolence; in
short, more of all that
ennobles
the soul to herself, or endears her
to others--than from the simple affecting tale of poor Harley?
| Guess: |
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Robert Burns |
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Clifford, who first
appeared
in humble guise,
Was always thought too gentle, meek, and
wise ;
But when he came to act upon the stage,
He proved the mad Cethegus of our age.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e
emperour
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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ei ne
conuerten
[hem]
nat of her owe{n} wille to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The poetry of Coleridge, though it is closely
interwoven
with the
circumstances of his life, is rarely made directly out of those
circumstances.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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When the
officials
come to receive his grain-tribute, he remembers that
he is only giving back what he had taken during his years of office.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Whence is that
knocking?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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We spread our
garments
on the ground!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Come, now towards
Chertsey
with your holy load,
Taken from Paul's to be interred there;
And still as you are weary of this weight
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.
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Shakespeare |
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)
O nimm mich auf, der du die Vorwelt schon
Bei Freud und Schmerz im offnen Arm
empfangen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Nor is it difficult to perceive the tendency of this
_abandon-to elevate _immeasurably all the
energies
of mind-but, again,
so to mingle the greatest possible fire, force, delicacy, and all good
things, with the lowest possible bathos, baldness, and imbecility, as to
render it not a matter of doubt that the average results of mind in
such a school will be found inferior to those results in one _(ceteris
_paribus) more artificial.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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how he charm'd us with a flow of sense,
And won the heart with manly
eloquence!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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o toi qui fis ces hommes
saintement!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm
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even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.
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Lewis Carroll |
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'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And
stretched
metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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CASSANDRA
Ah for thy fate, O shrill-voiced
nightingale!
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Aeschylus |
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to leave naught undared, who have
shifted to every device, I am
vanquished
by Aeneas.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Yet he never would cease
To vex his poor
neighbours
with quarrels ;
And when he was beat,
He still made his retreat
To his Clevelands, his Nells, and his Carwells.
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Marvell - Poems |
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ing_--thinge
525 _from_--fram
_forlete?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Will you be
More
patient?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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As for thy birth and better seeds
(Those which must grow to
virtuous
deeds),
Thou didst derive from that old stem
(Love and mercy cherish them),
Which like a vestal virgin ply
With holy fire lest that it die.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You persuaded the
housewife
that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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425
The Priest here ended--
The
Stranger
would have thanked him, but he felt
A gushing from his heart, that took away
The power of speech.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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_20
If God be good,
wherefore
should this be evil?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Many, out of their own obscene
apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words--as occupy, Nature, and the
like; so the curious
industry
in some, of having all alike good, hath
come nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony
voluminously
wells!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including checks, online
payments
and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
]
[Footnote 8:
Alexander
Moodie of Riccarton.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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329
327
_Whether
in sighing winds thou seek'st relief_
328 _Or consolation in a yellow leaf_.
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Byron |
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A Papal Bull also, which, for
obvious reasons,
prohibited
the propagation of the gospel in these
bounds by the subjects of any other state, confirmed this amicable and
extraordinary treaty.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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" asked the chief, as his thumb-point at will
Silently
over the sword's edge played.
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Much
wondering
in what fit of crazing care,
Or desperate love, a wanderer came there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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But here my fancy's moods admire
The naked levels till they tire,
Nor een a
molehill
cushion meet
To rest on when I want a seat.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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King Almaris,
Belserne
for kingdom had,
On the evil day he met them in combat.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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And now the bickering storm, with sudden start,
In flirting fits of anger carps aloud,
Thee urging to thine end,
Sore wept by
troubled
skies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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It came without a
flourish—simply
print ed some very good contributions.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Rude scoffer of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
So always, the
Counsellors
of Kings;
Favour and ruin changed between dawn and dusk!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
,
_History
of Russia_, _v.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Into new hours of
beautiful
delight,
Out of the shadow where she has lain,
Bring the earth awake for glee,
Shining with dews as fresh and clear
As my beloved's voice upon the air.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Who, like the God before whom pales the star,
Has temples, with a prophet for a priest,
Who serves up daily
sacrilegious
feast.
| Guess: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you
something
different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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To
Rencesvals
I go, and Rollanz, he
Nor Oliver may scape alive from me;
The dozen peers are doomed to martyry.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
")
I do believe that hour thou
laughedst
too
For the whole sad world and for thy Florentines,
After those few tears, which were only few!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I see it all in dreams, such as waylay
The wandering fancy when the solid day
Has fallen in smoldering ruins, and night's star,
Aloft there, with its steady point of light
Mastering
the eye, has wrapped the brain in sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For mark these very same:
Exiles from country, fugitives afar
From sight of men, with charges foul attaint,
Abased with every wretchedness, they yet
Live, and where'er the wretches come, they yet
Make the
ancestral
sacrifices there,
Butcher the black sheep, and to gods below
Offer the honours, and in bitter case
Turn much more keenly to religion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Such heaps shall strew the seas and
faithless
strand
Of Gerum, Mazcate,[604] and Calayat's land,
Till faithless Ormuz own the Lusian sway,
And Barem's[605] pearls her yearly safety pay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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-
Loosed on the flowers Siroces to my bane,
And the wild boar upon my crystal
springs!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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through the frozen windows play
Aurora's ruddy rays of light--
The door flew open--Olga came,
More
blooming
than the Boreal flame
And swifter than the swallow's flight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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After the
signature
of the treaty, Petrarch departed for Milan, where he
arrived on Christmas eve, 1354.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
XXXIX
Then cride she out, Fye, fye, deformed wight,
Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine
To have before
bewitched
all mens sight; 345
O leave her soone, or let her soone be slaine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Be so very good, as, by return of
post, to enclose me
_another_
note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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LXVII
And still his name sounds stirring
Unto the men of Rome,
As the trumpet-blast that cries to them
To charge the
Volscian
home;
And wives still pray to Juno
For boys with hearts as bold
As his who kept the bridge so well
In the brave days of old.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He
sleeps sound, and knows not the
diseases
of cities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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They
appeared
before the Governor
weeping, and said: "Our grandfather's wish was to be buried on top of
the Green Hill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Black-maned, was graven,
That laboured, and the hot dust smoked
Cloudwise
to heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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'
The
holidays
were fruitful, but must end;
One August evening had a cooler breath;
Into each mind intruding duties crept;
Under the cinders burned the fires of home;
Nay, letters found us in our paradise:
So in the gladness of the new event
We struck our camp and left the happy hills.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
XXXVIII
"How are our
neighbours
fair, pray tell,
Tattiana, saucy Olga thine?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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von (Robert), p39 1887,
Internet
Book Archive Images
Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Falconier
ogled me often enough.
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Dispatch, embark, summon thy crew on board,
Ere my arrival notice give of thine
To the old King; for
vehement
I know
His temper, neither will he let thee hence,
But, hasting hither, will himself enforce
Thy longer stay, that thou may'st not depart
Ungifted; nought will fire his anger more.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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His was the hardest French to understand of any
we had heard yet, for there was a great
difference
between one speaker
and another, and this man talked with a pipe in his mouth beside,--a
kind of tobacco French.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Aux femmes, c'est bien bon de faire des bancs lisses;
Apres les six jours noirs ou Dieu les fait
souffrir!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If thou
By any chance couldst break that vow
Of silence at thy last hour made;
If to this grim life unafraid
Thou couldst return, and melt the frost
Wherein thy bright limbs' power was lost;
Still would I whisper--since so fair
This silent
comradeship
we share--
Yes, whisper 'mid the unbidden rain
Of tears: "Come not, come not again!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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