Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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Precious
money--tea and bread,
Physic, ease, for Mother dear,
Better than a golden head:
Yet our hero dropped one tear
When he spied himself close shorn,
Barer much than lamb new born.
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Christina Rossetti |
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E'en I, who now your majesty address,
Continued
he, am sorry to confess,
The very day I left my native earth,
To wait upon a prince of royal birth,
Was forced t'acknowledge cuckoldom among
The gods who rule the matrimonial throng,
And sacrifice thereto with aching heart
Cornuted heads dire torments oft impart:
THE tale he then detail'd, that rais'd his spleen;
And what within the closet he had seen;
The king replied, I will not be so rude,
To question what so clearly you have view'd;
Yet, since 'twere better full belief to gain,
A glimpse of such a fact I should obtain,
Pray bring me thither; instantly our wight;
Astolphus led, where both his ears and sight
Full proof receiv'd, which struck the prince with awe;
Who stood amaz'd at what he heard and saw.
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La Fontaine |
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O well done: I commend your paines,
And euery one shall share i'th' gaines:
And now about the
Cauldron
sing
Like Elues and Fairies in a Ring,
Inchanting all that you put in.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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There were three men at my cabin
door, besides the four within;
Christian
had only a cutlass in his hand,
the others had muskets and bayonets.
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Byron |
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They seek a friend to speak the word
Already
trembling
on their tongue,
To touch with prophet's hand the chord
Which God in human hearts hath strung.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The Literary Digest says, in a recent issue :
"There are many "poetry magazines,' but so far as we know
Contemporary
Verse is the only Ameriean magazine devoted wholly to the publication of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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O newborn Passion, glorious charioteer,
Goading, restraining,
swerving
these the steeds That draw my life, what founts of.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their
vanishing
eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown,
And is descending on his embassy;
Nor
Traveller
gone from earth the heavens to espy!
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William Wordsworth |
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Then neighbours turned to
compacts
mutual,
Desirous nor to do nor suffer harm.
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--Pauvrets
palpitant
sous ma levre,
Je baisai doucement ses yeux:
--Elle jeta sa tete mievre
En arriere: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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ill thou usest
That hand sinistral in thy wit and wine
Filching
the napkins of more heedless hosts.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Son seul esprit, son mechant esprit etait de
tourner en
ridicule
les manies de son ami.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"'Tis no common rule,
Lycius," said he, "for uninvited guest
To force himself upon you, and infest
With an
unbidden
presence the bright throng
Of younger friends; yet must I do this wrong,
And you forgive me.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"We have seen waves and stars,
And lost sea-beaches, and known many wars,
And
notwithstanding
war and hope and fear,
We were as weary there as we are here.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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XLIV
Now whenas darkesome night had all displayed
Her coleblacke curtein over brightest skye,
The warlike youthes on dayntie couches layd, 390
Did chace away sweet sleepe from
sluggish
eye,
To muse on meanes of hoped victory.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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At length,
I stand renewed in all my strength
Beneath me I can feel
The great earth stagger and reel,
As if the feet of a
descending
God
Upon its surface trod,
And like a pebble it rolled beneath his heel!
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Longfellow |
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Herman did not recover his usual
composure
during the entire day.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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All overgrown by cunning moss,
All
interspersed
with weed,
The little cage of 'Currer Bell,'
In quiet Haworth laid.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Long did he prove
All that were his, and all that owed him love,
But never a soul he found would yield up life
And leave the
sunlight
for him, save his wife:
Who, even now, down the long galleries
Is borne, death-wounded; for this day it is
She needs must pass out of the light and die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
approach
to
it is over a bridge of rocks; and there is a natural grotto under the
rocks, which gives them the appearance of a rustic bridge.
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Petrarch |
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For they starve the little
frightened
child
Till it weeps both night and day:
And they scourge the weak, and flog the fool,
And gibe the old and grey,
And some grow mad, and all grow bad,
And none a word may say.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But it is
not in such passages that what
Apollonius
did for epic abides.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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DESTINY
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must add the
untaught
strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_ And have
you been in
England?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What are you
chattering
about cress?
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Aristophanes |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his sunburnt
forehead
slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And then the
lighting
of the lamps.
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T.S. Eliot |
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No, no;
But to our own work, to the blaze we
kindled!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And now I've done, ye're each at once as free
To take your trundle as ye used to be;
To take right ways, as Jenny should have ta'en,
Or headlong run, and be a second Jane;
For by one thoughtless girl that's acted ill
A
thousand
may be guided if they will:
As oft mong folks to labour bustling on,
We mark the foremost kick against a stone,
Or stumble oer a stile he meant to climb,
While hind ones see and shun the fall in time.
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John Clare |
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And in the silence
I hear a woman's voice make answer then:
"Well, they are green,
although
no ship can sail them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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XVI
"If thrice therewith he bathe himself, I say,
His flesh no weapon for a month shall score:
He once a month must to his body lay
Mine unction, for its virtue lasts not more:
This liquor can I make, and will to-day,
And thou to-day shalt also prove my lore:
And well, I trust, thou shalt more
grateful
be,
Than were all Europe won to-day by thee.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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þæt
healreced
hātan wolde .
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Beowulf |
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He that denies himself shall gain the more
From
bounteous
Heaven.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Having thus
concluded
a frugal meal, and donned my night-cap, with the
serene hope of enjoying it till noon the next day, I placed my head upon
the pillow, and, through the aid of a capital conscience, fell into a
profound slumber forthwith.
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Poe - 5 |
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or it malingers,
Stretched
on the floor, here beside you and me.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I am so sore bounde him til,
From his servyse I may not fleen; 4595
For lyf and deth,
withouten
wene,
Is in his hand; I may not chese;
He may me do bothe winne and lese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
IX
Land of the
hurricane!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XIX
Devouring
Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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3, the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
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work under this agreement, disclaim all
liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
fees.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Erinna
They sent you in to say
farewell
to me,
No, do not shake your head; I see your eyes
That shine with tears.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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And here let those
Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings,
Learn how thir
greatest
Monuments of Fame,
And Strength and Art are easily outdone
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they with incessant toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.
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Milton |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the
splendour
of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew, fashioned this--
street after street alike.
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In England people actually try to be
brilliant
at breakfast.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Wreaths
One feels obliged
to throw into this earth
that opens before
the child - the loveliest
wreaths of flowers -
the
loveliest
flowery
products, of that
earth - sacrificed
- in order to veil
or pay his toll
for him
64.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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[Note 24: The neighbours
complained
of Oneguine's want of courtesy.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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What to him are all our wars,
What but death
bemocking
folly?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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Troops
approach
the Frontier
KURBSKY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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For though there is no name or fame in a woman's punishment, nor
honour in the victory, yet shall I have praise in
quenching
a guilty
life and exacting a just recompense; and it will be good to fill my soul
with the flame of vengeance, and satisfy the ashes of my people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_Market Day_
With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke
That urges switching tail nor mends his pace,
On an old ribbed and weather beaten horse,
The farmer goes
jogtrotting
to the fair.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
LIX
As looked old Aegeus at the accursed board,
Seeing it was his son to whom -- so willed
His wicked consort -- that Athenian lord
Had given the juice from deadly drugs distilled;
Whom he, if he had recognized his sword
Though but a little later, would have killed;
So looked Marphisa when, disclosed to view,
She in the
stranger
knight Rogero knew;
LX
And ran forthwith to clip the cavalier;
Nor could unclasp her arms: with loving show
Charlemagne, Roland, and Rinaldo, here
And there, fix friendly kisses on his brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Such rare
receipts
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Hell, a red gulf of everlasting fire,
Where
poisonous
and undying worms prolong _215
Eternal misery to those hapless slaves
Whose life has been a penance for its crimes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Whilst
monarchs
laughed upon their thrones
To hear a famished nation's groans,
And hugged the wealth wrung from the woe
That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,--
Those thrones, high built upon the heaps
Of bones where frenzied Famine sleeps,
Where Slavery wields her scourge of iron,
Red with mankind's unheeded gore,
And War's mad fiends the scene environ,
Mingling with shrieks a drunken roar,
There Vice and Falsehood took their stand,
High raised above the unhappy land.
| Guess: |
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Shelley |
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With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of
Reckoning
shall read.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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To one so
friendless
the clear freshet yields
A bitter coolness; the ripe grape is sour:
Yet I would have, great gods!
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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In Erech of the wide spaces [57]
he hurled the axe,
and they
assembled
about him.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_habuit_ RVen
LXXIV
Gellius
audierat
patruum obiurgare solere,
siquis delicias diceret aut faceret.
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Latin - Catullus |
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'
'I obey your will
With speedy feet and a most
thankful
heart:
For you have been, O Aengus of the birds,
Our giver of good counsel and good luck.
| Guess: |
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Yeats |
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The rills, that glitter down the grassy slopes
Of Casentino, making fresh and soft
The banks whereby they glide to Arno's stream,
Stand ever in my view; and not in vain;
For more the pictur'd
semblance
dries me up,
Much more than the disease, which makes the flesh
Desert these shrivel'd cheeks.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"I would return to that my land flung in the teeth of war,
I would cast down my robe and crown that
pleasure
me no more,
And don the armor that I knew, the valiant sword I bore.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And now, since wand'ring o'er the foamy spray,
Our brave Armada held her vent'rous way,
Five times the
changeful
empress of the night
Had fill'd her shining horns with silver light,
When sudden, from the maintop's airy round,
"Land!
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Take and kill
The little
hunchback
when he comes with it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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org/9/8/981/
Produced by Robin Katsuya-Corbet
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"
To leftward o'er the pier they turn'd; but each
Had first between his teeth prest close the tongue,
Toward their leader for a signal looking,
Which he with sound obscene
triumphant
gave.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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She asked: "Am I
forgiven?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Be assembled, all of you;
And, after, raise your triumph-song to greet
This
pitiless
Power that yawns beneath our feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see
Diogenes
Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Socin's edition of Heyne's
Bēowulf
(called the fifth edition) has been
utilized to some extent in this edition, though it unfortunately came too
late to be freely used.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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XXX
At last with
creeping
crooked pace forth came
An old old man, with beard as white as snow,
That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,
And guide his wearie gate both to and fro: 265
For his eye sight him failed long ygo,
And on his arme a bounch of keyes he bore,
The which unused rust?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Diegue
He
conquered
who proved better on the day.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Note:
Cassandra
of Troy refused Phoebus Apollo's love.
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Ronsard |
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that's the nightingale,
Telling the
selfsame
tale
Her song told when this ancient earth was young:
So echoes answered when her song was sung
In the first wooded vale.
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Christina Rossetti |
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OSWALD Ay, and if you think
The Fairies are to blame, and you should chide
Your
favourite
saint--no matter--this good day
Has made amends.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which
thunders
down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As careless as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And as a
vanquished
soldier yields his sword
To one who lifts him from the bloody earth,
Even so, Beloved, I at last record,
Here ends my strife.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The words they had from him were flaying knives,
And burning
splinters
fixt in their skinless flesh,
And stones thrown till their breasts were broken in.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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You would sacrifice
yourself
in favour of me!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Scarce hadst thou entered thee I knew,
I flushed up,
stupefied
I grew,
And cried within myself: 'tis he!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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To fisshen sinful men we go,
For other
fisshing
ne fisshe we.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In the final scene she is
silent;
necessarily
and rightly silent, for all tradition knows that those
new-risen from the dead must not speak.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But
evermore
a Claudius shrinks from a stricken field,
And changes color like a maid at sight of sword and shield.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique
uouit, si sibi restitutus essem
desissemque truces uibrare iambos, 5
electissima
pessimi poetae
scripta tardipedi deo daturam
infelicibus ustulanda lignis.
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Latin - Catullus |
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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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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"There was an old man at a station
Who made a
promiscuous
oration.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There saw I Minos, offspring famed of Jove;
His golden sceptre in his hand, he sat
Judge of the dead; they, pleading each in turn,
His cause, some stood, some sat, filling the house
Whose
spacious
folding-gates are never closed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'Twas then he loved the tangled grove
And solitude and calm delight,
The moon, the stars, and shining night--
The moon, the lamp of heaven above,
To whom we used to consecrate
A promenade in twilight late
With tears which secret
sufferers
love--
But now in her effulgence pale
A substitute for lamps we hail!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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