These are popularly
supposed to indicate the
fortunes
of the immediate holder of the
ring.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children
of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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blake-poems |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Stephen Crane |
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'
And then the woman that was like a queen gave a very sad sigh, and
it seemed to Hanrahan as if the sigh had the sound in it of hidden
streams; and if the place he was in had been ten times grander and more
shining than it was, he could not have hindered sleep from coming on
him; and he
staggered
like a drunken man and lay down there and then.
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Yeats |
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But we have no need
To lean on foreign aid; we have enough
Of our own warlike people to repel
Traitors
and Poles.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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His
spelling
Professor Skeat characterizes as
'that debased kind which prevails in Chevy Chase and the Battle of
Otterbourn in Percy's _Reliques_, only a little more disguised.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him, docile as a boy,
Along
appointed
sands.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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a zealous Lancastrian, who
was
executed
at Bristol in the latter end of 1461, the first year of
Edward the Fourth.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Who will take the
Protected
of God to the North to sell charms that are
never still to the Amir?
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Kipling - Poems |
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If I did weave some clout
Of raiment, would he keep the vesture now
He wore in
childhood?
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Euripides - Electra |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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O Grave, where is thy
victory?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thus all the neighbour princes and the friends 20
Of noble Menelaus,
feasting
sat
Within his spacious palace, among whom
A sacred bard sang sweetly to his harp,
While, in the midst, two dancers smote the ground
With measur'd steps responsive to his song.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Joie
Des chantiers riverains a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui
faisaient
germer ces pourritures!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It has been found necessary to
omit a few of the less
important
verses in the earlier edition to
make room for the most significant of the lyric commemorations of
events almost contemporary, and therefore appealing to us more
immediately, and perhaps more poignantly.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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How
Virgil and Statius have
imitated
Homer; how Horace, Archilochus; how
Alcaeus, and the other lyrics; and so of the rest.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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' Of
course it was impossible that Chatterton should have produced even a
colourable
imitation
of fifteenth-century poetry at a time when
even Malone--for all his acknowledged reputation as an English
Scholar--could not quote Chaucer so as to make his lines scan.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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_ Already at hand the
shackles
you may see.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Das ist nur zum Lachen;
Sei nur nicht ein so
strenger
Mann!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
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or charges.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_That we can judge only with regard to our_ own
system, _being
ignorant
of the_ relations _of
systems and things_.
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Alexander Pope |
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<>, cantava, <
che '
marinari
in mezzo mar dismago;
tanto son di piacere a sentir piena!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Every other would have taken like offence,
And I'd have
suffered
insults the more intense.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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quis non Latino
sanguine
pinguior
campus sepulcris inpia proelia
testatur auditumque Medis
Hesperiae sonitum ruinae?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And therefore,
thuswise
must an object too
Be kindled by a thunderbolt, if haply
'Thas been adapt and suited to the flames.
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Lucretius |
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But he was strong to do and dare:
If a host had
withstood
him there,
He had braved a host with little care
In his lusty youth and his pride,
Tough to grapple though weak to snare.
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Christina Rossetti |
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But his most monotonous feature
is the mechanical
recurrence
of certain reflections about the
impermanence of human things, as opposed to the immutability of Nature.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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Why, you
wretched
man, 'twill be the end of you if you sing
that.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Even the King agrees, the truth is plain,
That in
Rodrigue
your father lives again;
If you'd have me explain it in a breath,
You pursue public ruin through his death.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And later, when at last
The lusty powers of horses and stout limbs,
Now weak through lapsing life, do fail with age,
Lo, only then doth youth with
flowering
years
Begin for boys, and clothe their ruddy cheeks
With the soft down.
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Lucretius |
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I will have no man addict himself to me; but if
I have
anything
right, defend it as Truth's, not mine, save as it
conduceth to a common good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The legion
had broken the
Macedonian
phalanx.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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That which thy fathers have
bequeathed
to thee,
Earn and become possessor of it!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ _Also in Corbet's Poems 1647_]
_An Elegie upon the
incomparable
D^{r} DONNE.
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John Donne |
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--Soldier lying dead in the
moonlight
outside
Suakin.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The diuell
himselfe
could not pronounce a Title
More hatefull to mine eare
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Or cormorants
plunging
one by one, cutting
The flood, pearls flying from their wings?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"The proper thing, as you were late,
Was
certainly
to go:
But, with the roads in such a state,
I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait
For half an hour or so.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My Lord, a deadly sight,
Her hand quenching her eyes'
innocent
light.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[601] The
Corinthians
were constantly passing their vessels across the
isthmus from one sea to the other; we know that the Grecian ships were of
very small dimensions.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Build palaces where
Fortunes
feast,
And bear your loads like well-trained beast,
Though once such masters you made flee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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They are honest people, neither proud nor hard; they--they will
give us their blessing--we will marry, and then with time, I am sure, we
shall succeed in
mollifying
my father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Far on the beach they haul their bark to land,
(The crooked keel divides the yellow sand,)
Then part, where stretch'd along the winding bay,
The ships and tents in mingled
prospect
lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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"You gave me
hyacinths
first a year ago;
"They called me the hyacinth girl.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As the little tiny swallow or the chaffinch,
Round their warm and cosey nest are seen to hover,
So hovers there the mother dear who bore him;
And aye she weeps, as flows a river's water;
His sister weeps as flows a streamlet's water;
His
youthful
wife, as falls the dew from heaven--
The Sun, arising, dries the dew of heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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you can't escape him;
The man-ropes stretch with his weight,
And the
queerest
old toggeries drape him,
The Lord knows how long out of date!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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She and Miss
Hardcastle
have just alighted to
take fresh horses.
| 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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Many years after the temple of the Twin Gods had been built in
the Forum, an important
addition
was made to the ceremonial by
which the state annually testified its gratitude for their
protection.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh),
Was a settin' down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one o' the
children
jumped on his knee
And says, "Yan's Jones, which you bought his land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To learn more about the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
and the Foundation web page at http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The
vignette
or illust.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
II
Dryads
haunting
the groves,
nereids
who dwell in wet caves,
for all the white leaves of olive-branch,
and early roses,
and ivy wreaths, woven gold berries,
which she once brought to your altars,
bear now ripe fruits from Arcadia,
and Assyrian wine
to shatter her fever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
To Nestor then
Idomeneus
begun:
"Glory of Greece, old Neleus' valiant son!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Thus doth the mind oft variously conceal
Its several passions by a different veil;
Now with a
countenance
that's sad, now gay:
So mirth and song if sometimes I employ,
'Tis but to hide those sorrows that annoy,
'Tis but to chase my amorous cares away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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But this of all my fate
Is hardest to endure,
That here I am denied
The gentle greeting, angel-like and pure,
Which still to virtue's side
Inclined
my heart with modest magic lure;
So that, in sooth, I nothing hope again
Of comfort more than this, how best to bear my pain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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O leave them to their woes;
For thou art weak to sing such tumults dire:
A
solitary
sorrow best befits
Thy lips, and antheming a lonely grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former
volume was due to the fact that we did not explain ourselves in a preface,
we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we
are banded
together
between one set of covers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Lastly, he is very young, and is swept away by his
sister's
intenser
nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
|
Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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when the
graybeard
loves, he should be spared;
The heart is young--_that_ bleeds unto the last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
|
Tastes are various in matters of poetry,
but the present work possesses a more solid claim to
attention
in
the series of faithful pictures it offers of Russian life and manners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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See, see our honor'd Hostesse:
The Loue that followes vs,
sometime
is our trouble,
Which still we thanke as Loue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Console thyself if ptlt in shadow's veiling
Soft shimmering, thou thy previous plenty seest,
And a
Redeemer
through the breezes sailing;
The distant wind that falters from the East.
| 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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" Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a
complete
abandonment
to the feelings of the moment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Fitzgerald
Footnotes:
[Footnote 1: Some of Omar's Rubaiyat warn us of the danger of Greatness, the
instability of Fortune, and while advocating Charity to all Men,
recommending us to be too
intimate
with none.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The
partridge
too, that scarce can trust
The open downs to be at rest,
Will in its clumps lie down, and dust
And prune its horseshoe-circled breast,
And oft in shining fields of green
Will lay and raise its brood unseen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
" he replies,
"I scan all thy domain;
But since nor joy nor pain
Doth my clear
substance
recognize,
I read thy realms in vain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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the urge and spur of every life;
The something never still'd--never
entirely
gone?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Cusack-Bremmil to
Peterhoff
on
July 26th at 9.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Wittipol
_is dre?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT
_The Irish
dramatic
movement began in May, 1899, with the performance
of certain plays by English actors who were brought to Dublin for the
purpose; and in the spring of the following year and in the autumn of
the year after that, performances of like plays were given by like
actors at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Houses, Canadian, 44, 59;
American
compared with Canadian, 100.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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forsake not thy
plighted
bridal
chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
Pictagoras himsilf reherses,
In a book that the Golden verses 5650
Is clepid, for the nobilitee
Of the
honourable
ditee:--
"Than, whan thou gost thy body fro,
Free in the eir thou shalt up go,
And leven al humanitee, 5655
And purely live in deitee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths
outmeasurd
by proportions of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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grudge not the wheat
Which hunger forces birds to eat:
Your blinded eyes, worst foes to you,
Can't see the good which
sparrows
do.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
Reeds in a trice are
sprouting
and rustling in murmuring breezes:
"Midas, o Midas the King--bears the ears of an ass!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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But she
answered
him
not a word, turning from him into the grove to Lychaeus, her former
husband, who comforted her.
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Keats |
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Mit welcher Freude, welchem Nutzen
Wirst du den Cursum
durchschmarutzen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I lay my hand upon my swelling breast,
And
grateful
would, but cannot speak the rest.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But not so:--a natural manner is
difficult
only to him who
should never meddle with it--to the unnatural.
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Poe - 5 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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One who is an Emperor and King may stoop down to pick up a brush
for a painter, but when the
democracy
stoops down it is merely to throw
mud.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If ears are porches, mouth, nose, and eyes had better be doors and windows; yet the concept of micromacrocosm is better expressed in "infinite orb immoveable," with its
matching
of the oxymoron in "primum mobile.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I've
forgotten
which.
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Kipling - Poems |
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For
whatever
things
Shall hide back yonder in the house, the same,
However far removed in twisting ways,
May still be all brought forth through bending paths
And by these several mirrors seen to be
Within the house, since nature so compels
All things to be borne backward and spring off
At equal angles from all other things.
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Lucretius |
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