Of the two (if either were to be wished) I would rather have a plain
downright wisdom, than a foolish and
affected
eloquence.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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71
THE
DEFINITION
OF LOVE.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid
darkness
still to live and run--
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Wilbur (not Plutarchian),
conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus,
loves plough wisely, but not too well,
a foreign mission probably
expected
by,
unanimously nominated for presidency,
his country's father-in-law,
nobly emulates Cincinnatus,
is not a crooked stick,
advises his adherents,
views of, on present state of politics,
popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable consequences,
inhuman treatment of, by Bellers,
his opinion of the two parties,
agrees with Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
"Because I believe he has serious
intentions
concerning you.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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It is not good art
to write badly about
aeroplanes
and automobiles; nor is it necessarily bad
art to write well about the past.
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Imagists |
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"
Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
The custom rose, some men to bear 15
Litter thou
boughtest?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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Yet do thou regard, with pity 5
For a nameless child of passion,
This small
unfrequented
valley
By the sea, O sea-born mother.
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Sappho |
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ou in mi sones nom,
for
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He is healed in body, and undergoes
discipline
for his sins.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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135
nullane res potuit
crudelis
flectere mentis
consilium?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thus my days are past
In contradiction; with no skill to part
Vague longing, haply bred by want of power,
From paramount impulse not to be withstood, 240
A
timorous
capacity from prudence,
From circumspection, infinite delay.
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William Wordsworth |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but
commends
itself
To others' eyes; nor doth the eye itself-
That most pure spirit of sense-behold itself,
Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed
Salutes each other with each other's form;
For speculation turns not to itself
Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror'd there
Where it may see itself.
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Shakespeare |
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But say no more of ourselves;
what
afflicts
me is to see our girls growing old in lonely grief.
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Aristophanes |
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Þæt þām gōdan wæs
hrēow on hreðre, hyge-sorga mǣst:
2330 wēnde se wīsa, þæt hē wealdende,
ofer ealde riht, ēcean dryhtne
bitre gebulge: brēost innan wēoll
þēostrum
geþoncum, swā him geþȳwe ne wæs.
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Beowulf |
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Abel was accepted as a page,
too, but there was no money awarded the ex-Bonapartist--money being what
the Eaglet at Reichstadt most required for an attempt at his father's
throne--and the poor officer was left in seclusion to write consolingly
about his campaigns and "Defences of
Fortified
Towns.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Gūðlāf and Oslāf avenge Hnæf's fall,
probably
after they
have brought help from home (1150).
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Beowulf |
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VI
Then, it seemed, there
approached
from the northward
A senior soul-flame
Of the like filmy hue:
And he met them and spake: "Is it you,
O my men?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
CCXXXIII
Ten great columns they marshal thereafter;
Of Canelious, right ugly, is the first,
Who from Val-Fuit came across country there;
The next's of Turks; of Persians is the third;
The fourth is raised of desperate Pinceners,
The fifth is raised from Soltras and Avers;
The sixth is from
Ormaleus
and Eugez;
The seventh is the tribe of Samuel;
The eighth is from Bruise; the ninth from Esclavers;
The tenth is from Occiant, the desert,
That is a tribe, do not the Lord God serve,
Of such felons you never else have heard;
Hard is their hide, as though it iron were,
Wherefore of helm or hauberk they've no care;
In the battle they're felon murderers.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Oozed from the bracken's desolate track,
By dark rains
havocked
and drenched black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There was a use in
Hesperian
Latium, which the Alban towns kept in holy
observance, now Rome keeps, the mistress of the world, when they stir
the War-God to enter battle; whether their hands prepare to carry war
and weeping among Getae or Hyrcanians or Arabs, or to reach to India and
pursue the Dawn, and reclaim their standards from the Parthian.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[157] The
Peloponnesian
War had already, at the date of the
representation of the 'Acharnians,' lasted five years, 431-426 B.
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Aristophanes |
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But neither Wotton nor any other of the courtly
poets in Hannah's collection adds to this dignity so
poignant
a
personal accent.
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John Donne |
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The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman
remarked
"It is just as I feared!
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Lewis Carroll |
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At
thirteen
I wrote a
long poem a la 'Lady of the Lake'--1300 lines in six days.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Some years ago people went about the country saying that
property
has
duties.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I
wandered
up, I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
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Emerson - Poems |
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the starry harmony remote
Seems
measuring
the heights from whence he fell.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or
fleeting
hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" And sad was Arthur's face
Taking it, but old Merlin
counselled
him,
"Take thou and strike!
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Tennyson |
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"
"If we could kiss our
daughter!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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" Then he twangled on his harp,
And while he twangled little Dagonet stood,
Quiet as any water-sodden log
Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;
But when the
twangling
ended, skipt again;
Then being ask'd, "Why skipt ye not, Sir Fool?
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Tennyson |
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]
Forever float that
standard
sheet!
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Consider
your origin, ye were not formed to live
like Brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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| Question: |
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Tennyson |
|
[2] Omar
himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:--
"'Khayyam, who
stitched
the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned;
The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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) The
Doctrines
of Pantheism, Materialism,
Necessity, &c.
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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.
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Villon |
|
If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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*
Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant muttering low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from
Eternity
to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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If yet Telemachus, my son,
survives?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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But cruel day, so wel-awey the
stounde!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For cheerful
exercise
and manly toil
Anoint my body with the pliant oil--
Yet not with such as Natta's, when he vamps
His filthy limbs and robs the public lamps.
| 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 |
|
The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
[10,000 x 100,000,000 = 1 Trillion]
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only ~5% of the present number of
computer
users.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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_My soul's half:_ Animae
dimidium
meae, Hor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
Kline (C)
Copyright
2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
"Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure:
Nor grandeur hear, with a
disdainful
smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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And you, O naked spirits of mere dust,
Tarry and see how great my
suffering
is!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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There was no evil hidden in my life,
And yet, and yet, I would not have them know--
Am I not
floating
in a mist of light?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
Each
snarling
lash of the stormy sea
Curled like a hungry tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
How many gazers mightst thou lead away,
if thou wouldst use the
strength
of all thy state!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Hart through the Project
Gutenberg
Association at
Carnegie-Mellon University (the "Project").
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"Ah, the cities," cried he, "and the faces Like an endless river rolling on —
From what unknown deeps of being risen
All those myriads, to what shadowy coast
"Of huge doom in sullen
grandeur
moving, The vast waters of the human soul!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Touched by the magic spell, the sacred
fountains
of feeling
Glowed with the light of love, as the skies and waters around her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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[8]
* * * * *
timeson moi yion hos
hokymorotatos
hallon
heplet'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Look, look I the very embers of themselves
Have caught the altar with a
flickering
flame,
While I delay to fetch them: may the sign
Prove lucky!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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{59a} Cicero is said to be the only wit that the
people of Rome had
equalled
to their empire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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The gardens have been modelled within these
twenty years
according
to a plan evidently not dictated by the taste of
the friend of Pope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The noble authors, probably
well aware how they could give the most pain, proceeded to attack his
family and his
distorted
person.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
Her women
removed her wraps and
proceeded
to get her in readiness for the night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
Darkness again the wood investeth,
The moon midst clouds is seen to sail,
And once more on the margin resteth
The maiden
beautiful
and pale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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A propos de la
question
d'ailleurs subsidiaire de savoir si Rimbaud
etait beau ou laid, M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to
unseeing
eyes thy shade shines so!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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So he had
listened
to all that had taken
place and had heard everything that Earl Doorm had said to her and all
that Enid had replied, so now he knew that she loved him as ever and
that she stood steadfast by him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
One
circumstance
the lawyer led to doubt:
Some talents had the student pointed out,
Which she had never to her husband shown,
And this relief administered alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul,
And from the many slowly upward win
To one who grasps the whole:
In his wide brain the feeling deep
That
struggled
on the many's tongue
Swells to a tide of thought, whose surges leap
O'er the weak thrones of wrong.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
A
careless
shepherd once would keep
The flocks by moonlight there, (1)
And high amongst the glimmering sheep
The dead man stood on air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
|
]
The grave
receives
us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
Infanta
I know it well; though virtue seems to fade,
How love
flatters
the heart it does invade.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
guns
on Morris Island
battered
it into a shapeless ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Enter
Malcolme
and Macduffe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
My roses are
battered
into pulp:
And there swells up in me
Sudden desire for something changeless,
Thrusts of sunless rock
Unmelted by hissing wheels.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
A sort of curse against its guzzling
And its age-lasting wallow for red greed
And yet, full speed
Though it should run for its own getting, Will turn aside to sneer at
'Cause he hath
No coin, no will to snatch the
aftermath
Of Mammon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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O
Hymenaeus
Hymen, O Hymen
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The heart asks
pleasure
first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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American Poetry - 1922 |
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THE
FORGOTTEN
GRAVE.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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An' ay she win't, an' ay she swat,
I wat she made nae jaukin';
'Till
something
held within the pat,
Guid L--d!
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the song
To remedy the wrong;--
The rooms are taken from us, swept and
garnished
for their fate.
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Kipling - Poems |
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When Alexander at the famous tomb
Of fierce Achilles stood, the
ambitious
sigh
Burst from his bosom--"Fortunate!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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After a few
moments there enter
stealthily
two armed men,_ ORESTES _and_ PYLADES.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is like eating out of the same dish
with
different
coloured spoons.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He wrote on Nature's
grandest
brow, _For Sale_.
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Emerson - Poems |
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womb," are marked to be inserted; the entire group of lines is also crossed with a diagonal line which may
indicate
1) a later intention to delete them; or 2) that the stanza is meant to replace the stanza beginning "I die not Enitharmon.
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Blake - Zoas |
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No Knight of the Round Table has been so highly
honoured
by the old
Romance-writers as Sir Gawayne, the son of Loth, and nephew to the renowned
Arthur.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Who, as my hair, my
thoughts
too shed,
And winnow from the chaff my head !
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Marvell - Poems |
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