Yet in the morning fresh afield they hie,
Bidding the last day's
troubles
all goodbye;
When red pied cow again their coming hears,
And ere they clap the gate she tosses up
Her head and hastens from the sport she fears:
The old yoe calls her lamb nor cares to stoop
To crop a cowslip in their company.
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John Clare |
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I can give not what men call love;
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the Heavens reject not:
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to
something
afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?
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Golden Treasury |
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So when I gaze on stars, they speak high fear
Into my soul; and
strangely
I think they mean
The fear must prompt me to some unknown war.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Disgusting
as I ever chanced to see!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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At Malta Dick became a monk--
(What
vineyards
have those priests!
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Hugo - Poems |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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Of Aarhuus came the Bishop prayers to say,
And sang a hymn upon his tomb, and held
That Canute was a saint--Canute the Great,
That from his memory
breathed
celestial perfume,
And that they saw him, they the priests, in glory,
Seated at God's right hand, a prophet crowned.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation
permitted
by
the applicable state law.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
IX
So Aulus was Dictator,
The man of seventy fights;
He made
AEbutius
Elva
His Master of the Knights.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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there I should rest
And sleep secure; his
dreadful
voice no more
Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 780
To mee and to my ofspring would torment me
With cruel expectation.
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Milton |
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Erect stood He,
scanning
his work proudly.
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| Question: |
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Stephen Crane |
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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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What should they know of the Master of Dark Truth
Who saw the wide world in a jade cup,
By
illumined
conception got clear of Heaven and Earth:
On the chariot of Mutation entered the Gate of Immutability?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Creating the works from public domain print
editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Imagists |
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Everyone
to his liking--
VARLAAM.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And when the night is deep,
Come visions, sweet and sad, and bearing pain
Of hopings vain--
Void, void and vain, for scarce the
sleeping
sight
Has seen its old delight,
When thro' the grasps of love that bid it stay
It vanishes away
On silent wings that roam adown the ways of sleep.
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Aeschylus |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Newry,
Whose manners were tinctured with fury;
He tore all the rugs, and broke all the jugs,
Within twenty miles'
distance
of Newry.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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quem (precor, aspires), qua sit ratione creatus,
quo genitus factusue modo, da nosse uolenti;
da, pater, augustas ut possim noscere causas,
mundanas
olim molis quo foedere rerum
sustuleris animamque leui quo maximus olim
texueris numero, quo congrege dissimilique,
quidque id sit uegetum, quod per cita corpora uiuit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The foolhardy
ploughman
I well could endure,
His praise was worth nothing, his censure was poor,
Fame bade me go on and I toiled the day long
Till the fields where he lived should be known in my song.
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John Clare |
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Lucilius was the
earliest
satirist whose works
were held in esteem under the Caesars.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yuan Chieh, a contemporary of Li Po, has not
hitherto
been mentioned
in any European book.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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,
properly
_that which shines_ here of the horse, not so much
of the white horse as the dappled: dat.
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Beowulf |
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' At
this weeping cry their courage falters, and a sigh of sorrow passes all
along; their strength is
benumbed
and broken for battle.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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what a number of other
misfortunes
our
city has suffered!
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Aristophanes |
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<>,
rispuose
il duca mio, <
che le Muse lattar piu ch'altri mai,
nel primo cinghio del carcere cieco;
spesse fiate ragioniam del monte
che sempre ha le nutrice nostre seco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till
barbarous
power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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Wilde - Poems |
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that from him the grave did hide
The empty loom, cold hearth, and silent wheel,
And tears that flowed for ills which
patience
could not heal.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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By birth and temperament he was
singularly
fitted for the task, and this
fitness is proved by the unique extent to which his productions were
accepted by his countrymen, and have passed into the life and feeling of
his race.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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(6)
Crossing
the river I pluck hibiscus-flowers:
In the orchid-swamps are many fragrant herbs.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Then read from the
treasured
volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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In many
clean
cottages
and genteel houses, they are allowed every liberty to
creep, fly, or do as they like; and seldom or ever do wrong.
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| Question: |
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John Clare |
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So as above the Heavens thy praise to set
Out of the tender mouths of latest bearth,
Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings
thou
Hast founded strength because of all thy foes
To stint th'enemy, and slack th'avengers brow
That bends his rage thy providence to oppose.
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| Question: |
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Milton |
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leave her thus,
A prey to a
deceiver?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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e
bytydynge
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And those magic pipes a-blowing
Have fulfilled thee in thy reign
By thy Lake with honey flowing,
By thy
sheepfolds
and thy grain;
Where the Sun turns his steeds
To the twilight, all the meads
Of Molossus know thy sowing
And thy ploughs upon the plain.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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What they've been doing all this time,
Oh could I put it into rhyme,
A most
delightful
tale pursuing!
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Swiftly and quietly down she slips,
A lighthouse to starboard, and one to port,
The colored lanterns of passing ships, A tow of barges, an old gray fort;
And we aboard her are lulled to rest
By the
rhythmic
beat of her mighty heart,
By the song of the winds from the salt southwest And the wash of the waters her great prows part.
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| Question: |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
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Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Now neere enough:
Your leauy
Skreenes
throw downe,
And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle)
Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne
Leade our first Battell.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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We
soon reached an inn at a place called Hardrane, and descending from
our vehicles, after warming
ourselves
by the cottage fire, we walked
up the brook-side to take a view of a third waterfall.
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William Wordsworth |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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They may be
modified
and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.
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| Question: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A longer care man's helpless kind demands;
That longer care
contracts
more lasting bands:
Reflection, reason, still the ties improve,
At once extend the interest and the love;
With choice we fix, with sympathy we burn;
Each virtue in each passion takes its turn;
And still new needs, new helps, new habits rise.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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"
But the face of the older hermit grew
exceedingly
dark, and he
cried, "O thou cursed coward, thou wouldst not fight.
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| Question: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This is
included
for the benefit of
reciters and their audiences who have found the entire poem too long for
declamation.
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Can I let this
offender
go free?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Doch es sey,' says Lessing, 'dass jene
gotbische Hoflichkeit eine
unentbehrliche
Tugend des heutigen Umganges
ist.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
1285
I see the dread urn drop from your hands outright,
I see you searching for some new punishment,
Doomed
yourself
to be your own child's torment.
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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And thou, the
Anointed!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Many a bitter hour had he brought me, Loneliness, and
shipwreck
of the heart;
And I loved him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
_
TO SEE AND HEAR HER IS HIS
GREATEST
BLISS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
It seems to me that this
fugitive
heretic, thief,
swindler, is--thou.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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coeur racorni, fume comme un jambon,
Recuit a la flamme
eternelle!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
Then, third, approach'd
Chief o'er the herds, Philoetius; fatted goats 220
He for the suitors brought, with which he drove
An heifer; (ferry-men had pass'd them o'er,
Carriers of all who on their coast arrive)
He tied them in the
sounding
porch, then stood
Beside the swine-herd, to whom thus he said.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Gilgamish
receives him and they
dedicate
their arms to heroic endeavor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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von (Robert), p39 1887,
Internet
Book Archive Images
Medusas, miserable heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The sage assumed that his sovran God
he had angered,
breaking
ancient law,
and embittered the Lord.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
I take
Your hand, and with no
inquisition
learn
All that your eyes can tell, and that's to make
A little reckoning and brief, then turn
Away, and in my heart I hear a call,
'I love, I love, I love'; and that is all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Als du im Saal mit deiner
himmlischen
Kunst
Beethoven zeigst, und seinem Willen nach
Mit den zehn Fingern fuehrst der Leute Gunst,
Zehn Zungen sagen was der Meister sprach.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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And when
Humanity
lands there, it
looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
blood-stained bloodstained
hill-tops hilltops
horse-hair horsehair
life-blood lifeblood
new-born newborn
spear-shaft spearshaft
water-ways waterways
The following words are spelled in
multiple
ways.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
|
SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
' So the good man wrote
them, and so the good
descendants
of his fellow-exiles still pronounce
them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Farewell, farewell, fair Ines,
That vessel never bore
So fair a lady on its deck,
Nor danced so light before,--
Alas for
pleasure
on the sea,
And sorrow on the shorel
The smile that blest one lover's heart
Has broken many more!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The
thoughtful
Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
|
I see nothing save a mass
Of most
innumerable
lights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
Soon as of such my state she was aware,
She turn'd on me with look so soft and new
As, in Jove's greatest fury, might subdue
His rage, and from his hand the
thunders
tear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Sea-winds, blown from east and west,
Blown from the Eastern Sea, and blown from the Western Sea, till there on
the
prairies
meeting:
These, and with these, and the breath of my chant,
I perfume the grave of him I love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
"
He spurs his horse, that on with speed doth strain;
Which should forfeit, they both
together
came.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
And yet how still the
landscape
stands,
How nonchalant the wood,
As if the resurrection
Were nothing very odd!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
From danger now with swiftest speed they flew,
And now to conquest with like speed pursue;
Sole in the seat the
charioteer
remains,
Now plies the javelin, now directs the reins:
Him brave Alcimedon beheld distress'd,
Approach'd the chariot, and the chief address'd:
"What god provokes thee rashly thus to dare,
Alone, unaided, in the thickest war?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the
springing
day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Mysore is a queen on her stately throne,
Thy white domes, Medina, gleam on the eye,--
Thy radiant kiosques with their arrowy spires,
Shooting
afar their golden fires
Into the flashing sky,--
Like a forest of spears that startle the gaze
Of the enemy with the vivid blaze.
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XLIX
Between the mighty river and the fen,
A path upon the sandy shore doth lie,
Barred by the giant's solitary den
Cut off from
converse
with humanity.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Celmonde
canne ne'er from anie byker staie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Chorley_
An
Autumnal
Simile
To Cruel Ocean
Esmeralda in Prison
Lover's Song--_Ernest Oswald Coe_
A Fleeting Glimpse of a Village--_Fraser's Magazine_
Lord Rochester's Song
The Beggar's Quatrain--_H.
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Hugo - Poems |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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We fled inland with our flocks,
we
pastured
them in hollows,
cut off from the wind
and the salt track of the marsh.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Mother hears it in the night
Halting
perplexed
behind the barrier
Of door and headboard.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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There's no room for tears of
weakness
in the blind eyes of a Phemius:
Into work the poet kneads them, and he does not die _till then_.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Elvire
How can you find the
audacity
and pride
To show yourself here, where a light has died?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Ces yeux mysterieux ont d'invincibles charmes
Pour celui que l'austere
Infortune
allaita!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Fraud is a
character
in Robert Wilson's _The Three Ladies of London_,
printed 1584, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London_, c
1588, printed 1590.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Pope says explicitly "to follow nature is
to follow them;" and he praises Virgil for turning aside from his own
original
conceptions
to imitate Homer, for:
Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
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Alexander Pope |
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Is there no daring Bard will rise and tell
How
glorious
Wallace stood, how hapless fell?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Not heaving from my ribbed breast only;
Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself;
Not in those long-drawn, ill-suppressed sighs;
Not in many an oath and promise broken;
Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition;
Not in the subtle nourishment of the air;
Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists;
Not in the curious systole and diastole within, which will one day cease;
Not in many a hungry wish, told to the skies only;
Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone, far in the
wilds;
Not in husky
pantings
through clenched teeth;
Not in sounded and resounded words--chattering words, echoes, dead words;
Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day;
Nor in the limbs and senses of my body, that take you and dismiss you
continually--Not there;
Not in any or all of them, O Adhesiveness!
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Whitman |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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