what showers of
sweetness
falling there!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Only Hermes, master of word music,
Ever yet in glory of gold language
Could
ensphere
the magical remembrance
Of her melting, half sad, wayward beauty, 20
Or devise the silver phrase to frame her,
The inevitable name to call her,
Half a sigh and half a kiss when whispered,
Like pure air that feeds a forge's hunger.
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Sappho |
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When piercing sudden through the dreadful roar
The yelling shrieks of thousands strike the shore:
Presaging horror through the monarch's breast
Crept cold; and gloomy o'er the distant east,
Through Gata's hills[553] the whirling tempest sigh'd,
And
westward
sweeping to the blacken'd tide,
Howl'd o'er the trembling palace as it past,
And o'er the gilded walls a gloomy twilight cast;
Then, furious, rushing to the darken'd bay,[554]
Resistless swept the black-wing'd night away,
With all the clouds that hover'd o'er the fight,
And o'er the weary combat pour'd the light.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lo duca mio li s'accosto allato;
domandollo
ond' ei fosse, e quei rispuose:
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And, do you know that the scarlet lilies are woven petal by
petal from my heart's blood, these little quivering birds are my
soul made incarnate music, these heavy perfumes are my emotions
dissolved into aerial essence, this flaming blue and gold sky is
the 'very me,' that part of me that incessantly and insolently,
yes, and a little deliberately,
triumphs
over that other part--a
thing of nerves and tissues that suffers and cries out, and that
must die to-morrow perhaps, or twenty years hence.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Either the Christian religion is true, or it is false: if true, it comes
from God, and its
authenticity
can admit of doubt and dispute no further
than its omnipotent author is willing to allow.
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Shelley |
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Ils surgissent, grondant comme des chats giffles,
Ouvrant
lentement
leurs omoplates, o rage!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then
methinks
I hear
Almost thy voice's sound,
Afar its echo falls,
And calmer grows my care.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Their virtues, O God, are measured, their sins are weighed, and
even the
countless
things that pass in the dim twilight of neither
sin nor virtue are recorded and catalogued.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Giving to those that cannot crave, the voiceless, the o'er tired
The breath doth nourish the innocent lamb, he smells the milky garments
He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all
contagious
taints.
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blake-poems |
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Together all set their sheets, and all at once
slacken their canvas to left and again to right;
together
they brace and
unbrace the yard-arms aloft; prosperous gales waft the fleet along.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Summer came, and all the birds were dead;
The days were like hot coals; the very ground
Was burned to ashes; in the orchards fed
Myriads of caterpillars, and around
The
cultivated
fields and garden beds
Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found
No foe to check their march, till they had made
The land a desert without leaf or shade.
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Longfellow |
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" a
Quartermaster
with thick moustachios said
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And thought how London clerks with paper-clips
Had filed the bills of lading of those ships,
Clerks that had never seen the embattled sea,
But wrote down jettison and barratry,
Perils, Adventures, and the Act of God,
Having no vision of such wrath flung broad;
Wrote down with weary and accustomed pen
The classic dangers of sea-faring men;
And wrote 'Restraint of Princes,' and 'the Acts
Of the King's Enemies,' as vacant facts,
Blind to the
ambushed
seas, the encircling roar
Of angry nations foaming into war.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For that dire train
Of waxing shapes and waning, passed before,
And those grim aisles, must be
traversed
again
To reach that door.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'"
And the old man, looking sadly
Across the garden-lawn,
Where here and there a dew-drop
Yet
glittered
in the dawn,
Said "Go to the Adelphi,
And see the 'Colleen Bawn.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Neither
do they disdain to consult them, nor neglect the
responses
which they
return.
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Tacitus |
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"Mark how heavy white her
eyelids!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies,
Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand;
They were true Glory's stainless victories,
Won by the unambitious heart and hand
Of a proud, brotherly, and civic band,
All
unbought
champions in no princely cause
Of vice-entailed Corruption; they no land
Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws
Making king's rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It may be
wilderness
without,
Far feet of failing men,
But holiday excludes the night,
And it is bells within.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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e
emperour
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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In Petrarch's many books of epistles, there are few letters
addressed by him to this personage; but it is certain that they
contracted a
friendship
at this period which endured for life.
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Petrarch |
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Gie me o' wit an' sense a lift,
Then turn me, if thou please, adrift,
Thro'
Scotland
wide;
Wi' cits nor lairds I wadna shift,
In a' their pride!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When the tradition
is Satyric, as here, the same process
produces
almost an opposite effect.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Pugatchef
looked sidelong at Chvabrine,
and said to him with a bitter smile--
"Your hospital is well-ordered!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Philippo
Strozzi
Had told me of your coming.
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Longfellow |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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| Question: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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49
Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows 50
There were no ruins, neither fragments 51
In sorrow day and night the disciple watched 52
Sunlight slantingly flows 53
The wild resplendence of the year resolves 54
Doth live for thee again, Beloved that
October?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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whom I now survey,
Not in the frenzy of a dreamer's eye,
Not in the fabled landscape of a lay,
But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky,
In the wild pomp of
mountain
majesty!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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He
fancied he had traced them to one Georges d'Anthes, a Frenchman
in the
Cavalier
Guard, who had been adopted by the Dutch envoy
Heeckeren.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Air from deep in her breast
penetrates
mine and there burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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SUMMER
Winter is cold-hearted
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weather-cock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;
When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide, 10
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side,
And blue-black beetles
transact
business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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That is, she
inflames
herself and ripens her
passion.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Les pleurs
Ajoutent un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L'orage
rajeunit
les fleurs.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I had a packet of poetic
bagatelles
ready to send to Lady
Betty, when I saw the fatal tidings in the newspaper.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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--O
spectres
saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur fenetre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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--his friends came round
Supported
him--no pulse, or breath they found,
And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.
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Keats - Lamia |
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MARMADUKE Ne'er may I own the heart
That cannot feel for one,
helpless
as he is.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Whether a book is still in
copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Of this sure
auguries
the gods bestow'd,
When first our vessel anchor'd in your road.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I hurried East,
A gray owl flitting,
flitting
in the dew,
And saw nine hundred oxen toil through Meath
Driven on by goads of iron; they, too, brother,
Are full five days from us.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Woe to the eyes you dazzle without cloud
Untried!
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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With a charmed life you passed before us,
Helped by the Helper
watching
o'er us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Des lors il fut semblable aux betes de la rue,
Et, quand il s'en allait sans rien voir, a travers
Les champs, sans
distinguer
les etes des hivers,
Sale, inutile et laid comme une chose usee,
Il faisait des enfants la joie et la risee.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Methinks
among you I descry
New faces.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the
gashouse
190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Slombrestow
as in a lytargye?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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1460
Quant ele s'oi escondire,
Si en ot tel duel et tel ire,
Et le tint en si grant despit,
Que morte en fu sans lonc respit;
Mes aincois qu'ele se morist,
Ele pria Diex et requist
Que Narcisus au cuer ferasche,
Qu'ele ot trove d'amors si flasche,
Fust asproies encore ung jor,
Et
eschaufes
d'autel amor 1470
Dont il ne peust joie atendre;
Si porroit savoir et entendre
Quel duel ont li loial amant
Que l'en refuse si vilment.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I saw a
something
in the Sky
No bigger than my fist;
At first it seem'd a little speck
And then it seem'd a mist:
It mov'd and mov'd, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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After being
conquered
by Caesar, the Aedui gave them a settlement in the country now called the Bourbonnois.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Though I lack the qualities for
offering
criticism, 12 I feared lest my ruler overlook some matter.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The oriole's
fledglings
fifty times
Have flown from our familiar elms;
As many poets with their rhymes
Oblivion's darkling dust o'erwhelms.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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SONG
Two doves upon the
selfsame
branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two butterflies upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I
understand
no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Much else there is,
conjecture
well might guess,
But let words teach the man who stands to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Like moon just dawning on the night
The
crescent
honours of his head;
One dapple spot of snowy white,
The rest all red.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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When within a thing so sad
Lies, thou wilt house a
stranger?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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at I ne was al-wey in
anguysh{e}
of 1912
somwhat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Round
Beatrice
thrice it wheel'd about,
With so divine a song, that fancy's ear
Records it not; and the pen passeth on
And leaves a blank: for that our mortal speech,
Nor e'en the inward shaping of the brain,
Hath colours fine enough to trace such folds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Our
ministering
two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The five acres of land that lay about the
house furnished Pope with inexhaustible
entertainment
for the rest of
his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
_Summary_
It is certain that of the two leading ideas of Jonson's comedy, the
sending of a devil to earth with the object of
corrupting
men is
derived from the Rush legend.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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) I am a
scholar!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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And, I say, if the
Nilghai comes up this evening can I show him your
diggings?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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He sits in the place of the Lord,
And asks for the gifts of the time;
Gold, for the haft of a sword
To win back Romagna averse,
Incense, to sweeten a crime,
And myrrh, to
embitter
a curse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Ma io rimasi a riguardar lo stuolo,
e vidi cosa ch'io avrei paura,
sanza piu prova, di contarla solo;
se non che coscienza m'assicura,
la buona
compagnia
che l'uom francheggia
sotto l'asbergo del sentirsi pura.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I 've heard it in the
chillest
land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'T is the vault of thy lost
Ulalume!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Rapidly then renewed heat
overcomes
those lowering vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more powerful gleams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
I never saw sad men who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
We prisoners called the sky,
And at every
careless
cloud that passed
In happy freedom by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For long ere to-day
Often were
traitors
to country and dear parents
Through quest to shun the realms of Acheron.
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Lucretius |
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Whilome upon his banks did legions throng
Of Moor and Knight, in mailed splendour drest;
Here ceased the swift their race, here sunk the strong;
The Paynim turban and the Christian crest
Mixed on the bleeding stream, by
floating
hosts oppressed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Between the acres of the rye
These pretty country folks would lie:
This carol they began that hour,
How that life was but a flower:
And
therefore
take the present time
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonino!
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Golden Treasury |
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All have not appeared in the form of
snowflakes
but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Their loss to pay,
Grant to our sons unblemish'd ways;
Grant to our sires an age of peace;
Grant to our nation power and praise,
And large
increase!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Therwith, whan he was war and gan biholde
How shet was every windowe of the place,
As frost, him thoughte, his herte gan to colde; 535
For which with chaunged
deedlich
pale face,
With-outen word, he forth bigan to pace;
And, as god wolde, he gan so faste ryde,
That no wight of his contenance aspyde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For ye have chanced on Neptune's festival;
And, when thou hast, thyself,
libation
made
Duly, and pray'r, deliver to thy friend
The gen'rous juice, that he may also make
Libation; for he, doubtless, seeks, in prayer 60
The Immortals, of whose favour all have need.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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When Cynthia lights, wi' silver ray,
The weary shearer's
hameward
way,
Thro' yellow waving fields we'll stray,
And talk o' love, my Dearie, O.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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cui, Paean, noua plectra moues humeroque comanti
facundum
suspendis ebur?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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{20a} He surmises
presently
where she is.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The gods having left the field, the
Grecians
prevail.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What a
misfortune!
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Aristophanes |
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530
I who proudly revolted against all passion,
Have long scorned the chains of that lovers' prison:
As I deplored the
shipwrecks
of weak men,
Thinking that from the shore I'd always view them:
Now subjugated to the common law, 535
What turmoil bears me to a distant shore?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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III
O distant, terrible forests of Maine,
With huge trees
numberless
as the rain
That falls on your lonely lakes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Here Love his golden shafts imploies, here lights
His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings,
Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile
Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard,
Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours
Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or
Midnight
Bal,
Or Serenate, which the starv'd Lover sings
To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
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Milton |
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