And his
children
set forth to seek for the spot
Where stands the great Church which he forgot.
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Rilke - Poems |
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{74a} The
lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out thicker; and the taking away
of some kind of enemies
increaseth
the number.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Adverbial
modifier, _quasi_ preposition [better explained in many cases
as prep.
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Beowulf |
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XVI
Chanty, thou art a lie,
A toy of women,
A
pleasure
of certain men.
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Stephen Crane |
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The actress who played Lady
Wishfort
should have permitted
us to give a part of our attention to that little shop or wayside
booth.
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Yeats |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thus, though
these seeds are not provided with
vegetable
wings, Nature has impelled
the thrush tribe to take them into their bills and fly away with them;
and they are winged in another sense, and more effectually than the
seeds of pines, for these are carried even against the wind.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Then
bethought
him the hardy Hygelac-thane
of his boast at evening: up he bounded,
grasped firm his foe, whose fingers cracked.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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SCENT OF IRISES
A faint, sickening scent of irises
Persists
all morning.
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Imagists |
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"What
possesses
my Ivan Kouzmitch to-day to drill his troops so long?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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520
FOOTNOTES:
[96] A
province
of Laconia.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So that by this definition we
conclude
the fable
to be the imitation of one perfect and entire action, as one perfect and
entire place is required to a building.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Each lucid
interval
of thought
Recalls the woes of Nature's charter;
And _He_ that acts as _wise men ought_,
But _lives_--as Saints have died--a martyr.
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Byron |
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- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
distribution
of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Imagists |
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Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,
They fit very well in the
landscape
under the trees and grass,
And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Siris,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Besides, full often also out at sea
A blackest thunderhead, like cataract
Of pitch hurled down from heaven, and far away
Bulging with murkiness, down on the waves
Falls with vast uproar, and draws on amain
The
darkling
tempests big with thunderbolts
And hurricanes, itself the while so crammed
Tremendously with fires and winds, that even
Back on the lands the people shudder round
And seek for cover.
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Lucretius |
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Let the
contentious
spirit know
At this hour when we are silent
The stalks of multiple lilies grow
Far too tall for our reason
And not as the riverbank weeps
When its tedious game tells lies
Claiming abundance should reach
Into my first surprise
On hearing the whole sky and the map
Behind my steps, without end, bear witness
By the ebbing wave itself that
This country never existed.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Within, unwonted splendors met the eye,
Panels, and floors of oak, and tapestry;
Carved chimney-pieces, where on brazen dogs
Revelled and roared the Christmas fires of logs;
Doors opening into darkness unawares,
Mysterious passages, and flights of stairs;
And on the walls, in heavy gilded frames,
The ancestral
Wentworths
with Old-Scripture names.
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Longfellow |
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Thenne
Denmarques
roiend; oh mie rysynge feare!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'
And ever Time tossed him bitterly to and fro
As a shuttle inlaying a perilous warp of woe
In the woof of things from
terminal
snow to snow,
Till, lo!
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
WHENfirst I saw thee 'neath the silver mist,
Ruling thy bark of painted sandal-wood,
Didanyknowthee?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I
must learn how to be
cheerful
and happy.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
|
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.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Making a sermon of
continency
to her,
And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,
Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak.
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Shakespeare |
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When the "rapid," like
fireflies
in the dark,
Flits down the parapet spark by spark,
And you drop for cover to keep your head
With your face on the breast of the four months'
dead.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And of hir look in him ther gan to quiken 295
So greet desir, and swich affeccioun,
That in his herte botme gan to stiken
Of hir his fixe and depe impressioun:
And though he erst hadde poured up and doun,
He was tho glad his hornes in to shrinke; 300
Unnethes
wiste he how to loke or winke.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
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Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Gazing into her eyes, holding hands, giving kisses, exchanging
Syllables
sweet and those words lovers alone understand,
Murmuring our conversations we stutter in sweet oratory.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The snare was set amid those threads of gold,
To which Love bound me fast;
And from those bright eyes melted the long cold
Within my heart that pass'd;
So sweet the spell their sudden
splendour
cast,
Its single memory still
Deprives my soul of every other will.
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Petrarch |
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"
[Sidenote A: Then cried he aloud,]
[Sidenote B: "Who dwells here
discourse
with me to hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whoe'er she be,
That not
impossible
She
That shall command my heart and me;
Where'er she lie,
Lock'd up from mortal eye
In shady leaves of destiny:
Till that ripe birth
Of studied Fate stand forth,
And teach her fair steps to our earth;
Till that divine
Idea take a shrine
Of crystal flesh, through which to shine:
--Meet you her, my Wishes,
Bespeak her to my blisses,
And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
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Golden Treasury |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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III
Unlike are we, unlike, O
princely
Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Le tas des ouvriers a monte dans la rue,
Et ces maudits s'en vont, foule
toujours
accrue
De sombres revenants, aux portes des richards.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A
bursting
bubble is our life:
I also, what am I?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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There are remains of walling, much higher up the ghyll; but these are
probably the work of miners,
formerly
engaged there.
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William Wordsworth |
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1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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With
graceful
mien his cap aslant was turn'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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many a time and oft had Harold loved,
Or dreamed he loved, since rapture is a dream;
But now his wayward bosom was unmoved,
For not yet had he drunk of Lethe's stream:
And lately had he learned with truth to deem
Love has no gift so grateful as his wings:
How fair, how young, how soft soe'er he seem,
Full from the fount of joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its
bubbling
venom flings.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Drummond
says that he was 'accused upon' the play, and that
the King 'desired him to conceal it'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Meredith - Poems |
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'
And he: 'Thy
melancholy
phantom, thine, O my father, came before me
often and often, and drove me to steer to these portals.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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O the fading eyes, the grimed face turned bony,
Oped mouth gushing, fallen head,
Lessening
pressure
of a hand, shrunk, clammed and stony!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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How beautiful and perfect are the
animals!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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3 Blow, as is wont, in the new Moon
With
Trumpets
lofty sound, 10
Th'appointed time, the day wheron
Our solemn Feast comes round.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In me the caresser of life wherever moving,
backward
as well as
forward sluing,
To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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So saying, from the Tree her step she turnd,
But first low Reverence don, as to the power
That dwelt within, whose presence had infus'd
Into the plant
sciential
sap, deriv'd
From Nectar, drink of Gods.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Nor column
trophied
for triumphal show?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Then was my error when the old way quite
Of liberty was bann'd and barr'd to me:
He follows ill who pleases but his sight:
To its own harm my soul ran wild and free,
Now doom'd at others' will to wait and wend;
Because that once it
ventured
to offend.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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who pressed,
And nigh
concealed
the sea beneath his breast.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It does not vent its loathing, does not turn
Upon its makers with
destroying
hate.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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But not the huge Cathedral's height, nor yet its vault sublime,
Nor porch, nor glass, nor streaks of light, nor shadows deep with time;
Nor massy towers, that fascinate mine eyes;
No, 'tis that spot--the mind's tranquillity--
Chamber
wherefrom
the song mounts cheerily,
Placed like a joyful nest well nigh the skies.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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And
yesterday
it fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1203 and was present at the siege of
Constantinople
in 1204.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Till thirty were not left alive
They dwindled, dwindled, one by one,
And I may say that many a time
I wished they all were gone:
They
dwindled
one by one away;
For me it was a woeful day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Be, as thy
presence
is, gracious and kind,
Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:
Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LOUIS UNTERMEYER
MONOLOG FROM A MATTRESS
_Heinrich
Heine aetat 56, loquitur:_
Can that be you, _la mouche?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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When Hugo rose in the Senate, on the first
occasion after his return to Paris after the expulsion of the Napoleons,
and his white head was seen above that of Rouher, ex-Prime Minister of the
Empire, all the house shuddered, and in a nearly
unanimous
voice shouted:
"The judgment of God!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Smearing
its gold on
the sky the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and
chuckles along the floors.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand,
Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land--
Enchantress of the flowery wand,
Most
beauteous
Isadore!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
CORYDON
"This
bristling
boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
With branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,
Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
With purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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It is invigorating to breathe the
cleansed
air.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
VI
IN Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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There was such
intricate
clamor of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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While unacquainted with the fact, 'tis naught;
If known:--e'en then 'tis
scarcely
worth a thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
Pursue what chance or fate
proclaimeth
best;
Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron:
There no forced banquet claims the sated guest,
But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And prayer-book next, much worn though strongly bound,
Proves him a
churchman
orthodox and sound.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
Tu devant li pour moy te per
En li
moustrant
que, s'a li per
Ne sui, si est il mon frere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
Lo duca mio allor mi die di piglio,
e con parole e con mani e con cenni
reverenti
mi fe le gambe e 'l ciglio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
|
For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
The very
aspersion
is grievous, which makes him choose his way
in his life as he would in his journey.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
|
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 |
|
Oxford,
Clarendon
Press, 1903, page
3).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their
habitation
chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The word refers to various sorts of pipes, some of which were made of cane and
featured
a single 'reed' cut into the side of the cane itself.
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Troubador Verse |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then, for a little moment, all people held their breath;
And through the crowded Forum was
stillness
as of death;
And in another moment brake forth from one and all
A cry as if the Volscians were coming o'er the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
"With a lady--where did you pick her up,
brother?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The same anger of heaven, the same human passions,
the same
criminal
motives drove them into discord.
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Tacitus |
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XL
He there does now enjoy
eternall
rest
And happy ease, which thou dost want and crave,
And further from it daily wanderest:
What if some little paine the passage have, 355
That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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And thou grim pow'r, by life abhorr'd,
While life a
pleasure
can afford,
Oh!
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Robert Burns |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection
of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What have I still of wreathing for the head
Stored in my
chambers?
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Euripides - Electra |
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" He finally arrived at
Hochelaga
on
the 2d of October.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Arthur, whose giddy son
neglects
the Laws,
Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause:
Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25
And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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