Then may your plants be press'd with fruit,
Nor bee or hive you have be mute,
But sweetly
sounding
like a lute.
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Robert Herrick |
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the
sunlight
5
Sleeps in the vineyard?
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Sappho |
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"
A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This peace, then, and happiness
thronged
me around.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The
extacies
above
With thy burning measures suit--
Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love,
With the fervor of thy lute--
Well may the stars be mute!
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Poe - 5 |
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Or doth God mock at me
And blast my vision with some mad
surmise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This fals Arcite sumwhat moste he feyne, 155
Whan he wex fals, to covere his traitorye,
Right as an hors, that can both byte and pleyne;
For he bar hir on honde of trecherye,
And swoor he coude hir
doublenesse
espye,
And al was falsnes that she to him mente; 160
Thus swoor this theef, and forth his way he wente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Therefore
to Horse,
And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking,
But shift away: there's warrant in that Theft,
Which steales it selfe, when there's no mercie left.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
"Nay," said the smith; "for there's one here who waits
Humbly to serve you with unmeasured skill,
Sure that no utmost devotion can fail,
Offered to _you_, nor
unfriended
assail
The heart of the hero and poet Antar, whose
fame is undying!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Three
spotless
virgins to your bed I'll bring,
A sacrifice to you, their God and king.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in
proclaiming
her verse the one unmatched exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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THE INCONSISTENT
I SAY, "She was as good as fair,"
When
standing
by her mound;
"Such passing sweetness," I declare,
"No longer treads the ground.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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To shield and free
Humanity!
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Hugo - Poems |
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The noble
craftsmen
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'--
'Nay, this was kind of you--he had no claim,
As the world says'--'None--but the very same
Which I on all mankind were I as he
Fallen to such deep reverse;--his melody _265
Is interrupted--now we hear the din
Of madmen, shriek on shriek, again begin;
Let us now visit him; after this strain
He ever
communes
with himself again,
And sees nor hears not any.
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Shelley |
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Many small donations ($1 to
$5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt status with
the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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when, like spring, that
gracious
mien of thine
Dawns on thy Rome, more gently glides the day,
And suns serener shine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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1400 Þā wæs
Hrōðgāre
hors gebǣted,
wicg wunden-feax.
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Beowulf |
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No, page; it is an
epilogue
or discourse to make plain
Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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Not so does rust
insinuating
wear,
Nor powder so the vaulted bastion tear.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Purgatorio
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now to exile I have come:
In great fear and danger's room,
And fierce war I'll leave my son,
By his
neighbours
ill is planned.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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He sees
Alcathous
in the front aspire:
Great ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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7993), and
_irattutu_
in Zimmern, _Shurpu_, Index.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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France the Douce, henceforth art thou made waste
Of vassals brave, confounded and
disgraced!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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High in the
mountains
all alone
The wild swans whistle on the lakes,
But I have been as still as stone,
My heart sings only when it breaks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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10 For one day in thy Courts to be
Is better, and mere blest
Then in the joyes of Vanity,
A
thousand
daies at best.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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, of Orangefield, was a
gentleman
of birth and
poetic tastes--he interested himself in the fortunes of Burns.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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With equal fury, and with equal fame,
Ulysses soon shall
reassert
his claim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Dreaming
when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Thine is the
plentiful
bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And the
crucifixion
appeased
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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e kyng nerre,
For to
counseyl
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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120
Vauxhall
and Ranelagh!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering
fuel in vacant lots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
public domain works in
creating
the Project Gutenberg-tm
collection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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{14a} Unferth, Beowulf's
sometime
opponent in the flyting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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`For how might ever sweetnesse have be knowe
To him that never tasted
bitternesse?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But from the Muses'
loftiest
height
The gifted songster never swerved,
But proudly in his song preserved
An ever transcendental flight;
His transports were quite maidenly,
Charming with grave simplicity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In realm of sea
a
sennight
strove ye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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They say that love is
something
kind,
That I can never see or touch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Henceforward, human eyes of lovers be
The only
sweetest
sight that I shall see,
With tears between the looks raised up to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Holy Willie was a rather oldish
bachelor
elder, in the parish of
Mauchline, and much and justly famed for that polemical chattering,
which ends in tippling orthodoxy, and for that spiritualized bawdry
which refines to liquorish devotion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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She
listened
with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes, and modest grace;
And she forgave me, that I gazed
Too fondly on her face!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
_ There's a
question!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
What rumour without is there
breeding?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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To wander o'er leagues of land,
To search over wastes of sea,
Where the
Prophets
of Lycia stand,
Or where Ammon's daughters three
Make runes in the rainless sand,
For magic to make her free--
Ah, vain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
And I
wondered
as you clasped
your shoulder-strap
at the strength of your wrist
and the turn of your young fingers,
and the lift of your shorn locks,
and the bronze
of your sun-burnt neck.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
So they called them all together, and gave them each eight
shillings
and
some good advice, some chocolate-drops, and a small green morocco
pocket-book to set down their expenses in.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
|
Abortion
vile of fire and sewer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
There swelled a tumult at the gate, high voices waxing higher; 91
A flash of red reflected light lit the
cathedral
spire;
I heard a cry for faggots, then I heard a yell for fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
As wise as when I entered school;
Am called Magister, Doctor, indeed,--
Ten livelong years cease not to lead
Backward and forward, to and fro,
My
scholars
by the nose--and lo!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
LXI
"Forbid not of the noblest souls the birth,
Formed in the ideas of Eternal Mind,
Destined, from age to age, to visit earth,
Sprung from thy stock, and clothed in corporal rind;
The spring of thousand palms and festal mirth,
Through which, to Italy with losses pined
And wounds, thy good
descendants
shall restore
The fame and honours she enjoyed of yore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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non illam vir prior attigerit, 20
Languidior tenera cui pendens sicula beta
Numquam se mediam sustulit ad tunicam:
Sed pater illius gnati
violasse
cubile
Dicitur et miseram conscelerasse domum,
Sive quod inpia mens caeco flagrabat amore, 25
Seu quod iners sterili semine natus erat,
Et quaerendus is unde foret nervosius illud,
Quod posset zonam solvere virgineam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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His Le
Drageoir
aux Epices is a
continuation of Petits Poemes en Prose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
what horrible dream
are you sending me from the depths of your sombre
abysses!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
It was a calm and beautiful day, and
as the body was borne along the street towards the old kirk-yard, by
his brethren of the volunteers, not a sound was heard but the measured
step and the solemn music: there was no
impatient
crushing, no fierce
elbowing--the crowd which filled the street seemed conscious of what
they were now losing for ever.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Your Muse shall sing in loftier strain
How Caesar climbs the sacred height,
The fierce Sygambrians in his train,
With laurel dight,
Than whom the Fates ne'er gave mankind
A richer
treasure
or more dear,
Nor shall, though earth again should find
The golden year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Old Nestor, rising then, the hero led
To his high seat: the chief refused and said:
"'Tis now no season for these kind delays;
The great
Achilles
with impatience stays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
|
"
Again he dreamed and saw another dream
and
reported
it unto his mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
,
Is coarse as a chimpanzee;
And I can't
understand
why you gave him your hand,
Lovely Mehitabel Lee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
--The Mantuan next I found,
Begirt with bards from age to age renown'd;
Whether they chose in lofty themes to soar,
Or
sportive
try the Muse's lighter lore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
I arise from dreams of Thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are
breathing
low
And the stars are shining bright:
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me--who knows how?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
At first, the elf-like laughter of a streamlet roaming
Down in the valley, served us still as guide,
Which hastened onward, growing softer and more
gloaming,
Till
unobserved
its sobbing echoes died.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
Faith, oh my faith, what
fragrant
breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what diamonds were there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
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 |
|
Great art thou,
Carthage!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
All but religious cheats might justly swear,
He true
vicegerent
to old Moloch were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
|
Another Salamis in
kindlier
air
Shall yet arise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
|
It may be
observed
in passing
that though Goldsmith upheld Rowley, Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
Let's take a white horse, and
sacrifice
it, and swear on its
entrails.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
e hym see; 846
A gode
fridayes
morowenyng
he shal wende to heuene kyng,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
Swifter flew the second arrow,
In the pathway of the other,
Piercing deeper than the other,
Wounding sorer than the other;
And the knees of Megissogwon
Shook like windy reeds beneath him,
Bent and
trembled
like the rushes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
He was
emotionally
and artistically unable to forge a finished work from them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
The place is filled with fog like lead,
Which
clammily
has settled on the frame
Of her who was a burning, dazzling flame
To all mankind--who durst not lift their gaze,
And meet the brightness of her beauty's rays.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
I never found the carpet-bag of
equal
capacity
which was not a bundle of itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophetic see
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
for her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
"
Ghastly, with starting eyes,
The King without a cry or
struggle
dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
|
225
And layde the greate and small upon the grounde,
And delte among them thilke a store of blowes,
Full manie a Normanne fell by him dede wounde;
So who he be that ouphant
faieries
strike,
Their soules will wander to Kynge Offa's dyke.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the
changeless
blood of man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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non iam illud quaero, contra ut me diligat illa,
aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica uelit:
ipse ualere opto et taetram hunc
deponere
morbum.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"To walk four miles through mud and rain,
To spend the night in smoking,
And then to find that it's in vain--
And I've to do it all again--
It's really _too_
provoking!
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Lewis Carroll |
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I would therefore take the
liberty of suggesting that, in the next edition of your excellent
poem, the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected
as follows:--
Every moment dies a man,
And one and a
sixteenth
is born.
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Tennyson |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this surrendered face
Were
undefeated
still?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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GOOD SENSE A WELL-SPRING OF POETRY
Good sense, the
fountain
of the muse's art,
Let the strong page of Socrates impart;
For if the mind with clear conceptions glow,
The willing words in just expressions flow.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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So gayly he paced with the wife and the child to his chosen stand;
But he hurried tall Hamish the
henchman
ahead: "Go turn," --
Cried Maclean -- "if the deer seek to cross to the burn,
Do thou turn them to me: nor fail, lest thy back be red as thy hand.
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Sidney Lanier |
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My Mouche, the other day as I lay here,
Slightly
propped up upon this mattress-grave
In which I've been interred these few eight years,
I saw a dog, a little pampered slave,
Running about and barking.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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