)--"which flows
continuously, with only an aspirate pause in the middle, like that
before the short line in the Sapphic Adonic, while the fifth has at the
middle pause no similarity of sound with any part besides, gives the
versification an
entirely
different effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
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Troubador Verse |
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The
conversion of a
publican
into a Pharisee would not have seemed to him a
great achievement.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Theories
are poor things at the best, and the bulk of
mine have perished long ago.
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Yeats |
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will it improve
manners?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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, signifying primarily
_touching
on, contact
with_: I.
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Beowulf |
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That ought to be
sufficient
for those American Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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dost cast away my words with scorn,
Thou, prey
prepared
and dedicate to me?
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Aeschylus |
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
(With
gathering
murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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'For this wilt thou not
henceforth
pardon me?
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Shelley |
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O
phantoms!
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Whitman |
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"
And, looking o'er the hedge, be-fore me I espied
A snow-white
mountain
lamb, with a-maiden at its side.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It rises under the
name of Cairn, runs through a wild country, under the name of
Dalgonar,
affording
fine trout-fishing as well as fine scenes, and
under that of Cluden it all but washes the walls of Lincluden College,
and then unites with the Nith.
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Robert Forst |
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I'll allow my eyes to be
deceived
forever.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That wight that list to have knowing
Of Fals-Semblant, ful of flatering, 6140
He must in worldly folk him seke,
And, certes, in the cloistres eke;
I wone no-where but in hem tweye;
But not lyk even, sooth to seye;
Shortly, I wol herberwe me 6145
There I hope best to hulstred be;
And certeynly, sikerest hyding
Is undirneth
humblest
clothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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What care have I
To please Apollo since Love
hearkens
not?
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Sara Teasdale |
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yourself
I see, great as any, good as the best,
Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
Nor the bayonet stab O friend.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The presence of Chvabrine and of the crowd around us prevented me from
expressing to him all the
feelings
which filled my heart.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Germans speak, I suppose,
bitterly
when they're in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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blake-poems |
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You loved me with these
and with the
kindness
of people,
country folk, sailors and fishermen,
and the old lady who had lodged us and supped us.
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Imagists |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Wilde - Poems |
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There
happiness
attends
With inbred joy until the heart oerflow,
Of which the world's rude friends,
Nought heeding, nothing know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Have you, O Greek, O mocker of old days,
Have you not sometimes with that oblique eye
Winked at the Farnese
Hercules?
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Even in your infancy I
prophesied
and foretold your future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Now no one fares awhile my road, forsaken,
I find no wight within me hope to waken,
Who yet the
smallest
solace might implore,
So deep in darkness plods no pilgrim more.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to
ridicule
his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In the dim meadows desolate
Dost thou
remember
Sicily?
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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"If
the
sacrifice
was in honour of the celestial gods, the throat was
bent upwards towards heaven; but if made to the heroes, or infernal
deities, it was killed with its throat toward the ground.
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Iliad - Pope |
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e
emperour
al-so,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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E questo modo credo che lor basti
per tutto il tempo che 'l foco li abbruscia:
con tal cura
conviene
e con tai pasti
che la piaga da sezzo si ricuscia.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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let me
not profane thy holy name by calling that stertorous
unconsciousness
a
slumber!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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And thus the wise Immortal doeth,--
'T is his study and delight
To bless that
creature
day and night;
From all evils to defend her;
In her lap to pour all splendor;
To ransack earth for riches rare,
And fetch her stars to deck her hair:
He mixes music with her thoughts,
And saddens her with heavenly doubts:
All grace, all good his great heart knows,
Profuse in love, the king bestows,
Saying, 'Hearken!
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Emerson - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They wave:--from out their
fragrant
tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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VENUS ANADYOMENE
Comme d'un cercueil vert en fer-blanc, une tete
De femme a cheveux bruns
fortement
pommades
D'une vieille baignoire emerge, lente et bete,
Montrant des deficits assez mal ravaudes;
Puis le col gras et gris, les larges omoplates
Qui saillent; le dos court qui rentre et qui ressort.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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While thus the Spirits of strongest wing enlighten the dark deep
The threads are spun & the cords twisted & drawn out; then the weak
Begin their work; & many a net is netted; many a net
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Spread & many a Spirit caught,
innumerable
the nets
Innumerable the gins & traps; & many a soothing flute
Is form'd & many a corded lyre, outspread over the immense
In cruel delight they trap the listeners, & in cruel delight
Bind them, [together] condensing the strong energies into little compass
Some became seed of every plant that shall be planted; some
The bulbous roots, thrown up together into barns & garners
Then rose the Builders: First the Architect divine his plan
Unfolds, The wondrous scaffold reard all round the infinite
Quadrangular the building rose the heavens squared by a line.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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My
conscience
bids me speak----
NATHAN: See what a charming silk I bought for you
In Babylon, and these Damascus jewels.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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On that low
thatched
cottage stop,
In the sooty chimney pop,
Where thy wife and family
Every evening wait for thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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_Love_
Love, though it is not chill and cold,
But burning like eternal fire,
Is yet not of approaches bold,
Which gay
dramatic
tastes admire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Each jotting versicles in turn sported
first in this metre then in that,
exchanging
mutual epigrams 'midst jokes
and wine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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_ 653, 667)
Sulpicius
Lupercus Servasius Iunior, 363, 364 (_A.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I find no
difficulty
in
containing myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Come discente ch'a dottor seconda
pronto e libente in quel ch'elli e esperto,
perche la sua bonta si disasconda,
<>, diss' io, <
de la gloria futura, il qual produce
grazia divina e
precedente
merto.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ricorditi,
ricorditi!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Toi qui fais au
proscrit
ce regard calme et haut
Qui damne tout un peuple autour d'un echafaud,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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And while the old dames gossip at their ease,
And pinch the snuff-box empty by degrees,
The young ones join in love's delightful themes,
Truths told by gipsies, and expounded dreams;
And mutter things kept secrets from the rest,
As sweethearts' names, and whom they love the best;
And dazzling ribbons they delight to show,
And last new favours of some veigling beau,
Who with such
treachery
tries their hearts to move,
And, like the highest, bribes the maidens' love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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'tis another crime--
Worse than the storied woe of olden time,
Cureless abhorred, that one is
plotting
here--
A shaming death, for those that should be dear!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The things of the world
flourish
and decay,
Each at its own hour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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= Wife; a common
latinism
of the period.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The
broadest
land that grows
Is not so ample as the breast
These emerald seams enclose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Please check the Project
Gutenberg
Web pages for current donation
methods and addresses.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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According
to them also the Healing
Power of Jesus resided in his Breath.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Nay, rather shalt thou die
Only with me; one bolt will do for both:
Or, if the gold of solemn dreams stand proof,
Thou shalt be heard through sounding streets of Heaven In new-taught words, at one with utter joy:
Or otherwhere,
unconquered
still, thy voice
A little shall make faint the din of Hell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
Zourine
directly
settled matters.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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We travers'd the
deserted
plain, as one
Who, wander'd from his track, thinks every step
Trodden in vain till he regain the path.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert
copyrights
over these portions.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Self-support should
maintain
strict limits:
More than enough is not what I want.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese 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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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faire marching by the way
Together with his Squire, arrayed meet: 250
His glitterand armour shined farre away,
Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray;
From top to toe no place appeared bare,
That deadly dint of steele
endanger
may:
Athwart his brest a bauldrick brave he ware, 255
That shynd, like twinkling stars, with stons most pretious rare.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A neighbor and a warrior too,
With shrill felicity
Pursuing winds that censure us
A
February
day,
The brother of the universe
Was never blown away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In the rymes the
equiva|lence
of final '?
| 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 |
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Nay, the gods
themselves
are fettered
By one law which links together 10
Truth and nobleness and beauty,
Man and stars and sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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"
I
interrupted
his speech.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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approach
my arm, and singly know
What strength thou hast, and what the Grecian foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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_Perhaps_
right _should be
omitted_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sample copies can be supplied only at the full
subscription
price, fifteen cents.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Heart that was big as the bowels of Vesuvius, Words that were wing'd as her sparks in eruption^
Eagled and
thundered
as Jupiter Pluvius, Sound in your wind past all signs o' corruption.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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at he be-knew
cortaysly
of ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both honoured your loveliness,
The Fates
destroyed
you, and you are but dust below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Compare Homer's
ambrosial glory with the descent tap-water of Hesiod; compare his
continuous
burnished
gleam of wrought metal with the sparse grains that
lie in the sandy diction of all the "authentic" epics of the other
nations.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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his slow
footsteps
scarce MS.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like
snowspots
oer the whizzing sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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199 This flight of the Greeks,
according
to Buttmann, Lexil.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Alas for my
garland!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Up in a sudden burning flares
The dark tent of nature pitched about our souls;
And light, like a stound of golden din,
A
shadowless
light like weather of infinite plains,
Light not narrowed into place,
Amazes the naked nerves of the soul;
And like the pouring of immortal airs
Out of a flowery season,
Over us blows the inordinate desire.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Foaming blood, brand of glory, gold,
tempest!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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In the pit of his eye's a spark
Would bring back day if it were dark;
And, if I tell you all my thought,
Though I comprehend it not,
In those unfathomable orbs
Every
function
he absorbs;
Doth eat, and drink, and fish, and shoot,
And write, and reason, and compute,
And ride, and run, and have, and hold,
And whine, and flatter, and regret,
And kiss, and couple, and beget,
By those roving eyeballs bold.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And so
The divers spots to divers parts and limbs
Are noxious; 'tis a
variable
air
That causes this.
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Lucretius |
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