199;
conquered
by the Austrians, _vi.
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Byron |
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Or e'er the jealous queens of nations greet,
Doth Tayo
interpose
his mighty tide?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
footprints!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Had some distinguish'd day renown'd my fall
(Such as was that when showers of
javelins
fled
From conquering Troy around Achilles dead),
All Greece had paid me solemn funerals then,
And spread my glory with the sons of men.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_O bella man, che mi
distringi
'l core.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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" Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a
complete
abandonment
to the feelings of the moment.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I, proud of my murmur, intend to speak at length
Of goddesses: and with idolatrous paintings
Remove again from shadow their waists' bindings:
So that when I've sucked the grapes' brightness
To banish a regret done away with by my pretence,
Laughing, I raise the emptied stem to the summer's sky
And
breathing
into those luminous skins, then I,
Desiring drunkenness, gaze through them till evening.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Swift on her part she paid him back
with grisly grasp, and
grappled
with him.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Better will be the ecstasy
That they have done expecting me,
When, night descending, dumb and dark,
They hear my
unexpected
knock.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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]
[Illustration:
Plumbunnia
Nutritiosa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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=Poems, 1833=
[The poems numbered XXXI-XXXIX were
published
in the 1832 volume
(_Poems by Alfred Tennyson_.
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Tennyson |
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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I feel the
thousand
cankers of our State,
I fain would shake their triple-folded ease,
The hogs who can believe in nothing great,
Sneering bedridden in the down of Peace
Over their scrips and shares, their meats and wine,
With stony smirks at all things human and divine!
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Tennyson |
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I advance and
recognise
a little
Troy, and a copy of the great Pergama, and a dry brook with the name of
Xanthus, and clasp a Scaean gateway.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
While thus he thought, a
monstrous
wave upbore
The chief, and dash'd him on the craggy shore;
Torn was his skin, nor had the ribs been whole,
But Instant Pallas enter'd in his soul.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Tyre,
Who swept the loud chords of a lyre;
At the sound of each sweep she
enraptured
the deep,
And enchanted the city of Tyre.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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mē wearð
Grendles
þing
.
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Beowulf |
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Sweet friend, do you wake or are you
sleeping?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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If epic poetry is a
definite
species, the
sagas do not fall within it.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Thus looking here and there (as oft I use),
I spied much people on a flowery plain,
Amongst
themselves
disputes of love maintain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XIX
All
perfection
Heaven showers on us,
All imperfection born beneath the skies,
All that regales our spirits and our eyes,
And all those things that devour our pleasures:
All those ills that strip our age of treasures,
All the good the centuries might devise,
Rome in ancestral times secured as prize,
Like Pandora's box, enclosed the measure.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A
prodigal
son, beneath his father's ban
For the last twenty years; for whom his sire
Refused to kill the fatted calf; and, therefore,
If living, he must chew the husks still.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Wide was the dragon's warring seen,
its
fiendish
fury far and near,
as the grim destroyer those Geatish people
hated and hounded.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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i
douttren
with eye wel; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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E come, per lo natural costume,
le pole insieme, al cominciar del giorno,
si movono a scaldar le fredde piume;
poi altre vanno via sanza ritorno,
altre
rivolgon
se onde son mosse,
e altre roteando fan soggiorno;
tal modo parve me che quivi fosse
in quello sfavillar che 'nsieme venne,
si come in certo grado si percosse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The unappeasable loveliness
is calling to me out of the wind,
And because your name
is written upon the ivory doors,
The wave in my heart is as a green wave, unconfined, Tossing the white foam toward you;
And the lotus that pours
Her
fragrance
into the purple cup
Is more to be gained with the foam Than are you with these words of mine.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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They
have dealt
horribly
with the noblest men!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
Parliament
that broke the Right Divine
Shall see her realm of reason swept away,
And lesser nations shall the sword obey--
The sword o'er all carve the great world's design!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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consurgite contra:
Nimirum Oetaeos
ostendit
noctifer ignes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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sustain
The
balanced
world, and open all the main;
Your country, chief, in arms abroad defend,
At home, with morals, arts, and laws amend;
How shall the muse from such a monarch, steal
An hour, and not defraud the public weal?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And next of shame renouncing every tye,
With tongue as bold as eyes,
petition
made,
And begged him, haply an unwitting foe,
To sheathe the suffering of that cruel blow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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What's the purpose of your
journey?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Corona, carry these verses for me
To Narbonne, there, to my lady;
Of
perfection
her life never fails,
And no man can speak badly of her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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(who never felt 200
That wish till now) though I detest them all,
To appear before the suitors, in whose ears
I will admonish, for his good, my son,
Not to
associate
with that lawless crew
Too much, who speak him fair, but foul intend.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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610
Yee menne, gyf ye are menne,
displaie
yor name,
Ybrende yer tropes, alyche the roarynge tempest flame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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who day by day prepare
The scrip, with needments, for the mountain air;
And all ye gentle girls who foster up
Udderless
lambs, and in a little cup 210
Will put choice honey for a favoured youth:
Yea, every one attend!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Jealously
she seeks me out, sweet secret love to expose.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
1510
The blood froze in our hearts
profoundest
depths
The manes of the startled horses stood erect.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
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owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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My path is not thy path, yet
together
we walk, hand
in hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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ATHENA
All hail unto each
honoured
guest!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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And straightway round him gathered
A pale and
trembling
crowd,
And when they knew him, cries of rage
Brake forth, and wailing loud:
And women rent their tresses
For their great prince's fall;
And old men girt on their old swords,
And went to man the wall.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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ADMETUS (_who has
recoiled
in his amazement_).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Zourine
received
orders to cross the River Volga.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
donations.
| 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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The attempt would only hurry me into that sphere of
acute
feelings
from which abstruse research, the mother of self-oblivion,
presents an asylum.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Alliteration is nearly
the only effect of that kind which the
ancients
had in common with
us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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His war
writings
include _Armageddon_, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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_Abishag_
presents
the contrast between the dawning and
the fading life; _David Singing Before Saul_ shows the impatience of
awakening ambition, and _Joshua_ is the man who forces even God to do
his will.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
hyphenation
and accent of words is not uniform throughout the
book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And joy I knew and sorrow at thy voice,
And the superb magnificence of love,--
The
loneliness
that saddens solitude, 10
And the sweet speech that makes it durable,--
The bitter longing and the keen desire,
The sweet companionship through quiet days
In the slow ample beauty of the world,
And the unutterable glad release 15
Within the temple of the holy night.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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Emerson can,
however, from the first be claimed as on Whitman's side; nor, it is
understood after some inquiry, has that great thinker since then retreated
from this position in fundamentals,
although
his admiration may have
entailed some worry upon him, and reports of his recantation have been
rife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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It is
for this reason that we oppose the cosmic poet, who seems to us to shirk
the real
difficulties
of his art.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
| 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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I should think I were much to blame,
If never I held some
fragrant
flame
Above the noises of the world,
And openly 'mid men's hurrying stares,
Worshipt before the sacred fears
That are like flashing curtains furl'd
Across the presence of our lord Love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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They said I was a wealthy man;
My sheep upon the
mountain
fed,
And it was fit that thence I took
Whereof to buy us bread:"
"Do this; how can we give to you,"
They cried, "what to the poor is due?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What have I still of
wreathing
for the head
Stored in my chambers?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Blessings
in abundance come, I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
The official release date of all Project
Gutenberg
eBooks is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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EMERITA, a city of Spain; now _Merida_ in the
province
of
_Estramadoura_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Then came what might come, to wit: three men and
one woman,
Beziers off at Mont-Ausier, I and his lady Singing the stars in the turrets of Beziers, And one lean Aragonese cursing the
seneschal
To the end that you see, friends:
Aragon cursing in Aragon, Beziers busy at Beziers Bored to an inch of extinction,
Tibors all tongue and temper at Mont-Ausier, Me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
THE INDIAN GIPSY
In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours,
broidered
to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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425
The poor Ass staggered with the shock;
And then, as if to take his ease, [40]
In quiet
uncomplaining
mood,
Upon the spot where he had stood,
Dropped gently down upon his knees; 430
As gently on [41] his side he fell;
And by the river's brink did lie;
And, while [42] he lay like one that mourned,
The patient Beast on Peter turned
His shining hazel eye.
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William Wordsworth |
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--Then will I trace
For thy instruction her
transcendent
grace.
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La Fontaine |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In a new months his administration had
become
universally
odious.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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One morning, by the break of day,
The youthful, charming Chloe--
From
peaceful
slumber she arose,
Girt on her mantle and her hose,
And o'er the flow'ry mead she goes--
The youthful, charming Chloe.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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According to his
legendary
vida, he was the lover of Seremonda, or Soremonda, wife of Raimon of Castel Rossillon.
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Troubador Verse |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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would that he in proof, like me, a deed
Done in this
neighbouring
city had been taught,
His country and mine own; which lake and fen,
Brimming with Mincius' prisoned waters, pen.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" he saith,
"I will praise thee presently;
Not to-day; I have no breath:
I have hunted
squirrels
three--
Two ran down in the furzy hollow
Where I could not see nor follow,
One sits at the top of the filbert-tree,
With a yellow nut and a mock at me:
Presently it shall be done!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The Reflections of Horace, and the Judgments past in his Epistle to
Augustus, seemed so seasonable to the present Times, that I could not
help
applying
them to the use of my own Country.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As long as there's an
Englishman
to ask a tale of me,
As long as I can tell the tale aright,
We'll not forget the penny whistle's wheedle-deedle-dee
And the big Dragoon a-beating down the night,
Rubadub!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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