"
And a third seed spoke also, "I see in us nothing that
promises
so
great a future.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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.
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John Clare |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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'
The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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Yeats |
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Will he return when the Winter
Huddles the sheep, and Orion
Goes to his
hunting?
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Sappho |
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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A pity those woods were
shelled!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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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.
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John Clare |
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at bere
blusschande
beme3 as ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Another Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
O dreamer, that I may dive
In pure
pathless
joy, understand,
How by subtle deceits connive
To keep my wing in your hand.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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death
in its
vastness
- terrible
death
to strike down so
small a being
I say to deathcoward
ah!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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No marble bust, philosopher, nor stone,
But similar
sensation
would have shown.
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La Fontaine |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We looked, with
profound
anxiety, for an answer--but in vain.
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Poe - 5 |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride ourselves on love's merit,
Excuse is
shameful
to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet again
The captain's prudence and his wish were vain;
No pilot here his wand'ring course to guide,
No lip to tell where rolls the Indian tide;
The voyage calm, or perilous, or afar,
Beneath what heaven, or which the guiding star:
Yet this they told, that by the neighb'ring bay
A potent monarch reign'd, whose pious sway
For truth and noblest bounty far renown'd,
Still with the stranger's
grateful
praise was crown'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
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La Fontaine |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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| Question: |
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Meredith - Poems |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Flying
waterfalls
and rolling torrents mingle their din.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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If thou hear
Henceforth another origin assign'd
Of that my country, I
forewarn
thee now,
That falsehood none beguile thee of the truth.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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do not dread thy mother's door,
Think not of me with grief and pain:
I now can see with better eyes;
And worldly
grandeur
I despise
And fortune with her gifts and lies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Within I am
embarrassed
that my chimney is not blackened,4 but you have brought fine delicacies to help out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Better by far their heads be shorn away,
Than that
ourselves
lose this clear land of Spain,
Than that ourselves do suffer grief and pain.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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FAIR
Isabella
now the abbess sent,
Who straight obeyed, and to her tears gave vent,
Which overspread those lily cheeks and eyes,
A roguish youth so lately held his prize.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The stillness spreads of Death abroad--down come the temple posts,
Their molten bronze is coursing fast and joins with silver waves
To leap with hiss of
thousand
snakes where Tiber writhes and raves.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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that
dwellest
where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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_Enter from the other side_ THANATOS; _a crouching black-haired and
winged figure,
carrying
a drawn sword.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
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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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Swich
arguments
ne been not worth a bene;
Wol ye the childish Ialous contrefete?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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those less imperious voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those
earthlier
forms!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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An arch under which we slide
Divides our lives for us:
After we have passed it
We know we have left
something
behind
We shall not see again.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
The Commandant soon appeared,
accompanied
by the little old one-eyed
man.
| 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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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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But then the
beauteous
hill of moss
Before their eyes began to stir;
And for full fifty yards around,
The grass it shook upon the ground;
But all do still aver
The little babe is buried there,
Beneath that hill of moss so fair.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
He'll teach my son how to
exercise
command.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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The pigeons from the dove cote cooed over the old lane,
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain;
Like lots of dear old
neighbours
whom I shall see no more
They greeted me that morning I left the English shore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Loud
preacheth
he sobriety,
But as for water, doth eschew it;
Your dog may drink it,--but not he;
Friar Lubin cannot do it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I shall now deduce the
institutions
and usages of the several
people, as far as they vary one from another; as also an account of what
nations from thence removed, to settle themselves in Gaul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
| 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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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
| 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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The enchantress to another quarter wends;
And, for the
execution
of her lore,
Conjures, that eve, a palfrey, by her art,
With one foot red, black every other part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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20
Hymme
followede
eftsoones hys compheeres[18], whose swerdes
Glestred lyke gledeynge[19] starres ynne frostie nete,
Hayleynge theyre capytayne in chirckynge[20] wordes
Kynge of the lande, whereon theie set theyre fete.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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The road to death is life, the gate of life is death,
We who wake shall sleep, we shall wax who wane;
Let us not vex our souls for
stoppage
of a breath,
The fall of a river that turneth not again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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lēoda fæsten, _the fastness of the
Gēatas_
(with ref.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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This group of erased lines, which appeared in pencil under lines 2-4 and, partially obscured by a note by Ellis, in the right margin, are written here with Erdman's suppositions and unrecoverable sections so marked EJC}
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahanias midnight pillow
Urizen saw & envied & his imagination was filled
Repining he
contemplated
the past in his bright sphere
Terrified with his heart & spirit at the visions of futurity
That his dread fancy formd before him in the unformd void
For Now Los & Enitharmon walkd forth on the dewy Earth
Contracting or expanding their all flexible senses
At will to murmur in the flowers small as the honey bee
At will to stretch across the heavens & step from star to star
Or standing on the Earth erect, or on the stormy waves
Driving the storms before them or delighting in sunny beams
While round their heads the Elemental Gods kept harmony
Thus livd Los driving Enion far into the deathful infinite {According to Erdman, there is some partially recoverable erased material written above this line and in the margin: '?
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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It may be said that I should
have done better to have
suppressed
certain details, or at least to have
disguised them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
]
The grave receives us all:
Ye
butterflies
and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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O pearls that hang on your little silver chains, The
innumerable
voices that are whispering
Among you as you are drawn aside by the wind, Have brought to my mind the soft and eager speech Of one who hath great loveliness,
Which is subtle as the beauty of the rains That hang low in the moonshine and bring
The May softly among us, and unbind
The streams and the crimson and white flowers and
reach
Deep down into the secret places.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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We float before the
Presence
Infinite,
We cluster round the Throne in our delight,
Revolving and rejoicing in God's sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
{and}
anoienge
folk treden {and} ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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The armed men more weighty were for that,
Many of them down to the bottom sank,
Downstream
the rest floated as they might hap;
So much water the luckiest of them drank,
That all were drowned, with marvellous keen pangs.
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Theramenes
Of her intent I'm unaware,
But her
messenger
came to speak on her behalf.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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This should have been a noble creature: he 160
Hath all the energy which would have made
A goodly frame of
glorious
elements,
Had they been wisely mingled; as it is,
It is an awful chaos--Light and Darkness--
And mind and dust--and passions and pure thoughts
Mixed, and contending without end or order,--
All dormant or destructive.
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Byron |
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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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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Astolpho they with fruits of Eden feed,
So rich, that in his judgment 'twould appear,
In some sort might our parents be excused
If, for such fruits,
obedience
they refused.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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it by
necessite
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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