se tu non vieni a crescer la vendetta
di Montaperti, perche mi
moleste?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
euesterre
esperus whiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Now god and goddess give you grame
Disgrace of
Romulus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Here at home,
Just as in Lithuania, we're beset
By
treacherous
slaves--and tongues are ever ready
For base betrayal, thieves bribed by the State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We have no friends spiked on the
Scottish
Gate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Not only is the nunnery
Crowded; the
precincts
too are crammed with people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Weard ǣr ofslōh
fēara sumne; þā sīo fǣhð gewearð
gewrecen
wrāðlīce.
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Beowulf |
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Surely there is
something
more in each of the trees--some living soul.
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Whitman |
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When that my care could not
withhold
thy riots,
What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
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Shakespeare |
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HIGGINSON
PREFACE
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's
poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern
artificiality does not prevent a prompt
appreciation
of the
qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest
themes,--life and love and death.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is
discovered
and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--
But, it strikes me, 'tain't jest the time
Fer stringin' words with settisfaction:
Wut's wanted now's the silent rhyme
'Twixt upright Will an'
downright
Action.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Yet some, more active, for a fix^ntier town
Took in by proxy, begs a false renown ;
Another
triuraplis
at the public cost,
And will have won, if he no more have lost ;
They fight by others, but in person wrong,
And only are against their subjects strong ;
Their other wars are but a feigned contest.
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Marvell - Poems |
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145
For trewely, ther can no wight yow serve,
That half so looth your
wraththe
wolde deserve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This, with his having
been put in the Commission of the Peace by our
excellent
Governor (_O,
si sic omnes!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Laws for Creations
Laws for creations,
For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of
teachers
and
perfect literats for America,
For noble savans and coming musicians.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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agreement
for free
distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Urizen/ Cxxxg /
xxdxding
/ xxxvns?
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Blake - Zoas |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast, 90
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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[21]
Charioteer
of the Sun.
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Li Po |
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Dante had
certainly
set him the example.
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Petrarch |
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Herman
received
it and at once left
the table.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The dogs were handsomely provided for,
But shortly
afterwards
the parrot died too.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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why, that's too much;
Some things I would except, their pow'r is such;
And proper 'tis, my friend, that I should hint,
Attentions you at Rome should well imprint,
And be discrete; in France you favours boast:
Of ev'ry moment here you make the most;
The Romans to the
greatest
lengths proceed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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The hilt of silver, and the
unsullied
sheath
Of iv'ry recent from the carver's hand,
A gift like this he shall not need despise.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Many dishes are set before him--"sews" of various kinds, fish of all
kinds, some baked in bread, others broiled on the embers, some boiled,
and others
seasoned
with spices.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Morn is
supposed
to be,
By people of degree,
The breaking of the day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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(_The two latter are
miswritten
for_ Cesiphus =
Sesiphus).
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I think it was a
circular
or a tract about not whistlin'
at everything when you're young.
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Kipling - Poems |
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* If an individual Project Gutenberg(TM) electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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But always there comes,
Out from the flame of my being Smoke with its
wavering
fingers Running athwart my joy;
Always the dark fingers weaving Out of the smoke of my sinning Curtains to shut me from God.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The dynastic list preserved on a Nippur tablet
[1]
mentions
him as the fifth king of a legendary line of rulers at
Erech, who succeeded the dynasty of Kish, a city in North Babylonia
near the more famous but more recent city Babylon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the recesses what hath stirred
Of a heart cold and
cynical?
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But look you, my babe,
Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops
opening;
And see you the
vehicles
preparing to crawl along the streets with goods:
These!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Now is the time to shake the ancient yoke
From off our necks, and rend the veil aside
That long in
darkness
hath involved our eyes;
Let all whom Heaven with genius hath supplied,
And all who great Apollo's name invoke,
With fiery eloquence point out the prize,
With tongue and pen call on the brave to rise;
If Orpheus and Amphion, legends old,
No marvel cause in thee,
It were small wonder if Ausonia see
Collecting at thy call her children bold,
Lifting the spear of Jesus joyfully.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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In
harmless
tendril they each other chain'd,
And strove who should be smother'd deepest in
Fresh crush of leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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you do not know how
longingly
I look upon you;
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking (it comes to me, as of a
dream).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her lamentations heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still
professing
love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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But the poor women suffer, you must own:
A
bachelor
is hard of reformation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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'T will be thy proudest
conquest!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Indeed, my heart is divided within me while I
ruminate
it in my mind, whether having snatched him up from out of
the lamentable battle, I should not at once place him alive in the
fertile land of his own Lycia, or whether I should now destroy him
by the hands of the son of Menoetius!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I like not to be dreaded otherwise
Than with the fear to which I'm used; know me,
For it is
Eviradnus
that you see!
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Hugo - Poems |
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115 _flam_(_mm_
O)_ineum_
?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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--A Man
Who has so
practised
on the world's cold sense,
May well deceive his Child--what!
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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Catullus
obdurate
grown
Nor seeks thee, neither asks of thine unwill;
Yet shalt thou sorrow when none woos thee more;
Reprobate!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Je
celebrai
mon jour de fete
Dans une oasis d'Afrique
Vetu d'une peau de girafe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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E quella che vedea i pensier dubi
ne la mia mente, disse: <
t'hanno
mostrato
Serafi e Cherubi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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60
The earth is fattened with our dead;
She
swallows
more and doth not cease:
Therefore her wine and oil increase
And her sheaves are not numbered;
Therefore her plants are green, and all
Her pleasant trees lusty and tall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Their office is to
illumine
and enkindle--
My duty, to be saved by their bright light,
And purified in their electric fire,
And sanctified in their elysian fire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I that was once a man of the North am now an exile here:
Bird and man, in their
different
kind, are each strangers in the
south.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They who never go to the
Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and
vagabonds; but they who do go there are
saunterers
in the good sense,
such as I mean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most
melancholy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Between the time of the wind and the snow _50
All loathliest weeds began to grow,
Whose coarse leaves were
splashed
with many a speck,
Like the water-snake's belly and the toad's back.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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But to see and hear and touch Woman
Breaks our shell of this
accursed
world,
And turns our measured days to measureless gleam.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
The lady
looked
attentively
at her, and Marya, who had stolen one glance at her,
could now see her well.
| 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 warld's wrack we share o't,
The warstle and the care o't;
Wi' her I'll
blythely
bear it,
And think my lot divine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
You mountaineer living
lawlessly
on the Taurus or Caucasus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Lo, Clausus of the ancient Sabine blood, leading a great host, a great
host himself; from whom now the
Claudian
tribe and family is spread
abroad since Rome was shared with the Sabines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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"I know you--
"All day
stuffing
your belly,
"Burying your heart
"In grass and tender sprouts:
"It will not suffice you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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quod tibi si sancti concesserit incola Itoni,
quae nostrum genus, has sedes defendere Erechthi
annuit, ut tauri respergas sanguine dextram, 230
tum uero facito ut memori tibi condita corde
haec uigeant mandata, nec ulla oblitteret aetas;
ut simul ac nostros inuisent lumina collis,
funestam antennae deponant undique uestem,
candidaque intorti
sustollant
uela rudentes, 235
quam primum cernens ut laeta gaudia mente
agnoscam, cum te reducem aetas prospera sistet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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E vidi poi, che nol vedea davanti,
lo
scendere
e 'l girar per li gran mali
che s'appressavan da diversi canti.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written
explanation
to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
XXXVII
Well I found you in the twilit garden,
Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder,
And we both were made aware of loving
Past the reach of reason to unravel,
Or the much
desiring
heart to follow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a
thousand
deaths that threaten pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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How artless was the note which spoke
Of love again, and yet again;
How deftly could he
transport
feign!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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The seven young Fishes swam across the Lake Pipple-Popple, and into the
river, and into the ocean; where, most unhappily for them, they saw, on the
fifteenth day of their travels, a bright-blue Boss-Woss, and
instantly
swam
after him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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(quoth he) whom triall late did teach,
That like would not for all this worldes wealth:
His subtill tongue, like
dropping
honny, mealt'h?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Through me many long dumb voices,
Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
Voices of cycles of
preparation
and accretion,
And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the
father-stuff,
And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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To be
published
at an early date by ALFRED A.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
[94] now the peril's past;
For yonder view the opening plain,
And there we'll prick our steeds amain:" 570
The Chiaus[95] spake, and as he said,
A bullet
whistled
o'er his head;
The foremost Tartar bites the ground!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
The people pass through the dust
On bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;
The
waggoners
go by at dawn;
The lovers walk on the grass path at night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
|
Graham and
him, I have been partly forgiven; only I
understand
that all hopes of
my getting officially forward, are blasted.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
I really do not believe anything was ever written under an equal number
of limitations; and when I first came to know all the
conditions
of the poem
I was for a moment inclined to think that no genuine work
could be produced under them.
| Guess: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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"Warm
yourself
here a little space!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Presently, while the whole party from the boat was gazing at him with
mingled affection and disgust, he suddenly arose, and, in a somewhat
plumdomphious manner, hurried off towards the setting sun,--his steps
supported by two
superincumbent
confidential Cucumbers, and a large number
of Waterwagtails proceeding in advance of him by three and three in a
row,--till he finally disappeared on the brink of the western sky in a
crystal cloud of sudorific sand.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XCV
Hark, where Poseidon's
White racing horses
Trample with tumult
The shelving
seaboard!
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Sappho |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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One of them is miraculously endued with voice, and
inspired to
prophesy
his fate: but the hero, not astonished by that
prodigy, rushes with fury to the combat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Hence 'tis an easy matter to persuade
Mine host his buxom
daughter
to forego,
And let them, where they will the damsel bear;
In that to treat her well the travellers swear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
DAMOETAS
"My Muse,
although
she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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