He can laugh and weep, he
can discuss the
composition
of all things, and even inquire into the
nature of those very atoms!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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How oft, all lonely, to my sweet retreat
From man and from myself I strive to fly,
Bathing with dewy eyes each much-loved seat,
And
swelling
every blossom with a sigh!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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(This by command; for it was found,
However cherries might abound,
They
disappeared
by stealth and guile,
So mouths they stopt with song, not fruit--
Device of rural minds acute!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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n, then aged twenty-two, who was destined
to play so
important
a part in his life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It pleases me when outriders
Make
labourers
and cattle flee,
It pleases me when follow after
Crowds of well-armed soldiery,
And I am pleased at heart,
To see great castles forced by art
Their walls taken, rent apart,
To see a host at war,
Enclosed by moats in every part,
With close-knit palisades and more.
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Troubador Verse |
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The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet,
And laid him
kneeling
at thy feet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sidney Lanier |
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Felon pagans come
cantering
in their wrath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to
aggravate
thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But this soul-nest is also a
cemetery
of the seven
sorrows.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_, 81-4 preserves a
defective
text of this
part of the epic.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature does precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the
unaccomplished
fate.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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]
THURLOW _communicates the intention of
Parliament
to
offer_ CROMWELL _the crown_.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Will he return when the Autumn
Purples the earth, and the
sunlight
5
Sleeps in the vineyard?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Undue brevity
degenerates
into mere epigrammatism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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The Foundation is committed to
complying
with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Gifðum, 2495), Gepidǣ,
mentioned
in connection with Danes and
Swedes, 2495.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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loaden all with gold;
Two iron coffers hong on either side,
With precious mettall full as they might hold;
And in his lap an heape of coine he told;
For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240
And unto hell him selfe for money sold;
Accursed usurie was all his trade,
And right and wrong ylike in equall
ballaunce
waide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Your
Garibaldi
missed the mark!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Perhaps that other life
is
contrast
always to this.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You will turn
eastward
in a little while.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Here
dwelling
on the hills
Little I know of Argos and its ills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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O lily-flower, O gem of priceless worth,
O dove with patient voice and patient eyes,
O
fruitful
vine amid a land of dearth,
O maid replete with loving purities,
Thou bowedst down thy head with friends on earth
To raise it with the saints in Paradise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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His younger brother John
succeeded
him as king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Were it otherwise,
What dost thou here,
vouchsafing
tender thoughts
To that earth-angel or earth-demon--which,
Thou and I have not solved the problem yet
Enough to argue,--that fallen Adam there,--
That red-clay and a breath,--who must, forsooth,
Live in a new apocalypse of sense,
With beauty and music waving in his trees
And running in his rivers, to make glad
His soul made perfect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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They have so
little leafy _terra firma_ that they appear melting away in the light,
and
scarcely
obstruct our view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" The
description
of the captive wretch when he arrives in the
West Indies, is carried on with equal spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Then came the great dictator from the plough;
And old
Serranus
show'd his laurell'd brow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet
foremost
through the floor
Into an empty space.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Poor Fra
Giovanni
bawling at the Mass
Were out of tune now, for a small brown bird
Sings overhead, and through the long cool grass
I see that throbbing throat which once I heard
On starlit hills of flower-starred Arcady,
Once where the white and crescent sand of Salamis meets sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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He marvels at the paradox,
drums his head with the tattoo:
how can a thing as small as he
shape and maintain an art
out of himself universal enough
to carry her daily vigil
to crystalled
immortality?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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By clocks 't was morning, and for night
The bells at
distance
called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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NEW LOVE AND OLD
IN my heart the old love
Struggled
with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night thru.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for
originality
and imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Deseritur Cieros, linquunt Phthiotica tempe, 35
Crannonisque domos ac moenia Larisaea,
Pharsalum coeunt,
Pharsalia
tecta frequentant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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We should not have
remained
long in Thrace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
I
THE happiest day-the happiest hour
My seared and
blighted
heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Some wished to drown them, bound within their dress;
With various other
projects
you may guess;
But all agreed that death should be their lot,
And those for burning had most voices got.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
SEMI-CHORUS
Be thy will for the cause of the
maidens!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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What are you
thinking?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
I was a queen, the
daughter
of a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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let it then as well beseem thy heart
To mourn for me since
mourning
doth thee grace,
And suit thy pity like in every part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
[354]
With so many of the great in danger of their lives, an obscure 61
creature called Mariccus, of the tribe of the Boii[355]--it is a
sordid incident[356]--endeavoured to thrust himself into greatness and
to challenge the armies of Rome, pretending to be a
minister
of
Heaven.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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But, if I must
afflicted
be,
To suit some wise design,
Then man my soul with firm resolves,
To bear and not repine!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong
emphatically
to what Emerson
long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced
absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of
expression of the writer's own mind.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Prague and the surrounding country are the ever
recurring
theme of
almost every one of these poems.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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And it is plain that it must greatly assist the
epic purpose to surround the action with immortals who are not only
interested spectators of the event, but are deeply implicated in it;
nothing could more certainly liberate, or at least more appropriately
decorate, the
significant
force of the subject.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The best of my
colleagues
has been snatched away, 16 swept afar, to inspect a fortress.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Quindi
sentimmo
gente che si nicchia
ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa,
e se medesma con le palme picchia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The flower of thy might
lasts now a while: but erelong it shall be
that
sickness
or sword thy strength shall minish,
or fang of fire, or flooding billow,
or bite of blade, or brandished spear,
or odious age; or the eyes' clear beam
wax dull and darken: Death even thee
in haste shall o'erwhelm, thou hero of war!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
"
And the daughter of Cyprus said to me,
"Child of the earth, 10
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,---
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
The loving heart,
Deeds and
knowledge
and beauty and joy,-- 15
But before all else was desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
cum penitus maestas exedit cura
medullas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
|
If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity
to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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rapiamus, amici,
occasionem de die: dumque uirent genua
et decet, obducta
soluatur
fronte senectus.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The purple could not keep the east,
The sunrise shook from fold,
Like
breadths
of topaz, packed a night,
The lady just unrolled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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OF GRACE
CANZON: THE VISION
TO OUR LADY OF
VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT EPILOGUE
NOTES
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Pope says himself that it had its effect in the two
families;
certainly
nothing more is heard of the feud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"The fruit of the crab in the forests of France" is said to
be "a great
resource
for the wild boar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
_The Tramp_
He eats (a moment's
stoppage
to his song)
The stolen turnip as he goes along;
And hops along and heeds with careless eye
The passing crowded stage coach reeling bye.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Well knows the fair and
friendly
moon
The band that Marion leads--
The glitter of their rifles,
The scampering of their steeds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
Why are you
standing
with your eyes upon me?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
GD}
Over the joyful Earth & Sea, and ascended into the Heavens {It looks as though a strike line
crossing
out this line has been erased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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{a}t
cliue{n}
{and} ben norissed
to roches.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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And if as a lad grows older
The troubles he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That
handselled
them long before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nunc ab
auspicio
bono profecti
Mutuis animis amant amantur.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Thus likewise must the images have power
Through unimaginable space to speed
Within a point of time,--first, since a cause
Exceeding small there is, which at their back
Far forward drives them and propels, where, too,
They're carried with such winged lightness on;
And, secondly, since furnished, when sent off,
With texture of such
rareness
that they can
Through objects whatsoever penetrate
And ooze, as 'twere, through intervening air.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
Anonymous Aubes (12th-13th century)
Quan lo rossinhols escria
While the
nightingale
sings away
To his mate both night and day
I'm with my sweet friend always,
Under the flower.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
The
listening
soul is full of dreams
That shape the wondrous-varying themes
As cries of men or plash of streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
|
His book on the five painters
at the artists' colony at Worpswede, where he remained for a time,
entirely given over to the observation of the atmosphere, the movement
of the sky and the play of light upon the far heath of this northern
landscape, is an introduction to every
interpretation
of the work of
landscape painters and a tender poem to a land whose solitary and
melancholy beauty entered into his own work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
Come to us, mountain-dweller,
Leader,
wherever
thou art;
Skilled from thy cradle, a queller
Of serpents, and sound to the heart!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
ON THE BANKS OF JO-YEH
By the river-side at Jo-yeh,
girls plucking lotus;
Laughing
across the lotus-flowers,
each whispers to a friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
He to the judge
repaired
with ev'ry haste;
In such a case you never time should waste;
For, once the things are into court received,
'Tis like the lion's den: naught e'er 's retrieved;
Their hands are closed, not 'gainst what may be brought
But to secure what from their grasp is sought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
Many a spear
morning-cold shall be clasped amain,
lifted aloft; nor shall lilt of harp
those
warriors
wake; but the wan-hued raven,
fain o'er the fallen, his feast shall praise
and boast to the eagle how bravely he ate
when he and the wolf were wasting the slain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Fui
chiamato
Currado Malaspina;
non son l'antico, ma di lui discesi;
a' miei portai l'amor che qui raffina>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
|
To SEND
DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any particular
state visit www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
|
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
| 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 am come; and
straight
will bear her to the tomb.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
'
*That stole upon the ear, in Eyraco,
Of many a wild star-gazer long ago--
That stealeth ever on the ear of him
Who, musing, gazeth on the
distance
dim.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
for those they take away,
And those they left me; for they left me gay;
Left me to see neglected genius bloom,
Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb:
Of all thy blameless life the soul return
My verse, and
Queensbury
weeping o'er thy urn!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity,
wherewith
being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His
education
was neglected, but he had received that genius which makes
amends for all.
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La Fontaine |
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That the atonement of what my nature sickens to
conjecture
may soon
arrive, I send thee, at thy brother's desire, those who will speak and
do more than I dare write.
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Shelley |
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9,
'Your
argosies
with portly sail.
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Keats |
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O the
darkness
of the corners,
the warm air, and the stars
framed in the casement of the ships' lights!
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Imagists |
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Where are the charms and virtues which we dare
Conceive in boyhood and pursue as men,
The unreached
Paradise
of our despair,
Which o'er-informs the pencil and the pen,
And overpowers the page where it would bloom again.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Believe me, it's enough to quench your fires:
He's
punished
who loses what he desires.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I ask my God if e'en in His sweet place,
Where, by one waving of a wistful wing,
My soul could
straightway
tremble face to face
With thee, with thee, across the stellar ring --
Yea, where thine absence I could ne'er bewail
Longer than lasts that little blank of bliss
When lips draw back, with recent pressure pale,
To round and redden for another kiss --
Would not my lonesome heart still sigh for thee
What time the drear kiss-intervals must be?
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Sidney Lanier |
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