, and was a
Divining
Cup.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Faun, illusion escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs,
contrasts
you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But special I
remember
thee,
Wachusett, who like me
Standest alone without society.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[14] Count Baudissin translated two of Jonson's
comedies
into German,
_The Alchemist_ and _The Devil is an Ass_ (_Der Dumme Teufel_).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
He did; not with cold wonder fearingly,
But Orpheus-like at an Eurydice;
For so delicious were the words she sung,
It seem'd he had lov'd them a whole summer long:
And soon his eyes had drunk her beauty up,
Leaving no drop in the
bewildering
cup,
And still the cup was full,--while he afraid
Lest she should vanish ere his lip had paid
Due adoration, thus began to adore;
Her soft look growing coy, she saw his chain so sure:
"Leave thee alone!
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Keats |
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"
LXXII
I heard the gods reply:
"Trust not the future with its
perilous
chance;
The fortunate hour is on the dial now.
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Sappho |
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LXIII
The courier, who so plied his restless heel,
News of Narbonne and of Montpelier bore:
How both had raised the standard of Castile,
All Acquamorta siding with the Moor;
And how Marseilles' disheartened men appeal
To her, who should protect her
straightened
shore;
And how, through him, her citizens demand
Counsel and comfort at their captain's hand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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my ardent spirit burns,
And all the tribute of my heart returns,
For boons accorded,
goodness
ever new,
The gift still dearer, as the giver, you.
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Robert Burns |
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HILMAR
TONNESEN
(_coming in with a cigar in his
mouth_): I have only looked in in passing.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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You, staring at your sword to find it brittle,
Surprised at the
surprise
that was your plan,
Who, shaking and breaking barriers not a little,
Find never more the death-door of Sedan--
Must I for more than carnage call you claimant,
Paying you a penny for each son you slay?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay, --
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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blake-poems |
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fairest of creatures, when
sweeping
the room,
Ah!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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There must have been a warning given once:
No tree, on pain of
withering
and sawfly,
To reach the slimmest of his snaky toes
Into this mounded sward and rumple it;
All trees stand back: taboo is on this soil.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 352 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The
dictatorial
wreath,--couldst thou divine
To what would one day dwindle that which made
Thee more than mortal?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"Up then, beloved father, and lean on my
neck; these
shoulders
of mine will sustain thee, nor will so dear a
burden weigh me down.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Tattiana to the index flies
And
alphabetically
tries
The words _bear, bridge, fir, darkness, bog,
Raven, snowstorm, tempest, fog,
Et cetera_; but nothing showed
Her Martin Zadeka in aid,
Though the foul vision promise made
Of a most mournful episode,
And many a day thereafter laid
A load of care upon the maid.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You scorn me, Alexis, who or what I am
Care not to ask- how rich in flocks, or how
In snow-white milk abounding: yet for me
Roam on Sicilian hills a
thousand
lambs;
Summer or winter, still my milk-pails brim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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This was accordingly done; and, as
if to
demonstrate
beyond a question the guilt of the accused, Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
|
Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
|
XXVIII
The snow
descends
and buries all,
Hangs heavy on the oaken boughs,
A white and undulating pall
O'er hillock and o'er meadow throws.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Confestim
Penios adest, viridantia Tempe, 285
Tempe, quae silvae cingunt super inpendentes,
+ Minosim linquens crebris celebranda choreis,
Non vacuos: namque ille tulit radicitus altas
Fagos ac recto proceras stipite laurus,
Non sine nutanti platano lentaque sorore 290
Flammati Phaethontis et aeria cupressu.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Neobule, there's a robber takes your needle and your thread,
Lets the lessons of Minerva run no longer in your head;
It is Hebrus, the
athletic
and the young!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The
wanderer
halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the glimmering weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Still in marble stone stood he,
And
stedfastly
he looked at me.
| Guess: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Cart ruts and horses' footings scarcely yield
A slur for boys, just
crizzled
and that's all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Their addresses to this imaginary being,
indeed, are much in the same style as those of
subjects
to a king.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Shelley |
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6, ii
Me lapidem quondam Persae aduexere, tropaeum 329
Memnona si mater, mater plorauit Achillem 217
Me niue
candenti
petiit modo Iulia.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
XCVII
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the
pleasure
of the fleeting year!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Confestim
Penios adest, viridantia Tempe, 285
Tempe, quae silvae cingunt super inpendentes,
+ Minosim linquens crebris celebranda choreis,
Non vacuos: namque ille tulit radicitus altas
Fagos ac recto proceras stipite laurus,
Non sine nutanti platano lentaque sorore 290
Flammati Phaethontis et aeria cupressu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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With
branches
that interlace Lung Valley is dark:
Against cliffs that tower one's voice beats and echoes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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press me with thy little hand;
It loosens
something
at my chest;
About that tight and deadly band
I feel thy little fingers press'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'
XLII cum XLI continuant codices
1 _endecha
sillabi_
GORVen _quot estis omnes_] Carm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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T.S. Eliot |
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hunc neque
canentes
audent uestire pruinae
nec uenti pulsare, timent hunc laedere nimbi;
Luxuriae Venerique uacat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
|
"
It being remembered that there were six of us with Master Villon, when that
expecting
presently to be hanged he writ a ballad whereof ye know :
"
Frtres humftins qui aprls nous vivez" NK ye a skoal for the gallows tree !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
The safest plan is never to
tread on a worm--not even on the last new
subaltern
from Home, with his
buttons hardly out of their tissue paper, and the red of sappy English
beef in his cheeks.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Come what come may,
Time, and the Houre, runs through the
roughest
Day
Banq.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
--
I must have more
divinity
within me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
Unwitting
to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
|
The Gnome
rejoicing
bears her gifts away,
Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
"
The King
commands
Gebuin and Otun,
Tedbalt of Reims, also the count Milun:
"Guard me this field, these hills and valleys too,
Let the dead lie, all as they are, unmoved,
Let not approach lion, nor any brute,
Let not approach esquire, nor any groom;
For I forbid that any come thereto,
Until God will that we return anew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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For the sake o'
somebody!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
Distracted
Luvah
Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror
Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers
Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down
From heaven of joy into this Deep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
No new thing, this camp about the city:
Nebuchadnezzar and his hosted men
But fearfully image, like a madman's dream,
The fierce
infection
of the world, that waits
To soil the clean health of the soul and mix
Stooping decay into its upward nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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It is used
as early as 1582 by Stanyhurst,
_Aeneis_
2 (Arber).
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He evidently takes horlote3 to be another (and a very
uncommon)
form
of harlote3 earlots.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I fear me
'Tis as you say--his
lordship
is unwell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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ng-t'u 26
The Orphan 27
The Sick Wife 29
Cock-Crow Song 30
The Golden Palace 31
"Old Poem" 32
Meeting in the Road 32
Fighting
South of the Castle 33
The Eastern Gate 34
Old and New 35
South of the Great Sea 35
The Other Side of the Valley 36
Oaths of Friendship 37
Burial Songs 38
Seventeen Old Poems 39-48
The Autumn Wind 48
Li Fu-j?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
Sit thou secure, amidst thy social band;
Greece in our cause shall arm some
powerful
hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
In the Gates of Death
rejoice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
Or haunted Garpal draws his feeble source,
Aroused by
blustering
winds an' spotting thowes,
In mony a torrent down the snaw-broo rowes;
While crashing ice, borne on the rolling spate,
Sweeps dams, an' mills, an' brigs, a' to the gate;
And from Glenbuck,^5 down to the Ratton-key,^6
Auld Ayr is just one lengthen'd, tumbling sea--
Then down ye'll hurl, (deil nor ye never rise!
| 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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thou knowest that for thee I died
For thee I thirsted with the dying thirst;
I, Blessed, for thy sake was counted cursed,
In sight of men and angels crucified:
All this and more I bore to prove
My love, and wilt thou yet
mistrust
My love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Then public praise does run upon the stone,
For a most rich, a rare, a
precious
one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
My words are
guiltless
of the bigot's sense;
My soul has fire to mingle with the fire
Of all these souls, within or out of doors
Of Rome's church or another.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
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money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic work is discovered and
reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
She, whose pure passion knows nor guile nor wrong,
With front of snow, with golden tresses crown'd,
Combing her aged husband's hoar locks found,
Wakes me when
sportful
wakes the warbling throng.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[346] Contra hoc
promontorium
(Hesperionceras) Gorgades insulae
narrantur, Gorgonum quondam domus, bidui navigatione distantes a
continente, ut tradit Xenophon Lampsacenus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
They all made offerings of sucking-pig and poured
libations
of wine;
The morning prayers and evening gifts depended on a "medium's"
advice
When the dragon comes, ah!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
745
And how his blushes
increased
my sense of shame!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Forget me for a month, a year,
But, oh, beloved, think of me
When unexpected beauty burns
Like sudden
sunlight
on the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
"
"I am like thee, O, Night, wild and terrible; for my ears are crowded
with cries of
conquered
nations and sighs for forgotten lands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Not more
amazement
seized on Circe's guests,
To see themselves fall endlong into beasts,
Than mine, to find a subject staid and wise
Already half turned traitor by surprise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Ich
schielte
neulich so hinein,
Sind herrliche Lowentaler drein.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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That day, to great
Achilles
son resign'd,
Hermione, the fairest of her kind,
Was sent to crown the long-protracted joy,
Espoused before the final doom of Troy;
With steeds and gilded cars, a gorgeous train
Attend the nymphs to Phthia's distant reign.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
" Onward, this said, he mov'd;
And ent'ring led me with him on the bounds
Of the first circle, that
surrounds
th' abyss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep
thoughts
are a duty--
Where Love's a grown up God--
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
<>,
comincio 'l duca mio a l'un di loro,
<
dinne s'alcun Latino e tra costoro
che son quinc' entro, se l'unghia ti basti
etternalmente
a cotesto lavoro>>.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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ADMONITION
TO A TRAVELLER.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
_243-_244
Parentheses
inserted 1870.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
Edward Dickinson, was the
leading lawyer of Amherst, and was
treasurer
of the well-known
college there situated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of
withered
leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
Snatch'd from her
shoulder
with despairing moan,
She clasps them at that dim-seen roofless stone.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The fear of me is the
conscience
of the world.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Who then to frail
mortality
shall trust,
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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Ballade: Du Concours De Blois
I'm dying of thirst beside the fountain,
Hot as fire, and with
chattering
teeth:
In my own land, I'm in a far domain:
Near the flame, I shiver beyond belief:
Bare as a worm, dressed in a furry sheathe,
I smile in tears, wait without expectation:
Taking my comfort in sad desperation:
I rejoice, without pleasures, never a one:
Strong I am, without power or persuasion,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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He has genius and worth which would do honour to
patronage: he is a poor and modest man; claims which from their very
_silence_ have the more
forcible
power on the generous heart.
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Robert Forst |
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_mainly,
and note all but very trifling
variations
from it_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Francois and Margot and thee and me:
1 Certain
gibbeted
corpses used to be coated with tar as a pre- servative ; thus one scarecrow served as warning for considerable time.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Walker, quod
cum
sequentibus
coniungebat
5 _inspiranti_ O: _inspirati_ Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
And look at
quintillions
ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ite procul, uani, falsumque auertite uisum:
desinite
in nobis quaerere uelle fidem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Do not dream that I speak
as one defrauded of delight,
sick, shaken by each heart-beat
or paralyzed,
stretched
at length,
who gasps:
these ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Trial is open of what live valour can do; nor indeed is our foe far to
seek; on all sides they
surround
our walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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[19] I use the
Japanese
form as being more familiar.
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Li Po |
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Or a swift meteor, may be,
Across the gloom of heaven would sail
And
disappear
in space; then she
Would haste in agitation dire
To mutter her concealed desire
Ere the bright messenger had set.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Can I punish the father of
Chimene?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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They come to Aix, halt and
dismount
therein.
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Chanson de Roland |
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ei
worchipeden
him alle wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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