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?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Suddenly
I feel an immense will
Stored up hitherto and unconscious till this instant.
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Imagists |
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If I mistook not, didn't we hear
Some well-trained voices chorus
singing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It is like eating out of the same dish
with different
coloured
spoons.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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But if your dear lord
sovereign
you would spare,
Admonish him in his blood-thii*sty heir.
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Marvell - Poems |
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E'en where its name is cancel'd, there came I,
Pierc'd in the heart, fleeing away on foot,
And
bloodying
the plain.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Pres d'un ruisseau sans eau la bete ouvrant le bec,
Baignait
nerveusement
ses ailes dans la poudre,
Et disait, le coeur plein de son beau lac natal:
<< Eau, quand donc pleuvras-tu?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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CXLII
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin,
grounded
on sinful loving:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Her eyes are two caverns where mystery vaguely stirs and
gleams; her glance
illuminates
like a ray of light; it is an explosion
in the darkness.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sit farther and make room for thine own fame,
Where just desert enrolls thj
honoured
name.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a
flattering
word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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what had we done
To have such a
seneschal?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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With these full oft have I seen Moeris change
To a wolf's form, and hide him in the woods,
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess,
And to new fields
transport
the standing corn.
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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You gods have given man
Desire that too much knows itself; and thence
He is all confounded by the
pleasure
of us.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Which when the wakeful Elfe perceiv'd, streightway 15
He started up, and did him selfe prepaire,
In
sunbright
armes, and battailous array:
For with that Pagan proud he combat will that day.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its
divisions
and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He a
bewildered
answer gave,
Drowned in the sullen moaning wave,
Lost in the echoes of the cave.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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When Thou wast taken, Lord, I oft have read,
All Thy
disciples
Thee forsook and fled.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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"This term is taken as the basis of the cereal chorus, or corn song,
as sung by the Northern
Algonquin
tribes.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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What do you think
endures?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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}
Or
popularity?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Wait, that the rebels may deliver me
In bonds to the
Otrepiev?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
He felt his very
whiskers
glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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"
The
hierodule
called unto the man
and came unto him beholding him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_ramage_:
confused
noise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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"
Then quickly spake Orestes: "By the way
We
cleansed
us in a torrent stream.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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But if one should look at me with the old hunger in Plank
her eyes,
How will I be
answering
her eyes?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Apart from its brilliant epigrammatic
expression the 'Essay on Criticism' might have been written by almost
any man of letters in Queen Anne's day who took the trouble to think a
little about the laws of literature, and who thought about those laws
strictly in accordance with the accepted
conventions
of his time.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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And the creeping mosses and
clambering
weeds,
And the willow-branches hoar and dank,
And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds,
And the wave-worn horns of the echoing bank,
And the silvery marish-flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among,
Were flooded over with eddying song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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and wrong
abhorred
it were,
As well I deem, if I, who pledged my faith
To one, and greetings from the other had,
Bore not aright the tidings 'twixt the twain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Or why sae sweet a flower as love
Depend on Fortune's
shining?
| 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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I
knew my father would deem it a duty and an honour to shelter in his
house the
daughter
of a veteran who had died for his country.
| 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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_
And, though the character of the speakers, the
ingenious
defence which
has been offered for Milton, may, in some measure, vindicate the
raillery which he puts into the mouths of Satan and Belial, the lowness
of it, when compared with that of Camoens, must still be acknowledged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Vous qui futes la grace ou qui futes la gloire,
Nul ne vous
reconnait!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And I bid you listen to his words
Have you not heard
That the Prime Minister of K'ai-yuan,[72] Sung K'ai-fu,
Did not reward frontier exploits, lest a spirit of aggression should
prevail?
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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; that the rhymes and pictures
are by different persons; or that the whole have a
symbolical
meaning,
etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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' and slowly draws
From Art's unconscious act Art's
conscious
laws;
So, Freedom, writ, declares her writing's cause.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"
At this moment the "_ouriadnik_," a young and
handsome
Cossack, came in.
| 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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He raced about with a
terrible
touse,
From all the puddles went swilling,
He gnawed and he scratched all over the house,
His pain there was no stilling;
He made full many a jump of distress,
And soon the poor beast got enough, I guess,
As if he had love in his body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I have omitted the four lines,
printed in
brackets
in Campbell's edition, which were omitted, I think
rightly, by Coleridge in reprinting the poem from the _Morning Post_
of October 16, 1802.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Why should I yearn
To keep the
relique?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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Record that gain,
Mazzini!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"
The conversation was
interrupted
at this point, to the great regret of
the young girl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Refraining from organized riot, the soldiers now
dispersed to private houses and lived in disguise, giving vent to
their bad feeling by maligning all whom nobility of birth or wealth or
any other
distinction
made a mark for scandal.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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But, very soon, those
houses were divided by discord, and the city was plunged into all the
evils which it had
suffered
before the existence of the Tribuneship.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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If the reader desires to know the
relation in which this and the like stories stand to the original Arthur
legends, he will find it
discussed
in Sir F.
| 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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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
| 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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Here holy
thoughts
a light have shed
From many a radiant face,
And prayers of humble virtue made
The perfume of the place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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But if
admission
is forbidden you?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered
in straw?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Atoms are themselves without senses, though they
produce things
possessed
of senses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
e
wedenysday
bifore ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Au chant des violons, aux flammes des bougies,
Esperes-tu chasser ton cauchemar moqueur,
Et viens-tu
demander
au torrent des orgies
De refraichir l'enfer allume dans ton coeur?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
]
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call Life: though unreal shapes be
pictured
there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread,--behind, lurk Fear
And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave _5
Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Fuhr mich an ihren
Ruheplatz!
| 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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Summer
surprised
us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
| 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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In 1832 it followed the "Inscriptions"; and in
1836 it was
included
among the "Poems founded on the Affections.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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That, he says, which offends the ear, will not
easily gain
admission
to the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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All the happy songs he wrought
From
remembrance
soon must fade,
As the wash of silver moonlight 15
From a purple-dark ravine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
hem
as ful large muche golde {and}
app{ar}aile?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
|
Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Ye Powers
And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss,
Chaos and Ancient Night, I come no Spie, 970
With purpose to explore or to disturb
The secrets of your Realm, but by constraint
Wandring this darksome desart, as my way
Lies through your
spacious
Empire up to light,
Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
What readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds
Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place
From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King
Possesses lately, thither to arrive
I travel this profound, direct my course; 980
Directed, no mean recompence it brings
To your behoof, if I that Region lost,
All usurpation thence expell'd, reduce
To her original darkness and your sway
(Which is my present journey) and once more
Erect the Standerd there of Ancient Night;
Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
_Now_ your dull eyes
glisten!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
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: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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myn herte is wonder wo
That I ne can
discryven
hit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Our own literature,
indeed, will furnish an exact
parallel
to what may have taken
place at Rome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
|
[58] He had
therefore
held by the fig-tree from sunrise till afternoon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
De nos jours une
pareille
note ressemblerait
fort a une reclame deguisee:
<< Ce qui nous parait ici meriter l'interet, disait-elle, c'est
l'expression vive, curieuse, meme dans sa violence, de quelques
defaillances, de quelques douleurs morales, que, sans les partager ni
les discuter, on doit tenir a connaitre comme un des signes de notre
temps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
"
A
thousand
voices called to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
And yet who is there that has never
doubted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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But if that Heaven
Should give me life, his childhood shall grow up
Familiar
with these songs, that with the night
He may associate Joy!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of literature upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of
scholars
writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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" The epigram
might just as
reasonably
have been the other way round.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Who is it
clutches
me
By the neck behind?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against
accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
`By god,' quod he, `I hoppe alwey
bihinde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Thou olden ducal
dungeon!
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Hugo - Poems |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my
imagination
many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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"
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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