Another Salamis in
kindlier
air
Shall yet arise.
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Beneath these glimmering arches Jessamine
Walked with her lover long ago; and in
The leaf-dimmed light he questioned, and she spoke;
Then on them both, supreme, love's
radiance
broke.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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For just as children totter round about
With frames infirm and tender, so there follows
A weakling wisdom in their minds; and then,
Where years have ripened into robust powers,
Counsel is also greater, more increased
The power of mind; thereafter, where already
The body's shattered by master-powers of eld,
And fallen the frame with its
enfeebled
powers,
Thought hobbles, tongue wanders, and the mind gives way;
All fails, all's lacking at the selfsame time.
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"
Gawayne thanks his guide for his well-meant kindness, but
declares
that
to the Green Chapel he will go, though the owner thereof be "a stern
knave," for God can devise means to save his servants.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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So when the
hundredth
year was full
The thread was cut and finished the school.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Hang my idle armor up on the wall, 330
Let it be the spider's banquet hall;
He must be fenced with
stronger
mail
Who would seek and find the Holy Grail.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'
Every
visionary
knows that the mind's eye soon comes to see a
capricious and variable world, which the will cannot shape or change,
though it can call it up and banish it again.
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Yeats |
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SAID one, why brother, she's your very shade;
The
features
are the same-:-your looks pervade.
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La Fontaine |
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VITA
CUIUSDAM
SANCTI VIRI NOMINE ALEX.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Remorse is cureless, -- the disease
Not even God can heal;
For 't is his institution, --
The
complement
of hell.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Rilke - Poems |
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NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at times there breaks through
branches
bare
A morning vibrant with the breath of spring,
About this poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a mortal thing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Let my
mistress
be
Lazy to others, but be long to me.
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Robert Herrick |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The
sentiments
apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What matters it-
What matters it, my fairest, and my best,
That we go down
unhonored
and forgotten
Into the dust--so we descend together.
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Poe - 5 |
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Its onward force too starkly pent
In figure, bone and
lineament?
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Emerson - Poems |
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FOLLOWERS of ORESTES;
HANDMAIDS
of CLYTEMNESTRA.
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Euripides - Electra |
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DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY
"I heard at night your long sighs
And knew that you were
thinking
of me.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"
Then, peering round with curious eyes,
He
muttered
"Goodness gracious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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It
is used here as a symbol for learning,
particularly
for the study of
literature.
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Alexander Pope |
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My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,
Where'er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old:
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom I
converse
day by day.
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Golden Treasury |
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" she asked in a
frightened
whisper.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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August Moonrise
The sun was gone, and the moon was coming
Over the blue Connecticut hills;
The west was rosy, the east was flushed,
And over my head the swallows rushed
This way and that, with
changeful
wills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But the
cheerful
spring came kindly on,
And show'rs began to fall;
John Barleycorn got up again,
And sore surpris'd them all.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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said Enion
accursed
wretch!
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Blake - Zoas |
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ORESTES
O king Apollo, since right well thou know'st
What justice bids, have heed, fulfil the same,--
Thy
strength
is all-sufficient to achieve.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Dear Perenna, prithee come
And with
smallage
dress my tomb:
Add a cypress sprig thereto,
With a tear, and so Adieu.
| Guess: |
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Robert Herrick |
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" Dick looked puzzled and
a little
irritated
at the silence.
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Kipling - Poems |
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, that it should be lifted upon the
table and its
contents
disembowelled forthwith.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Poe - 5 |
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Ses
strophes
bondiront, voila!
| Guess: |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At last they turned, and bore to me
Green signs of peace thro'
nightfall
gray.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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er-hede a
bauderyk
schulde haue,
A bende, a belef hym aboute, of a bry3t grene,
[F] & ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Thus seith
Salamones
sawes;
Ne we finde writen in no lawes,
And namely in our Cristen lay-- 6545
(Who seith "ye," I dar sey "nay")--
That Crist, ne his apostlis dere,
Whyl that they walkede in erthe here,
Were never seen her bred begging,
For they nolde beggen for nothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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XLVIII
While Sacripant laments him in this plight,
And makes a tepid
fountain
of his eyes;
And, what I deem not needful to recite,
Pours forth yet other plaints and piteous cries;
Propitious Fortune will his lady bright
Should hear the youth lament him in such wise:
And thus a moment compassed what, without
Such chance, long ages had not brought about.
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| Question: |
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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They're
beautifully
shiny.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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She was thinking of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her apartment
suddenly
opened,
and Herman stood before her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The king himself initiates to the power:
Scatters with
quivering
hand the sacred flour,
And the stream sprinkles; from the curling brows
The hair collected in the fire he throws.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Meredith - Poems |
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Bad habit, by the
way, makes one very
unpopular
at the club .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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ilke
shrewednesse
is wi?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Sweet hue of eastern sapphire, that was spread
O'er the serene aspect of the pure air,
High up as the first circle, to mine eyes
Unwonted joy renew'd, soon as I 'scap'd
Forth from the
atmosphere
of deadly gloom,
That had mine eyes and bosom fill'd with grief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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2899 et Victorinus:
_celere_
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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But if his ideas were sometimes crude and boyish they were not by any
means always so; he has flashes of genius, sudden
beauties
that take
away the breath.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Arrange my dress--the
gorgeous
Indian shawl
That Philip brought me in our happy days!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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I have beheld the Ephesian's miracle--
Its columns strew the wilderness, and dwell
The hyaena and the jackal in their shade;
I have beheld Sophia's bright roofs swell
Their glittering mass i' the sun, and have surveyed
Its
sanctuary
the while the usurping Moslem prayed;
CLIV.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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A voice for ever stilled, a memory,
Since you went
eastward
with the fighting ships,
A hero of the great new Odyssey,
And God has laid His finger on your lips.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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IV Away the seven fair Campbells fly,
And, over hill and hollow, 35
With menace proud, and insult loud,
The
youthful
Rovers [2] follow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When he says
"written in 1801, or 1802," he may be
referring
to the last revision
which he gave to his work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
'The makers of gold and the makers
of verse,' they are the twin
creators
that sway the world's
secret desire for mystery; and what in my father is the genius of
curiosity--the very essence of all scientific genius--in me is
the desire for beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou shalt protect them in Thy tabernacle from the
contradiction
of tongues.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
"Why, it is the general custom in Egypt to deprive a corpse, before
embalmment, of its bowels and brains; the race of the
Scarabaei
alone
did not coincide with the custom.
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Poe - 5 |
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_
In valleys of springs of rivers,
By Ony and Teme and Clun,
The country for easy livers,
The quietest under the sun,
We still had sorrows to lighten,
One could not be always glad,
And lads knew trouble at Knighton
When I was a
Knighton
lad.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'
And, so awful was the picture,
In comparison the others
Seemed, to one's bewildered fancy,
To have
partially
succeeded.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The first who mark'd them was the Cretan king;
High on a rising ground, above the ring,
The monarch sat: from whence with sure survey
He well
observed
the chief who led the way,
And heard from far his animating cries,
And saw the foremost steed with sharpen'd eyes;
On whose broad front a blaze of shining white,
Like the full moon, stood obvious to the sight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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and in the
Celtiberian
land each
wight who has urined is wont each morn to scrub with it his teeth and pinky
gums, so that the higher the polish on thy teeth, the greater fund it notes
that thou hast drunk of urine.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Why am I not
avenged?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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420
Me silly maid away with him he bare,
And ever since hath kept in
darksome
cave,
For that I would not yeeld, that to Sans foy I gave.
| Guess: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He said
he was an Italian by birth, but in sailing to Greece, had been taken by
pirates, and after various misfortunes, had been necessitated to enter
into the service of a Mohammedan prince, the
nobleness
of whose
disposition he commended in the highest terms.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of
paragraphs
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XLVIII
There they do finde that godly aged Sire,
With snowy lockes adowne his shoulders shed, 425
As hoarie frost with spangles doth attire
The mossy
braunches
of an Oke halfe ded.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sleepily lull the wasps in the noon-day song,
And through the meagre shelter of the blades
Upon his sunburnt
forehead
slowly trickle
The poppy-petals: large red drops of blood.
| Guess: |
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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There is nothing so
wonderful
in all that, Demos; I will
do as much; I will thieve the bread of others to serve up to you.
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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And I affirm, the
spacious
North
Exists to draw thy virtue forth.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Now, thank God,
The golden fire has gone, and your face is ash
Indistinguishable
in the grey, chill day,
The night has burnt you out, at last the good
Dark fire burns on untroubled without clash
Of you upon the dead leaves saying me yea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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What from our master's
interest
thus we draw,
Is but a licensed theft that 'scapes the law.
| Guess: |
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Iliad - Pope |
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I knelt there, and it seemed, — One moment, that my torture had been dreamed
I drank most
thankfully
.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thou, aye,
erectest
there
Thy throne of power unappealable:
Thou art the judge beneath whose nod
Man's brief and frail authority _220
Is powerless as the wind
That passeth idly by.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
War was now raging between the States of the
Venetian
League and Milan,
united with Genoa, when a new actor was brought upon the scene.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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Now the custom in manuscripts and editions is to bring these
headings up to date,
changing
'To Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
A printed text of the
thirteenth century
containing
the annotations of Yang Tz?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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My parents gave me their blessing, and my father said to me--
"Good-bye, Petr'; serve faithfully he to whom you have sworn fidelity;
obey your superiors; do not seek for favours; do not
struggle
after
active service, but do not refuse it either, and remember the proverb,
'Take care of your coat while it is new, and of your honour while it is
young.
| 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 the father paces to and fro
Through the chambers of the old chateau,
Waiting, waiting to hear the hum
Of wheels on the road that runs below,
Of
servants
hurrying here and there,
The voice in the courtyard, the step on the stair,
Waiting for some one who doth not come!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
"For everybody said so, all our friends,
They all were sure our feelings would relate
So
closely!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Strike the bells solemnly,
Ding dong deep:
My friend is passing to his bed,
Fast asleep;
There's plaited linen round his head,
While
foremost
go his feet,--
His feet that cannot carry him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Un
choeur de verres de
melodies
nocturnes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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An
unfrocked
monk against us
Leads rascal troops, a truant friar dares write
Threats to us!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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en ho, an auncian hit semed,
& he3ly
honowred
with ha?
| 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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Then
breathed
He softly on the dead:
"Live Self!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Mir ist es winterlich im Leibe,
Ich
wunschte
Schnee und Frost auf meiner Bahn.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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permission
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without untangling them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a
vanished
day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The time was scarce
profaned
by speech;
The symbol of a word
Was needless, as at sacrament
The wardrobe of our Lord.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Now come, and how
The rainy
moisture
thickens into being
In the lofty clouds, and how upon the lands
'Tis then discharged in down-pour of large showers,
I will unfold.
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Lucretius |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings
covering
the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What old December's
bareness
everywhere!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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At length the men have started, with a cheer (it seemed
faint-hearted),
In their scarlet regimentals, with their knapsacks on their
backs,
And the reddening,
rippling
water, as after a sea-fight's
slaughter,
Round the barges gliding onward blushed like blood along
their tracks.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
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Imagists |
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For, till my judges fill this judgment-seat,
Silence behoves,--that this whole city learn,
What for all time mine
ordinance
commands,
And these men, that the cause be judged aright.
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Aeschylus |
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Whether at
Naishapur
or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I am thy father's wedded wife;
And underneath the
spreading
tree
We two will live in honesty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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qui ut nihil attingat, nisi quod fas tangere non est, 5
quantumuis
quare sit macer inuenies.
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Latin - Catullus |
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