He touched me, so I live to know
That such a day,
permitted
so,
I groped upon his breast.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sir John
Mandeville
repeats the story.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Poe - 5 |
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PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF ILLINOIS
BENEDICTINE
COLLEGE
WITH PERMISSION.
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Shakespeare |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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Tacitus |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Poi parve a me che la terra s'aprisse
tr'ambo le ruote, e vidi uscirne un drago
che per lo carro su la coda fisse;
e come vespa che
ritragge
l'ago,
a se traendo la coda maligna,
trasse del fondo, e gissen vago vago.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The sun, as common, went abroad,
The flowers, accustomed, blew,
As if no soul the
solstice
passed
That maketh all things new.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
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Imagists |
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Thou, Love, by making mee love one
Who thinkes her
friendship
a fit portion
For yonger lovers, dost my gifts thus disproportion.
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John Donne |
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A king, whose
prudence
has finer objects,
Takes care to save the blood of his subjects.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Scarcely was heard to float some
gentlest
sound,
Scarcely some low breathed word,
As in a forest fallen asleep, is found
Just one belated bird.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The sweltrie[21] sonne dothe hie apace hys wayne[22],
From everich beme a seme[23]; of lyfe doe falle;
Swythyn[24] scille[25] oppe the haie uponne the playne;
Methynckes the cockes
begynneth
to gre[26] talle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your
inexperience
on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Wild and
fleeting
as the notes
Blown upon a woodland pipe, 30
They must haunt the earth with gladness
And a tinge of old regret.
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Sappho |
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C'est de
rectifier
des faits d'abord--et
ensuite d'elucider un peu la disposition, a mon sens, mal litteraire,
mais concue dans un but tellement respectable!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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(and thou,
ineffable
guest and sister!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by
standards
wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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quid tibi nunc misero prodest graue dicere carmen
aut
Amphioniae
moenia flere lyrae?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Alas, the
Country!
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Byron |
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Addressed
to R.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Note that Pope has endeavored in
this and the
following
line to convey the sense of effort and struggle.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sickness more courage doth command
Than health, so with a
trembling
hand
A love epistle he doth scrawl.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
His lazy acts and broken words my lips
To
laughter
somewhat mov'd; when I began:
"Belacqua, now for thee I grieve no more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Some other thirsty there may be
To whom this would have pointed me
Had it
remained
to speak.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
Page 62
402
Whon
Eufemian
hedde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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How often in the course 480
Of those glad respites, though a soft west wind
Ruffled the waters to the angler's wish
For a whole day together, have I lain
Down by thy side, O
Derwent!
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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O
blinding
hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For thirty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What, is there aught
prosperity
for woman
But to be shining in the thought of man?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If thou no longer
patiently
abid'st
Thy ill-entreating!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Connecticut
River, 5, 145, 147.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[32]
Confucius
was maltreated in Ch'?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O, this world's
transience!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"Term it not 'radiance,'" said he:
"'Tis solid
nutriment
to me.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Far safer, of a
midnight
meeting
External ghost,
Than an interior confronting
That whiter host.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The variant
spelling
`Shakspere' was originally used in some occurrences.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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"Daughter of great
Rhexenor!
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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I think that Macaulay says that great
flights of imagination are
peculiar
to the early periods of a nation's
civilization, and that story-telling reaches its highest form as an art
before printing has been much in vogue.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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*'
In fact, Marvell exhibited his
adversary
in so
ridiculous a light, that even his own party could
not keep their countenances.
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Marvell - Poems |
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My father disapproves: and laws most severe 105
Prevent him
granting
nephews to her brothers:
He fears the offspring born of a guilty strain:
He'd like to bury their sister and their name,
Submit her to his guardianship till the grave,
Ensure that for her no wedding torches blaze.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Skipping
on yon bonie knowes,
And casting woo' to me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"
Lavaine gaped at Arthur as if he were
something
miraculous.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Now is she high [20] upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his Horse
Among the fern or in the gorse; 220
There's neither Doctor nor his Guide.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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); (3) _meshed, linked
together_
(H.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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To-morrow we will polish it, said he:
Then in
perfection
soon the whole will be;
And from repeating this so oft, you'll get
As perfect issue as was ever met.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Hath fate
apportioned
unto thee
This lot in life with stern decree?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
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: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For him I serve, of
Myrmidonian
race;
One ship convey'd us from our native place;
Polyctor is my sire, an honour'd name,
Old like thyself, and not unknown to fame;
Of seven his sons, by whom the lot was cast
To serve our prince, it fell on me, the last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
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: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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wearp þā
wunden-mǣl
wrǣttum
gebunden yrre ōretta, þæt hit on eorðan læg (_the
wrathful warrior threw the ornamented sword, that it lay on the earth_),
1532.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The
pagination of the Text 1829 follows the
pagination
of the Text 1828, but
the type of 1829 is not the type of 1828.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
She would lean at the window,
thinking
of him and hoping he would come back.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Leave all thy winsome ways
And the faint fragrance of thy
scattered
flowers:
In holy silence wait the appointed days,
And weep away the leaden-footed hours.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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hring-boga; as an
instrument
for shooting, in the comp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And what are Right, and Wrong,
And Feeling, that belong
To
creatures
all who owe thee fief?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The pious wind took it away,
The
reverent
darkness hid the lay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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sombre et
pourtant
lumineuse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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if all who long to live
In the warm
sunshine
of thine eye,
That price beyond all pain must give,--
Beneath thy scorn to die; _10
Then hear thy chosen own too late
His heart most worthy of thy hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance
of the
official
release dates, leaving time for better editing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In uniuersum uere mihi uidetur de _R_ iudicasse qui eum anno 1896 primus
in lucem protulit, Americanus,
Gulielmus
Gardner Hale.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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[Sidenote: If God from eternity doth foreknow not only the works,
but the designs and wills of men, there can be no liberty of
will--nor can there be any other action or will than that which a
Divine and
infallible
Providence hath foreseen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
|
Page 202, "multudinous" changed to "multitudinous" (pillarless,
multitudinous home)
Page 211, stanza break
inserted
above the line that begins (Till the
horse gave a whinny)
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Collected Works in Verse and Prose
of William Butler Yeats, Vol.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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You
loitered
on the road too long,
You trifled at the gate:
The enchanted dove upon her branch
Died without a mate;
The enchanted princess in her tower
Slept, died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while
You made it wait.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
" This draft, now the
editor's property, consists of only
seventeen
lines, and read thus:
I.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Convince
them, however, he
did--all except Mr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Then keep your heart for men like me
And safe from
trustless
chaps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images, marvellous
ornaments
to this poetic entertainment.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Had Lycius liv'd to hand his story down,
He might have given the moral a fresh frown,
Or clench'd it quite: but too short was their bliss
To breed
distrust
and hate, that make the soft voice hiss.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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When it is
recollected
that
he had no more than thirty shillings a week to keep house, and live
like a gentleman, no one need wonder that his wife had to be obliged
to a generous neighbour for some of the chief necessaries for her
coming confinement, and that the poet had to beg, in extreme need, two
guinea notes from a distant friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
Io Hymen
Hymenaee
io,
io Hymen Hymenaee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Before, on pinions light,
Fair
Pleasure
flits, and lures him childlike on,
While home and kin make moan
Beneath the grinding burden of his crime;
Till, in the end of time,
Cast down of heaven, he pours forth fruitless prayer
To powers that will not hear.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
|
Thou gav'st me
thirteen
pears,[113]
Ten apples,[113] thirty figs,[113] and fifty ranks
Didst promise me of vines, their alleys all
Corn-cropp'd between.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
`Corn' will hold a distinct
interest
for those who study
the gathering forces in the author's growth: for it was the first outcome
of his consciously-developing art-life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It has not
weakened
your noble ardour;
And your great virtue inspires my favour;
Wishing a perfect warrior for my son,
I made no error in thus choosing one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Tis nature's law
That none, the meanest of created things,
Of forms created the most vile and brute, 75
The dullest or most noxious, should exist
Divorced
from good--a spirit and pulse of good,
A life and soul, to every mode of being
Inseparably linked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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And so, until delirious borne
I con that thing, -- "forgiven," --
Till with long fright and longer trust
I drop my heart,
unshriven!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
"--
"These carpets--you walk slow on them like kings,
Inaudible
like spirits, while your foot
Dips deep in velvet roses and such things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
Only in one way, and I
embraced
it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A song, as we learn from Horace, was part of
the
established
ritual at the great Secular Jubilee.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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With stately grace she gives her presence high
To dawn, to spring, to shadows flitting by,
To the dark sunset glories of the heaven,
And all the wild
magnificence
of even;
On nature waits, eternal and serene,
With all the graveness of a little queen.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Startled sands blur the desert sun;
Flying snows
bewilder
the Tartar sky.
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Li Po |
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Hearken to each war-vulture
Crying, "Down with all culture
Of land or
religion!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XII
When I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and
breathing
through the street
Where I lodge a little while,
If the heats of hate and lust
In the house of flesh are strong,
Let me mind the house of dust
Where my sojourn shall be long.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to
perpetrate
a pun.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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quidue
superbia
spurcitia ac petulantia?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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