"
In such cheer it
struggled
on
Till the battle front was won,
Then the car, its journey done,
Lo!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then, sore afraid, their admiral they sought,
To whom the keys of
Sarraguce
they brought.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Note: Floris and
Blancheflor
are Floris and Blancheflour lovers in a popular romance found in many different vernacular languages and versions.
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Troubador Verse |
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' The
children
ran out then, full of pride and of mischief,
calling out the song as they ran, and Hanrahan knew there was no
danger it would not be heard.
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Yeats |
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THE
blissful
meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Then read from the
treasured
volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
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Poe - 5 |
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Roaming hill or wood
He looked a wolf was
striving
to do good.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Baudelaire, plus ou moins pauvre, car la fortune laissee par son pere
avait ete devoree rapidement, fut toujours plein de
delicatesse
et doue
de cet esprit de finesse fait de belle humeur et d'ironie souriante.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LXXXIII
I never saw that you did
painting
need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
That barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The swift-carrying breezes sent me;
For the echo of beaten steel pierced the recesses
Of the caves, and struck out from me reserved modesty;
And I rushed
unsandaled
in a winged chariot.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements,
The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
Overhand
the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure,
They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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When he left the table, all made way for him to pass; the cards were
shuffled, and the
gambling
went on.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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LAWRENCE
Ballad of Another Ophelia 67
Illicit 69
Fireflies
in the Corn 70
A Woman and Her Dead Husband 72
The Mowers 75
Scent of Irises 76
Green 78
AMY LOWELL
Venus Transiens 81
The Travelling Bear 83
The Letter 85
Grotesque 86
Bullion 87
Solitaire 88
The Bombardment 89
BIBLIOGRAPHY 93
Thanks are due to the editors of _Poetry_, _The Smart Set_,
_Poetry and Drama_, and _The Egoist_ for their courteous
permission to reprint certain of these poems which have been
copyrighted to them.
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Imagists |
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This Sir Thomas was created a
baronet in 1627, and
according
to Dr.
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Robert Herrick |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Er
schmeichelte
sie doch bei Seit,
Und von der Linde scholl es weit:
Juchhe!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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E com' elli ebbe sua parola detta,
una voce di presso sono: <
che di sedere in pria avrai
distretta!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The most generous and amiable natures
were those which participated the most
extensively
in these
sympathies.
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Shelley |
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Fly,
messengers
that find no rest
Save in such toil as makes man blest!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Meanwhile
Joseph sat with folded hands, and demurely
Listened, or seemed to listen, and in the silence that followed
Nothing was heard for a while but the step of Hannah the housemaid
Walking the floor overhead, and setting the chambers in order.
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Longfellow |
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And when he raised it
dripping
once and tried
The creepy edge of it with wary touch,
And viewed it over his glasses funny-eyed,
Only disinterestedly to decide
It needed a turn more, I could have cried
Wasn't there danger of a turn too much?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My
beauteous
bride should be.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That Emperour to
Rencesvals
doth fare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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[542] The real name of the father of Adimantus was Leucolophides, which
Aristophanes
jestingly
turns into Leucolophus, i.
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Aristophanes |
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He
accordingly
hits upon the device of
supposing himself in her place and makes an answer for her, granting an
assignation.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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>>
D'oisiaus chantans avoit asses
Par tout le vergier amasses;
En ung leu avoit rossigniaus,
En l'autre gais et estorniaus; 650
Si r'avoit aillors grans escoles
De roietiaus et torteroles,
De chardonnereaus, d'arondeles,
D'aloes et de lardereles;
Calendres
i ot amassees
En ung autre leu, qui lassees
De chanter furent a envis:
Melles y avoit et mauvis
Qui baoient a sormonter
Ces autres oisiaus par chanter.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Canto V
Io era gia da quell' ombre partito,
e seguitava l'orme del mio duca,
quando di retro a me,
drizzando
'l dito,
una grido: <
lo raggio da sinistra a quel di sotto,
e come vivo par che si conduca!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
505
Mounts thro' the nearer mist the chaunt of birds,
And talking voices, and the low of herds,
The bark of dogs, the drowsy
tinkling
bell,
And wild-wood mountain lutes of saddest swell.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The only
national
[Anglo-Saxon] epic which has been preserved entire is
Bēowulf.
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Beowulf |
|
Volunteers and financial support to provide
volunteers
with the
assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
remain freely available for generations to come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Serpent
The Fall
'The Fall'
Anonymous,
Hieronymus
Cock, c.
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Appoloinaire |
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What old December's bareness
everywhere!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sweet face, do not misunderstand my
thought!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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RUTH: OR THE
INFLUENCES
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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The nymph
exulting
fills with shouts the sky;
The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
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Alexander Pope |
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We burned the
bedstead
and dropped the ashes into the Canal;
we took up the matting of the room and treated that in the same way.
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Kipling - Poems |
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It
had other
attractions
than good liquor; there lived "Anna, with the
golden locks.
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Robert Forst |
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And while the pony moves his legs,
In Johnny's left-hand you may see,
The green bough's
motionless
and dead;
The moon that shines above his head
Is not more still and mute than he.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Go, leave the
hopeless
without hope;
Spare your trouble.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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such the period of many worlds
Others
triangular
their right angled course maintain.
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Blake - Zoas |
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He could not forget, or forgive what he called her
infidelity
to
the memory of his father.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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They say the quarrel's settled now; for my part I've some doubt on 't,
't'll take more fish-skin than folks think to take the rile clean on 't;
At any rate I'm so used up I can't do no more fightin',
The on'y chance thet's left to me is politics or writin';
Now, ez the people's gut to hev a milingtary man, 120
An' I aint nothin' else jest now, I've hit upon a plan;
The can'idatin' line, you know, 'ould suit me to a T,
An' ef I lose, 'twunt hurt my ears to lodge another flea;
So I'll set up ez can'idate fer any kin' o' office,
(I mean fer any thet
includes
good easy-cheers an' soffies;
Fer ez tu runnin' fer a place ware work's the time o' day,
You know thet's wut I never did,--except the other way;)
Ef it's the Presidential cheer fer wich I'd better run,
Wut two legs anywares about could keep up with my one?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Gentlemen
rise, his Highnesse is not well
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
|
]
XIII
But Lenski, having no desire
Vows matrimonial to break,
With our Oneguine doth aspire
Acquaintance
instantly
to make.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A GOODLY CITIE, the
Celestial
City, Heaven.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Loving
offenders
thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
10
Why are Selene's white horses
So long
arriving?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Were silver pink, and had a soul,
Which soul were shy, which shyness might
A visible
influence
be, and roll
Through heaven and earth -- 'twere thou, O light!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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O may'st thou, favour'd by some guardian power,
Far, far be distant in that
deathful
hour!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Remember this, and you will be able to
understand
a little of
why I am writing, and in this manner writing.
| Guess: |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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if he has property,
it is in danger; and government or authority is, according to our
author, the
greatest
of all evils.
| Guess: |
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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La femme au corps divin,
promettant
le bonheur,
Par le haut se termine en monstre bicephale!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
The answer, I think, is
indicated
above.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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The compressed and punctuated
translation
is offered as an aid to grasping the poem as a whole, in a swift reading.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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I was gone the
livelong
day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This withered root of knots of hair
Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth:
The sickle motion from the thighs
Jackknifes
upward at the knees
Then straightens out from heel to hip
Pushing the framework of the bed
And clawing at the pillow slip.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth creeping imagery of
slighter
trees, 140
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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| Source: |
Keats |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Get thee back:
And tell the King 'tis time his
judgment
fell.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Why
they
hesitated
I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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I
trembled
at
the storied cliffs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The official release date of all Project
Gutenberg
Etexts is at
Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Cut a bough from my parent stem,
And dip it in thy
porcelain
vase;
A little while each russet gem
Will swell and rise with wonted grace;
But when it seeks enlarged supplies,
The orphan of the forest dies.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
315
XXXVI
The drouping Night thus
creepeth
on them fast,
And the sad humour?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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1202)
Born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in the service of the Count of Turenne, he
travelled
widely in France, Spain, and Hungary.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Young
Hyacinth
is slain,
Pan is not here,
And will not come again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,
Admitted
scarcely
to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For school-teaching on the usual
lines Emerson was not fitted, and his youth and shyness
prevented
him
from imparting his best gifts to his scholars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
|
Michele was sweating with fear, but
he kept his
weakness
under, and went down into the town, past the house
where the Sub-Judge had barricaded himself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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net),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That palsying thought, indeed, took entire
possession
of my soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
There, to silence the Foe,
Moving grimly and slow,
They loomed in that deadly wreath,
Where the darkest
batteries
frowned
Death in the air all round,
And the black torpedoes beneath!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What word will men say,--here where Giotto planted
His campanile like an unperplexed
Fine question Heavenward, touching the things granted
A noble people who, being greatly vexed
In act, in
aspiration
keep undaunted?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
|
ECLOGUE X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me,
Arethusa!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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, R: _gimnasiis_ C || G
quid
habuerit
a m.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Wolves rove among the
fearless
sheep;
The woods for thee their foliage strow;
The delver loves on earth to leap,
His ancient foe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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--comes by
my betrayal, while thou suest for our daughter in
marriage?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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LES
PLAINTES
D'UN ICARE
Les amants des prostituees
Sont heureux, dispos et repus;
Quant a moi, mes bras sont rompus
Pour avoir etreint des nuees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And
therewith
all the
warmth ebbed forth from her, and the life passed away upon the winds.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Some sailor,
skirting
foreign shores,
Some pale reporter from the awful doors
Before the seal!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When
flourish
the trumpets, etc.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Hard fate of old he bore and many
grievous
things,
And for a woman's sake, on Ilian land--
Now is his life hewn down, and by a woman's hand.
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Aeschylus |
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"
So the coachman drove
homeward
as fast as he could,
Perceiving their anger with pain;
But they put on the kettle, and little by little
They all became happy again.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The royal
chambers
to a cell of prayer
He turned, wherein the heavy cares of state
Vexed not his holy soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Like will to like, each
creature
loves his kind;
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.
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Robert Herrick |
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20
sis quocumque tibi placet
sancta nomine, Romulique
antique ut solita's bona
sospites
ope gentem.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Fierce on the rear, with shouts
Patroclus
flies;
Tumultuous clamour fills the fields and skies;
Thick drifts of dust involve their rapid flight;
Clouds rise on clouds, and heaven is snatch'd from sight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Wild with his pain, he sought the bright abodes,
There sullen sat beneath the sire of gods,
Show'd the
celestial
blood, and with a groan
Thus pour'd his plaints before the immortal throne:
"Can Jove, supine, flagitious facts survey,
And brook the furies of this daring day?
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Iliad - Pope |
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I know that you love me; perhaps you are
surprised
to
find me at the door.
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Aristophanes |
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