Maisie looked more than usually
kissable
as she stepped from the
night-mail on to the windy pier, in a gray waterproof and a little gray
cloth travelling-cap.
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Kipling - Poems |
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active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Stephen Crane |
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Before the close of the
century Marlowe's _Doctor
Faustus_
and Greene's _Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay_, both based on the popular belief in magic, were presented on the
London stage.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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DAMAYANTE TO NALA IN THE HOUR OF EXILE
(A fragment)
Shalt thou be
conquered
of a human fate
My liege, my lover, whose imperial head
Hath never bent in sorrow of defeat?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Within 'twas full
of wire-gold and jewels; a jealous warden,
warrior trusty, the
treasures
held,
lurked in his lair.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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[80]
Longing for each other we are all grown gray;
Through the
Fleeting
World rolled like a wave in the stream.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Weialala
leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars 280
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
"Trams and dusty trees.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For
somewhere
in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither'd and adored.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Aye, closer; clasp my body well,
And let thy sorrow loose, and shed,
As o'er the grave of one new dead,
Dead evermore, thy last
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Note: The Rose
tremiere
is the hollyhock.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Some desperate attempts were made
To start a conversation;
"Madam," the sportive Brown essayed,
"Which kind of recreation,
Hunting or fishing, have you made
Your special
occupation?
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Lewis Carroll |
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"In exitu Israel de
Aegypto!
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Longfellow |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Their
versification, which, having
received
its laws only from the ear,
abounds in irregularities, seems licentious and uncouth.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The bloody
Scottish
chronicle read o'er,
Showed him how manj kings, in purple
Were hurled to hell, by cruel tyrant lort
1
>\e gore, >
are ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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On whom those truths do rest
Which we are toiling all our lives to find;
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy immortality
Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave,
A presence which is not to be put by;
Thou little child, yet
glorious
in the might
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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The old ambitions flare and burn; The old irresolutions die;
And planetary lustres gleam
Out of an
unforgotten
sky.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"If Tibbs is
anything
like me,
It's _possible_," I said,
"He won't be over-pleased to be
Dropped in upon at half-past three,
After he's snug in bed.
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Lewis Carroll |
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They mighte deme thing they never er
thoughte!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"On dark reserve what better can prevail,
Or from the fluent tongue produce the tale,
Than when two friends, alone, in
peaceful
place
Confer, and wines and cates the table grace;
But most, the kind inviter's cheerful face?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The following elaborate
descriptions
are well deserving of especial
notice:--
I.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Stephen Crane |
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'Twould have made you die with laughter-such tales he told
Of his
caprices
and his merry freaks
Along the road-such oddity-such humor--
Such wit-such whim-such flashes of wild merriment
Set off too in such full relief by the grave
Demeanor of his friend-who, to speak the truth,
Was gravity itself--
Duke.
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Poe - 5 |
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also the
Epilogue
to the present play.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
trembling
Tabor heard the voice of God.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Their neighbour's name was peace, with her they went,
With tottering age, and dignified content,
Through a rich length of years and quiet days,
And filled the
neighbouring
village with their praise.
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John Clare |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Lo, she hath made her bed
In dust;
forsaken
weepeth she
Where alien rivers swell the sea.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Still o'er the curved, white trellis of your sides
The sateless,
wandering
serpent curls and glides.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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]
[Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general
meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the
full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be
identified with law, and
commeasure
perfect freedom".
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Tennyson |
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I doubt not but that it is perfectly worthless in
point of literary composition; and that, in all that concerns moral and
political speculation, as well as in the subtler discriminations of
metaphysical and
religious
doctrine, it is still more crude and
immature.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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O
monstrous
forms!
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| Source: |
Keats |
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How near dark Pluto's court I stood,
And AEacus' judicial throne,
The blest seclusion of the good,
And Sappho, with sweet lyric moan
Bewailing
her ungentle sex,
And thee, Alcaeus, louder far
Chanting thy tale of woful wrecks,
Of woful exile, woful war!
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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On
discovering
what she had eaten, she threw herself from a window to her death.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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After what hath been
Already said of
patriotic
love,
Suffice it here to add, that, somewhat stern 275
In temperament, withal a happy man,
And therefore bold to look on painful things,
Free likewise of the world, and thence more bold,
I summoned my best skill, and toiled, intent
To anatomise the frame of social life, 280
Yea, the whole body of society
Searched to its heart.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What
immortal
hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Besides the _Elegies XVIII_ and _XIX_, which are Donne's, as we have
seen, and the _Satyre_ 'Sleep next Society', which is not Donne's, the
edition of 1669
prefixed
to the song _Breake of Day_ a fresh stanza:
Stay, O sweet, and do not rise.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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"--Forgive me, Jupiter, is not
Rome's
Capitoline
Hill second Olympus to you?
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate,
and the most
accurate
instrument by which to measure Life.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O sweeter than the Marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me
To walk
together
to the Kirk
With a goodly company.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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520
What savage manners, what hardened hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly
softened?
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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he was
Nothing; for us, wee are for nothing fit;
Chance, or our selves still
disproportion
it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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_110_
AVAUNT, ye vain
bombastic
crew,
Crickets that swill no Attic dew:
Good-bye, grammarians crass and narrow,
Selius, Tarquitius, and Varro:
A pedant tribe of fat-brained fools,
The tinkling cymbals of the schools!
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" echoed he; no sooner said,
Than with a
frightful
scream she vanished:
And Lycius' arms were empty of delight,
As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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namque uelut densas praecerpens cultor aristas
sole sub ardenti
flauentia
demetit arua,
.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_insert_
the _before_
foules; _which_ Gg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Six years ago this very night
I saw them fall and
wondered
why
The angel dropped them from the sky--
But when I saw your eyes I knew
The angel sent the stars to you.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Dear hope now
snatched
from me!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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He who for empire at Pharsalia threw,
Reddening its beauteous plain with civil gore,
As Pompey's corse his conquering soldiers bore,
Wept when the well-known features met his view:
The shepherd youth, who fierce Goliath slew,
Had long rebellious children to deplore,
And bent, in generous grief, the brave Saul o'er
His shame and fall when proud Gilboa knew:
But you, whose cheek with pity never paled,
Who still have shields at hand to guard you well
Against Love's bow, which shoots its darts in vain,
Behold me by a thousand deaths assail'd,
And yet no tears of thine
compassion
tell,
But in those bright eyes anger and disdain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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{1c} It is to be supposed that all hearers of this poem knew how
Hrothgar's hall was burnt, -- perhaps in the
unsuccessful
attack
made on him by his son-in-law Ingeld.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet a single
atheling
up she seized
fast and firm, as she fled to the moor.
| 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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Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Since when mine eyes are moist, and view the ground,
My heart is heavy, and my steps have found
A
solitary
dwelling 'mongst the woods,
I stray o'er rocks and fountains, hills and floods:
Since when such store my scatter'd papers hold
Of thoughts, of tears, of ink; which oft I fold,
Unfold, and tear: since when I know the scope
Of Love, and what they fear, and what they hope;
And how they live that in his cloister dwell,
The skilful in their face may read it well.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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1 Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd
2 Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd
3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time
1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond
Entrailes
throw
Toad, that vnder cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first i'th' charmed pot
All.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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[188]
To-night, my Friend, within this humble cot 665
Be scorn and fear and hope alike forgot [189]
In timely sleep; and when, at break of day,
On the tall peaks the glistening
sunbeams
play, [190]
With a light heart our course we may renew,
The first whose footsteps print the mountain dew.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The knight, in what he wished, indulgence got;
And, while the
princess
much deplored her lot,
The youth proposed Alaciel he should bring,
To Mamolin, or Alexandria's king.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Though my
strength
is great, my love is too.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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A wild and
wrathful
clamor
From all the vanguard rose.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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There, O swift and terrible
Being, wast thou born; and thence,
Like a demon loosed from hell,
Stripped with rending wings the dense
Echoing forests, till their bowed
Plumes of trees like tattered cloud
Were toss'd and torn, and cried aloud
As the wood were rack'd with pain:
Thence thou freed'st thy wings, and soon
From the moaning, stricken plain
In whorled eagle-soarings rose
To melt the sun-defeating snows
Of the
Mountains
of the Moon,
To dull their glaciers with fierce breath,
To slip the avalanches' rein,
To set the laughing torrents free
On the tented desert beneath,
Where men of thirst must wither and die
While the vultures stare in the sun's eye;
Where slowly sifting sands are strown
On broken cities, whose bleaching bones
Whiten in moonlight stone on stone.
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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That is the way our long nights of
enjoyment
are passed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Note: The Spanish title was the motto adopted by the
disinherited
Ivanhoe in Scott's novel.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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All our seruice,
In euery point twice done, and then done double,
Were poore, and single Businesse, to contend
Against those Honors deepe, and broad,
Wherewith your
Maiestie
loades our House:
For those of old, and the late Dignities,
Heap'd vp to them, we rest your Ermites
King.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Fearlessly thither pricked the warriors, who
Marganor's mansion in that
fortress
knew.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold
I breathe the burning odours of your breast,
Before my eyes the hills of happy rest
Bathed in the sun's
monotonous
fires, unfold.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But as ye travel thither, did ye know
What
wretches
walk the streets through which you go.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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She thought, if the empty noise
Of a sweet
harmonious
voice
Like a murmuring stream, untaught,
Could make one believe in thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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_lucent fans_,
luminous
wings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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In the fighting
Heardred
is killed.
| 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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It is better to have a
permanent
income than to be fascinating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
intense melancholy which seems to well up, perforce, to the surface of
all the poet's
cheerful
sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to
the soul--while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Something
o' that, I said.
| 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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"--
Then, like a man that feels a sudden thought
His purpose change, the mingling crowd he sought,
And left the question, which a moment hung
Scarce half suppress'd upon my
faltering
tongue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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"
The melody went on some moments more
Among the trees the calm moon glistened o'er,
Then
trembled
and was hushed; the voice's thrill
Stopped like alighting birds, and all was still.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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High from the roof the living amber glows,[417]
High from the roof the stream of glory flows,
And, richer
fragrance
far around exhales
Than that which breathes on fair Arabia's gales.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
x
The glamour of the soul hath come upon me,
And as the
twilight
comes upon the roses, 55
Laudantei
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Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees
Eternity
there.
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John Clare |
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--since in things
He's
heretofore
seen naught of true.
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Lucretius |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a
clamorous
appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now--now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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His own Epitaph_
ASPICITE, o ciues, senis Enni
imaginis
formam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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--Ce qu'on ne sait pas, c'est peut-etre terrible:
Nous
saurons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Ed ecco a un ch'era da nostra proda,
s'avvento un
serpente
che 'l trafisse
la dove 'l collo a le spalle s'annoda.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Fondly I gaz'd
Upon those patterns of meek humbleness,
Shapes yet more
precious
for their artist's sake,
When "Lo," the poet whisper'd, "where this way
(But slack their pace), a multitude advance.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But near the casement wide to the north,
A gold is dying, in accord with the decor
Perhaps, those unicorns dashing fire at a nixie,
She who, naked and dead in the mirror, yet
In the oblivion enclosed by the frame, is fixed
As soon by
scintillations
as the septet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the
tranquil
pool and pondered,
And listened to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Swan-white of heart, a sphinx no mortal knows,
My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all
movements
that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the
boundless
waters stretch in glory
And heave in power.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
LII
Thrice looked he at the city;
Thrice looked he at the dead;
And thrice came on in fury,
And thrice turned back in dread:
And, white with fear and hatred,
Scowled at the narrow way
Where,
wallowing
in a pool of blood,
The bravest Tuscans lay.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Here the
truceless
armies yet
Trample, rolled in blood and sweat;
They kill and kill and never die;
And I think that each is I.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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know ye not
Who would be free
themselves
must strike the blow?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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