The gods denying, in just indignation,
Your walls,
bloodied
by that ancient instance
Of fraternal strife, a sure foundation.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair
To be death's
conquest
and make worms thine heir.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If I sigh through the window when Jerry
The ploughman goes by, I grow bold;
And if I'm disposed to be merry,
My parents do nothing but scold;
And Jerry the clown, and no other,
Eer cometh to marry or woo;
They think me the moral of mother
And judge me a
terrible
shrew.
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John Clare |
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Prometheus, forced, they say, to add
To his prime clay some
favourite
part
From every kind, took lion mad,
And lodged its gall in man's poor heart.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
Foundation
makes no representations concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it;
Let any mortal find rest, softer,
wherever
he can.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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--O buffet du vieux temps, tu sais bien des histoires,
Et tu
voudrais
conter tes contes, et tu bruis
Quand s'ouvrent lentement tes grands portes noires.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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We sewed up the wound in his temple,
bandaged
his foot, and applied a
square inch of black plaster to the tip of his nose.
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Poe - 5 |
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Only ye would not pass beyond the cape
That has the poplar on it: there ye fixt
Your limit, oft
returning
with the tide.
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Tennyson |
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But O the ship, the
immortal
ship!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thus wings thy
progress
from the realms above?
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Iliad - Pope |
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accipiat
coniunx felici foedere diuam,
dedatur cupido iam dudum nupta marito.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Ni quod inomati Triviae sint forte capilli,
Huic sed sollicit^
distribuantur
acu.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Shake the snow off and with hearty
Hand-shakes drive away the cold;
Else your plate you'll hardly hold
Of good
Thanksgiving
turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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At Vaucluse I
conceived the first idea of giving an epitome of the Lives of
Illustrious Men, and there I wrote my
Treatise
on a Solitary Life, as
well as that on religious retirement.
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Petrarch |
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The same threat is
twice made in the _True
Narration_
(pp.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Tenth, second, or first century before Christ--first, eighth,
fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, or even
eighteenth
century
A.
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Whitman |
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No man such rare parts hath that he can swim,
If favour or
occasion
help not him.
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Robert Herrick |
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"
He heard her speak and
accepted
her words with favor.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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They weep:--from off their
delicate
stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Before that day, if any Greek invite
His country's troops to base,
inglorious
flight,
Stand forth that Greek!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
registered
trademark.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Do you know why my love is so
sincere?
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| Question: |
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Troubador Verse |
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The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate
royalties
under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
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Emerson - Poems |
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even a few are
valuable?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet nought from her, for long devoted years,
I reap'd but cold disdain, and
fruitless
tears.
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Petrarch |
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But why should I be here, O God, I a green seed of unfulfilled
passion, a mad tempest that seeketh neither east nor west, a
bewildered
fragment
from a burnt planet?
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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, _lord and friend,
friendly
ruler_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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But always under this largess of
colour lay some tender homily
addressed
to man's fragile hopes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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Hast ever heard
That dead men have arisen from their graves
To question tsars,
legitimate
tsars, appointed,
Chosen by the voice of all the people, crowned
By the great Patriarch?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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dydste thou kenne the stynge,
The whyche doeth canker ynne mie hartys roome,
Thou wouldste see playne
thieselfe
the gare to bee;
Aryse, uponne thie love, & flie to meeten mee.
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| Question: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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It is a myth which has begotten some exquisite literature,
both in prose and verse, from Ovid's famous epistle to Addison's gracious
fantasy and some
impassioned
and imperishable dithyrambs of Mr.
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Sappho |
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To wander o'er leagues of land,
To search over wastes of sea,
Where the Prophets of Lycia stand,
Or where Ammon's
daughters
three
Make runes in the rainless sand,
For magic to make her free--
Ah, vain!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Money, root of ill,
Doubt it not, still grows apace:
Yet the scant heap has
somewhat
lacking still.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
"Will ye go wi' me,
graunie?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen
branches
of the night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia
quality indeed.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Poi, rallargati per la strada sola,
ben mille passi e piu ci portar oltre,
contemplando
ciascun sanza parola.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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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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The garden walks are pleasant at this hour;
The
nightingales
among the sheltering boughs
Of populous and many-nested trees
Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me
By what resistless charms or incantations
They won their mates.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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"
Then conscious of my fault, and by remorse
Smitten, I added thus: "Now shalt thou say
To him there fallen, that his offspring still
Is to the living join'd; and bid him know,
That if from answer silent I abstain'd,
'Twas that my thought was
occupied
intent
Upon that error, which thy help hath solv'd.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ How do Thy clear, still eyes
transpierce
our souls,
As gazing _through_ them toward the Father-throne
In a pathetical, full Deity,
Serenely as the stars gaze through the air
Straight on each other!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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You are
chattering
still?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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The only Gaelic performances I have seen during the year have been
ill-done, but I have seen them
sufficiently
well done in other years
to believe my friends when they tell me that there have been good
performances.
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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)
The
cannoneers
bent to obey,
And worked with a will at his word:
And the black guns moved as if _they_ had heard.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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About 770 Wei Hao produced an
edition of twenty _chuan_, many
additional
poems having come to light
in the interval.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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The heaped waves behold
The deep calm of blue Heaven dilating above,
And, like
passions
made still by the presence of Love, _130
Beneath the clear surface reflecting it slide
Tremulous with soft influence; extending its tide
From the Andes to Atlas, round mountain and isle,
Round sea-birds and wrecks, paved with Heaven's azure smile,
The wide world of waters is vibrating.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Yet does that burst of woe congeal my frame,
When the dark streets appeared to heave and gape,
While like a sea the
storming
army came,
And Fire from Hell reared his gigantic shape,
And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape
Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Now even I come before thee
With oil and honey and wheat-bread,
Praying for
strength
and fulfilment
Of human longing, with purpose 10
Ever to keep thy great worship
Pure and undarkened.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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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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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I acquire,
As I reflect and compare, my first
understanding
of marble,
See with an eye that feels, feel with a hand that sees.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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| Question: |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
"[dl]
"Thou
speakest
sooth: thy skiff unmoor,
And waft us from the silent shore;
Nay, leave the sail still furled, and ply
The nearest oar that's scattered by,
And midway to those rocks where sleep
The channelled waters dark and deep.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Demain, apres-demain et
toujours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Paradiso
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Fortuna saeuo laeta negotio et
ludum insolentem ludere pertinax
transmutat
incertos honores,
nunc mihi nunc alii benigna.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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196 _iuuerit_ Auantius:
_inuenerit_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of
pleasant
glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Fierce to the left he drives, where from the plain
The flying Grecians strove their ships to gain;
Swift through the wall their horse and
chariots
pass'd,
The gates half-open'd to receive the last.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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If he be hungry, one huge fin
Drives seven
thousand
fishes in;
And when he drinks what he may need,
The rivers of the earth recede.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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He said; and mantled as he was, a quoit
Upstarting, seized, in bulk and weight all those
Transcending far, by the
Phaeacians
used.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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at my feet lies Agamemnon slain,
My husband once--and him this hand of mine,
A right contriver,
fashioned
for his death.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Prometheus, forced, they say, to add
To his prime clay some
favourite
part
From every kind, took lion mad,
And lodged its gall in man's poor heart.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Till he
recovered
had his late decayed plight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
|
]
Nor Arne, nor Mincius, nor stately Tiber,
Sebethus, nor the flood into whose streams
He fell who burnt the world with borrow'd beams;
Gold-rolling Tagus, Munda, famous Iber,
Sorgue, Rhone, Loire, Garron, nor proud-bank'd Seine,
Peneus, Phasis, Xanthus, humble Ladon,
Nor she whose nymphs excel her who loved Adon,
Fair Tamesis, nor Ister large, nor Rhine,
Euphrates, Tigris, Indus, Hermus, Gange,
Pearly Hydaspes, serpent-like Meander,--
The gulf bereft sweet Hero her Leander--
Nile, that far, far his hidden head doth range,
Have ever had so rare a cause of praise
As Ora, where this
northern
Phoenix stays.
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
THE STAR TO ITS LIGHT
"Go," said the star to its light:
"Follow your
fathomless
flight!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And thinks there can be no favor nor fame,
But one may
straightway
pluck the same.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
A Maiden
Oh if I were the velvet rose
Upon the red rose vine,
I'd climb to touch his window
And make his
casement
fine.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
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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| Source: |
Byron |
|
KAU}
The
wondrous
work flow forth like visible out of the invisible
For the Divine Lamb Even Jesus who is the Divine Vision
Permitted all lest Man should fall into Eternal Death
For when Luvah sunk down himself put on the robes of blood
Lest the state calld Luvah should cease.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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E come suono al collo de la cetra
prende sua forma, e si com' al pertugio
de la sampogna vento che penetra,
cosi, rimosso d'aspettare indugio,
quel
mormorar
de l'aguglia salissi
su per lo collo, come fosse bugio.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He is
that rare and unknown being, a genuine poet--a poet in the midst of
things that have disordered his spirit--a poet excessively
developed
in
his taste for and by beauty .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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No
mightier
birth may He beget;
No like, no second has He known;
Yet nearest to her sire's is set
Minerva's throne.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Take your treat when you get it,' says he, 'and make no delay or
all might be
discovered
and put an end to.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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A thought went up my mind to-day
That I have had before,
But did not finish, -- some way back,
I could not fix the year,
Nor where it went, nor why it came
The second time to me,
Nor
definitely
what it was,
Have I the art to say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Miss
Dickinson
was born in Amherst, Mass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
Pioneers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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is ravish'd from my sight;
Those
beauteous
eyes withdraw their beam,
And change to sadness past delight.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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How is't,
brother?
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Shakespeare |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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SAVELLA:
Can you name any
Who had an
interest
in his death?
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Shelley |
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'And who were they,' I mused, 'that wrought
Through
pathless
wilds, with labor long,
The highways of our daily thought?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The creatures chuckled on the roofs
And
whistled
in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I was a little maid
When here we came to live
From
somewhere
by the sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Delicious nature, thee I fly,
The calm existence which I prize
I yield for splendid vanities,
Thou too farewell, my
liberty!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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che ti fa cio che quivi si
pispiglia?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thou ance was i' the
foremost
rank,
A filly buirdly, steeve, an' swank;
An' set weel down a shapely shank,
As e'er tread yird;
An' could hae flown out-owre a stank,
Like ony bird.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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