What merit do I in my self respect,
That is so proud thy service to despise,
When all my best doth worship thy defect,
Commanded
by the motion of thine eyes?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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My
excellent
and
much-lamented friend, the late Basil, Lord Daer, happened to arrive at
Catrine the same day, and, by the kindness and frankness of his manners,
left an impression on the mind of the poet which was never effaced.
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Robert Burns |
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1110
Forth to [120] the gentle Ass he springs,
And up about his neck he climbs;
In loving words he talks to him,
He kisses, kisses face and limb,--
He kisses him a
thousand
times!
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William Wordsworth |
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_30
Joy to the Spirit came,--
Such joy as when a lover sees
The chosen of his soul in happiness,
And witnesses her peace
Whose woe to him were bitterer than death, _35
Sees her unfaded cheek
Glow
mantling
in first luxury of health,
Thrills with her lovely eyes,
Which like two stars amid the heaving main
Sparkle through liquid bliss.
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Shelley |
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Wondrous
seems it,
what manner a man of might and valor
oft ends his life, when the earl no longer
in mead-hall may live with loving friends.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ORESTES
These are no dreams, void shapes of
haunting
ill,
But clear to sight my mother's hell-hounds come!
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Aeschylus |
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A chain-droop'd lamp was flickering by each door;
The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
Flutter'd in the
besieging
wind's uproar;
And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.
| Guess: |
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Keats |
|
If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling
everything
I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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We know that men will treat with derision
Whatever they cannot understand,
At
goodness
and truth and beauty's vision
Will shut their eyes and murmur and howl at it;
And must the dog, too, snarl and growl at it?
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or
reflected
merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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It is but fair to say, however,
that the author, whoever he was, seems not to have been unaware of some
of them himself, as is shown by a great many notes
appended
to the
verses as we received them, and purporting to be by Scaliger, Bentley,
and others,--among them the _Esprit de Voltaire_!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Get us up
something
new and jaunty!
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
'
"Athens and
Lacedemon
had between them a species of rivalship similar to
yours: but their forces were not by any means so nearly balanced.
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Petrarch |
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Me reft from it, had bene
partaker
of the place.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
With cheek
unchanging
from its sallow gloom,
However near his own or other's tomb;
With hand, whose almost careless coolness spoke
Its grasp well-used to deal the sabre-stroke;
With eye, though calm, determined not to spare,
Did Lara too his willing weapon bare.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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Made for his use all
creatures
if he call,
Say what their use, had he the pow'rs of all?
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Alexander Pope |
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Let King
Cophetua
know the truth thereof.
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Shakespeare |
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To-day I thought what boots it what I
thought?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
What leagues are lost before the dawn of day,
Thus
loitering
pensive on the willing seas,
The flapping sails hauled down to halt for logs like these!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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E quel nasetto che stretto a consiglio
par con colui c'ha si benigno aspetto,
mori fuggendo e
disfiorando
il giglio:
guardate la come si batte il petto!
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Am I thus
whitened
by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but withered laurels?
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Long had I suffer'd, till--to combat more
In strength, in hope too sunk--at last before
Impartial Reason's seat,
Whence she
presides
our nobler nature o'er,
I summon'd my old tyrant, stern and sweet;
There, groaning 'neath a weary weight of grief,
With fear and horror stung,
Like one who dreads to die and prays relief,
My plea I open'd thus: "When life was young,
I, weakly, placed my peace within his power,
And nothing from that hour
Save wrong I've met; so many and so great
The torments I have borne,
That my once infinite patience is outworn,
And my life worthless grown is held in very hate!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Only the
hearthstone
of old India
Will end the endless march of gipsy feet.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And, be they dead, what privilege allows
They walk
unmantled
by the cumbrous stole?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But,
assaulted
by scorching heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
50
Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call,
May, must be right, as
relative
to all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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I dare to imagine that his slightest deeds
Will bring entire kingdoms to their knees;
And then love's flattery persuades, I own,
That he shall occupy Grenada's throne,
The Moors defeated,
trembling
and adoring,
Aragon open to its conqueror, welcoming,
Portugal yielding, and his noble gaze
Bearing his destiny beyond the wave,
The blood of Africa drenching his laurels;
And everything writ of famous mortals
I'll expect of my Rodrigue in victory,
Making his love a subject for my glory.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I blaze to Him in mine engarlanding
Of rays, I flame His whole burnt-offering,
While as a
bridegroom
I rejoice and sing.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow, --
The broad are too broad to define;
And of "truth" until it
proclaimed
him a liar, --
The truth never flaunted a sign.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Gruesome
march
to Heorot this monster of harm had made!
| 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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Where shall I find thy peace,
daughter
of mighty
Colla?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel
immeasurably
at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Before the eternal facts of Life doubt and
strife are
reconciled
into faith, will and pride change into humility.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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My husband is a sort of
promissory
note; I am tired of meeting him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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But a secure life
Was not to Peleus, son of AEacus,
Nor to godlike Cadmus,
Who yet are said to have had
The greatest happiness
Of mortals, and who heard
The song of the golden-filleted Muses,
On the mountain, and in seven-gated Thebes,
When the one married fair-eyed Harmonia,
And the other Thetis, the illustrious
daughter
of wise-counseling
Nereus.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
]
[Footnote B: It may not be
irrelevant
to mention that our late poet,
Robert Browning, besought me--both in conversation, and by letter--to
restore this "discarded" picture, in editing 'Dion'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But,
regardless
of your previous ruling,
Can you endure to see such a wedding?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Do thou make
offering
for me--for the rite
I know not--as is meet on the tenth night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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The robber proclaimed
his intention of marching directly upon our fort,
inviting
the Cossacks
and the soldiers to join him, and counselling the chiefs not to
withstand him, threatening them, should they do so, with the utmost
torture.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
[_He goes forth, just as he is, in the
direction
of the grave.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
Of whiche
l{ett}res
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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I envy seas whereon he rides,
I envy spokes of wheels
Of
chariots
that him convey,
I envy speechless hills
That gaze upon his journey;
How easy all can see
What is forbidden utterly
As heaven, unto me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He had learnt it all from Ruskin
(Author of 'The Stones of Venice,'
'Seven Lamps of Architecture,'
'Modern Painters,' and some others);
And perhaps he had not fully
Understood his author's meaning;
But,
whatever
was the reason,
All was fruitless, as the picture
Ended in an utter failure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The courier of the sky I mark'd with dread,
As by degrees the
baseless
fabric fled
That human power had built, while high disdain
I felt within to see the toiling train
Striving to seize each transitory thing
That fleets away on dissolution's wing;
And soonest from the firmest grasp recede,
Like airy forms, with tantalizing speed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
"
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'T is the vault of thy lost
Ulalume!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Not first time, this,
that he the home of
Hrothgar
sought, --
yet ne'er in his life-day, late or early,
such hardy heroes, such hall-thanes, found!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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She gan first smyle, and seyde, `O brother dere,
If thou a sooth of this
desyrest
knowe,
Thou most a fewe of olde stories here,
To purpos, how that fortune over-throwe 1460
Hath lordes olde; through which, with-inne a throwe,
Thou wel this boor shalt knowe, and of what kinde
He comen is, as men in bokes finde.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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I am
disposed
bet, so mote I go,
Un-to my deeth, to pleyne and maken wo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their
household
fires.
| 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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Meantime various quacks and
charlatans, each with a special scheme for
improving
things, arrive from
earth, and are one after the other exposed and dismissed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
|
You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
keeping this work in the same format with its
attached
full Project
Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
|
<< Pour rafraichir ton coeur nage vers ton
Electre!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"Then may the Fates look up 10
And smile a little in their
tolerant
way,
Being full of infinite regard for men.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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But lately, one rough day, this flower I past,
And recognised it, though an alter'd form,
Now
standing
forth an offering to the blast,
And buffeted at will by rain and storm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
If any link in this
chain were broken, as would happen if men possessed higher faculties
than are now
assigned
them, the whole universe would be thrown into
confusion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
My path seemed
honeycombed
with pits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
|
The fluency and
ornaments
of the finest poems or music
or orations or recitations are not independent, but dependent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Faith
is the antiseptic of the soul,--it
pervades
the common people and preserves
them: they never give up believing and expecting and trusting.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
|
Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and
dreadful
Lord,
nor Heaven's-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
In mad game
They burst their
manacles
and wear the name
Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Grandmother
made some
excuse for not having brought any money, and began to punt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
Ne venni prima a l'ultima parola,
che del suo mezzo fece il lume centro,
girando se come veloce mola;
poi rispuose l'amor che v'era dentro:
<
penetrando
per questa in ch'io m'inventro,
la cui virtu, col mio veder congiunta,
mi leva sopra me tanto, ch'i' veggio
la somma essenza de la quale e munta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
At this one of their multitude, and she the eldest, Pyrgo, nurse in the
palace to all Priam's many children: 'This is not Beroe, I tell you, O
mothers; this is not the wife of
Doryclus
of Rhoeteum.
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A village schoolmaster was he, 5
With hair of
glittering
grey;
As blithe a man as you could see
On a spring holiday.
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William Wordsworth |
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Puschkin,
tradotti
da
A.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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540
Neere on a loftie hylle a citie standes,
That lyftes yts
scheafted
heade ynto the skies,
And kynglie lookes arounde on lower landes,
And the longe browne playne that before itte lies.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Thou for our sakes that loved thee not hast borne
An agony of endless centuries,
And we were vain and
ignorant
nor knew
That when we stabbed thy heart it was our own real hearts we slew.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing,
laughing
flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly
round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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blake-poems |
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Are we then
As
Holofernes
to thee?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXXIV
Say on Fradubio then, or man, or tree,
Quoth then the knight, by whose mischievous arts
Art thou
misshaped
thus, as now I see?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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To whom the
venerable
matron thus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"
Of this greatest work of Marvell's singular
genius it is difficult, even if we had space for it,
to present the reader with any
considerable
ex-
tracts.
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Marvell - Poems |
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My Mouche, the other day as I lay here,
Slightly propped up upon this mattress-grave
In which I've been
interred
these few eight years,
I saw a dog, a little pampered slave,
Running about and barking.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Good Charlemagne to neither party bends;
But wills that cause shall be by justice tried,
And to his
parliament
the matter sends.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Delacroix took up his enthusiastic disciple, and
when the Salons of Baudelaire
appeared
in 1845, 1846, 1855, and 1859,
the praise and blame they evoked were testimonies to the training and
knowledge of their author.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Don't you know all that a man should know, who is
distinguished for his wisdom and
inventive
daring?
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Aristophanes |
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Quid facit is, Gelli, qui cum matre atque sorore
Prurit et abiectis pervigilat
tunicis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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