These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_Letter in Verse_
Like boys that run behind the loaded wain
For the mere joy of riding back again,
When summer from the meadow carts the hay
And school hours leave them half a day to play;
So I with leisure on three sides a sheet
Of foolscap dance with poesy's
measured
feet,
Just to ride post upon the wings of time
And kill a care, to friendship turned in rhyme.
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John Clare |
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He talked of Kant and Hegel
As though he'd nursed them both through
whooping
cough
And, as he left, he let his finger shake
Too playfully, as though to say, "Now off
With that long face--you've years and years to live.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Wonderful,
Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
With personal act or speech,--nor ever cull
Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
Thou sawest
growing!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If the sad grave of human
ignorance
bear 660
One flower of hope--Oh pass and leave it there.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Robert Forst |
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"What came of thy quest, my kinsman Beowulf,
when thy
yearnings
suddenly swept thee yonder
battle to seek o'er the briny sea,
combat in Heorot?
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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With
passions
of demons, slaughter, premature death?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I have tried to obviate a difficulty, without officiously
exercising the ungrateful
prerogatives
of a literary executor, by falling
back on a text which represents the author's first scheme for a
poem--never intended of course for recitation.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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ATOSSA
Nay, we were worsted by an unseen power
Who swayed the balance
downward
to our doom!
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Aeschylus |
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The joy falters a moment, with closed wings
Wearying in its upward journey, ere
Again it goes on high, bearing its song,
Its delight
breathing
and its vigour beating
The highest height of the air above the world.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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By all the
infernal
fires!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I want
a
mistress
for my castles and gardens.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
THYRSIS
"A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
Yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
Thou art the
guardian
of a poor man's plot.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift
extremity
can seem but slow?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
Thus charged the
reverend
monarch: wide were flung
The opening folds; the sounding hinges rung.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The muse's wing shall brush you all away;
All his Grace preaches, all his
Lordship
sings,
All that makes saints of queens, and gods of kings.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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To grow is sad, since evils grow no less;
Great height is mark for all:
The more I have of branches, more of clustering boughs,
The
ghastlier
shadows fall.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Come then--solicit at the dawn of day
Thy royal father, that he send thee forth
With mules and
carriage
for conveyance hence
Of thy best robes, thy mantles and thy zones.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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can you really be of human kind
Breathing
pure air of heaven?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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--Bonie lassie, will ye go,
Will ye go, will ye go,
Bonie lassie, will ye go
To the birks of
Aberfeldy!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" His wonted phrase
And voice did then
discover
what he was.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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On many a field, enrapt, the hero stood,
And the proud scenes of Lusian
conquest
view'd.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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'Yes, dearest
William!
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William Wordsworth |
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The doughty ones rose:
for the hoary-headed would hasten to rest,
aged Scylding; and eager the Geat,
shield-fighter sturdy, for
sleeping
yearned.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thence to my view another vale appear'd
CANTO XX
AND now the verse proceeds to torments new,
Fit
argument
of this the twentieth strain
Of the first song, whose awful theme records
The spirits whelm'd in woe.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_
Let her build her nest and sit all the three weeks out on it,
Murmuring
not at anything.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The well in the Forum at which
they had
alighted
was pointed out.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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His English style, an'
gestures
fine,
Are a' clean out o' season.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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He regarded it as a
compensation that he had no farm-rent to provide, no bankruptcies to
dread, no horse to keep, for his excise duties were now confined to
Dumfries, and that the burthen of a barren farm was removed from his
mind, and his muse at liberty to renew her
unsolicited
strains.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your
flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feathers
and make them into
arrow-wings!
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The swallows, about to return to the beams, went back to roost
again;
The candle at my window, just going out,
suddenly
revived its light.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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430
But you also know with what a scornful air
I
regarded
the suspicious conqueror's care.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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These are the sights and sounds which reach our senses
oftenest
during
the year.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
Quod godlie CANYNGE, "I doe weepe,
Thatt thou so soone must dye,
And leave thy sonnes and
helpless
wyfe; 115
'Tys thys thatt wettes myne eye.
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[End of "Posthumous
Fragments
of Margaret Nicholson".
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
From this point onward the new tablet takes up a hitherto
unknown portion of the epic,
henceforth
to be assigned to the second
book.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Bending forward, he seemed to
threaten
the
king.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
And readily her squires that hest obeyed:
Then in her
waistcoat
stood, of flowing weed
Despoiled, with well-knit from and charms displayed;
And in all points (such strength she shewed and grace)
Resembled heavenly Mars, except her face.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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my conscience and
internal
peace.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Zeuxis and Parrhasius are said to be
contemporaries; the first found out the reason of lights and shadows in
picture, the other more subtlely
examined
the line.
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But serving courts and cities, be
Less happy, less
enjoying
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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The old gardner's most
dissolute
crow has
Left on this day unscathed nice little garden and niece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It appears
that he was
inveigled
from college to London.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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War have you waged, so on to war proceed,
To
Sarraguce
lead forth your great army.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Emily
Dickinson
appears to have written her first poems in the
winter of 1862.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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And
though, as in Homer's island of Rhadamanthus, the
description
is
sometimes only cursory; at other times they have lavished all their
powers, and have vied with each other in adorning their edifices and
landscapes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
| 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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Or sweet Europa's [20] mantle blew unclasp'd,
From off her shoulder
backward
borne:
From one hand droop'd a crocus: one hand grasp'd
The mild bull's golden horn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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"You're
scarcely
fit to touch your victor, you dogs!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
|
Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Change him, thou
Infinite
Spirit!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But angels say, on yesterday,
Just as the dawn was red,
One little boat o'erspent with gales
Retrimmed its masts,
redecked
its sails
Exultant, onward sped!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
That ground will take no
footprint!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"What do you think
yourself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If there be aught of presage in the mind,
This day will be
remarkable
in my life
By some great act, or of my days the last.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Her
freezing
heart, like one who sinks
Outwearied in the drifting snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Adrian, and
Antonine
the just and good,
He, with his son, the golden age renew'd;
And ere they ruled the world, themselves subdued.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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Cyprus owns thy sway,
And Memphis, far from
Thracian
snow:
Raise high thy lash, and deal me, pray,
That haughty Chloe just one blow!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It is true that my views on this
important
point
were ardently controverted by Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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"
"How
pleasant
to know Mr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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In this glade covered with bushes of a year's growth, see how the
silvery dust lies on every seared leaf and twig, deposited in such
infinite and
luxurious
forms as by their very variety atone for the
absence of color.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No one who reads
much of Li's poetry in the
original
can fail to notice the two defects
which are emphasized by the Sung critics.
| Guess: |
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Li Po |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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favouring
gales
Awaiting on the shore I roam
And beckon to the passing sails.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ariel to Miranda:--Take
This slave of music, for the sake
Of him who is the slave of thee;
And teach it all the harmony
In which thou canst, and only thou,
Make the delighted spirit glow,
Till joy denies itself again
And, too intense, is turn'd to pain;
For by permission and command
Of thine own Prince Ferdinand,
Poor Ariel sends this silent token
Of more than ever can be spoken;
Your guardian spirit, Ariel, who
From life to life, must still pursue
Your happiness, for thus alone
Can Ariel ever find his own;
From Prospero's enchanted cell,
As the mighty verses tell,
To the throne of Naples he
Lit you o'er the trackless sea,
Flitting
on, your prow before,
Like a living meteor.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
The two words are often
mentioned
together.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen,
Contending with the grass,
Near kinsman to herself,
For privilege of sod and sun,
Sweet
litigants
for life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Those
blossoms
fall ere June, warm June that brings
The small white Clover.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
e styll;
Thyne own
saruantes
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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While so
many miracles of this sort, vouched by eye-witnesses, have encouraged
the arms of Papists, not to speak of Echetlaeus at
Marathon
and those
_Dioscuri_ (whom we must conclude imps of the pit) who sundry times
captained the pagan Roman soldiery, it is strange that our first
American crusade was not in some such wise also signalized.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Yea, if thou wilt die of a
parching
mouth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
|
They stripped him of his canvas clothes,
And gave him to the flies:
They mocked the swollen purple throat,
And the stark and staring eyes:
And with
laughter
loud they heaped the shroud
In which their convict lies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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With
thunders
from her native oak
She quells the floods below--
As they roar on the shore,
When the stormy winds do blow;
When the battle rages loud and long
And the stormy winds do blow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
|
Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so
fragrant
a leaf
as your bright leaf?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
|
Cosi parlar
conviensi
al vostro ingegno,
pero che solo da sensato apprende
cio che fa poscia d'intelletto degno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
|
By a
transition
readily
understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been
brought to merge in simple _show_ our notions of taste itself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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No wonder the snakes live here,"
said Strickland,
climbing
further into the roof.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
|
Thus Hope, first pouring from her blessed horn 340
Her dawn, far
lovelier
than the moon's own morn,
'Till higher mounted, strives in vain to cheer
The weary hills, impervious, blackening near;
Yet does she still, undaunted, throw the while
On darling spots remote her tempting smile.
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Just then a
deathful
dream Minerva sent,
A warlike form appear'd before his tent,
Whose visionary steel his bosom tore:
So dream'd the monarch, and awaked no more.
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And on the morrow
They raised a huge pile, and to arms went every Myrmidon,
Charged by Achilles; chariots and horse were harnessed,
Fighters
and charioteers got up, and they the sad march led,
A cloud of infinite foot behind.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And soon the Caesar, with an eye a-flame
Whole nations' contact urging
To gain his soldiers gold and fame
Oh, Sun on high emerging,
Whose dazzling lustre fired the hells
Embosomed in grim bronze, which, free, arose
To change five hundred
thousand
base-born Tells,
Into his host of half-a-million heroes!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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With, not the compliments, but the best wishes, the
sincerest
prayers
of the season for you, that you may see many and happy years with Mrs.
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Such flowers, immense, that every one
Usually had as adornment
A clear contour, a lacuna done
To
separate
it from the garden.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THROUGH the
casement
a noble-child saw
In the spring-time golden and green,
As he harked to the swallow's lore,
And looked so rejoiced and keen.
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