Be all you know express'd
Of that
unnoticed
by her lovely eyes,
Though fate and cruelty against me rise,
Error at least and hope shall be repress'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Achilles
raised the spear, prepared to wound;
He kiss'd his feet, extended on the ground:
And while, above, the spear suspended stood,
Longing to dip its thirsty point in blood,
One hand embraced them close, one stopp'd the dart,
While thus these melting words attempt his heart:
"Thy well-known captive, great Achilles!
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Iliad - Pope |
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A garden-plot the desert air perfumes, 295
Mid the dark pines a little orchard blooms,
A zig-zag path from the domestic skiff
Threading the painful cragg
surmounts
the cliff.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'"
And the old man, looking sadly
Across the garden-lawn,
Where here and there a dew-drop
Yet
glittered
in the dawn,
Said "Go to the Adelphi,
And see the 'Colleen Bawn.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"--
"Lord, it
existeth
still.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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to my comrades true
Rich cups, rare bronzes, gladly would I send:
Choice tripods from Olympia on each friend
Would I confer, choicer on none than you,
Had but my fate such gems of art bestow'd
As cunning Scopas or
Parrhasius
wrought,
This with the brush, that with the chisel taught
To image now a mortal, now a god.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My suspicions fell upon Chvabrine; he alone
could profit by this betrayal, which might end in my banishment from the
fort and my
separation
from the Commandant's family.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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III
Yet portion of that unknown plain
Will Hodge for ever be;
His homely Northern breast and brain
Grow up a
Southern
tree.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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' For the 'Allegory,' though shrewd enough in most
things, had the
reputation
of being 'saift-baked,' i.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Who is
the Paynim
mentioned
in xl?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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ye shall hearken surely
For years and years,
The noise beside you,
dripping
coldly, purely,
Of spirits' tears.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I will not ease my woe by base relief
In knowing others too
involved
therein.
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Aeschylus |
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The hippo's feeble steps may err
In
compassing
material ends,
While the True Church need never stir
To gather in its dividends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Rodrigue
Offended honour takes its vengeance on me,
And, shame, you dare urge
infidelity!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Meanwhile Rumour on
fluttering
wings rushes with the news through
the alarmed town and glides to the ears of Euryalus' mother.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I am happy in being conscious that I shall have one reader who will
approach
the conclusion of these few pages with regret.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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Sappho |
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For who defends our leafy tabernacle
From bold intrusion of the travelling crowd,--
Who but the midge, mosquito and the fly,
Which past
endurance
sting the tender cit,
But which we learn to scatter with a smudge,
Or baffle by a veil, or slight by scorn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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There we saw
soldiers
eating
their breakfasts in their mess-room, from bare wooden tables in camp
fashion.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE1
SIMON ZELOTES SPEAKETH IT SOMEWHILE AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
FA' we lost the
goodliest
fere o' all
L For the priests and the gallows tree?
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face a face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des
eternels
regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Esperance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passe
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
LA CHANSON DU MAL-AIME
A Paul Leautaud
Et je chantais cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour a la semblance
Du beau Phenix s'il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Answer: |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
|
Miss Nancy
Ellicott
smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
Knowing the perfect fitness and
equanimity
of things, while they
discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
indictment
had never been clearly expressed,
And it seemed that the Snark had begun,
And had spoken three hours, before any one guessed
What the pig was supposed to have done.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Repulsed by the stately
Beauty of the Devon, he sought consolation in the society of one, as
fair, and
infinitely
more witty; and as an accident had for a time
deprived him of the use of one of his legs, he gave wings to hours of
pain, by writing a series of letters to this Edinburgh enchantress, in
which he signed himself Sylvander, and addressed her under the name of
Clarinda.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
|
The celebrated travel book entitled: 'History of Prince Don Pedro of Portugal, in which is told what
happened
to him on the way composed for Gomez of Santistevan when he had covered the seven regions of the globe, one of the twelve who bore the prince company', reports that the Prince of Portugal, Don Pedro of Alfaroubeira, set out with twelve companions to visit the seven regions of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
A third attempts
With leg dismembered to arise and stand,
Whilst, on the ground hard by, the dying foot
Twitches its
spreading
toes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
|
_A Ring
presented
to Julia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
| Guess: |
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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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aut spatia annorum aut longa interualla profundi
lenierint
tacito uulnera nostra sinu:
seu moriar, fato, non turpi fractus amore;
atque erit illa mihi mortis honesta dies.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Where Revel calls, and Laughter, vainly loud,
False to the heart, distorts the hollow cheek,
To leave the
flagging
spirit doubly weak!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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two
puddings
smoked upon the board.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
|
What
heavenly
face
Doth, in this magic glass, enchant me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
, sur l'emplacement d'une maison de
plaisance
des comtes de Blois.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
Hence, thou
suborned
informer!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
|
Elvire
You'd never believe how he's admired, or
How with one voice, they praise them so,
The
glorious
deeds of this young hero.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
On such
occasions
there can be little doubt
that the great families did all that could be done, by threats
and caresses, to break the union of the Plebeians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Last eve, as I was leading the king's children From the pasture where they played,
A fairy bugle sounded from an oak-tree Where tired elves had strayed;
And as it
thrilled
across the purple uplands And dropped to one soft note,
A golden birdie darted from the branches With white and silver throat.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But all that
afterwards
came to pass,
And whether he finds it dull or pleasant,
Is kept a secret for the present,
At his own particular desire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself
oppressed
so long?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Such the hour
Of deep enjoyment, following love's brief feuds;
And hark, the noise of a near
waterfall!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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For thus men seyn, "That oon
thenketh
the bere,
But al another thenketh his ledere.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
|
From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
fēhð ōðer tō,
_another
lays hold_ (takes possession), 1756; inf.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
The poet
submitted
an essay dealing
with current events.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
Therefore
strike on, the Emperour's love to gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Then, prudent, thus
Penelope
began.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
|
*** There is
cultivated
in the king's garden at Paris, a
species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large
and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla,
during the time of its expansion, which is very short.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
|
" the
Commandant
rapped out a Tartar oath, "I'll make you speak.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
|
,
_without
a lord_: nom.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
|
--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
|
One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
Louis Untermeyer
Orrick Johns
Margaret Widdemer
Percival Allen
William Alexander Percy Helen Hoyt Howard Mumford Jones Amory Hare Cook
622
Washington
Square
Philadelphia
J
]
Clinton Scollard Joyce Kilmer Leonard Bacon Edward J.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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--_
This is in the perspective manner of the
beautiful
descriptions of the
figures on the shield of Achilles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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And as a willow keeps
A patient watch over the stream that creeps
Windingly
by it, so the quiet maid
Held her in peace: so that a whispering blade
Of grass, a wailful gnat, a bee bustling 450
Down in the blue-bells, or a wren light rustling
Among sere leaves and twigs, might all be heard.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
O, all of you, forget your
darkened
faith.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Erroneous I may speak, yet speak I must;
In man or woman never have I seen
Such likeness to another (wonder-fixt
I gaze) as in this
stranger
to the son
Of brave Ulysses, whom that Hero left
New-born at home, when (shameless as I was)
For my unworthy sake the Greecians sailed 180
To Ilium, with fierce rage of battle fir'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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But as for the Wooers, Hermes
gathered
the souls of them together,
and, as bats gibbering in a cavern rise, so came they forth gibbering
and went down to the House of Hades.
| 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 |
|
"
THYRSIS
"Here is a hearth, and resinous logs, here fire
Unstinted, and doors black with
ceaseless
smoke.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
|
220
Nor would she deign to accept divided passion
With foreign
strumpets
and Ionian slaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Thither Orlando and Rinaldo, brave
Olivier, and his white and sable son,
Thither good Dudon and
Marphisa
wend;
Who fain with that fierce paynim will contend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
|
'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
3
Disaster
turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
|
And perhaps I talk with one who is
selecting
some choice
barrels to fulfill an order.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
Additional terms
will be linked to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works
posted with the permission of the
copyright
holder found at the
beginning of this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
|
You had said, the radiant sheen
Of that palace might have been
A young god's fantasy, ere he came
His serious worlds and suns to frame;
Such an
immortal
passion
Quiver'd among the slim hewn stone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
A little moment past, so
smiling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
|
Much did the noble
assembly
marvel to
see a man and a horse of such a hue, green as the grass.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
" Yes,
an
alchemist
who suffocated in the fumes he created.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
* * * *
Yet in the
meanwhile
now what olden usage of forbears
Brings as the boons that befit mournfullest funeral rites,
Thine be these gifts which flow with tear-flood shed by thy brother,
And, for ever and aye (Brother!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
Wrinkles
no more are or no less
Than beauty turned to sourness.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
|
NE PLUS ULTRA
Sole
Positive
of Night!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
[Many of the above poems have been translated before, in some cases by
three or four
different
hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
349:
'Since I
withdrew
unwillingly from France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
|
XXXVIII
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand
wherewith
I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And now the
blossoms
by the night be stirred
Around you surge, and may their purple fall
To veil from sight your shame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
|
THE
EPHESIAN
MATRON
[NOTE: See Chapters 111 & 112 from The Satyricon
by Petronius Arbiter.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
|
[_During the last few lines_ ADMETUS _has been looking at the
veiled Woman and, though he does not consciously recognize her,
feels a strange emotion
overmastering
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
|
The rest of the
argument
is simpler.
| Guess: |
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' I myself could find in one
district
in Galway but one
man who had not seen what I can but call spirits, and he was in his
dotage.
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Yeats |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Quand veux-tu m'enterrer, Debauche aux bras
immondes?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I warrant you,
Before two years my people all, and all
The Eastern Church, will
recognise
the power
Of Peter's Vicar.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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LXXIX
"But since to abandon thee, to whom a prize
I know not, my sad fate compels, I swear,
My Isabella, by that mouth, those eyes,
By what enchained me first, that lovely hair;
My spirit,
troubled
and despairing, hies
Into hell's deep and gloomy bottom; where
To think, thou wert abandoned so by me,
Of all its woes the heaviest pain will be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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pray'r
Preferring
to the virgin azure-eyed,
And to her father Jove, delay not, shake
Thy lance in air, and give it instant flight.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Count
All I merited, you have
snatched
away.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Like two drops of dew 350
Exhal'd to Phoebus' lips, away they are gone,
Far from the earth away--unseen, alone,
Among cool clouds and winds, but that the free,
The buoyant life of song can
floating
be
Above their heads, and follow them untir'd.
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Keats |
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He was a major influence on the
Sicilian
School and is quoted in the Roman de la Rose.
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Troubador Verse |
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